Based on archival sources, the contemporaneous press, and the accounts of people from that time, this article presents the state of affairs and problems faced by football, the most popular Yugoslav sport, in the 1960s and early 1970s. Yugoslav football in the 1960s was faced with many problems and difficulties. The basic question posed in that period was related to the reorganisation of professional football, which appeared in socialist Yugoslavia in the mid-1960s. The introduction of professionalism in football entailed a series of questions such as: the social-legal physiognomy of the clubs; the formation and internal organisation of the clubs; the association and organisation of professional clubs within the frame of the Football Association of Yugoslavia; the division between amateur and non-amateur football; the status of players, the employment of professional footballers, i.e. the need to change the basic employment law, etc.