The 1960–61 Yugoslav First League season was won by FK Partizan, which was the club's third title and its first in twelve years. The season was also a coming-out party of sorts for the club's talented new generation of young players known as "Partizan's babies" that would dominate Yugoslav football for the next few years and would even go on to make it to the 1966 European Cup final. The season began later than usual in order to accommodate the Yugoslav Olympic national team's late August and early September 1960 participation at the 1960 Rome Olympics where they won the gold medal with a roster consisting entirely of players from the Yugoslav First League.

Teams

At the end of the previous season Budućnost and

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were relegated. They were replaced by

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and RNK Split.

League table

Results

Winning squad

Champions: *

FK Partizan Fudbalski klub Partizan ( sr-Cyrl, Фудбалски клуб Партизан, ; ), often referred to in English as Partizan Belgrade, is a Serbian professional Football club (association football), football club based in Belgrade. It forms ...

(head coach: Stjepan Bobek) player (league matches/league goals) * Tomislav Kaloperović (22/7) *

Milutin Šoškić Milutin Šoškić (Serbian Cyrillic: Милутин Шошкић; 31 December 1937 – 27 August 2022) was a Serbian professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. He is considered one of FK Partizan's greatest players. Biography He was ...

(22/0) (goalkeeper) * Velibor Vasović (22/1) *

Fahrudin Jusufi Fahrudin Jusufi ( sr-Cyrl, Фахрудин Јусуфи, ; 8 December 1939 – 9 August 2019) was a Yugoslav footballer who most notably played for Partizan, Eintracht Frankfurt and the Yugoslavia national team. Playing career Club career Ju ...

(22/0) * Milan Galić (21/14) * Milan Vukelić (20/8) * Joakim Vislavski (20/5) * Vladica Kovačević (18/4) * Lazar Radović (17/3) * Jovan Miladinović (16/2) * Branislav Mihajlović (12/5) * Aleksandar Jončić (11/0) *

Velimir Sombolac Velimir Sombolac (Serbian Cyrillic: Велимир Сомболац; 27 February 1939 – 22 May 2016) was a Serbian footballer and manager. He was part of the Yugoslav squad that won gold at the 1960 Summer Olympics. Playing career Club Follow ...

(9/0) * Bora Milutinović (6/2) * Bruno Belin (5/0) * Ilija Mitić (5/0) * Božidar Pajević (5/0) * Milorad Milutinović (2/0) * Miodrag Petrović (1/0) * Dragomir Slišković (1/0)

Top scorers

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