1939–40 Yugoslav Football Championship
Season | 1939–40 |
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Champions | Građanski Zagreb (5th title) |
Matches played | 30 |
Goals scored | 111 (3.7 per match) |
Top goalscorer | Svetislav Glišović (10) |
← 1938–39 1946–47 → |
The 1939–40 Yugoslav Football Championship (Serbo-Croato-Slovenian: Državno prvenstvo 1939/40 / Државно првенство 1939/40) was the 17th, and last, season of Kingdom of Yugoslavia's premier football competition. The season lasted from May 2 to June 19, 1940.
The league played a contracted season. In 1939, as the
The league included now two separate leagues which would function as qualifying leagues for the final stage, the Serbian Football League and the Croatian-Slovenian Football League. The top three clubs from each league will qualify for the final stage of the Yugoslav Championship. The Croatian-Slovenian League was formed by the clubs of the newly formed Banovina of Croatia and the Drava Banovina (corresponding to Slovenia and whose only participant was NK Ljubljana), while the Serbian League was formed by the rest of the Banovinas, namely the Danube, Drina, Morava, Vardar, Vrbas and Zeta ones. BSK, Slavija and Jugoslavija qualified through the Serbian one, while Građanski, Hajduk and HAŠK through the Croatian-Slovenian. At the end of the season Građanski won the national title. The Yugoslav First League continued on, soon to be renamed the Serbian First League. The split was eventually rectified with the promise of more representation for Croats and Slovenes, with the national football association being restructured as the Supreme Football Association of Yugoslavia. A short, ten-game season was played.
Having been invaded by the
In 1946, the Yugoslav First League was reestablished.
Qualifiers for the final stage
League table of the final stage
Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GR | Pts |
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1 | Građanski Zagreb (C) | 10 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 25 | 11 | 2.273 | 16 |
2 | BSK Belgrade | 10 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 30 | 7 | 4.286 | 15 |
3 | Slavija | 10 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 14 | 14 | 1.000 | 14 |
4 | SK Jugoslavija | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 16 | 18 | 0.889 | 8 |
5 | Hajduk Split | 10 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 14 | 29 | 0.483 | 5 |
6 | HAŠK | 10 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 12 | 32 | 0.375 | 2 |
Results
Winning squad
Player |
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Emil Urch |
Miroslav Brozović |
Ivan Jazbinšek |
Zvonimir Cimermančić |
Svetozar Đanić |
Ivan Belošević |
August Lešnik |
Milan Antolković |
Florijan Matekalo |
Drago Žalant |
Mirko Kokotović |
Manager: Marton Bukovi
|
Top scorers
Final goalscoring position, number of goals, player/players and club.[1]
- 1 - 10 goals - Svetislav Glišović (BSK Belgrade)
- 2 - 9 goals - Aleksandar Petrović(Jugoslavija)
See also
- Yugoslav Cup
- Yugoslav League Championship
- Football Association of Yugoslavia
References
- ^ Gola istina: kraljevi strelaca by Živko Bojanić, pag. 50 (in Serbian)