The 2011–12 Premier League of Bosnia and Herzegovina was the twelfth season of the

Premier League of Bosnia and Herzegovina The m:tel Premier League of Bosnia and Herzegovina ( bs, m:tel Premijer liga Bosne i Hercegovine / м:тел Премијер лига Босне и Херцеговине), also known as Liga 12, is the top tier football league in Bosnia and Herz ...

, the highest

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Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosnia and Herzegovina ( sh, / , ), abbreviated BiH () or B&H, sometimes called Bosnia–Herzegovina and often known informally as Bosnia, is a country at the crossroads of south and southeast Europe, located in the Balkans. Bosnia and H ...

. The 2011–12 fixtures were announced on 5 July 2011. The season began on 6 August 2011 and ended on 23 May 2012. A winter break with no matches was scheduled between 28 November and 3 March, but was extended for a week due to heavy snowfalls. Borac lost their title from the previous season to Željezničar, which secured the first position after round 27, with 3 matches left to play. Sixteen clubs participated in the season, including fourteen returning from the 2010–11 season and one promoted club from each second-level league.

Teams

Budućnost Banovići and Drina Zvornik were relegated to their respective second-level league at the end of the 2010–11 season. Both clubs returned to the second tier after just one year each at the Premijer Liga. The relegated teams were replaced by the champions of the two second-level leagues, GOŠK Gabela from the Prva Liga FBiH and Kozara Gradiška from the Prva Liga RS. Kozara returned to the top league after eight years in second level and GOŠK debuted in the top level.

Stadiums and locations

Personnel and kits

Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under

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eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

Managerial changes

Season events

Incident in Travnik–Borac game

The match between

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and Borac was abandoned during halftime after the main referee of the match was attacked by a member of Travnik. The disciplinary commission fined Travnik and pronounced that the team would play their next two home matches without spectators, though this was later reduced to a single match.

Away fans ban

The ban on away fans commenced on 8 October 2011 by the

Football Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina The Football Association of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Nogometni/Fudbalski Savez Bosne i Hercegovine (N/FSBiH); Ногометни/Фудбалски Савез Босне и Херцеговине (Н/ФСБиХ), (FSBiH); unified abbreviation N/FS ...

after a pair of incidents caused by

Ultras Ultras are a type of association football fans who are renowned for their fanatical support. The term originated in Italy, but is used worldwide to describe predominantly organised fans of association football teams. The behavioural tende ...

groups. Intended to end in 2011, the ban was extended to the start of the 2012–13 season. Several incidents preceded the ban: *In the 21 August 2011 match between Zrinjski and Olimpic, members of Ultras Mostar (a Zrinjski fan club), angrily stormed the

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after Olimpic scored their third goal. *In the 24 August 2011 match between Slavija and

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, Sokolovi (a Slavija fan club) chanted insulting jeers during the game. Later in the match, ten people managed to enter the field during play. Zrinjski was penalized with a fine, while Slavija received a fine and were prohibited spectators at their following two home games. *In the eighth round match between Borac and Željezničar, immediately after Željezničar took the lead, the

Lešinari Fudbalski klub Borac Banja Luka (Serbian Cyrillic: Фудбалски клуб Бopaц Бања Лука, ) is a Bosnian professional association football club, based in the city of Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and is the major part of th ...

Ultras (a Borac fan club) broke through the emergency exit. They stormed the field and attacked

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(a Željezničar fan club) with flares and stones. Several Maniacs were wounded in the altercation. The competition commission registered the game as a 0–3 win for Željezničar, while the disciplinary commission punished Borac with a fine and banned spectators from their next three home games. *In the 28 September 2011 match between Zrinjski and Velež at

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, after Velež took the lead in the final minutes of the game, Ultras Mostar broke into the field and chased the Velež players. Zrinjski was punished for this incident by the disciplinary commission with a fine and were forced to play their next five home matches without spectators. The game was registered with an official result of 0–3 for Velež. *The final incident before the ban occurred in

before the friendly match between Željezničar and

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from

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(a Hajduk fanclub) came to the stadium three hours before the match. Because of the small number of police officers at the stadium at that point, they were able to enter the south stand of

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. In the stands, a small group of The Maniacs were preparing the ''

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'' (fan choreography) for the match. The members of

began disrupting this, provoking an altercation that spiraled into a riot. The game was cancelled due to this. The ban was lifted on 31 July 2012, before the start of the

2012–13 Premier League of Bosnia and Herzegovina The 2012–13 Premier League of Bosnia and Herzegovina, also known as BH Telecom Premier League for sponsorship reasons, was the thirteenth season of the Premier League of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the highest football league of Bosnia and Herzegovi ...

League table

Positions by round

Results

Clubs season-progress

Season statistics

Top goalscorers

Most assists

Hat-Tricks

*⁴ Player scored 4 goals

Clean sheets

*Most

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: 19 ** Željezničar *Fewest clean sheets: 5 **

Champion squad

Notes

*¹Without matches played on empty stadiums because of suspension.

References

External links

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