1989–90 Yugoslav Second League

Yugoslav Second League

Season	1989–90
Champions	Zemun
Promoted	Zemun Proleter Zrenjanin
Relegated	Rudar Ljubija Liria Čelik Mladost Lučani
← 1988–89 1990–91 →

The 1989–90 Yugoslav Second League season was the 44th season of the Second Federal League (Serbo-Croatian: Druga savezna liga), the second level association football competition of SFR Yugoslavia, since its establishment in 1946.

Teams

A total of twenty teams contested the league, including fourteen sides from the 1988–89 season, two clubs relegated from the 1988–89 Yugoslav First League and four sides promoted from the Inter-Republic Leagues played in the 1988–89 season. The league was contested in a double round robin format, with each club playing every other club twice, for a total of 38 rounds. Two points were awarded for a win, while in case of a draw - penalty kicks were taken and the winner of the shootout was awarded one point while the loser got nothing.

Čelik and Napredak Kruševac were relegated from the 1988–89 Yugoslav First League after finishing in the bottom two places of the league table. The four clubs promoted to the second level were Iskra, Mladost Lučani, Rudar Ljubija and Zemun.

Belgrade

Bitola

Bugojno

Čačak

Dubrovnik

Kikinda

Kruševac

Lučani

Nikšić

Prijedor

Pristina

Prizren

Šabac

Šibenik

Trebinje

Užice

Vinkovci

Zemun

Zenica

Zrenjanin

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Locations of teams' home cities in the 1989–90 Yugoslav Second League

Team	Location	Federal subject	Position in 1987–88
OFK Belgrade	Belgrade	SR Serbia	0066th
Borac Čačak	Čačak	SR Serbia	0077th
Čelik	Zenica	SR Bosnia and Herzegovina	—
Dinamo Vinkovci	Vinkovci	SR Croatia	01414th
GOŠK-Jug	Dubrovnik	SR Croatia	01616th
Iskra	Bugojno	SR Bosnia and Herzegovina	—
Kikinda	Kikinda	SAP Vojvodina	0044th
Leotar	Trebinje	SR Bosnia and Herzegovina	01515th
Liria	Prizren	SAP Kosovo	0099th
Mačva Šabac	Šabac	SR Serbia	01111th
Mladost Lučani	Lučani	SR Serbia	—
Napredak Kruševac	Kruševac	SR Serbia	—
Pelister	Bitola	SR Macedonia	01212th
Prishtina	Pristina	SAP Kosovo	01010th
Proleter Zrenjanin	Zrenjanin	SAP Vojvodina	0033rd
Rudar Ljubija	Prijedor	SR Bosnia and Herzegovina	—
Sloboda Titovo Užice	Titovo Užice	SR Serbia	01313th
Sutjeska	Nikšić	SR Montenegro	0088th
Šibenik	Šibenik	SR Croatia	0055th
Zemun	Zemun	SR Serbia	—

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	PKW	PKL	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion or relegation
1	Zemun (C, P)	38	23	5	1	9	59	35	+24	51	Promotion to Yugoslav First League
2	Proleter Zrenjanin (P)	38	23	4	2	9	55	30	+25	50
3	Sutjeska Nikšić	38	21	1	3	13	70	34	+36	43
4	Prishtina	38	21	1	3	13	61	39	+22	43
5	Šibenik	38	19	3	2	14	56	55	+1	41
6	Sloboda Titovo Užice	38	19	1	4	14	44	35	+9	39
7	Kikinda	38	16	6	0	16	47	51	−4	38
8	Dinamo Vinkovci	38	17	3	6	12	51	36	+15	37
9	Pelister	38	16	4	1	17	54	50	+4	36
10	GOŠK-Jug	38	15	6	3	14	39	39	0	36
11	Leotar	38	16	3	3	16	47	46	+1	35
12	Mačva Šabac	38	15	4	3	16	49	44	+5	34
13	Iskra	38	17	0	4	17	45	57	−12	34
14	Napredak Kruševac	38	15	4	1	18	41	54	−13	34
15	OFK Belgrade	38	15	3	4	16	58	49	+9	33
16	Borac Čačak	38	13	7	6	12	34	35	−1	33
17	Rudar Ljubija (R)	38	16	0	2	20	57	56	+1	32	Relegation to Inter-Republic Leagues
18	Liria (R)	38	11	1	2	24	30	55	−25	23
19	Čelik (R)	38	9	0	6	23	31	65	−34	18
20	Mladost Lučani (R)	38	4	3	2	29	22	84	−62	5

Source: rsssf.org
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored. If a match ended in a draw, penalties were taken, and only the winner of the penalty shoot-out was rewarded with a point.
(C) Champion; (P) Promoted; (R) Relegated
Notes:

See also

• 1989–90 Yugoslav First League
• 1989–90 Yugoslav Cup