History
The Serbian First League is the successor of the Yugoslav Second League. With the break-up of SFR Yugoslavia in 1992, the clubs from the newly independent states of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia and Slovenia joined to their own newly formed leagues, while Serbia and Montenegro remained united and renamed into FR Yugoslavia with the clubs from both republics kept competing in the league. In 2003, FR Yugoslavia was renamed to Serbia and Montenegro and the football league followed suit. Finally, after Montenegrin independence, in 2006, the Montenegrin clubs withraw from the league and the league is since then formed by clubs from the territory of Serbia only.
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