The 1926 Yugoslav First Class (I. razred) was a football

Football (soccer)

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 competition held within the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes. The two dominant teams of pre-World War II

World War II

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 Yugoslav football, Jugoslavija and Građanski, began laying the foundations of the next seven decades of a deeply rooted rivalry between Zagreb

Zagreb

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 and Belgrade

Belgrade

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. Both teams dominated the competition with comfortable margins, but were quite evenly matched in the finals.

Quarter finals

FK Jugoslavija Beograd 12 - 2 FK Bačka Subotica

Hajduk Split 2 - 1 SAŠK

Građanski Zagreb 7 - 1 NK Ilirija Ljubljana

NK Olimpija Ljubljana (1911)

NK Olimpija Ljubljana was a Slovenian association football club based in Ljubljana. The club had traced its origin back to 1911 when it was originally founded as SK Ilirija. It had gone through a series of mergers in the first half of the 20th century before adopting the name Olimpija in 1962...

Slavija Sarajevo (pass)

Champions

GRAĐANSKI ZAGREB (Manager: Imre Poszony

Jesza Poszony

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)


Maksimilijan Mihalčić

Maksimilijan Mihalčić

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Franjo Mantler
Miho Remec
Arnold
Rudolf Rupec

Rudolf Rupec

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Dragutin Vragović
Jene Abraham
Rudolf Hitrec

Rudolf Hitrec

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Emil Perška
Franjo Giller
Vidnjević

See also

• Yugoslav Cup
  Yugoslav Cup
  The Yugoslav Cup, officially the Marshal Tito Cup, was one of two major football competitions in the former Yugoslavia, the other one being the Yugoslav League Championship. The Yugoslav Cup took place after the league championships when every competitive league in Yugoslavia had finished, in order...
  
  
• Yugoslav League Championship
• Football Association of Yugoslavia
  Football Association of Yugoslavia
  The Football Association of Yugoslavia was the governing body of football in Yugoslavia, based in Belgrade, with a major administrative branch in Zagreb....
  
  

External links

• Yugoslavia Domestic Football Full Tables