SuperLiga (Serbia)

Super league
Full name	Super league Srbije
abbreviation	SLS
Association	Serbian Football Association
First edition	August 5, 2006
hierarchy	1st League
Teams	16
master	Red Star
Record champions	Red Star (30 titles)
Record player	Miroslav Vulićević (253)
Record scorer	Ognjen Mudrinski (65)
Current season	2019/20
Website	www.superliga.rs
Qualification for	Champions League Europa League
↓ Prva liga (II)

The Superliga Srbije (SLS) ( Serbian-Cyrillic : Супер лига Србије - СЛС, German : "Superliga Serbia"), usually Superliga , sometimes also Superliga Srbije or Superliga , is the top division in Serbian football . It was formed with the 2006/07 season after the dissolution of the Confederation of Serbia and Montenegro . Before that, the Prva liga was the top division. From the beginning of the 2008/2009 season until the end of the 2014/15 season, the main sponsor was Apatinska pivara , a brewery after its most famousBeer , the Jelen pivo , the league was officially called Jelen Superliga (JSL) .

Previously, Serbian clubs played in the competitions of the Kingdom of Serbia (1882-1918) and Yugoslavia (1918-2003), the most successful especially in the 1st Yugoslav League , which started in 1923 and lasted until 1992. After the dissolution of Socialist Yugoslavia , founded in 1945 in 1992, the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was founded in the same year , which only consisted of the republics of Serbia and Montenegro . She kept the name of Yugoslavia until 2003 when the country changed its name to Serbia and Montenegro . This state union was however dissolved in 2006. Thus the best Serbian clubs played from 1992 to 2006 in the Prva liga of the Federal Republic or in that of Serbia and Montenegro.

After the dissolution of Socialist Yugoslavia, Serbia became the sole legal successor to the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, which was founded in 1992. Thus, since 2006, the highest league has been exclusively intended for teams from Serbia, which has since been referred to as the Super League. Accordingly, all championship titles won by Serbian clubs from 1923 are counted in football ratings. The record champion is Roter Stern with 29 titles, followed by Partizan with 27 titles. The next better club is OFK Belgrade with five championship wins. Reigning Master is Red Star.

mode

Previous delivery modes

The game system has changed several times since the Superliga was founded on August 5, 2006. In the 2007/08 and 2008/09 seasons, a total of 33 game days were played in two parts during a championship year. In the first part, the normal season with 22 match days was played out, which was divided into a round-trip round, with all 12 clubs in the super league meeting each other twice on the basis of a schedule set before the season; once in your own stadium and once in the opponent's stadium. Then the pairings for eleven game days of a third round were drawn again. At the end of the 2007/08 season, the last two teams relegated directly to the Prva liga , while the tenth-placed team played a relegation game against the third-placed team from the Prva liga. From the 2009/10 season, the second part was omitted, so that only a round-trip round with a total of 30 game days was played. In the course of the transition from the previous system to the new one with 16 teams, only the last placed was relegated after the 2008/09 season, while the teams in the first five places in the Prva liga were promoted to the Superliga. The champions of the Super League started qualifying for the Champions League in the second round. The teams in second and third place also started qualifying for the Europa League in the second round, the national cup winners in the third.

In contrast to Germany, a maximum of 25 players must be licensed for the season at the beginning of the season and during the winter break. Players who exceed this squad size cannot participate in the game. In addition, two U21 players can be added to the extended squad.

Current competition mode

Since the 2015/16 season the league has consisted of 16 teams, but play-offs and play-outs were introduced after the regular season. The clubs initially compete against each other in the round two. The league is then divided into two finals, so that the teams in places 1 to 8 reach the championship round, in which they play for the championship in seven play-off games. The clubs in ranks 9 to 16 play in seven play-out games against relegation. The teams are credited with half of the points scored from the preliminary round, which was played in 30 match days, with half points rounded up. After all, by the end of the final round, each club will have played a total of 37 games.

Serbian SuperLiga (since 2006)

The state of Serbia has been independent since 2006 .

season	master	Runner-up	3rd place	Top scorer (s)	Gates
2006/07	Red Star	Partizan	Vojvodina	Srđan Baljak ( Banat )	18th
2007/08	Partizan	Red Star	Vojvodina	Nenad Jestrović ( Red Star )	13
2008/09	Partizan	Vojvodina	Red Star	Lamine Diarra ( Partizan )	19th
2009/10	Partizan	Red Star	OFK	Dragan Mrđa ( Vojvodina )	22nd
2010/11	Partizan	Red Star	Vojvodina	Ivica Iliev ( Partizan ) Andrija Kaluđerović ( Red Star )	13
2011/12	Partizan	Red Star	Vojvodina	Darko Spalević ( Radnički )	19th
2012/13	Partizan	Red Star	Vojvodina	Miloš Stojanović ( Jagodina )	19th
2013/14	Red Star	Partizan	FK Jagodina	Dragan Mrđa ( Red Star )	16
2014/15	Partizan	Red Star	Čukarički	Patrick Friday Eze ( Mladost Lučani )	15th
2015/16	Red Star	Partizan	Čukarički	Aleksandar Katai ( Red Star ) Hugo Filipe Oliveira ( Red Star )	21st
2016/17	Partizan	Red Star	Vojvodina	Uroš Đurđević ( Partizan ) Leonardo da Silva Souza ( Partizan )	24
2017/18	Red Star	Partizan	Radnički Niš	Aleksandar Pešić ( Red Star )	25th
2018/19	Red Star	Radnički Niš	Partizan	Nermin Haskić ( Radnički Niš )	24

society	title	year
Partizan	8th	2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2017
Red Star	5	2007, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2019

Eternal table

→ Main article : Eternal table of the SuperLiga (Serbia)

All games since independence in 2006 are recorded in the perpetual table. Record champion Partizan leads the table ahead of local rivals Red Star and Vojvodina Novi Sad . Besides OFK Belgrade, all three clubs are the only ones to have participated in all seasons. Clubs with a bluish background will play in the super league in the 2020/21 season .

Pl.	society	Years	Sp.	S.	U	N	T +	T-	Diff.	Points	Ø pt.	title
1.	FK Red Star Belgrade 1	14th	456	339	67	50	959	333	+626	1082	2.37	6th
2.	FK Partizan Belgrade 1	14th	456	320	77	59	928	326	+602	1035	2.27	8th
3.	FK Vojvodina Novi Sad	14th	456	224	111	121	630	429	+201	783	1.72	-
4th	FK Čukarički	11	364	139	87	138	435	437	−2	504	1.38	-
5.	FK wheel	12	391	115	99	177	374	494	−120	444	1.14	-
6th	FK Radnički Niš	8th	268	118	70	80	355	296	+59	424	1.58	-
7th	OFK Belgrade	10	315	112	64	139	345	399	−54	400	1.27	-
8th.	FK Javor Ivanjica	10	324	94	102	128	312	382	−70	384	1.19	-
9.	FK Napredak Kruševac	9	297	97	73	127	328	374	−46	364	1.23	-
10.	FK Borac Čačak	10	329	89	89	151	277	408	−131	356	1.08	-
Status: end of season 2019/20

spectator

The two big Belgrade clubs Red Star and Partizan consistently have the highest average attendance in the league.

season	Number of games	Number of spectators	Spectators per game
2010/11	240	592.359	2,468
2011/12	232	883.765	3,809
2012/13	240	790,537	3,294
2013/14	232	868,545	3,744
2014/15	240	580.206	2,418
2015/16	240	615.831	2,566
2015/16 championship	28	114.273	4,081
2015/16 relegation	28	25,150	898
2016/17	240	502,862	2,095
2016/17 championship	28	151,570	5,413
2016/17 relegation	28	24,200	896
2017/18	240	436.972	1,821
2017/18 championship	28	147,512	5,268
2017/18 relegation	28	20,550	734
2018/19	240	473.865	1,974
2018/19 championship	28	144.912	4,104
2018/19 relegation	28	28100	1.004

Foreigners in the SuperLiga

In the 2009/10 season, 56 foreigners played in the SuperLiga. Vojvodina had most of the foreign players (10 players). Red Star Belgrade, Partizan Belgrade and Rad Belgrade followed with six players each. Most of the foreign players came from Montenegro (15 players), but ten Brazilians also played in the SuperLiga .

Since the 2010/11 season, a maximum of five players with non-Serbian passports may be licensed per team, and from the 2011/12 season only four.

Sponsors

The SuperLiga has three sponsors:

• Apatiner Brewery is the main sponsor of the league, named after their most famous beer, Jelen beer .
• Nike is the official ball sponsor.
• Western Union is a sponsoring partner.

TV rights

Until the 2014/15 season, the main rights of the private pay-TV broadcaster Arenasport has the rights to broadcast the Jelen SuperLiga. In addition, the public broadcaster Radio-Televizija Srbije and the private broadcaster Prva (only home games of Red Star Belgrade) have acquired the rights for one game per game day.

UEFA five-year ranking

Placement in the UEFA five-year ranking ( previous year's ranking in brackets ). The abbreviations CL and EL after the country coefficients indicate the number of representatives in the 2019/20 season of the Champions League and the Europa League .

• 17. ( 12 ) Switzerland ( league , cup ) - coefficient: 26,900 - CL: 2, EL: 3 
• 18. ( 19 ) Cyprus ( league , cup ) - coefficient: 24.925 - CL: 1, EL: 3 
• 19. ( 25 ) Serbia ( league , cup ) - coefficient: 22,250 - CL: 1, EL: 3 
• 20. ( 26 ) Scotland ( league , cup ) - coefficient: 22,125 - CL: 1, EL: 3 
• 21. ( 27 ) Belarus ( league , cup ) - coefficient: 21.875 - CL: 1, EL: 3 

Status: end of the European Cup season 2018/19

See also

• Fudbalski savez Srbije
• List of the highest national soccer divisions

Web links

• Official Homepage (Serbian)
• Current tables on kicker.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ superliga.rs: Official website of the Superliga Srbije (Serbian)
2. ↑ 24sata.rs: Sutra počinje Super liga Srbije, Partizan brani titulu uz novi sistem (Serbian)
3. ↑ superliga.rs: Super league: Jesenja polusezona iz ugla statistike (Serbian) ( Memento of the original from January 7, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ↑ The Blic : Počinje Superliga Srbije, ko će se najbolje snaći u novom sistemu takmičenja? (Serbian)
5. ↑ telegraf.rs : Super league ostala bez super sponzora! (Serbian)
6. ↑ Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation : Yugoslavia / Serbia (and Montenegro) - List of Champions (English)
7. ↑ UEFA : Crvena zvezda are Serbian champions
8. ↑ JSL: Zvezda licencirala 27, a Partizan 26 igrača ( Red Star licensed 27 and Partizan 26 players ) Vesti-online.com February 24, 2010.
9. ↑ mondo.rs: Zvanično: Superliga sa tri kruga, bodovi se dele! (Serbian)
10. ↑ Clas Glenning: SERBIA 1st level alltimetable. Retrieved August 24, 2020 . 
11. ↑ Super League 2017/2018 - spectators. Retrieved January 14, 2019 . 
12. ↑ Zvanično ograničen broj stranaca u klubovima. (The number of foreigners in the clubs is officially limited .) Sportal.rs, July 15, 2009 ( Memento of April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
13. ^ FSS, Telekom, Arena Sport i Zajednica Superligaša potpisali ugovor o saradnji. On: www.tvarenasport.com, March 21, 2012 ( Memento of the original from November 29, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
14. ↑ UEFA rankings for club competitions. In: UEFA. Retrieved July 14, 2019 .