Yugoslavia

Yugoslavia. Ranked 10th. No scandals this season and everything back to normal and familiar – Crvena zvezda and Partizan fighting for the title, closely pursued by Velez (Mostar) and Dinamo (Zagreb). The championship was of fairly equal teams: the top 6 teams were somewhat visibly stronger than the rest, but the difference at the end between the 7th and the last was only 5 points, so more or less anybody could have been near the top or relegated. There was one huge surprise this season and also a big change: Second Division was going to be reorganized and next year instead of 2 groups of 18 teams was going to be only one league of 22 teams. This meant that half of the teams in each current Second Division group were going to be relegated. More or less escaping relegation was the only concern of almost all teams in the lower level. Meantime only 2 teams were going to be promoted from the Third level.
Of course, the lower levels of Yugoslavian football were hidden, so just a glimpse of some teams, playing somewhere there:
Trepca
Radnik (Velika Gorica)
NK Samobor
NK Belisce
Koper (Beltinci)
Jedinstvo (Bihac)
Kolubara
GIK Ramiz Sadiku
FK Vrbas
FK Becej
FAP Priboj
Drina (Zvornik)
BSK Slavonski Brod
Cukaricki (Belgrade)
Akademac (Sremska Mitrovica)
Buducnost (Banovici)
Balkan (Skopje)
RNK Split – in red, before a friendly against their famous neighbours Hajduk.
Timok (Zajecar)
Hajduk (Sijekovac)
The list is endless, of course – some of the above sample will popup after the fall of Yugoslavia in the top leagues of the new independent states, others will remain obscure, but from the vast lower realm of Yugoslav football what matters is who was going up – 2 teams earned promotion to Second Division:
One was Belasica (Strumica), a Macedonian club, and the other
Serbian team Backa (Backa Palanka) – pictured here in a friendly against Partizan (Belgrade) in light blue.
Well, good luck to the promoted to the new, supposedly stronger, Second Division.