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Yugoslav First Basketball League | |
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Season | 1949 |
Number of games | 90 |
Number of 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.
PR Serbia | PR Croatia | PR Slovenia | PR Bosnia and Herzegovina |
Pos | Teams | Pts | Pld | W | L | PF | PA | Champion or relegation |
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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 |
The winning roster of Crvena zvezda:
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