Serbian Women's Super League Explained

Confed:UEFA
Founded:2006
Divisions:1
Teams:8
Relegation:Serbian First Women's League
Levels:1
Domest Cup:Serbian Women's Cup
Confed Cup:UEFA Champions League
Champions:ŽFK Spartak Subotica
Season:2022-23
Most Successful Club:ŽFK Spartak Subotica (13 titles)
Current:2023-24 season

The Serbian Women's Super League (Serbian: Супер лига / Super Liga Žene) is the top level women's football league of Serbia. It was founded in 2006. The team with the most championships to date is ŽFK Spartak Subotica with five titles.

Until 2013/14 the top-level league was called Prva Ženska Liga (First League). For that season the Super Liga was created on top of the league system. The second-level league is now the prva liga.

Current format

Until 2012/13 the league played a double round robin. The winner was the champion of Serbia.

From 2013/14 onwards, with only eight teams in the league there are two stages. In the first stage, each team plays the other teams two times for a total of 14 matches. After that, the top four teams play a Championship play-off and the bottom four a relegation play-off (play-out). Matches against the teams from the other play-off group are deleted from the standings, thus only matches against teams from the same play-off group make the final standings. In each play-off teams meet each other twice again for a total of 20 matches per season, of which 12 are taken into account for the final standings.[1] The winning team of the championship play-off is Serbian champion and qualifies for a spot in the UEFA Women's Champions League. The bottom placed team of the play-out is relegated to the second league. When tied on points, better results with tied teams decide the rank.

2023/2024 teams

Serbian Champions

SeasonChampionRunners-up
2006–07ŽFK Napredak (1)ŽFK Mašinac
2007–08ŽFK Mašinac (1)ŽFK Napredak
2008–09ŽFK Mašinac (2)ŽFK Napredak
2009–10ŽFK Mašinac (3)ŽFK Spartak
2010–11ŽFK Spartak (1)ŽFK Napredak
2011–12ŽFK Spartak (2)ŽFK Crvena zvezda
2012–13ŽFK Spartak (3)ŽFK Napredak
2013–14ŽFK Spartak (4)ŽFK Napredak
2014–15ŽFK Spartak (5)ŽFK Crvena zvezda
2015–16ŽFK Spartak (6)ŽFK Mašinac
2016–17[2] ŽFK Spartak (7)ŽFK Crvena zvezda
2017–18ŽFK Spartak (8)ŽFK Crvena zvezda
2018–19ŽFK Spartak (9)ŽFK Mašinac
2019–20ŽFK Spartak (10)ŽFK Sloga
2020–21ŽFK Spartak (11)ŽFK Mašinac
2021–22ŽFK Spartak (12)ŽFK Crvena zvezda
2022-23ŽFK Spartak (13)ŽFK Crvena zvezda

The success of clubs

Team Number Title Season
ŽFK Spartak13 2010/11 to 2022/23
ŽFK Mašinac3 2007/08, 2008/09, 2009/10
1 2006/07

Champions former Yugoslavia republics

The women's national football league started to be played in the 1974–75 season,[3] then still part of Yugoslavia. After the split of Yugoslavia in 1991, the league continued in the remaining state of FR Yugoslavia, that was renamed in 2002/03 to Serbia and Montenegro, until the split of the two in 2006. The succeeding league is the one of Serbia.

SFR Yugoslavia

FR Yugoslavia

Serbia-Montenegro

Titles by clubs

Team SFR FR S&M SRB Total
7 10 4 3 24
1 13 14
ŽNK Zagreb 3 3
Dinamo-Maksimir3 3
Sloga Zemun2 1 3
Željezničar Sarajevo 1 1
1 1

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 2013/14 regulations. zfk-spartak.rs. 25 February 2014.
  2. Web site: Fudbalerke Spartaka savladale Crvenu zvezdu i odbranile titulu šampiona Srbije . subotica.com . 7 May 2017 . 7 May 2017 . sr.
  3. Web site: Yugoslavia/Serbia (Women) – Champions. RSSSF. 15 April 2018.