A little glimpse of the lower levels of Yugoslavian football – clubs, hardly heard of played there, some of them introduced to the outside world only after the disintegration of Yugoslavia after 1990.
Like Slovenian NK Koper.
Or Macedonian Pelister (Bitolja). Standing from left: Nadj, Blazic, Kanatlaroski, Kosic, Gerasimov, Ljukovcan.
First rpw: Ristovski, Husein, Kitanovski, Nastevski, Mijovic.
Or Serbian FK Kikinda.
There were few vaguely familiar names, for they played a bit in the first division.
Clubs like Sutjeska (Niksic)
and Spartak (Subotica). Those were the likeliest candidates for promotion, although there was the occasional solid second-tier club going up.
Iskra (Bugojno) was one such team at the moment. Standing from left: Skoro, Glamocak, Salkic,Ceremidzic,Radovic, Petrinovic.
First row: Omerhodzic, Idic, Zjajo, Pavlic, Mirkovic.
Napredak (Krusevac) was one of the possible candidates for return to top flight, but failed to do it. Yet, the winners of Second Division were two of the usual suspects – former first division members.
FK Pristina (Pristina), going for one more try to establish itself among the best, and
Celik (Zenica), which remembered much better days and hardly belonged to second level, if tradition was taken into account. Standing from left: Ibrahim Zukanović, Nikola Mojović, Rasim Ahmetović, Zlatko Maršalek, Enes Bešić, Nenad Vidaković.
Crouching: Jerko Tipurić, Zoran Milidrag, Rade Radoš, Dragan Vlaški, Spaso Papić.
Well, good luck to the winners next year.