Prva A Liga

During their history, many Montenegrin basketball clubs played in the top-tier competition of SFR Yugoslavia, FR Yugoslavia and Serbia and Montenegro. Among them are KK Budućnost Podgorica, KK Lovćen, KK Sutjeska, KK Mornar, KK Primorka, KK Berane, KK Jedinstvo Bijelo Polje and KK Temko Nikšić.

In period from 1945 to 1991, while SFR Yugoslavia existed, in the First League played Berane (former name: Ivangrad) and Budućnost. Other Montenegrin clubs played in Second Yugoslav League (during the 80's - First 'B' League) and Republic League.
Budućnost played in the First League during the nine seasons, with third place on season 1985-86 as their biggest success at that time.
Below is the list of performances of Montenegrin clubs in SFRJ First League (1945-1991) with final placements on each season.[1]

After the breakup of SFR Yugoslavia, until the Montenegrin independence, eight different Montenegrin teams participated in the First League of FR Yugoslavia / Serbia and Montenegro (YUBA League). Budućnost is the only team which played every single season in that competition, winning the three champion titles. Except them, Lovćen, Mornar, Sutjeska and Primorka are the only teams which participated in more than one season at the highest rank.
During that period, Budućnost became a founder of ABA League, too, where they play an important role until today. At the same time, Budućnost played its' first seasons in Euroleague with the quarterfinals as their biggest success in the history of competition.
Below is the list of performances of Montenegrin clubs in YUBA League (1992-2006) with final placements on each season.[2]

As the most successful Montenegrin basketball team, Budućnost won three national titles in the First League of Yugoslavia.

Soon after the Montenegrin independence referendum, Basketball Federation of Montenegro founded its own competitions, with the First League as a top-tier competition. During the all history, KK Budućnost was strongly dominant side.
Every season have two parts. During the first part, 8 to 10 clubs are playing league, without teams who are playing in ABA League. Until the season 2019-2020, in the second part, four best-placed teams from the league and two Montenegrin clubs from ABA League were competing in Superliga and four best-placed sides from that phase were participating in playoffs. Final series of playoffs is lasting until three wins of one opponent.
From season 2006-07 to 2016-17, every single champions' title won KK Budućnost. From 2006 to 2012, team from Podgorica created an impressive row of 89 wins with only one defeat in domestic championship. Except that, until 2015, team from Podgorica won every playoff final series with 3-0.
On season 2015-16, during the regular phase of the championship, game between KK Ulcinj and KK Jedinstvo finished with result 127-23. That was the biggest victory in the history of Montenegrin Championship. Except that, KK Ulcinj's player Miloš Popović on the same game scored 59 points, which is another all-time record of Montenegrin League.[3] An unexpected change came on season 2017-18, when KK Mornar won their first ever national title. In the finals, they surprisingly won the series against ABA League title holder - KK Budućnost (3-1).
Budućnost made a comeback on season 2018-19, defeating Mornar in the finals. During 2019, Montenegrin basketball federation implemented a new system of competition. Instead Superliga as the second phase, two best teams from the first part of season and two Montenegrin representatives in ABA League are directly qualifying for the playoff series.
Season 2019-20 was interrupted after 20 weeks, due to the coronavirus pandemic and Montenegrin basketball federation decided to erase every single result from that edition of competition.[4]

Below is the list of final series of Montenegrin Basketball League playoffs.

Season	Champion	Score	Runner-up	Champion's Coach	Player of the season
2006–07	Budućnost	3–0	Lovćen	Dejan Radonjić	Vladimir Micov (Budućnost)
2007–08	Budućnost	3–0	Mogren	Dejan Radonjić	Nikola Otašević (Budućnost)
2008–09	Budućnost	3–0	Primorje	Dejan Radonjić	Nikola Otašević (Budućnost)
2009–10	Budućnost	3–0	Lovćen	Dejan Radonjić	Čedomir Vitkovac (Budućnost)
2010–11	Budućnost	3–0	Mornar	Dejan Radonjić	Vladimir Dragičević (Budućnost)
2011–12	Budućnost	3–0	Sutjeska	Dejan Radonjić	Bojan Dubljević (Budućnost)
2012–13	Budućnost	3–0	Sutjeska	Dejan Radonjić	Aleksa Popović (Budućnost)
2013–14	Budućnost	3–0	Zeta	Igor Jovović	Suad Šehović (Budućnost)
2014–15	Budućnost	3–1	Sutjeska	Igor Jovović	J. R. Reynolds (Budućnost)
2015–16	Budućnost	3–1	Mornar	Igor Đaletić	Julius Jenkins (Budućnost)
2016–17	Budućnost	3–2	Mornar	Igor Đaletić	Nemanja Gordić (Budućnost)
2017–18	Mornar	3–1	Budućnost	Mihailo Pavićević	Derek Needham (Mornar)
2018–19	Budućnost	3–2	Mornar	Petar Mijović
2019–20	Canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic[5]

Below is a list of clubs with titles won in Montenegrin Basketball League.

Below is an overall list, with titles won in both leagues - Montenegrin Basketball League and FR Yugoslavia / Serbia and Montenegro Championship.

Since establishing, in Montenegrin basketball league participated 20 different teams. Club which played every single season until now are KK Budućnost, KK Jedinstvo, KK Lovćen, KK Mornar and KK Ulcinj.

All-time Montenegrin First League table is a ranking of all Montenegrin basketball clubs based on their performance in national top tier. Highlighted clubs played in the First League in the 2018/19 season.

^a Including current season (2018/19)
^b Playout games against teams from Prva B Liga are not counted

Ten of the eleven teams that play the league join the regular season. After that phase, two best teams from the regular season are qualifying for the playoffs, where they play against the two 2019–20 ABA League teams (Budućnost Voli and Mornar).Except that, two best teams from regular season are qualifying for the next season of ABA 2 League. The last qualified team is relegated to Prva B Liga.[6]

As of the end of FIBA/ULEB competitions 2018–19 season.