1975–76 Yugoslav Cup

1975–76 Yugoslav Football Cup

28th Marshal Tito Cup
Tournament details
Country	Yugoslavia
Dates	3 September 1975 – 25 May 1976
Teams	32 (final rounds)
Defending champions	Hajduk Split
Final positions
Champions	Hajduk Split (5th title)
Runner-up	Dinamo Zagreb
Tournament statistics
Matches played	31

The 1975–76 Yugoslav Cup was the 28th 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.

After single-year tournaments in 1973 and 1974 which saw finals played on 29 November (Republic Day), in 1975–76 the tournament format returned to the more traditional September–May schedule, with the final moved to 25 May, 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).

Since the cup winner was always meant to be decided on or around the national holiday at the JNA Stadium in capital Belgrade, and to avoid unfair home advantage this would give to Belgrade-based clubs, the Football Association of Yugoslavia adopted the rule in the late 1960s according to which 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 in the capital), with the second leg always played in Belgrade. This rule was used for all cup finals from 1969 to 1988, when a single-legged final was adopted permanently.

Round	Legs	Date	Fixtures	Clubs
First round (round of 32)	Single	3 September 1975	16	32 → 16
Second round (round of 16)	Single	23 September 1975	8	16 → 8
Quarter-finals	Single	28 February 1976	4	8 → 4
Semi-finals	Single	7 April 1976	2	4 → 2
Final	Single	25 May 1976	1	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	Čelik Zenica	1–0	Partizan
2	Famos Hrasnica	2–0	Vardar
3	Jedinstvo Bihać	1–3	Radnički Pirot
4	Lovćen Cetinje	2–1	Proleter Zrenjanin
5	OFK Belgrade	0–2	Dinamo Zagreb
6	Olimpija Ljubljana	0–1	Hajduk Split
7	Osijek	0–1	Radnički Niš
8	Prishtina	2–3	Istra Pula
9	Red Star	3–1	Rijeka
10	Sarajevo	0–4	NK Zagreb
11	Sloboda Tuzla	5–0	AFK Ada
12	Šumadija Aranđelovac	1–1 (5–4 p)	Bor
13	Timok Zaječar	0–2	Željezničar Sarajevo
14	Vardar II	4–1	Mura
15	Velež	2–1	Radnički Kragujevac
16	Vojvodina	5–1	Cement Beočin

Second round

Tie no	Home team	Score	Away team
1	Dinamo Zagreb	3–1	Sloboda Tuzla
2	Istra Pula	0–1	Famos Hrasnica
3	NK Zagreb	1–0	Velež
4	Radnički Niš	1–6	Hajduk Split
5	Radnički Pirot	4–2	Red Star
6	Šumadija Aranđelovac	5–2	Lovćen Cetinje
7	Vojvodina	3–1 (a.e.t.)	Vardar II
8	Željezničar Sarajevo	1–0	Čelik Zenica

Quarter-finals

Tie no	Home team	Score	Away team
1	Dinamo Zagreb	2–0	Radnički Pirot
2	Famos Hrasnica	0–0 (5–4 p)	Vojvodina
3	Hajduk Split	1–0 (a.e.t.)	Šumadija Aranđelovac
4	NK Zagreb	2–1	Željezničar Sarajevo

Semi-finals

Tie no	Home team	Score	Away team
1	Hajduk Split	2–0	Famos Hrasnica
2	NK Zagreb	2–4	Dinamo Zagreb

Final

25 May 1976

Hajduk Split	1–0 (a.e.t.)	Dinamo Zagreb
Šurjak 105'

Red Star Stadium, Belgrade

Attendance: 60,000

Referee: Marijan Raus (Varaždin)

Hajduk Split

Dinamo Zagreb

HAJDUK SPLIT: GK 1 Ivan Katalinić DF 2 Mario Boljat DF 3 Vedran Rožić DF 4 Šime Luketin DF 5 Luka Peruzović DF 6 Ivan Buljan FW 7 Slaviša Žungul MF 8 Dražen Mužinić MF 9 Željko Mijač FW 10 Jurica Jerković MF 11 Ivica Šurjak Substitutes: DF ? Vilson Džoni MF ? Vančo Balevski Manager: Tomislav Ivić

DINAMO ZAGREB: GK 1 Želimir Stinčić DF 2 Srećko Huljić DF 3 Čedomir Jovičević MF 4 Velimir Zajec MF 5 Filip Blašković DF 6 Ivica Miljković FW 7 Ivica Senzen DF 8 Džemal Mustedanagić FW 9 Zlatko Kranjčar MF 10 Rajko Janjanin FW 11 Dragutin Vabec Substitutes: FW ? Mario Bonić Manager: Mirko Bazić

See also

• 1975–76 Yugoslav First League
• 1975–76 Yugoslav Second League

External links

• 1975–76 cup season details at Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation
• 1976 cup final details at Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation