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. 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
Season	1945
Games played	4
Teams	5
Finals
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

	Quarterfinals				Semifinals				Final
	PR Croatia	29
	PR Macedonia	27
					PR Croatia	24
					Yugoslav Army	41
									Yugoslav Army	21
									PR Serbia	18
	PR Serbia	20
	AP Vojvodina	18
					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
PR Serbia	Radomir Šaper, Svetislav Šaper, Nebojša Popović, Vasilije Stojković, Ivan Dimić, Miodrag Stefanović, Mile Nikolić
PR Croatia
PR Macedonia
AP Vojvodina

See also

• 1945 Yugoslav Women's Basketball League