Competition: | Slovenian PrvaLiga |
Season: | 2019–20 |
Dates: | 13 July 2019 – 22 July 2020 |
Winners: | Celje (1st title) |
Relegated: | Rudar Velenje Triglav |
Continentalcup1: | Champions League |
Continentalcup1 Qualifiers: | Celje |
Continentalcup2: | Europa League |
Continentalcup2 Qualifiers: | Maribor Olimpija Ljubljana Mura |
League Topscorer: | Ante Vukušić (26 goals) |
Best Player: | Mitja Lotrič[1] |
Biggest Home Win: | Aluminij 8–1 Triglav |
Biggest Away Win: | Triglav 0–6 Celje |
Highest Scoring: | Triglav 3–7 Olimpija |
Matches: | 180 |
Total Goals: | 544 |
Longest Wins: | 6 matches Bravo and Maribor |
Longest Unbeaten: | 11 matches Bravo |
Longest Winless: | 36 matches Rudar Velenje |
Longest Losses: | 8 matches Rudar Velenje |
Highest Attendance: | 9,000 Maribor 1–1 Olimpija |
Lowest Attendance: | N/A |
Attendance: | 185,693 |
Average Attendance: | 1,043 |
Prevseason: | 2018–19 |
Nextseason: | 2020–21 |
The 2019–20 Slovenian PrvaLiga was the 29th edition of the Slovenian PrvaLiga since its establishment in 1991. The season began on 13 July 2019 and was scheduled to end on 15 May 2020.[2] The league was halted on 12 March 2020 due to COVID-19 pandemic in Slovenia, and later resumed on 15 June 2020.[3] Celje won their first-ever league title and earned a place in the first qualifying round of the 2020–21 UEFA Champions League.[4] [5]
Maribor were the defending champions.[6]
Each team played 36 matches (18 home and 18 away). Teams played four matches against each other (2 home and 2 away).[5]
Gorica and Krško were relegated at the end of the previous season.[6] Bravo and Tabor Sežana joined the other eight teams in the league this season after earning promotion from the Slovenian Second League.[7]
Seating capacity only; some stadiums also have standing areas.
Aluminij | Bravo | Celje | Domžale | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Aluminij Sports Park | Šiška Sports Park | Stadion Z'dežele | Domžale Sports Park | |
Capacity: 600 | Capacity: 2,308 | Capacity: 13,059 | Capacity: 3,100 | |
Maribor | Mura | |||
Ljudski vrt | Fazanerija City Stadium | |||
Capacity: 12,702 | Capacity: 4,506 | |||
Olimpija Ljubljana | Rudar Velenje | Tabor Sežana | Triglav Kranj | |
Stožice Stadium | Ob Jezeru City Stadium | Rajko Štolfa Stadium | Stanko Mlakar Stadium | |
Capacity: 16,038 | Capacity: 1,864 | Capacity: 1,310 | Capacity: 2,060 | |
Team | Manager | Captain | Kit manufacturer | Shirt sponsor | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aluminij | Zeus Sport | Talum, Zavarovalnica Sava | |||
Bravo | Joma | Nomago | |||
Celje | Nike | Cinkarna, Droga | |||
Domžale | Joma | Esad Mulalić s.p. | |||
Maribor | Adidas | Zavarovalnica Sava, Nova KBM, Radio City | |||
Mura | Adidas | Pomgrad, Generali | |||
Olimpija Ljubljana | Nike | Merkur zavarovalnica | |||
Rudar Velenje | Joma | None | |||
Tabor Sežana | Erreà | CherryBox24 | |||
Triglav Kranj | Adidas | Domplan |
Team | Outgoing manager | Date of vacancy | Position in table | Incoming manager | Date of appointment |
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Rudar Velenje | Almir Sulejmanović | 29 July 2019[8] | 7th | Janez Žilnik | 29 July 2019 |
Domžale | Simon Rožman | 3 September 2019[9] | 10th | Andrej Razdrh | 5 September 2019[10] |
Tabor Sežana | Andrej Razdrh | 4 September 2019[11] | 6th | Almir Sulejmanović | 8 September 2019[12] |
Rudar Velenje | Janez Žilnik | 6 September 2019[13] | 10th | Nikola Jaroš | 6 September 2019 |
Triglav Kranj | Dejan Dončić | 23 September 2019[14] | 9th | Vlado Šmit | 23 September 2019[15] |
Rudar Velenje | Nikola Jaroš | 29 October 2019[16] | 10th | Andrej Panadić | 29 October 2019 |
Tabor Sežana | Almir Sulejmanović | 3 January 2020[17] | 8th | Mauro Camoranesi | 3 January 2020 |
Maribor | Darko Milanič | 7 March 2020[18] | 4th | Sergej Jakirović | 23 April 2020[19] |
Rudar Velenje | Andrej Panadić | 20 April 2020[20] | 10th | Dominik Beršnjak | 20 April 2020 |
Domžale | Andrej Razdrh | 15 June 2020[21] | 9th | Dejan Djuranović | 15 June 2020[22] |
Olimpija Ljubljana | Safet Hadžić | 15 June 2020[23] | 1st | Dino Skender | 19 June 2020[24] |
A two-legged play-off between the ninth-placed team from the PrvaLiga and the second-placed team from the 2019–20 Slovenian Second League was played. The winner earned a place in the 2020–21 PrvaLiga season.
Gorica won 6–1 on aggregate.
align=center | 1 | Ante Vukušić | Olimpija Ljubljana | 26 | ||
align=center | 2 | Dario Vizinger | Celje | 23 | ||
3 | Mitja Lotrič | Celje | 18 | |||
align=center rowspan=2 | 4 | Aljoša Matko | Bravo | align=center rowspan=2 | 15 | |
Ante Živković | Aluminij | |||||
align=center rowspan=2 | 6 | Predrag Sikimić | Tabor Sežana/Domžale | align=center rowspan=2 | 14 | |
Rok Kronaveter | Maribor | |||||
align=center | 8 | Amadej Maroša | Mura | align=center | 13 | |
align=center | 9 | Luka Bobičanec | Mura | align=center | 12 | |
align=center | 10 | Arnel Jakupović | Domžale | align=center | 11 |
PrvaLiga Player of the Season
PrvaLiga U23 Player of the Season
PrvaLiga Coach of the Season
All matches after March 2020 were played either behind closed doors or with significantly reduced capacity due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Slovenia.