Yugoslav Second League

Yugoslav Second League was the second tier football league of SFR Yugoslavia. The top clubs were promoted to the top tier, the Yugoslav First League.
Although the Yugoslav First League had existed since 1923, the unified Second League was only introduced in 1947. It existed until 1992.

League format

Over the years, the league changed its format many times:

In 1946–47 each of the six Yugoslav federal republics had its own league
In 1947–48 the leagues were merged into a single national "Unified League"
In 1952 each of the republics played its own second-level "Republic League" again
In 1952–53 a number of "Inter-republic Leagues" were played
In 1953–54 a single "Unified League" was played again
In 1955–56 the league was split into four regional groups called "zones" with a total of 5 groups marked by roman numerals, called Zone I, Zone II-A, Zone II-B, Zone III, and Zone IV
In 1958–59 this was reduced to only two regional divisions covering the entire country, named East and West
In 1968–69 they were replaced by four regional divisions: East, West, North and South
In 1973–74 the system returned to two regional groups, named East and West
In 1988–89 these were merged into a single national "Unified League" again, which was played in this format for three seasons until 1990–91 and the breakup of Yugoslavia

In total: