Just as the previous season, the league consisted of 2 groups, A and B, each containing 10 clubs. Both groups were played in league system. By winter break all clubs in each group had met each other twice, home and away, with the bottom four from A group moving to group B, and being replaced by the top four from the B group. At the end of the season the same situation happened with four teams being replaced from A and B groups, and in addition, the bottom three clubs from the B group were relegated into the
Second League of FR Yugoslavia for the next season and replaced by the top three from that league. At the end of the season
Red Star Belgrade became champions.
FK Partizan striker
Savo Milošević become the league's top-scorer for second consecutive time, this time with 30 goals. The relegated clubs were
FK Spartak Subotica,
FK Sutjeska Nikšić,
FK Rudar Pljevlja. That was the first season when Yugoslav clubs again qualified to the
UEFA competitions after three years of ban due to
UN embargo. == Teams ==