The 2024–25 Montenegrin First League was the 19th season of the first tier association football in the country of Montenegro. The season began on 4 August 2024.
The start was originally scheduled on 28 July 2024, but was postponed due to the participation of the three clubs in European competitions.
Budućnost Podgorica won the league, qualifying for a place in the 2025–26 UEFA Champions League.
Teams
The league consisted of ten teams; the top eight teams from the previous season, and two teams promoted from the Montenegrin Second League. Dečić entered the season as defending champions.
Bokelj were promoted as champions of the 2023–24 Montenegrin Second League (returning to the top-flight after a seven-year absence), replacing the 2023–24 Montenegrin First League bottom-placed team, Rudar (relegated after eighteen years in the top-flight). Second League runners-up Otrant-Olympic defeated First League ninth-placed team Mladost DG in the Montenegrin First League play-off, promoting the former to the top-flight for the first time in its history and relegating the latter after one year in the top-flight.
Stadiums and locations TeamCityStadiumCapacity Tivat Stadion u Parku 2,000 Kotor Stadion pod Vrmcem 1,000 Podgorica Stadion pod Goricom 15,230 Tuzi Stadion Tuško Polje 2,000 Bijelo Polje Gradski stadion 5,000 Plav Stadion Pod Racinom 2,500 Bar Stadion Topolica 2,500 Ulcinj Stadion Olympic 1,500 Petrovac Stadion Mitar Mićo Goliš 1,630 Nikšić Stadion kraj Bistrice 5,214
Personnel and kits
Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
TeamCoachCaptainKit manufacturerShirt sponsor Derviš Hadžiosmanović Ćetko Manojlović Lmp Porto Montenegro Slobodan Drasković Lazar Pajović NAAI Ivan Brnović Vasilije Terzić Adidas Savana Edis Mulalić Jonathan Dreshaj Seven Castellana Sead Babača Momčilo Dulović NAAI Hotel Splendid Miodrag Džudović Edis Redžepagić Macron Samont Simo Medigović Aleksandar Vujačić Seven Municipality of Bar Dzemal Kaplanbegu Anđelo Rudović Zdravko Dragićević Zoran Mikijelj Macron Municipality of Budva Milija Savović Vladan Giljen Joma Intersport
League table
Results Clubs were scheduled to play each other four times for a total of 36 matches each.
Montenegrin First League play-off The eighth and ninth-placed teams (Arsenal Tivat and Jezero) each faced the third and second-placed teams from the 2024–25 Montenegrin Second League (Lovćen and Rudar) in two-legged ties for the final two places in the 2025–26 Montenegrin First League.
Summary
Matches
Statistics Top goalscorers
RankPlayerClubGoals1 Milan VukotićBudućnost92 Abdulsamed AbdullahiArsenal8 Žarko KoraćJedinstvo4 Vasko KalezićSutjeska7 Nikola JanjićSutjeska Ivan BojovićBudućnost7 Boban ĐorđevićMornar6 Diego Facundo CastañedaPetrovac Dejan BoljevićPetrovac Adnan BašićPetrovac
Attendances
# Club Average 1 Budućnost 683 2 Sutjeska 678 3 Dečič 593 4 Jedinstvo 488 5 Mornar 394 6 Bokelj 373 7 Tivat 321 8 Petrovac 309 9 Jezero 299 10 Otrant 289
Source:https://www.european-football-statistics.co.uk/attn/archive/mne/avemne25.htm
See also 2024–25 Montenegrin Second League
References
External links UEFA FSCG