Yugoslav Cup
The Yugoslav Cup, officially known between 1923 and 1940 as the King Alexander Cup, was one of two major football competitions in 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 to determine which teams are ranked as their corresponding seeds. The Marshal Tito Cup trophy was based on a design by Branko Šotra.
Kingdom of Yugoslavia (1923–1940)
The pre-WW II competition in the then Kingdom of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs was held irregularly, and sometimes involved only regional selections, sometimes only clubs, and occasionally both clubs and regions. Between 1924 and 1927 the competition consisted of squads from the regional subassociations. Only the players with citizenship of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes were eligible.List of winners
- 1940 Građanski Zagreb title is unverifiable
SFR Yugoslavia (1947–92)
Competition format
The competition format was an elimination championship where every competitive team was offered a chance to enter. Beginning in the lowest tiers of teams, the competition followed a one-game elimination format. Higher tier teams got berths in the second round, third round, and so on. The First League teams always began in the 1/16 finals, and the rest of the 16 berths being filled by lower tier teams who managed to make it to the round of 32.Once the round of 16 was reached, the format would be changed to a two-game elimination format, being played at home and away for each team. At this point it became a First League ordeal, as the smaller teams had zero chance against the titans of Yugoslavian football. Historically, the finals were usually reached only by the better-performing First League teams.
Key
List of winners
- No participation of Croatian and Slovenian clubs. The only Macedonian club dropped out of competition in Round of 16. The last Bosnian club left the competition in May 1992 in Semi finals stage.
Results by team
Club | Republic/Province | Winners | Last final won | Runners-up | Last final lost | Total apps |
Red Star Belgrade | Serbia | 12 | 1990 | 8 | 1992 | 20 |
Hajduk Split | Croatia | 9 | 1991 | 5 | 1990 | 14 |
Dinamo Zagreb | Croatia | 7 | 1983 | 8 | 1986 | 15 |
Partizan | Serbia | 6 | 1992 | 4 | 1979 | 10 |
OFK Belgrade | Serbia | 4 | 1966 | – | – | 4 |
Velež | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 2 | 1986 | 2 | 1989 | 4 |
Rijeka | Croatia | 2 | 1979 | 1 | 1987 | 3 |
Borac Banja Luka | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 1 | 1988 | 1 | 1974 | 2 |
Vardar | Macedonia | 1 | 1961 | – | – | 1 |
Sarajevo | Bosnia and Herzegovina | – | – | 2 | 1983 | 2 |
Budućnost Titograd | Montenegro | – | – | 2 | 1977 | 2 |
Naša Krila Zemun | Serbia | – | – | 2 | 1949 | 2 |
Željezničar | Bosnia and Herzegovina | – | – | 1 | 1981 | 1 |
Trepča | Kosovo | – | – | 1 | 1978 | 1 |
Sloboda Tuzla | Bosnia and Herzegovina | – | – | 1 | 1971 | 1 |
Olimpija Ljubljana | Slovenia | – | – | 1 | 1970 | 1 |
Bor | Serbia | – | – | 1 | 1968 | 1 |
Spartak Subotica | Vojvodina | – | – | 1 | 1962 | 1 |
Varteks | Croatia | – | – | 1 | 1961 | 1 |
Radnički Belgrade | Serbia | – | – | 1 | 1957 | 1 |
Vojvodina | Vojvodina | – | – | 1 | 1951 | 1 |
Performance by Republic/Province
Republic | Winner | Runner-Up | Appearances |
SR Bosnia and Herzegovina | 3 | 7 | 10 |
SR Croatia | 18 | 15 | 33 |
SAP Kosovo | – | 1 | 1 |
SR Macedonia | 1 | – | 1 |
SR Montenegro | – | 2 | 2 |
SR Slovenia | – | 1 | 1 |
SR Serbia | 22 | 16 | 38 |
SAP Vojvodina | – | 2 | 2 |