1949 Yugoslav First Basketball League

Yugoslav First Basketball League
Season	1949
Games played	90
Teams	10
Regular season
Top seed	Crvena zvezda
Finals
Champions	Crvena zvezda (4th title)
Runners-up	Partizan
← 1948 1950 → All statistics correct as of 26 April 2017.

The 1949 Yugoslav First Basketball League season is the 5th season of the Yugoslav First Basketball League, the highest professional basketball league in SFR Yugoslavia.

It was the first time the competition was held as a traditional league with every team playing every other team twice, home and away. In previous years, the competition had been held as a tournament in a single location.

Teams

PR Serbia Crvena Zvezda Metalac Beograd Partizan Proleter Zrenjanin

PR Croatia Jedinstvo Lokomotiva Rijeka Mladost Zagreb

PR Slovenia Enotnost Železničar Ljubljana

PR Bosnia and Herzegovina Milicionar Sarajevo

Regular season

League table

Pos	Teams	Pts	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	Champion or relegation
1.	Crvena zvezda	34	18	17	1	796	475	Champion
2.	Partizan	32	18	16	2	719	434
3.	Mladost	24	18	12	6	554	491
4.	Jedinstvo	22	18	11	7	676	657
5.	Metalac	18	18	9	9	592	527
6.	Železničar Ljubljana	16	18	8	10	592	567
7.	Enotnost	16	18	8	10	556	585
8.	Proleter Zrenjanin	10	18	5	13	512	665
9.	Lokomotiva Rijeka	6	18	3	15	495	795
10.	Milicionar Sarajevo	2	18	1	17	228	254

Winning Roster

The winning roster of Crvena zvezda:

• Nebojša Popović
• Tullio Rochlitzer
• Vasilije Stojković
• Ladislav Demšar
• Aleksandar Gec
• Milorad Sokolović
• Srđan Kalember
• Borko Jovanović
• Mića Marinković
• Strahinja Alagić
• Aleksandar Nikolić
• Milan Bjegojević
• Vlada Gaćinović

Coach: Nebojša Popović

External links

• Yugoslav First Basketball League Archive (in Serbian)