2020–21 Serbian First League

The 2020–21 Serbian First League was the 16th season of the Serbian First League since its establishment.

Serbian First League

Season	2020–21
Dates	14 August 2020 – 19 May 2021[1]
Champions	Radnički 1923
Promoted	Radnički 1923 Kolubara
Relegated	Borac 1926 Dinamo Dubočica Trayal Radnički Pirot Sloga Kraljevo Zemun Jagodina
Matches played	306
Goals scored	704 (2.3 per match)
Top goalscorer	Dragiša Komarčević (14 goals)
Biggest home win	Loznica 7–0 Dubočica
Biggest away win	Trayal 0–4 Borac 1926
Highest scoring	Loznica 4–4 Borac 1926
Longest winning run	Kabel 7 games
Longest unbeaten run	Radnički 1923 12 games
Longest winless run	Jagodina 16 games
Longest losing run	Sloga 6 games
← 2019–20 2021–22 →

League format

The league consisted of 18 teams: ten teams from the 2019–20 Serbian First League and eight new teams promoted from 2019–20 Serbian League. Teams played each other in double round-robin format, with top two teams being promoted to Serbian SuperLiga and bottom eight teams being relegated to Serbian League.^[1]

Team changes

The following teams have changed division since the 2019–20 season.

To First League Promoted from Serbian League Borac 1926 Dubočica IMT Jagodina Loznica Radnički Sremska Mitrovica Sloga Železničar

From First League Relegated to Serbian League Sinđelić Smederevo 1924 Promoted to 2020–21 Serbian SuperLiga Bačka Metalac Novi Pazar Zlatibor

Teams

Belgrade

Borac 1926

Dinamo

Dubočica

Jagodina

Kabel

Kolubara

Loznica

Radnički 1923

Radnički Pirot

Radnički S.M.

Sloga

Trayal

Železničar

Belgrade clubs:

Budućnost
Grafičar
IMT
Žarkovo
Zemun

Location of teams in the 2020–21 Serbian First league

Budućnost

Grafičar

IMT

Žarkovo

Zemun

Locations of the 2020–21 Serbian First League teams from Belgrade

Team	City	Stadium	Capacity
Borac 1926	Čačak	Čačak City Stadium	8,000
Budućnost Dobanovci	Dobanovci	FK Budućnost Dobanovci Stadium	1,000
Dinamo	Vranje	Stadion Yumco	4,000
Dubočica	Leskovac	Leskovac City Stadium	7,000
Grafičar	Belgrade	Topčiderska zvezda	1,000
IMT	Belgrade	Stadion FK IMT	1,150
Jagodina	Jagodina	Jagodina City Stadium	15,000
Kabel	Novi Sad	FK Kabel Stadium	2,000
Kolubara	Lazarevac	FK Kolubara Stadium	2,500
Loznica	Loznica	Lagator Stadium	5,000
Radnički 1923	Kragujevac	Čika Dača	15,100
Radnički	Pirot	Stadion Dragan Nikolić	13,816
Radnički	Sremska Mitrovica	Stadion FK Radnički	2,000
Sloga	Kraljevo	Kraljevo City Stadium	4,000
Trayal	Kruševac	FK Trayal Stadium	1,500
Zemun	Belgrade	Zemun Stadium	9,588
Žarkovo	Belgrade	FK Žarkovo Stadium	610
Železničar	Pančevo	SC Mladost	1,200

Personnel, Kits and Main sponsor

Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players and Managers may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

Team	Head coach	Captain	Kit manufacturer	General Sponsor
Borac 1926	Vladimir Stanisavljević	Lazar Obradović	Givova	Auto Čačak doo
Budućnost Dobanovci	Dušan Kljajić	Slobodan Lučić	Macron	Gebrüder Weiss
Dinamo	Dragan Antić	Mlađan Stevanović	Nike	mt:s
Dubočica	Aleksandar Kuzmanović	Dušan Savić	NAAI	ButanGas Group
Grafičar*	Milija Žižić	Aleksandar Stanković	NAAI	Millenium Team
IMT	Zoran Rendulić	Nemanja Marković	NAAI	SI 011 International doo Beograd
Jagodina	Darko Milisavljević	Strahinja Jovančić	NAAI	Municipality of Jagodina
Kabel	Zoran Vasiljević	Stefan Petrović	Kelme	Put-invest doo
Kolubara	Zoran Milinković	Nikola Vasiljević	Seven	EPS RB Kolubara
Loznica	Dragan Micić	Miloš Spasenović	Bull	Municipality of Loznica
Radnički 1923	Aleksandar Linta	Stevan Kovačević	Jako	Municipality of Kragujevac
Radnički Pirot	Dragan Perišić	Filip Tolić	Umbro	Municipality of Pirot
Radnički Sremska Mitrovica	Goran Dragoljić	Nemanja Petrović	Macron	Metalfer Steel Mill doo
Sloga	Boris Bunjak	Đorđe Andrić	NAAI	Municipality of Kraljevo
Trayal	Goran Lazarević	Milan Gašić	Jako	Trayal Corporation
Zemun	Milan Rašić	Marko Đalović	Joma	Dunav Insurance
Žarkovo	Milan Kuljić	Nemanja Šćekić	Macron	Rubikon SC
Železničar	Marko Perović	Dušan Plavšić	NAAI	Municipality of Pančevo

Nike is the official ball supplier for Serbian First League.

Kelme is the official sponsor of the Referee's Committee of the Football Association of Serbia.

• Grafičar is affiliated and branched with Red Star Belgrade^[2]

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Incoming manager	Date of appointment
Sloga	Petar Divić	Sacked	06 September 2020	18th	Boris Bunjak[3]	06 September 2020
Radnički Pirot	Dejan Čelar[4]	Resigned	11 September 2020	10th	Nikola Puača[5]	25 September 2020
Grafičar	Milija Žižić[6]	Resigned	14 September 2020	6th	Radomir Koković[7]	23 September 2020
Dubočica	Aleksandar Kuzmanović[8]	Resigned	21 September 2020	15th	Saša Mrkić[9]	22 September 2020
Radnički Pirot	Nikola Puača[10]	Resigned	11 April 2021	16th	Dragan Perišić[11]	15 April 2021

Foreign players

• Foreign players: The number of foreign players that clubs can use during the game is four.

Team	Player 1	Player 2	Player 3	Player 4	Naturalized Players
Borac Čačak	Joseph Bempah	Abdul Rashid Obuobi	Stanislav Goldin
Budućnost Dobanovci	Emeka Emerun	Lee Jong-chan	Michel Vaillant
Dinamo Vranje	Miroslav Orlić	Val Baiano			→ Marko Čubrilo
Dubočica	Okomayin Segun Onimisi	Maksym Andrushchenko			→ Dušan Savić
Grafičar	Richard Odada	Vanja Panić	Preslav Petrov	Norman Campbell	→ Aleksandar Todorovski
IMT	Ismaël Béko Fofana				→ Dimitrios Tzinovits
Jagodina
Kabel	Cyril Nebo	Petar Pavlićević
Kolubara	Arsen Knežević
Loznica					→ Branislav Ružić → Mihailo Bogićević
Žarkovo	Kyril Pakhonov				→ Nemanja Šćekić → Nenad Kiso
Radnički 1923
Radnički Pirot	Marko Gjorgjievski	Guy Edoa
Radnički Sremska Mitrovica	Milan Jelovac	Sadick Abubakar	Revaz Injgia
Sloga Kraljevo	Moses John				→ Marko Vidović → Marko Mihajlović
Trayal	Ousman Joof	Mirko Drašković
Zemun	Nikola Pejović
Železničar	Zakaria Suraka				→ Georgije Jankulov

Transfers

For the list of transfers involving First League clubs during 2020–21 season, please see: List of Serbian football transfers summer 2020.

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Radnički 1923 (C, P)	34	20	9	5	52	26	+26	69[a]	Promotion to the Serbian SuperLiga
2	Kolubara (P)	34	21	6	7	53	31	+22	69[a]
3	Kabel	34	18	11	5	41	18	+23	65
4	IMT	34	18	6	10	57	35	+22	60
5	Loznica	34	15	9	10	57	42	+15	54
6	Žarkovo	34	16	5	13	35	34	+1	53
7	Grafičar	34	13	12	9	46	34	+12	51
8	Budućnost	34	14	8	12	39	37	+2	50
9	Radnički Sremska Mitrovica	34	14	5	15	39	30	+9	47
10	Železničar	34	13	5	16	38	43	−5	44
11	Radnički Pirot (R)	34	10	9	15	32	46	−14	39[b]	Relegation to Serbian League
12	Dubočica (R)	34	9	12	13	30	43	−13	39[b]
13	Dinamo (R)	34	11	5	18	39	53	−14	38
14	Borac 1926 (R)	34	11	9	14	38	37	+1	36[c]
15	Trayal (R)	34	9	8	17	31	44	−13	35
16	Jagodina (R)	34	7	14	13	30	48	−18	29[d]
17	Zemun (R)	34	7	6	21	24	51	−27	27
18	Sloga (R)	34	5	11	18	24	53	−29	26

Updated to match(es) played on 19 May 2021. Source: Prva Liga (in Serbian), Soccerway
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head points; 3) Head-to-head goal difference; 4) Head-to-head goals scored; 5) Head-to-head away goals scored (if two teams tied); 6) Goal difference; 7) Goals scored; 8) Fair play ranking; 9) Draw. ^[1]
(C) Champions; (P) Promoted; (R) Relegated
Notes:

1. Head-to-head away goals: Radnički 1923 1, Kolubara 0.
2. Head-to-head away goals: Radnički Pirot 1, Dubočica 0.
3. Borac were deducted 6 points due to match fixing.^[12]
4. Jagodina were deducted 6 points due to match fixing.^[12]

Results

Home \ Away	RDK	KOL	KBL	IMT	ŽAR	BDO	LOZ	GRA	RDS	ŽEL	BOR	DVR	DUB	TRA	RDP	ZEM	JAG	SLO
Radnički 1923		2–0	0–0	3–1	3–2	2–0	1–0	3–1	2–0	3–1	3–0	2–0	0–0	1–0	2–1	2–1	4–2	4–0
Kolubara	3–1		0–0	2–2	1–0	1–0	1–2	1–0	1–0	3–1	3–1	1–0	1–0	2–1	2–1	1–1	1–0	2–1
Kabel	1–1	0–1		2–0	2–0	0–1	0–0	1–1	1–0	2–0	0–1	2–1	3–1	1–1	1–1	1–0	2–2	2–0
IMT	0–1	1–0	0–2		1–0	5–2	2–3	1–0	0–2	1–3	0–1	3–0	3–1	0–0	2–0	2–0	2–0	6–1
Žarkovo	2–0	0–3	0–2	1–3		2–0	2–0	2–1	1–0	0–1	1–0	2–2	1–0	1–0	1–0	0–1	0–0	2–0
Budućnost	1–1	0–1	0–1	2–1	2–1		2–0	1–1	1–1	1–1	2–1	0–1	1–1	1–0	3–1	1–0	3–0	1–0
Loznica	3–1	4–2	0–0	1–2	1–2	0–0		1–2	2–1	0–3	4–4	3–3	7–0	1–0	1–1	6–0	4–2	2–1
Grafičar	0–2	0–0	1–2	2–2	1–1	2–1	1–2		2–0	3–0	1–1	2–0	1–1	4–1	0–0	1–0	2–0	5–1
Radnički Sremska Mitrovica	0–1	1–1	1–1	1–2	0–1	2–1	0–1	3–1		2–0	1–2	3–0	3–0	1–2	1–2	2–0	1–1	1–0
Železničar	0–1	2–1	0–2	0–3	2–2	2–1	1–0	1–1	0–1		1–0	2–0	0–0	1–2	0–1	2–0	5–2	1–0
Borac 1926	1–2	1–2	1–1	1–1	2–0	1–2	0–1	0–1	0–1	2–1		0–1	1–0	2–2	3–1	1–0	0–0	3–0
Dinamo	2–1	2–4	0–2	1–3	2–0	2–3	2–3	0–0	1–0	3–1	0–1		1–2	3–1	3–2	1–0	0–1	3–1
Dubočica	2–2	1–3	1–0	1–0	1–2	0–1	0–0	0–0	0–1	2–1	1–1	1–2		1–0	3–2	3–1	3–1	0–0
Trayal	0–0	1–0	0–1	2–3	0–2	2–1	1–0	4–1	0–2	2–1	0–4	0–0	0–1		1–2	2–1	3–0	0–1
Radnički Pirot	1–0	1–1	0–1	0–2	2–1	2–2	2–1	0–3	1–0	0–1	0–0	1–0	1–0	1–1		2–1	0–1	1–1
Zemun	1–1	1–4	1–0	0–0	0–1	0–1	1–2	1–2	0–3	0–2	1–1	3–2	0–0	3–1	2–1		0–1	1–0
Jagodina	0–0	0–3	2–3	0–3	0–0	1–1	0–0	0–0	1–3	1–0	2–1	1–1	1–1	1–1	4–0	1–1		2–0
Sloga	0–0	3–1	0–2	0–0	1–2	1–0	2–2	1–3	1–1	1–1	1–0	2–0	2–2	0–0	1–1	1–2	0–0

Updated to match(es) played on 19 May 2021. Source: Prva liga (in Serbian)
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
For upcoming matches, an "a" indicates there is an article about the rivalry between the two participants.

Individual statistics

Top goalscorers

As of matches played on 19 May 2021.^[13]

Pos	Scorer	Teams	Goals
1	Dragiša Komarčević	Loznica	14
2	Dušan Savić	Dubočica	12
	Aleksandar Mesarović	Kabel
4	Goran Matić	Loznica	11
	Slobodan Stanojlović	Loznica

Hat-tricks

Player	For	Against	Result	Date
Nemanja Stojić	Grafičar	Sloga	5–1	21 November 2020
Dušan Savić	Dubočica	Radnički Pirot	3–2	28 November 2020
Predrag Sikimić	Železničar	Jagodina	5–2	7 April 2021
Slobodan Stanojlović	Loznica	Zemun	6–0	15 May 2021

References

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External links

• Official website
• srbijasport.net