The 2017–18 Premier League of Bosnia and Herzegovina (known as

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Premier League for sponsorship reasons) was the eighteenth season of the

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, the highest

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. The season began on 22 July 2017 and concluded on 20 May 2018, with a winter break between early December 2017 and late February 2018.

Teams

A total of 12 teams contested the league, including 10 sides from the 2016–17 season and two promoted from each of the second-level league.

Stadiums and locations

Personnel and kits

Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under

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

Regular season

The season has a two-stage format. In the regular season, each of the 12 teams play home-and-away once, resulting in 22 games played each. The top six teams in the regular season qualify for the ''Championship round'', the bottom six teams qualify for the ''Relegation round''. Each team then plays home-and-away against the other teams within their own group, for an additional ten games played each, a season total of 32 games.

League table

Results

Championship round

Table

Results

Relegation round

Table

Results

Licensing issues

All clubs in Bosnia and Herzegovina must have a license to compete in the Premier League of Bosnia and Herzegovina with the deadline this season being set May 7 for the First Degree commission. Five clubs did not get their licences for the first degree:

Borac Banja Luka Fudbalski klub Borac Banja Luka (Serbian Cyrillic: Фудбалски клуб Бopaц Бања Лука, ) is a Bosnian Serb professional football club, based in the city of Banja Luka, Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and is the main ...

, Sloboda Tuzla, Čelik Zenica,

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and GOŠK Gabela. The Second Degree commission convened on May 24 and only approved Čelik before being abruptly cancelled and rescheduled for May 30. The commission approved all other clubs except for Borac, meaning that they would be relegated into the

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. As Borac did not have the license but Čelik did, they were allowed to stay in the Premier League. Borac attempted to solve the issues which caused the license removal, including removing the debt Borac owed to FK Džaja. Borac showed the evidence it showed regarding the payments to Džaja to

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, which will assist the

Football Association 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 ...

regarding the decision of whether or not

or Čelik Zenica will compete in the

2018–19 Premier League of Bosnia and Herzegovina The 2018–19 Premier League of Bosnia and Herzegovina (known as BH Telecom Premier League for sponsorship reasons) was the nineteenth season of the Premier League of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the highest Association football, football Bosnia and He ...

. The debate over the licences also caused the draws for the next season to be rescheduled. In a similar way, teams promoted from the

First League of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina The First League of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina ( sh-Latn-Cyrl, Prva liga Federacije Bosne i Hercegovine, Прва лига Федерације Босне и Херцеговине), officially known as the WWin First League of the ...

also need to get a license separated into First and Second Degree commissions, although their deadlines are moved to a later date. The winners of both leagues

FK Sloga Simin Han Fudbalski klub Tuzla City (), formerly known as Fudbalski klub Sloga Simin Han, is a professional Football team, football club based in Simin Han, Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina. The club competes in the First League of the Federation of Bosnia an ...

(later known as Tuzla City) and

FK Zvijezda 09 Fudbalski klub Zvijezda 09 (Serbian Cyrillic: ''Фудбалски клуб Звијезда 09'') is a professional association football club based in Ugljevik, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Zvijezda 09 currently plays in the First League of the Repub ...

met with the First Degree commission on June 14, but only Sloga received their license. Zvijezda 09 will convene at a later date with the Second Degree commission.

Top goalscorers

References

External links

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