2016-17 Montenegrin First League
| Season | 2016–17 |
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| Dates | 6 August 2016 – 27 May 2017 |
| Matches played | 192 |
| Goals scored | 381 (1.98 per match) |
| Biggest home win |
Lovćen 6–0 Petrovac (30 April 2017) |
| Biggest away win |
Dečić 1–4 Petrovac Petrovac 0–3 Mladost Podgorica |
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← 2015–16
2017–18 →
All statistics correct as of 20 May 2017.
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The 2016–17 Montenegrin First League (known as 1. CFL 2016–17) is the eleventh season of top-tier football in Montenegro. Mladost Podgorica are the defending champions. The season began on 6 August 2016 and will end on 27 May 2017; the relegation play-offs will follow.
A total of 12 teams will participate in this edition of the First Montenegrin League. Mornar was relegated to 2016–17 Montenegrin Second League. They were replaced with FK Jedinstvo Bijelo Polje.
This is the last season of Prva CFL with 12 participants. From the 2017–18 season, there will be 10 clubs in the top-tier rank of Montenegro. At the end of the 2016–17 season, the three worst-placed teams in the league will be directly relegated to the Second Montenegrin League. Additionally, the 8th and 9th-placed teams will take part in play-offs against the 2nd and 3rd-placed teams from the Second League.
From the first time in history, championship title from the previous season will defend FK Mladost Podgorica.
Among 12 members which are participating in Montenegrin First League 2016–17, there are 11 members from the previous season – FK Bokelj, FK Budućnost, FK Dečić, OFK Grbalj, FK Iskra, FK Lovćen, FK Mladost, OFK Petrovac, FK Rudar, FK Sutjeska and FK Zeta. New member is FK Jedinstvo, which played their last games in the First League during the 2012–13 season.
The only town which had more than one member of the First League is Podgorica, with its' teams Budućnost and Mladost. Except that, two other clubs are from the cities of Podgorica Capital territory – Zeta from Golubovci and Dečić from Tuzi. There are two clubs from the territory of Municipality of Kotor – Bokelj from Kotor and Grbalj from Radanovići.
First time since foundation of the First Montenegrin League, at the start of the season, managers of all clubs were from Montenegro.
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