The 2016–17 Macedonian First League was the 25th season of the

Macedonian First Football League The Macedonian First Football League ( mk, Прва македонска фудбалска лига, ''Prva Мakedonska Fudbalska Liga''), also called Macedonian First League, 1. MFL, and Prva Liga, is the highest professional football competitio ...

, the highest

football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ...

league of Macedonia. The fixtures were announced on 25 July 2016. It began on 7 August 2016 and ended on 31 May 2017 with a winter break which began on 4 December 2016 and ended on 19 February 2017. From that season the format was changed which will each team be played the other sides four times on home-away basis, for a total of 36 matches each instead of play-off and play-out after 27th round. The league will be contested by 10 teams.

Vardar The Vardar (; mk, , , ) or Axios () is the longest river in North Macedonia and the second longest river in Greece, in which it reaches the Aegean Sea at Thessaloniki. It is long, out of which are in Greece, and drains an area of around . Th ...

are the defending champions, having won their ninth title in 2015–16.

Promotion and relegation

¹ Mladost Carev Dvor was declined their participation from the Second League due to financial problems.

Participating teams

Personnel and kits

Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under

FIFA FIFA (; stands for ''Fédération Internationale de Football Association'' ( French), meaning International Association Football Federation ) is the international governing body of association football, beach football and futsal. It was found ...

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

League table

Results

Each team plays home-and-away against every other team in the league twice, for a total of 36 matches each.

Matches 1–18

Matches 19–36

Positions by round

The table lists the positions of teams after each week of matches. In order to preserve chronological evolvements, any postponed matches are not included to the round at which they were originally scheduled, but added to the full round they were played immediately afterwards.

Relegation play-offs

First leg

Second leg

''Shkupi won 7–2 on aggregate.''

Season statistics

Top scorers

References

External links

Football Federation of Macedonia

MacedonianFootball.com
{{DEFAULTSORT:Football League 2014-15, First Macedonian Macedonia 1 2016-17