The 2000–01

First League of FR Yugoslavia The First League of Serbia and Montenegro () was the top football league of Serbia and Montenegro, before the country's dissolution in 2006. The league was formed as the First League of FR Yugoslavia following the breakup of Yugoslavia in 1992, ef ...

was the ninth season of the FR Yugoslavia's top-level football league since its establishment. It was contested by 18 teams, and

Red Star Belgrade Fudbalski klub Crvena zvezda ( sr-cyrl, Фудбалски клуб Црвена звезда, lit=Red Star Football Club), commonly referred to as Crvena zvezda () and colloquially referred to as Red Star Belgrade in anglophone media, is a ...

won the championship.

Incidents

Eternal derby abandoned

The 115th edition of the Eternal derby match between

and

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 ...

on Saturday, 14 October 2000 at the Marakana was abandoned after three minutes of play due to fan rioting. The incident began with Partizan fans, Grobari, pelting the pitch with

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s at which point the match play got interrupted. The rioting kept escalating with the southern stand seating being torn off by the Grobari and thrown onto the athletic track. At one point, the team captain Saša Ilić was seen in front of the stand pleading to no avail with the Partizan ultra supporters to stop rioting. Dozens of Grobari eventually either jumped over or broke through the fence and began invading the pitch at which point the more numerous Red Star fans from the opposite end of the stadium stormed the pitch en masse, attacking the Partizan fans as well as Partizan players and coaching staff that were still on the pitch. What ensued was mass brawling and running battles among the two sets of fans that led to the more numerous Red Star ultras quickly overpowering their Partizan counterparts and pushing them back towards the southern stand. In addition to injuries to a number Partizan fans that invaded the pitch, several Partizan players and members of the club's coaching staff reported injuries as a result of being attacked by the Red Star fans. Partizan's twenty-year-old forward Ivica Iliev received head injuries with

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from being punched in the face while the team's head coach

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ended up with a

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above his eye. Some thirty five minutes since the incident began, the match was officially called off. According to press reports, 35 fans and 2 policemen were injured, none severely. Six fans, two of them unconscious, were transported to Belgrade's Urgentni centar. The match was replayed in full almost five months later, on Wednesday, 7 March 2001.

Teams

Proleter Zrenjanin, Hajduk Beograd, Mogren, Spartak Subotica, and Borac Čačak were relegated to the Second League of FR Yugoslavia. The relegated teams were replaced by 1999–2000 Second League of FR Yugoslavia champions, Napredak Kruševac (East) and

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(West).

League table

Results

Winning squad

Champions: Red Star Belgrade (Coach: Slavoljub Muslin) Players (league matches/league goals) * Milenko Ačimovič * Srđan Bajčetić * Branko Bošković * Goran Bunjevčević *

Milivoje Vitakić Milivoje Vitakić (; born 16 May 1977) is a Serbian former footballer who played as a defender. Club career Vitakić started out at his hometown club Borac Čačak, making his senior debut in 1995. He was acquired by Čukarički in 1997. In ...

* Ivan Vukomanović * Blaže Georgioski *

Stevo Glogovac Stevan "Stevo" Glogovac (Serbian Cyrillic: Стеван Стево Глоговац; born January 9, 1973) is a Bosnian Serb former football player and manager. Playing career Born in Bileća, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, he made his debut for loca ...

* Ivan Gvozdenović *

Goran Drulić Goran Drulić (Serbian Cyrillic: Горан Друлић; born 17 April 1977) is a Serbian retired footballer who played as a striker. Club career Born in Negotin, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Drulić joined Red Star Belgrade's you ...

* Petar Đenić * Saša Zorić * Dejan Ilić * Branko Jelić * Aleksandar Kocić (goalkeeper) * Nenad Lalatović * Leo Lerinc * Jovan Markoski * Marjan Marković * Vladimir Matijašević * Vladislav Mirković * Dejan Pešić * Mihajlo Pjanović * Dragan Stevanović Source:Red Star official website
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Top goalscorers

References

External links

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