The Serbian First Football League (Serbian: Prva liga Srbije) is the second-highest football league in Serbia. The league is operated by the Serbian FA. 16 teams competed in the league for the 2016–17 season. Two teams were promoted to the Serbian SuperLiga. Four teams were relegated to the Serbian League, the third-highest division overall in the Serbian football league system. Due to extreme financial difficulties, Sloga Petrovac application for 2016–17 season was rejected. On an emergency meeting in the Serbian FA, on 18 July 2016, it was announced that Sloboda Užice would, as a consequence of Sloga's relegation, stay in the league for 2016–17 season.Фудбал бр. 29 at fss.rs, 20-7-2016 The season begun in August 2016 and ended in May 2017.

2016–17 teams

TeamCityStadiumCapacityKit manufacturerShirt Sponsor4,000Sportika SA2,500Hummel1,000Legea4,000Nike3,000JomaLav pivo10,000Umbro4,500NAAI15,000Legea2,000ErimaLasta Beograd8,000NAAI19,100JomaDDOR2,000NAAIVimeksim2,000NAAIElektrovojvodina d.o.o.13,816UmbroTigar Tyres1,500UnitRubikon12,000JakoUNITRAG

League table

Results

Top goalscorers Source: Prva liga official website PosScorerTeamGoals1 Uroš ĐerićSloboda192 Bojan MatićMačva143 Nemanja SubotićBudućnost134 Miroslav LečićJagodina10 Nenad LukićZemun10 Denis RistovRadnički107 Stefan DimićZemun9 Mladen LazarevićMačva9 Milan MirosavljevProleter9 Lazar TufegdžićOFK Beograd / Sinđelić9

Own goals Player For Game Date Lazar Tufegdžić (OFK Beograd) OFK Odžaci OFK Beograd – OFK Odžaci 0:2 Draško Đorđević (Bežanija) BSK BSK – Bežanija 1:0 Nikola Jaćimović (Budućnost) Proleter Budućnost – Proleter 1:1 Mladen Lazarević (Mačva) Sinđelić Sinđelić – Mačva 2:2 Milan Joksimović (Sloboda) Bežanija Bežanija – Sloboda 4:1

Hat-tricks Player For Against Result Date Miroslav Lečić Jagodina Kolubara 3:0 Nemanja Subotić Budućnost Dinamo 3:0 Stefan Dimić Zemun OFK Beograd 3:0 Lazar Vladisavljević Budućnost Radnički 3:0

References

External links Official website