Yugoslav Chess Championship

The Yugoslav Chess Championship was an annual chess tournament held to determine the Yugoslav national champion and Yugoslavia's candidates for the World Chess Championship.
It was first played in 1935 in Belgrade, the capital of Kingdom of Yugoslavia and ended with its 46th iteration during the breakup of SFR Yugoslavia.

Winners list (men)

Kingdom of Yugoslavia

SFR Yugoslavia

Multiple-time winners

Titles	Player	Years
11	Svetozar Gligorić	1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1963, 1966
5	Petar Trifunović	1945, 1946, 1947, 1952, 1961
5	Vasja Pirc	1935, 1936, 1937, 1948, 1953
3	Borislav Ivkov	1958, 1964, 1972
3	Aleksandar Matanović	1962, 1969, 1978
3	Milan Vukić	1970, 1971, 1974
2	Boris Kostić	1935, 1938
2	Milan Matulović	1965, 1967
2	Predrag Ostojić	1968, 1971
2	Božidar Ivanović	1973, 1981
2	Ljubomir Ljubojević	1977, 1982
2	Predrag Nikolić	1980, 1984
2	Zdenko Kožul	1989, 1990

Winners list (women)

Kingdom of Yugoslavia

The first women's championship of Yugoslavia was held in Zagreb in August 1939, and was won by Lidija Timofejeva and Jovanka Petrović. A women's chess tournament had previously been held in Ljubljana in 1926, in which only players from Ljubljana participated, and Sava Šerbanova was the winner.

SFR Yugoslavia

Multiple-time winners

Titles	Player	Years
11	Milunka Lazarević	1952, 1954, 1956, 1957, 1960, 1962, 1963, 1975, 1976, 1979, 1982
6	Vera Nedeljković	1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1958, 1965
3	Katarina Jovanović-Blagojević	1961, 1971, 1974
3	Lidija Timofejeva	1947, 1948, 1949
2	Henrijeta Konarkowska-Sokolov	1968, 1971
2	Tereza Štadler	1964, 1973
2	Vlasta Maček	1973, 1980
2	Amalija Pihajlić	1974, 1977
2	Gordana Marković	1977, 1981
2	Marija Petrović	1983, 1984
2	Zorica Nikolin	1985, 1987
2	Suzana Maksimović	1983, 1991