The 1978–79 Yugoslav First Basketball League season was the 35th season of the

Yugoslav First Basketball League The First Federal Basketball League () was the highest tier level men's professional club basketball competition in the former country of Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, SFR Yugoslavia. Founded in 1945, and folded in 1992 (1991–92 YU ...

, the highest professional basketball league in

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Teams

Classification

The winning roster of Partizan: *

Dragan Kićanović Dragan Kićanović (; born 17 August 1953) is a Serbian and Yugoslav retired professional basketball player. A tall shooting guard, Kićanović played in the 1970s and 1980s, and is considered to be one of the best European players and scorers ...

* Miodrag Marić * Arsenije Pešić * Dušan Kerkez * Boban Petrović *

Dragan Todorić Dragan Todorić (; born 27 July 1954) is a Serbian former professional basketball player and current adviser to the President of Partizan Belgrade. He is known for a rare achievement: taking part—either as a player or subsequently as part of th ...

* Jadran Vujačić * Milan Medić *

Dražen Dalipagić Dražen "Praja" Dalipagić (; 27 November 1951 – 25 January 2025) was a Serbian professional basketball player and head coach. He was selected the best athlete of Yugoslavia in the year 1978, and is one of the most decorated athletes in Yugos ...

(did not play any games during the season due to serving his mandatory

Yugoslav People's Army The Yugoslav People's Army (JNA/; Macedonian language, Macedonian, Montenegrin language, Montenegrin and sr-Cyrl-Latn, Југословенска народна армија, Jugoslovenska narodna armija; Croatian language, Croatian and ; , J ...

stint) *

Milenko Savović Milenko Savović (18 July 1960 – 1 March 2021) was a Serbian professional basketball player. For most of his career, he was the captain of KK Partizan. Savović died from COVID-19 Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a contagious d ...

* Milenko Babić * Boris Beravs * Goran Knežević * Miroslav Milojević * Predrag Bojić Coach: Dušan Ivković

Results

Scoring leaders

(Partizan) - ___ points (33.8ppg)

Qualification in 1979-80 season European competitions

FIBA European Champions Cup * Partizan (champions) * Bosna (title holder) FIBA Cup Winners' Cup *

Zadar Zadar ( , ), historically known as Zara (from Venetian and Italian, ; see also other names), is the oldest continuously inhabited city in Croatia. It is situated on the Adriatic Sea, at the northwestern part of Ravni Kotari region. Zadar ...

(Cup finalist)

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* Jugoplastika (2nd) * Cibona (3rd) * Borac Čačak (5th) * Radnički Belgrade (6th)

Basketball Cup

Bracket

References

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