The 1927 National Championship ( Serbo-Croato-Slovenian: Državno prvenstvo 1927. / Државно првенство 1927.) was the first year in which the championship was played in a league system, with Hajduk Split being the first

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league champion. Newcomer BSK Beograd replaced Jugoslavija Beograd as Serbia's top-performing club, this was due to half of the Jugoslavija players switching clubs to play for BSK. Hajduk and second-place club BSK entered the

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Qualifiers

For the final stage of the national championship, the clubs were qualified through their subassociation competitions, although this year, the major subassociations of Belgrade and Zagreb gave each two teams for the qualifying stage, qualifying the subassociation champions directly, while the second placed will participate in a qualifying round. Hajduk Split also qualified directly as Cup winner, while the champions of the rest of the subassociations played the qualifying round. The representatives were: *Subassociation of Belgrade:

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(qualified directly) and

SK Jugoslavija Sportski klub Jugoslavija ( en, Sport Club Yugoslavia), commonly known as SK Jugoslavija (Serbian Cyrillic: Cпортски клуб Југославија) was a Serbian football club from Belgrade. It was originally formed as SK Velika Srbija ...

*Subassociation of Zagreb: HAŠK (qualified directly) and Građanski Zagreb *Subassociation of Ljubljana: Ilirija *Subassociation of Osijek: Hajduk Osijek *Subassociation of Sarajevo: SAŠK *Subassociation of Split: Hajduk Split *Subassociation of Subotica:

SAND Subotica Subotičko atletičko nogometno društvo (SAND) (Serbian Cyrillic: Суботичко атлетичко ногометно друштво, САНД) was a football club based in Subotica, Kingdom of Yugoslavia. It was formed in 1920. It particip ...

Qualifying round: *Ljubljana, May 26: Ilirija – Građanski 5:0 *Sarajevo, May 29: SAŠK – Jugoslavija 2:1 *Osijek, May 29: Hajduk Osijek – SAND 2:2 The qualified teams were Ilirija, SAŠK and SAND. The elimination of Građanski and Jugoslavija, both former national champions, was a major surprise. The qualification was played only in one round. As Hajduk Osijek and SAND ended tied in their match, an additional match between them was played in Osijek on May 30 which qualified SAND.

League table

Results

Top scorers

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Kuzman Sotirović Kuzman Sotirović ( mk, Kузман Сотировиќ, sr-Cyrl, Kузман Coтировић; 16 October 1908 – 25 July 1990) was a Yugoslav football forward. In some sources, he is referred to as Kuzman Sotirovski (). He was part of Yugosl ...

(BSK Belgrade) *2 - 4 goals - Antun Bonačić, Vinko Radić (both Hajduk Split), Branko Zinaja (HAŠK)

Winning squad

Champions: HAJDUK SPLIT (coach:

Luka Kaliterna "Barba" Luka Kaliterna (13 October 1893 – 25 February 1984) was a Croatian football player and later manager. Born in Split, he played on the position of the goalkeeper In many team sports which involve scoring goals, the goalkeeper (so ...

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Otmar Gazzari Otmar Gazzari (1905 in Hvar – 1987 in Zagreb) was an Italian footballer who played as a goalkeeper. Throughout his career he played for Hajduk Split and BSK Belgrade in the First League of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. While playing in Hajduk ...

Renzo Gazzari Lorenzo "Renzo" Gazzari (7 January 1907 in Hvar – 1998 in Florence) was an Italian footballer who played as a defender. Career Gazzari played a total of 152 matches for HNK Hajduk Split between 1921 and 1928, 10 of which came in the Yugoslav ...

*Ivan Montana *Miroslav Dešković *Mihovil Borovčić Kurir *Veljko Poduje *Šime Poduje *

Leo Lemešić Leo Lemešić (8 June 1908 in Sinj – 15 August 1978 in Split) was a Croatian football striker and later a football manager. He became a referee in his later years. Club career He spent his entire club career with Hajduk Split. In total, Lem ...

*Mirko Bonačić *Antun Bonačić *Vinko Radić *Petar Borovčić Kurir

References

External links

Yugoslavia Domestic Football Full Tables
{{1927–28 in European football (UEFA) 1 Yugoslav Football Championship