1990–91 Yugoslav First League
| Season | 1990–91 |
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| Champions | Red Star |
| European Cup | Red Star |
| Cup Winners' Cup | Hajduk Split |
| UEFA Cup |
Dinamo Zagreb Partizan |
| Goals scored | 883 |
| Top goalscorer | Darko Pančev (34) |
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The Yugoslav First Federal League's 1990/1991 season was the 63rd time the competition was contested. The title was won by Red Star Belgrade, the club's 18th in its history. It also turned out to be the last season in which teams from SR Croatia and SR Slovenia participated. In 1991 these constituent republics declared their independence from Yugoslavia.
Two points were awarded for a win, while the tied matches were decided by a penalty shootout with the winner getting a point.
The first half of the season (the fall part) completed on December 19, 1990, with the postponed week 17 match in Split between Hajduk and Red Star. The second half of the season (the spring part) began on February 17, 1991.
The season featured a huge political and ethnically motivated incident during the Hajduk Split vs. FK Partizan tie on Wednesday, 26 September 1990 at Poljud Stadium, when a mob of hardcore Hajduk fans invaded the pitch during second half in an attempt to lynch Partizan players. All of the Partizan players managed to run away into the dressing room, thus escaping unharmed. While chanting anti-Serb slogans, the violent mob then set fire to the Yugoslav flag that was displayed on the stadium's official mast. They then proceeded to raise the Croatian chequerboard flag (at the time not in official use and thus considered a Croatian nationalist symbol). At the moment of the incident, Partizan was leading 0-2 courtesy of the Milan Đurđević brace. The match was never resumed, and eventually registered 0-3 in Partizan's favour.
On Saturday, 18 May 1991, Dinamo Zagreb hosted champions-elect Red Star Belgrade at Maksimir Stadium. The match was of no competitive importance since Red Star already clinched the league title as it prepared to go to Bari some ten days later for the European Cup Final while Dinamo cemented its hold on the second place that ensured a UEFA Cup spot. However, the match still carried a degree of tension due to pitting a marquee Croatian side versus a marquee Serbian one at a time when ethnic incidents, some of them deadly, started taking place in the Republic of Croatia, and especially in light of the fact this was the first time the two teams met at Maksimir following the previous season's violent clashes in the stands that called the match off.
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