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 Teams Champion or relegation 1. Crvena zvezda 3418171796475Champion 2. Partizan 3218162719434 3. Mladost 2418126554491 4. Jedinstvo 2218117676657 5. Metalac 181899592527 6. Železničar Ljubljana 1618810592567 7. Enotnost 1618810556585 8. Proleter Zrenjanin 1018513512665 9. Lokomotiva Rijeka 618315495795 10. Milicionar Sarajevo 218117228524

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