1945 Yugoslav First Basketball League

The 1945 Yugoslav First Basketball League season was the inaugural season of the Yugoslav First Basketball League, the top-tier level basketball competition in Yugoslavia. The league launched with 5 teams playing a single-elimination tournament held in Subotica, PR Serbia.[1] Teams participating in the season were selections of three Yugoslav constituent republics (PR Croatia, PR Macedonia, and PR Serbia), one autonomous province (AP Vojvodina), as well as the Yugoslav People's Army selection. The tournament concluded with the Yugoslav Army team defeating the Serbia team, 21–18, in the Final.

Yugoslav First Basketball League
Competition details
Season 1945
Teams 5
Games played 4
Final positions
Champions Yugoslav Army
(1st title)
Runners-up PR Serbia
Semifinalists PR Croatia
Records
Highest scoring PR Croatia 24–41 Yugoslav Army
Winning streak 2 games
Yugoslav Army
1946 →
All statistics correct as of 24 April 2017.

Bracket

Source[1][2]

 
QuarterfinalsSemifinalsFinal
 
          
 
 
 
 
PR Croatia29
 
 
 
PR Macedonia27
 
 PR Croatia 24
 
 
 
Yugoslav Army41
 
Yugoslav Armyw/o
 
 
 
 
 
Yugoslav Army21
 
 
 
 PR Serbia 18
 
PR Serbia20
 
 
 
AP Vojvodina18
 
 PR Serbia w/o
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Rosters

The following is a list of players and coached who played in the 1945 season.

Team Players Head coach Ref.
Yugoslav Army Strahinja Alagić, Luciano Dekleva, Pavle Kostić, Zlatko Kovačević, Mirko Marjanović, Božidar Munćan, Aleksandar Nikolić, Atilio Pikoli, Ratko Tijanić, Ratko Vlahović Ratko Vlahović [2]
PR Serbia Radomir Šaper, Svetislav Šaper, Nebojša Popović, Vasilije Stojković, Ivan Dimić, Miodrag Stefanović, Mile Nikolić [3]
PR Croatia
PR Macedonia
AP Vojvodina

See also

References
  1. "Košarkaška prvenstva Jugoslavije (1945-91) – prvi deo". strategija.org. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
  2. "Yugoslav First Basketball League Archive". web.archive.org. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
  3. Radomir Šaper: Kako se stvarala jugoslovenska košarka. Belgrade: Košarkaška fondacija. 2005. p. 10. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
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