While the two countries were nominally still part of Yugoslavia, their clubs withdrew from the Yugoslav football system.
Over the course of the competition, Macedonia and Bosnia and Herzegovina declared independence on 8 September 1991, and on 5 March 1992, respectively.
This was discontinued as the previous year's champion Hajduk Split had failed to return the Marshal Tito Trophy to the Football Association of Yugoslavia, which no longer had jurisdiction over the club.
The trophy was returned to Poljud in 2008, after Hajduk's official and trustee Juko Strinić kept it with himself for 17 years.
[1] On 23 May 1992; after the Cup final, the manager of the winning side; FK Partizan, Ivica Osim resigned from his managerial duties with the club.