1999–2000 First League of FR Yugoslavia

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First League of FR Yugoslavia
Season1999–2000
Dates30 July 1999 – 20 May 2000
Champions Red Star
22nd domestic title
Relegated Proleter
Hajduk Beograd
Mogren
Spartak Subotica
Borac Čačak
Champions League Red Star
UEFA Cup Partizan
Napredak Kruševac
Intertoto Cup Obilić
Matches played420
Goals scored1,094 (2.6 per match)
Top goalscorer Mateja Kežman (27)
2000–01

The 1999–2000 First League of FR Yugoslavia was the eighth season of the FR Yugoslavia's top-level football league since its establishment. It was contested by 21 teams, and Red Star Belgrade won the championship.

Contents

Incidents

The season was marred by a tragic event on 30 October 1999, during the Partizan vs. Red Star tie (113th edition of the Večiti derbi) when seventeen-year-old Red Star fan Aleksandar "Aca" Radović from Opovo was killed by a signalling rocket fired from within the stadium. Radović, a third-year student at the First Belgrade Gymnasium, was supporting his team from the Partizan Stadium's north end when in 20th minute of the match he got hit in the chest by a flare gun-fired signaling rocket from the opposite end of the stadium, which is where Partizan fans were located. Partizan had just scored courtesy of Saša Ilić to go up 1-0 and, as a way of celebrating the goal, certain section of their ultra fans, Grobari, fired a series of ship-signalling rockets from the south stand where they traditionally gather. Most of the rockets landed on the stadium's north stand, the gathering point of Red Star's fans Delije, and one of them hit the unfortunate teenager right in the chest near his throat, cutting his aorta. He died almost instantly as he was being moved from the stands onto the stadium's athletic track and into the ambulance car. [1]

Amazingly, the match was not stopped and the two teams continued playing, a decision that led to a lot of public criticism directed at two clubs, the football league, and the FA.

Further investigation conducted by the police discovered that the particular rocket that killed Radović was fired by Partizan fan Majk Halkijević (born 1975) from Krnjača. In addition to Halkijević, three other individuals—Nenad "Kec" Kecojević (born 1976) from Mali Mokri Lug, Aleksandar "Sale" Aleksić (born 1975) from Krnjača, and Zoran "Prcko" Jovanović (born 1974) from Belgrade—were also firing rockets at the stadium during the match. According to the investigation, the German-made Comet ship-signalling rockets were originally purchased in Greece before being smuggled into Serbia. [2] In Belgrade, Grobari leader Zoran "Čegi" Živanović bought 10 of them along with 60 flares, all from Mirko Urban. Čegi brought the stuff to Partizan Stadium on the day of the derby, handing it over to Časlav "Čaja" Kurandić. Čaja then took the flares and rockets into the stadium with help from FK Partizan's equipment manager Branko "Gavran" Vučićević who hid them inside the bags with team's sports equipment. Once inside the team's dressing room, the packages with flares and rockets were passed to Goran "Tuljak" Matović and Dragan "Lepi Gaga" Petronić through the dressing room's window. The packages were then carried through the east stand and onto the south stand through the protective fence while Nikola "Džoni" Dedović diverted steward's attention. On the south stand, group leader Čegi distributed the rockets and flares to a certain number of Grobari, including Majk Halkijević. [3]

At an almost two-year trial before the Second Municipal Court in Belgrade, the defendants did not face murder charges but a lesser charge of "disturbing public order and causing general endangerment". The verdict by the presiding judge Nataša Albijanić was delivered on 1 March 2001, with Halkijević receiving a 23-month sentence. [4] Aleksandar "Sale" Aleksić got 20 months while Nenad "Kec" Kecojević, Zoran "Čegi" Živanović (Grobari leader), and Časlav "Čaja" Kurandić got 18 months. Furthermore, Dragan "Lepi Gaga" Petronić and Srđan Šalipurović got six months, while Mirko Urban also known as Mirko Pekar (Mirko the Baker), accused of selling the rockets to Grobari, got 18 months. [5] The rest of the accused—Zoran "Prcko" Jovanović, Nikola "Džoni" Dedović, Branko "Gavran" Vučićević, and Goran "Tuljak" Matović—were acquitted. [2]

Teams

Due to decision of the Football Association of FR Yugoslavia of enlargement of the league from 18 to 22 teams, the teams from earlier season was not relegated.

Before that season FK Priština was withdrew from the competition due to situation in Kosovo, so a status of the team was frozen.

From the 1998–99 Second League of FR Yugoslavia to the league was entered: Borac Čačak, Čukarički, Hajduk Beograd and Sutjeska Nikšić.

ClubCityStadiumCapacity
Partizan Belgrade Partizan Stadium 32,710
Red Star Belgrade Red Star Stadium 55,538
Vojvodina Novi Sad Karađorđe Stadium 17,204
Zemun Zemun, Belgrade Zemun Stadium 10,000
Rad Belgrade Stadion Kralj Petar I 6,000
Proleter Zrenjanin Stadion Karađorđev park 13,500
Hajduk Kula Kula Stadion Hajduk 6,000
Obilić Belgrade FK Obilić Stadium 4,500
Železnik Belgrade Železnik Stadium 8,000
Mogren Budva Stadion Lugovi 4,000
OFK Beograd Karaburma, Belgrade Omladinski Stadium 20,000
Sartid Smederevo Smederevo City Stadium 17,200
Spartak Subotica Subotica City Stadium 13,000
Radnički Kragujevac Čika Dača Stadium 15,000
Hajduk Beograd Belgrade Stadion Hajduk Lion 4,500
Čukarički Belgrade Stadion Čukarički 7,000
Sutjeska Nikšić Gradski stadion (Nikšić) 10,800
Borac Čačak Čačak Stadium 6,000
Budućnost Podgorica Podgorica Podgorica City Stadium 12,000
Radnički Niš Niš Čair Stadium 18,000
Milicionar Belgrade SC MUP Makiš 4,000

League table

PosTeamPldWDLGFGAGDPtsQualification or relegation
1 Red Star Belgrade (C)4033618519+66105Qualification for Champions League first qualifying round
2 Partizan 40325311130+81101Qualification for UEFA Cup qualifying round
3 Obilić 4028577132+3989Qualification for Intertoto Cup first round
4 Rad 40179145646+1060
5 Sutjeska 40179145050060
6 Čukarički 401511144243156
7 OFK Beograd 401510155862455
8 Železnik 40159165547+854
9 Zemun 401591647571054
10 Vojvodina 40158175450+453
11 Radnički Niš 40164205049+152
12 Budućnost Podgorica 40157184545052
13 Radnički Kragujevac 401313143541652
14 Hajduk Kula 40157183946752
15 Milicionar 40149175252051
16 Sartid 40148184247550
17 Proleter Zrenjanin (R)4012101836491346Relegation to Second League of FR Yugoslavia
18 Hajduk Beograd (R)401432356751945
19 Mogren (R)401352240703044
20 Spartak Subotica (R)40852734845029
21 Borac Čačak (R)406430361006422
Source: RSSSF.org
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
Napredak Kruševac from Second League qualify for 2000–01 UEFA Cup as runner-up of 1999–2000 FR Yugoslavia Cup.
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated

Results

Home \ Away BOR BUD ČUK HJB HAJ MIL MOG OBI OFK PAR PRO RAD RDK RNI RSB SAR SPA SUT VOJ ŽEL ZEM
Borac Čačak 2–11–20–11–30–50–10–20–20–10–12–30–10–22–21–01–00–22–32–13–2
Budućnost Podgorica 2–00–02–00–22–14–10–23–11–42–01–02–01–00–21–14–0 0–0 4–01–01–0
Čukarički 2–01–11–00–01–11–01–23–30–22–01–12–02–00–12–12–12–20–10–01–2
Hajduk Beograd 3–00–21–01–15–11–00–31–21–22–12–22–14–10–33–03–22–02–22–12–1
Hajduk Kula 4–00–32–03–12–01–00–22–00–51–12–10–11–01–30–13–00–01–11–03–1
Milicionar 7–42–12–02–01–05–01–01–10–10–00–31–00–01–21–12–02–10–00–21–0
Mogren 3–11–11–33–01–03–14–01–10–72–01–22–12–00–21–01–12–10–02–11–2
Obilić 6–03–10–13–21–01–02–02–23–03–11–03–02–11–11–02–02–12–02–01–0
OFK Beograd 1–42–13–12–11–02–13–14–22–23–10–01–11–01–20–13–02–32–01–11–1
Partizan 8–14–12–14–23–02–12–00–13–01–01–04–05–2 2–0 4–07–22–04–11–14–1
Proleter Zrenjanin 1–11–00–02–01–03–01–20–22–10–22–01–10–00–11–13–02–10–10–01–0
Rad 3–01–02–02–12–01–13–12–30–11–22–21–12–11–10–11–02–11–01–05–1
Radnički Kragujevac 1–11–21–33–12–01–00–00–00–01–10–01–22–01–11–03–13–02–10–01–0
Radnički Niš 4–11–03–02–01–01–04–22–14–00–11–33–00–01–22–12–02–02–12–02–3
Red Star 4–03–01–03–02–03–22–02–03–1 2–1 4–01–01–01–02–04–05–04–00–01–1
Sartid 2–02–01–14–24–00–23–12–31–01–32–01–11–21–01–22–00–01–03–21–2
Spartak Subotica 1–12–22–32–01–33–23–00–01–20–61–32–32–11–10–21–00–21–01–02–1
Sutjeska 2–1 1–0 0–04–31–02–02–01–23–22–23–11–00–13–20–14–11–01–02–10–0
Vojvodina 4–02–02–05–11–20–13–01–13–02–22–13–22–02–01–20–14–11–11–03–3
Železnik 5–31–01–23–12–02–24–00–34–30–13–02–23–13–11–31–03–03–11–02–1
Zemun 2–12–00–10–31–12–22–02–12–10–32–02–12–01–00–40–01–01–12–11–1
Source: RSSSF.org
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Winning squad

Champions: Red Star Belgrade (Coach: Miloljub Ostojić (sacked couple of weeks into the season), Slavoljub Muslin)

Players [6] (league matches/league goals)

Top goalscorers

RankPlayerClubGoals
1 Flag of Yugoslavia (1992-2003); Flag of Serbia and Montenegro (2003-2006).svg Mateja Kežman Partizan 27
2 Flag of Yugoslavia (1992-2003); Flag of Serbia and Montenegro (2003-2006).svg Mihajlo Pjanović Red Star 22
3 Flag of Yugoslavia (1992-2003); Flag of Serbia and Montenegro (2003-2006).svg Petar Divić OFK Beograd 21
4 Flag of Yugoslavia (1992-2003); Flag of Serbia and Montenegro (2003-2006).svg Vladimir Ivić Partizan 19
Flag of Yugoslavia (1992-2003); Flag of Serbia and Montenegro (2003-2006).svg Saša Ilić Partizan
6 Flag of Yugoslavia (1992-2003); Flag of Serbia and Montenegro (2003-2006).svg Dragan Đukanović Mogren 17
7 Flag of Yugoslavia (1992-2003); Flag of Serbia and Montenegro (2003-2006).svg Nenad Mirosavljević Proleter Zrenjanin 15
Flag of Yugoslavia (1992-2003); Flag of Serbia and Montenegro (2003-2006).svg Gabrijel Radojičić Obilić
9 Flag of Yugoslavia (1992-2003); Flag of Serbia and Montenegro (2003-2006).svg Bogić Popović Hajduk Beograd 14
Flag of Yugoslavia (1992-2003); Flag of Serbia and Montenegro (2003-2006).svg Zoran Janković Vojvodina

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