2000–01 First League of FR Yugoslavia

Incidents

Eternal derby abandoned

The 115th edition of the Eternal derby match between Red Star Belgrade and FK Partizan on Saturday, 14 October 2000 at the Marakana was abandoned after three minutes of play due to fan rioting. The incident began with Partizan fans, Grobari, pelting the pitch with flares at which point the match play got interrupted. The rioting kept escalating with the southern stand seating being torn off by the Grobari and thrown onto the athletic track. At one point, the team captain Saša Ilić was seen in front of the stand pleading to no avail with the Partizan ultra supporters to stop rioting. Dozens of Grobari eventually either jumped over or broke through the fence and began invading the pitch at which point the more numerous Red Star fans from the opposite end of the stadium stormed the pitch en masse, attacking the Partizan fans as well as Partizan players and coaching staff that were still on the pitch.

What ensued was mass brawling and running battles among the two sets of fans that led to the more numerous Red Star ultras quickly overpowering their Partizan counterparts and pushing them back towards the southern stand. In addition to injuries to a number Partizan fans that invaded the pitch, several Partizan players and members of the club's coaching staff reported injuries as a result of being attacked by the Red Star fans. Partizan's twenty-year-old forward Ivica Iliev received head injuries with hematoma from being punched in the face while the team's head coach Ljubiša Tumbaković ended up with a laceration above his eye.

Some thirty five minutes since the incident began, the match was officially called off. According to press reports, 35 fans and 2 policemen were injured, none severely. Six fans, two of them unconscious, were transported to Belgrade's Urgentni centar.

The match was replayed in full almost five months later, on Wednesday, 7 March 2001.

Teams

Proleter Zrenjanin, Hajduk Beograd, Mogren, Spartak Subotica, and Borac Čačak were relegated to the Second League of FR Yugoslavia.

The relegated teams were replaced by 1999–2000 Second League of FR Yugoslavia champions, Napredak Kruševac (East) and Zeta (West).

League table

Results

Winning squad

Champions: Red Star Belgrade (Coach: Slavoljub Muslin)

Players (league matches/league goals)

• SVN Milenko Ačimovič
• FRY Srđan Bajčetić
• FRY Branko Bošković
• FRY Goran Bunjevčević
• FRY Milivoje Vitakić
• FRY Ivan Vukomanović
• MKD Blaže Georgioski
• BIH Stevo Glogovac
• FRY Ivan Gvozdenović
• FRY Goran Drulić
• FRY Petar Đenić
• FRY Saša Zorić
• FRY Dejan Ilić
• FRY Branko Jelić
• FRY Aleksandar Kocić (goalkeeper)
• FRY Nenad Lalatović
• FRY Leo Lerinc
• FRY Jovan Markoski
• FRY Marjan Marković
• FRY Vladimir Matijašević
• FRY Vladislav Mirković
• FRY Dejan Pešić
• FRY Mihajlo Pjanović
• FRY Dragan Stevanović Source:

Top goalscorers

References

References

1. (15 October 2020). "20 godina od krvavog derbija: Navijači na terenu, razbijene glave igračima Partizana i veliki Muslin!".
2. (15 October 2000). "Yugoslavia: Brawl During Belgrade Soccer Match".
3. (15 October 2000). "Sportska kupusara: Šibanja koja se pamte, Beograd 2000.".
4. [https://web.archive.org/web/20101103115832/http://www.crvenazvezdafk.com/en/sampionat-2001.htm Red Star official website]