1973 Yugoslav Cup

1973 Yugoslav Football Cup

26th Marshal Tito Cup
Tournament details
Country	Yugoslavia
Dates	12 August 1973 – 28 November 1973
Teams	32
Defending champions	Hajduk Split
Final positions
Champions	Hajduk Split (3rd title)
Runner-up	Red Star Belgrade
Tournament statistics
Matches played	32

The 1973 Yugoslav Cup was the 26th season of the top football knockout competition in SFR Yugoslavia, the Yugoslav Cup (Serbo-Croatian: Kup Jugoslavije), also known as the "Marshal Tito Cup" (Kup Maršala Tita), since its establishment in 1946.

Calendar

The Yugoslav Cup was a tournament for which clubs from all tiers of the football pyramid were eligible to enter. In addition, amateur teams put together by individual Yugoslav People's Army garrisons and various factories and industrial plants were also encouraged to enter, which meant that each cup edition could have several thousands of teams in its preliminary stages. These teams would play through a number of qualifying rounds before reaching the first round proper, in which they would be paired with top-flight teams.

Unlike most cup finals played since the late 1950s which had been traditionally scheduled to coincide with the end of the football league season and Youth Day celebrated on 25 May (a national holiday in Yugoslavia which also doubled as the official commemoration of Josip Broz Tito's birthday), the 1973 and 1974 cups were played over only four months, with finals played in November in capital Belgrade, to coincide with Republic Day on 29 November.

Since the final was always meant to be determined on or around a national holiday at the JNA Stadium in capital Belgrade, and to avoid unfair advantage this would give to Belgrade-based clubs, the Football Association of Yugoslavia adopted the rule in the late 1960s which said that the final could be played as a one-legged tie (in cases when both finalists are from outside Belgrade) or double-legged (when at least one of them is based the capital), with the second leg always played in Belgrade. This rule was used for all eight cup finals involving Belgrade clubs played from 1970 to 1985.

Round	Legs	Date played	Fixtures	Clubs
First round (round of 32)	Single	12 August 1973	16	32 → 16
Second round (round of 16)	Single	29 August 1973	8	16 → 8
Quarter-finals	Single	3 October 1973	4	8 → 4
Semi-finals	Single	14 November 1973	2	4 → 2
Final	Double	21 and 28 November 1973	2	2 → 1

First round

In the following tables winning teams are marked in bold; teams from outside top level are marked in italic script.

Tie no	Home team	Score	Away team
1	Borac Bosanski Šamac	0–4	OFK Belgrade
2	Čelik Zenica	3–2	Bor
3	Hajduk Kula	0–5	Šumadija Aranđelovac
4	Hajduk Split	5–1	Vardar
5	Maribor	4–0	Lovćen Cetinje
6	Ohrid	3–4	Borac Banja Luka
7	Red Star	2–0	Dinamo Pančevo
8	Rudar Kakanj	1–1 (5–4 p)	Sarajevo
9	Sloboda Tuzla	0–1	Partizan
10	RNK Split	1–0	Spartak Subotica
11	Timok Zaječar	3–1	Dinamo Zagreb
12	Trepča	0–2	Radnički Niš
13	Velež	1–0	Belišće
14	Vojvodina	1–0	Sloboda Titovo Užice
15	NK Zagreb	3–0	Sutjeska Nikšić
16	Željezničar Sarajevo	3–0	Olimpija Ljubljana

Second round

Tie no	Home team	Score	Away team
1	Borac Banja Luka	2–0	Velež
2	Čelik Zenica	0–1	Red Star
3	Maribor	3–1	Rudar Kakanj
4	OFK Belgrade	3–1	Vojvodina
5	Partizan	1–4	NK Zagreb
6	RNK Split	0–5	Hajduk Split
7	Šumadija Aranđelovac	0–1	Radnički Niš
8	Timok Zaječar	1–8	Željezničar Sarajevo

Quarter-finals

Tie no	Home team	Score	Away team
1	Hajduk Split	3–0 (a.e.t.)	Borac Banja Luka
2	OFK Belgrade	1–3	Željezničar Sarajevo
3	Radnički Niš	0–1	Red Star
4	NK Zagreb	3–1	Maribor

Semi-finals

Tie no	Home team	Score	Away team
1	Red Star	7–2	NK Zagreb
2	Željezničar Sarajevo	1–1 (3–4 p)	Hajduk Split

Final

First leg

21 November 1973

Hajduk Split	1–1	Red Star
Žungul 57'		Karasi 17'

Stadion pod Marjanom, Split

Attendance: 25,000

Referee: V. Ljujić (Belgrade)

HAJDUK SPLIT: GK   Ivan Katalinić DF   Luka Peruzović DF   Dragan Holcer (c) DF   Ivan Buljan DF   Vedran Rožić MF   Dražen Mužinić MF   Branko Oblak MF   Ivica Šurjak FW   Jurica Jerković FW   Mićun Jovanić FW   Slaviša Žungul Substitutes: MF   Željko Mijač DF   Vilson Džoni Manager: Tomislav Ivić

RED STAR: GK   Olja Petrović DF   Nikola Jovanović DF   Kiril Dojčinovski DF   Miroslav Pavlović MF   Vladislav Bogićević MF   Petar Baralić MF   Jovan Aćimović MF   Vladimir Petrović FW   Vojin Lazarević FW   Aleksandar Panajotović FW   Stanislav Karasi Manager: Miljan Miljanić

Second leg

28 November 1973

Red Star	1–2	Hajduk Split
Panajotović 87'		Žungul 27' Jerković 67'

Stadion Crvena Zvezda, Belgrade

Attendance: 10,000

Referee: Željko Kurir (Split)

RED STAR: GK   Olja Petrović DF   Nikola Jovanović DF   Kiril Dojčinovski DF   Miroslav Pavlović MF   Vladislav Bogićević MF   Petar Baralić MF   Jovan Aćimović MF   Vladimir Petrović FW   Vojin Lazarević FW   Aleksandar Panajotović FW   Stanislav Karasi Substitutes: MF   Zoran Antonijević Manager: Miljan Miljanić

HAJDUK SPLIT: GK   Rizah Mešković DF   Luka Peruzović DF   Dragan Holcer (c) DF   Ivan Buljan DF   Vedran Rožić DF   Vilson Džoni MF   Dražen Mužinić MF   Branko Oblak MF   Ivica Šurjak FW   Jurica Jerković FW   Slaviša Žungul Substitutes: DF   Mario Boljat Manager: Tomislav Ivić

See also

• 1973–74 Yugoslav First League
• 1973–74 Yugoslav Second League

External links

• 1973 Yugoslav Cup details at Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation