Yugoslav First League 1985-86
- Yugoslav First League 1985-86
The 1985-1986 Yugoslav First League season was marked by scandal and controversy due to allegedly wide match-fixing during the last week of fixtures (week 34).
After the last week was played, FK Partizan was crowned champion due to better goal difference than second-placed Red Star Belgrade. However, after weeks of public pressure and huge public outcry, on 20 June 1986, the Yugoslav FA presidency decided to impose extraordinary measures that included the following:
*voiding the already played week 34 matches of the 1985-86 season and ordering a replay of every single one (nine fixtures in total)
*docking 6 points from each of the 12 clubs suspected of being involved in match-fixing, meaning they would start the following league season (1986-87) with -6 points
Each club agreed to play the replay except for FK Partizan. As a result its week 34 fixture was registered as a 0-3 loss, and the club was thus stripped of the league title, which was now awarded to Red Star.
Based on this decision, it was Red Star Belgrade who got to represent SFR Yugoslavia in the 1986-87 UEFA European Champions' Cup.
What followed on domestic front was a series of appeals and lawsuits and the entire case eventually went all the way to the Yugoslav Constitutional Court. By the time Yugoslav Constitutional Court delivered its final ruling to the Court of Joint Labour of SR Serbia on 29 July 1987, the next league season 1986-87 was already started and completed with FK Vardar winning the title due to 12 teams starting the season with -6 points.
The court's ruling was that there was no evidence of wrongdoing in the week 34 of the 1985-86 season and thus that season's title was given back to FK Partizan. That also meant that there was no merit for the 6-point docking in the 1986-87 and now that season's table was re-counted so that now FK Partizan became a new champion.
Still, FK Vardar got to represent SFR Yugoslavia in the 1987-88 UEFA European Champions' Cup.
League
ee also
*Yugoslav Cup
*Yugoslav League Championship
External links
* [http://www.rsssf.com/tablesj/joeghist.html Yugoslavia Domestic Football Full Tables]
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