Premier League of Bosnia and Herzegovina 2008-09
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Premier League of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Premier League of Bosnia and Herzegovina
The Premier League of Bosnia and Herzegovina is the top football league in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is the country's most prestigious level of football competition currently contested by 16 clubs with last two teams relegated at the end of every season....

 2008–09
was the ninth season since its establishment and the seventh as a unified country-wide league. It started on 2 August 2008 and ended on 23 May 2009. Modriča
FK Modrica
FK Modriča Maxima is a football club playing in the town of Modriča, Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina.The club was founded in 1922 and it is currently active in the First League of the Republika Srpska. Modriča Maxima won the first place in First League of RS in 2002/03 season, which...

 were the defending champions.

Promotion and relegation

Jedinstvo Bihać
NK Jedinstvo Bihac
NK Jedinstvo is a football club from Bosnia and Herzegovina, from the city of Bihać. NK Jedinstvo was founded in 1919. The club's stadium is called Pod Borićima Stadion and it can seat 8,000...

 and Žepče
NK Žepce
NK Žepče was a football club from Žepče, Bosnia and Herzegovina. The team was known as NK Zovko Žepče, until 2003, when Limorad became their primary sponsor. Since 2004/2005 season, there are no sponsors in the name....

 were relegated after the 2007–08 season due to finishing in 15th and 16th place, respectively.

They were replaced by the champions of two second-level leagues, Zvijezda Gradačac
NK Zvijezda Gradacac
NK Zvijezda Gradačac, or commonly referred to as just Zvijezda is a football club from Bosnia and Herzegovina, based in the town of Gradačac. Zvijezda host their home matches at the Banja Ilidža stadium, which has a capacity of 5,000 seats...

 (Prva Liga BiH) and Borac Banja Luka (Prva Liga RS
First League of the Republika Srpska
First League of the Republika Srpska is a second level football competition in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Since there were three different football championships in country, organized on ethnic principles, the "First League of the Republika Srpska" was the top flight in Republika Srpska before 2002....

).

Clubs and stadia

Club City Stadium
Borac Banja Luka
Banja Luka
-History:The name "Banja Luka" was first mentioned in a document dated February 6, 1494, but Banja Luka's history dates back to ancient times. There is a substantial evidence of the Roman presence in the region during the first few centuries A.D., including an old fort "Kastel" in the centre of...

City Stadium of Banja Luka
City Stadium of Banja Luka
City Stadium of Banja Luka is a multi-purpose stadium in Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home ground of Borac Banja Luka....

Čelik
NK Celik Zenica
NK Čelik is a football club from Bosnia and Herzegovina, playing in the city of Zenica.The name Čelik means "Steel" in Bosnian - it is derived from Turkish çelik...

Zenica
Zenica
Zenica is an industrial city in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is the capital of the Zenica-Doboj Canton of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina entity...

Bilino Polje
Bilino Polje
Bilino Polje is the home football stadium of Bosnian Premier League football club NK Čelik from the city of Zenica in Bosnia and Herzegovina and one of two stadiums of the national football team of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is also sometimes used for the Bosnia and Herzegovina national rugby union...

FK Laktaši
FK Laktaši
FK Laktaši is a football club based in the town of Laktaši, Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina. It competes in the First League of Republika Srpska....

Laktaši
Laktaši
Laktaši is a town and municipality in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is situated in the Republika Srpska entity near the city of Banja Luka.-Geography:...

Gradski Stadion, Laktaši
Gradski Stadion (Laktaši)
Gradski Stadion is a football stadium in Laktaši, Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is the home stadium of FK Laktaši of the Premier League of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The stadium holds 5,000 spectators.-External links:*...

Leotar
FK Leotar Trebinje
FK Leotar is a football club from the city of Trebinje, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Founded in 1925 in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, the club served as a training ground for many players who went on to enjoy notable careers elsewhere...

Trebinje
Trebinje
Trebinje is the southernmost municipality and town in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is administratively part of the Republika Srpska entity and is located in southeastern Herzegovina, some from the Adriatic Sea....

Police Stadium
Police Stadium
Police Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Trebinje, Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home ground of FK Leotar Trebinje. The stadium holds 8,550 people....

FK Modriča
FK Modrica
FK Modriča Maxima is a football club playing in the town of Modriča, Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina.The club was founded in 1922 and it is currently active in the First League of the Republika Srpska. Modriča Maxima won the first place in First League of RS in 2002/03 season, which...

Modriča
Modrica
Modriča is a city and municipality in Bosnia and Herzegovina, in Republika Srpska entity. It is located near the towns of Šamac, Derventa and Doboj...

Maxima Stadium
Maxima Stadium
Stadium "Dr. Milan Jelić" is a multi-purpose stadium in Modriča, Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home ground of FK Modriča. The stadium holds 6,000....

HNK Orašje Orašje
Orašje
Orašje is a town in the northern part of Bosnia and Herzegovina, located on the river Sava on the border with Croatia. Orašje is the center of the Posavina Canton of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina...

Gradski Stadion Orašje
Gradski Stadion Orašje
Gradski Stadion Orasje is a multi-use stadium in Orasje, Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home ground of HNK Orašje. The stadium holds 3,000....

NK Posušje
NK Posušje
HŠK Posušje is a defunct football club based in Posušje, Bosnia and Herzegovina. The club is in the First League of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It was founded in 1950. The club plays at the Mokri Dolac Stadium which has a capacity of 8,000...

Posušje
Posušje
Posušje is a town and municipality in Bosnia and Herzegovina, located in the West Herzegovina Canton of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina entity.-Name:...

Mokri Dolac Stadium
Mokri Dolac Stadium
Mokri Dolac Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Posušje, Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home ground of NK Posušje. The stadium holds 12,000....

FK Sarajevo
FK Sarajevo
FK Sarajevo is a professional football club based in Sarajevo, the capital city of Bosnia-Herzegovina and is one of the most popular clubs in the country. Founded on October 24, 1946, the club was the most successful club from SR Bosnia and Herzegovina in former Yugoslavia, winning two First League...

Sarajevo
Sarajevo
Sarajevo |Bosnia]], surrounded by the Dinaric Alps and situated along the Miljacka River in the heart of Southeastern Europe and the Balkans....

Asim Ferhatović Hase Stadium
Asim Ferhatovic Hase Stadium
Asim Ferhatović Hase Stadium is a stadium owned by the city of Sarajevo. It is also known as Koševo Stadium and formerly Olympic Stadium. Koševo Stadium is located in the Koševo neighborhood of Sarajevo and it is used mostly by FK Sarajevo....

Slavija Istočno Sarajevo
Istocno Sarajevo
Istočno Sarajevo is a city in Bosnia and Herzegovina and de jure capital of the Republika Srpska entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina adjacent to Bosnia and Herzegovinas capital Sarajevo to its northeast. East Sarajevo consists of a few pre-war suburbal parts of Sarajevo which are now in the Republika...

Gradski SRC Slavija Stadium
Gradski SRC Slavija Stadium
City SRC Slavija Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Istočno Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home ground of Slavija Istočno Sarajevo. The stadium holds 6,000 people....

Sloboda
FK Sloboda Tuzla
FK Sloboda is a football club from the city of Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina. The English translation of the team's name is Football Club Freedom...

Tuzla
Tuzla
Tuzla is a city and municipality in Bosnia and Herzegovina. At the time of the 1991 census, it had 83,770 inhabitants, while the municipality 131,318. Taking the influx of refugees into account, the city is currently estimated to have 174,558 inhabitants...

Tušanj Stadium
Tušanj Stadium
Tušanj Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina. It was built in 1957 and is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home ground of FK Sloboda Tuzla. The stadium holds 15,000.-References:...

NK Široki Brijeg
NK Široki Brijeg
NK Široki Brijeg is a Bosnian-Herzegovinian team from the town of Široki Brijeg that currently plays in the Premier League of Bosnia and Herzegovina....

Široki Brijeg
Široki Brijeg
-Name:The name of the city means "the wide hill" in Croatian . The city is also sometime referred to as "Široki Brig" and among the inhabitants of Herzegovina simply as "Široki" . Between 1945 and 1990, the name was officially Lištica, after the river that flows through it.-Geography:The river...

Pecara Stadium
Pecara Stadium
Pecara Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Široki Brijeg, Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home ground of NK Široki Brijeg, and is also used for final match of football tournament mjesne zajednice. The stadium can hold up to 10,000...

NK Travnik
NK Travnik
NK Travnik is a football club centered in the city of Travnik, Bosnia and Herzegovina. It was founded in 1922. Currently, NK Travnik competes in the Premier League of Bosnia and Herzegovina.- Current squad :...

Travnik
Travnik
Travnik is a city and municipality in central Bosnia and Herzegovina, 90 km west of Sarajevo. It is the capital of the Central Bosnia Canton, and is located in the Travnik Municipality. Travnik today has some 27,000 residents, with a metro population that is probably close to 70,000 people...

Stadion Pirota
Stadion Pirota
Stadion Pirota is a multi-use stadium in Travnik, Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home ground of NK Travnik. The stadium holds 5,000 people....

Velež
FK Velež Mostar
FK Velež , successor of RŠD Velež, is a football club from Bosnia and Herzegovina, from the city of Mostar, founded on June 22, 1922....

Mostar
Mostar
Mostar is a city and municipality in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the largest and one of the most important cities in the Herzegovina region and the center of the Herzegovina-Neretva Canton of the Federation. Mostar is situated on the Neretva river and is the fifth-largest city in the country...

Vrapčići Stadium
Vrapcici Stadium
Vrapčići Stadium is a football stadium in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is located in the northern part of the city. It takes its name from the neighbourhood of Vrapčići. It is primarily the home of FK Velež Mostar. The stadium holds 7,000 supporters. It has a little east and a big north...

Zrinjski
HŠK Zrinjski Mostar
HŠK Zrinjski Mostar is a football team from the city of Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina. The club plays in the Premier League of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and has been one of the top teams in the country over the years....

Mostar Bijeli Brijeg Stadium
Bijeli Brijeg Stadium
Bijeli Brijeg, officially name: Stadium of HŠK Zrinjski is a football stadium in the city of Mostar in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is currently the home of HŠK Zrinjski Mostar. It formerly served as Velež Mostar's stadium. The stadium was built in 1971 and currently has a capacity of 25,000...

Zvijezda
NK Zvijezda Gradacac
NK Zvijezda Gradačac, or commonly referred to as just Zvijezda is a football club from Bosnia and Herzegovina, based in the town of Gradačac. Zvijezda host their home matches at the Banja Ilidža stadium, which has a capacity of 5,000 seats...

Gradačac
Gradacac
Gradačac is a town and municipality in the northeastern part of Bosnia and Herzegovina, located roughly south of the Sava river. Administratively, Gradačac is part of the Tuzla Canton of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina...

Banja Ilidža
Banja Ilidža
Banja Ilidža is a football stadium in Gradačac, Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is the home stadium of NK Zvijezda Gradačac of the Premier League of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The stadium holds 5,000 spectators.-External links:*...

Željezničar Sarajevo Grbavica Stadium
Grbavica Stadium
Grbavica Stadium is located in Grbavica, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. The football stadium has terraces close to the pitch and it is the home of FK Željezničar. The stadium has a capacity to hold 12,000 spectators, with 9,000 places that are seated...


League table

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