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1985–86 Yugoslav First League

Field	Value
competition	Prva savezna liga Jugoslavije
season	1985–86
winners	Partizan
relegated	OFK Belgrade
Vojvodina
continentalcup1	[European Cup](1986-87-european-cup)
continentalcup1 qualifiers	Red Star
continentalcup2	[UEFA Cup](1986-87-uefa-cup)
continentalcup2 qualifiers	Partizan
Hajduk Split
Rijeka
continentalcup3	[Cup Winners' Cup](1986-87-european-cup-winners-cup)
continentalcup3 qualifiers	Velež
league topscorer	Davor Čop (22)
dates	11 August 1985 –
29 June 1986
average attendance	8,507
prevseason	[1984–85](1984-85-yugoslav-first-league)
nextseason	[1986–87](1986-87-yugoslav-first-league)

Vojvodina Hajduk Split Rijeka 29 June 1986

The 1985–86 Yugoslav First League season was marked by scandal and controversy due to allegedly wide match-fixing during the last week of fixtures.

Summary

After the last week was played, FK Partizan was crowned champion due to better goal difference than second-placed Red Star Belgrade. However, after weeks of public pressure and huge public outcry, on 20 June 1986, the Yugoslav FA presidency headed by Slavko Šajber decided to impose extraordinary measures that included the following:

voiding the already played week 34 matches of the 1985–86 season and ordering a replay of every single one (nine fixtures in total)
docking 6 points from each of the 12 clubs suspected of being involved in match-fixing, meaning they would start the following league season with -6 points

Each club agreed to play the replay except for Partizan. As a result their week 34 fixture was registered as a 3–0 defeat, and the club was thus stripped of the league title, which was now awarded to Red Star. Based on this decision, it was Red Star Belgrade who got to represent SFR Yugoslavia in the 1986–87 European Cup.

What followed on domestic front was a series of appeals and lawsuits and the entire case eventually went all the way to the Yugoslav Constitutional Court. By the time Yugoslav Constitutional Court delivered its final ruling to the Court of Joint Labour of SR Serbia on 29 July 1987, the next league season was already completed with FK Vardar winning the title due to 12 teams starting the season with -6 points.

The court's ruling was that there was no evidence of wrongdoing in the week 34 of the 1985–86 season and thus that season's title was given back to Partizan. That also meant that there was no merit for the 6-point docking in the 1986–87 and now that season's table was re-counted so that now Partizan became a new champion.

Still, Vardar got to represent SFR Yugoslavia in the 1987–88 European Cup.

League table

Results

Winning squad

Player		colspan=2	League	Matches		Goals
Yugoslavia Fahrudin Omerović (goalkeeper)	34
Yugoslavia Zvonko Varga	32
Yugoslavia Ljubomir Radanović	32
Yugoslavia Vladimir Vermezović	32
Yugoslavia Admir Smajić	30
Yugoslavia Slobodan Rojević	29
Yugoslavia Goran Stevanović	28
Yugoslavia Nebojša Vučićević	27
Yugoslavia Miloš Đelmaš	26
Yugoslavia Zvonko Živković	24
Yugoslavia Bajro Župić	24
Yugoslavia Milonja Đukić	23
Yugoslavia Vlado Čapljić	21
Yugoslavia Radoslav Nikodijević	17
Yugoslavia Miodrag Bajović	15
Yugoslavia Miodrag Radović	12
Yugoslavia Milinko Pantić	9
Yugoslavia Milorad Bajović	6
Yugoslavia Dragan Mance	5
Yugoslavia Goran Bogdanović	5
Yugoslavia Jovica Kolb	4
Yugoslavia Isa Sadriu	4
Head coach: Nenad Bjeković

Match-fixing controversy

As mentioned, week 34, the last week of 1985–86 Yugoslav First League season, featured some highly suspicious results. All the matches started at the same time on Sunday, 15 June 1986.

Home team	Score	Away team	Notes
Partizan	4–0†	Željezničar	In order to become league champions, Partizan needed to beat Željezničar by at least the same margin that Red Star potentially beats Sarajevo by in their match. Since both matches were scheduled to start at the same time, Partizan came up with an impromptu pre-match ceremony for their famous striker Momčilo Vukotić who retired the previous year, meaning that their match versus Željezničar actually started 10 minutes later than Sarajevo-Red Star match.
Sarajevo	0–4†	Red Star	In order to become league champion, Red Star needed to beat Sarajevo by a larger margin than Partizan potentially beats Željezničar by in their match. Red Star ended up winning away by a four goal margin.
Vojvodina	1–7†	Dinamo Zagreb	Vojvodina was already mathematically relegated while Dinamo Zagreb needed to win, hopefully by a big margin, in order to have a chance at getting a third UEFA Cup spot through better goal difference. The game ended with a huge win for the visitors who scored 7 goals.
Hajduk Split	5–3†	Dinamo Vinkovci	Hajduk needed a win in their quest for the third UEFA Cup spot, while Dinamo Vinkovci's Davor Čop (former Hajduk's player) was in the middle of a scoring race and needed goals in order to become the league's top scorer. Hajduk won the game while Dinamo's Čop scored a hat-trick for the losing side.
Sutjeska	5–5†	Budućnost	Budućnost and Sutjeska both needed points to have a chance at avoiding relegation. The game ended in a high-scoring draw in which Sutjeska's player Miloš Bursać (Davor Čop's rival in Golden boot race) scored a hat-trick.
Čelik	1–1†	Rijeka	Rijeka needed points in their fight for the third UEFA Cup spot, while Čelik needed points to have chance at avoiding relegation. The game ended in a draw.
Osijek	2–1	Sloboda
Velež	2–3†	OFK Belgrade	Velež already ensured a UEFA Cup spot, while OFK Belgrade needed a win to have a chance at avoiding relegation. The game ended with lowly visitors winning at the ground where even the top Yugoslav teams had trouble getting points all season long.
Priština	0–0	Vardar

† results of matches suspected being fixed

Top scorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	YUG Davor Čop	Dinamo Vinkovci	22
2	YUG Miloš Bursać	Sutjeska	20
3	YUG Zlatko Vujović	Hajduk Split	18
4	YUG Zvonko Varga	Partizan	17
5	YUG Predrag Jurić	Velež	15
YUG Marinko Stojaković	OFK Beograd
7	YUG Radmilo Mihajlović	Željezničar	14
8	YUG Milko Đurovski	Red Star	13
YUG Haris Škoro	Željezničar
YUG Muhidin Teskeredžić	Sarajevo
YUG Miroslav Ćurčić	Vojvodina

Attendance

Club	Average home attendance	Average away attendance
Red Star Belgrade	19,882	16,471
FK Priština	15,000	7,353
FK Partizan	13,765	16,059
Čelik Zenica	12,412	4,706
Dinamo Zagreb	12,353	12,647
FK Vardar	9,941	5,000
FK Velež	9,529	6,471
Hajduk Split	8,882	15,647
FK Vojvodina	7,294	6,059
Budućnost Titograd	6,059	6,412
FK Željezničar	5,941	11,882
NK Rijeka	5,588	6,412
OFK Beograd	5,529	6,118
FK Sarajevo	5,471	7,706
Dinamo Vinkovci	4,176	6,176
NK Osijek	4,000	5,706
Sutjeska Nikšić	3,882	5,647
Sloboda Tuzla	3,412	6,647

Overall league attendance per match: 8,507 spectators

References

(10 June 2010). "Namještanje utakmica je stari zanat". novilist.hr.

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