Skoplje Football Subassociation League

The Skoplje Football Subassociation (Serbo-Croatian: Skopski loptački podsavez / Скопски лоптачки подсавез) was one of the regional football governing bodies under the tutorial of the Football Association of Yugoslavia. It was formed on 18 December 1927 having been earlier part of the Belgrade Football Subassociation. By the time of its formation it included the clubs from the districts of Skopje, Bregalnica, Bitola, Kosovo and Vranje. It was one of the Football Subassociations which formed the football league system in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.

The founding general assembly was held on December 18, 1927, in a restaurant Neznani junak in Skopje where the delegates from all of what was known back then as Southern Serbia were present. Special envoys of the Football Association of Yugoslavia came from Belgrade, Vladimir Zakić and Bora Jovanović, who were also both members of the Belgrade Subassociation. At the assembly there were also 21 delegats representing 21 clubs: 7 from Leskovac, 6 from Skoplje, 6 from Bitola, 1 from Vranje and 1 from Strumica. The newly formed subassociation will be in charge of supervising the football competition of the around 26 clubs found in the geographical area located southern of Leskovac.

The subassociation of Skopje counted 27 clubs in 1929. In 1940 the number of clubs has raised to 48 and there were 23 football stadiums or fields.

The presidents of the SLP were Đorđe Ristić (1927-1930), Kosta Trnjajski (1930-1934) and Stevan Trivunac (1934-1941).

The Skoplje Football Subassociation (SLP) was the organiser of the league which will be one among the other Yugoslav Football Subassociation leagues which formed the Yugoslav league system. During the 1920s the First Division of the Skoplje Subassociation would be ranked as the second national tier, just as all the other First Divisions of all Subassociations, as the champion of the First Division would have access to the national top-flight league, the Yugoslav Championship. Although only the winners of Belgrade and Zagreb Subassociations would have direct access to the national championship, all the other subassociation champions, including Skopje one, would have to play a qualifying round. Later during the 1930s the national league was expanded, and an intermediate stage was set where the best qualified teams from all the subassociations would play a group stage in order to qualify for the Yugoslav Championship.

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