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| Season: | 1949 |
| Champions: | Crvena zvezda (4th title) |
| Runners Up: | Partizan |
| Teams: | 10 |
| Games: | 90 |
| Top Seed: | Crvena zvezda |
| Prevseason: | 1948 |
| Nextseason: | 1950 |
| Updated: | 26 April 2017 |
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.
| PR Serbia | PR Croatia
| PR Slovenia | PR Bosnia and Herzegovina |
| width=20 | ! | width=200 | Teams ! | width=20 | ! | width=20 | ! | width=20 | ! | width=35 | ! | width=35 | ! | Champion or relegation | |
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| 1. | Crvena zvezda | 34 | 18 | 17 | 1 | 796 | 475 | Champion | |||||||
| 2. | 32 | 18 | 16 | 2 | 719 | 434 | |||||||||
| 3. | 24 | 18 | 12 | 6 | 554 | 491 | |||||||||
| 4. | 22 | 18 | 11 | 7 | 676 | 657 | |||||||||
| 5. | 18 | 18 | 9 | 9 | 592 | 527 | |||||||||
| 6. | 16 | 18 | 8 | 10 | 592 | 567 | |||||||||
| 7. | 16 | 18 | 8 | 10 | 556 | 585 | |||||||||
| 8. | 10 | 18 | 5 | 13 | 512 | 665 | |||||||||
| 9. | 6 | 18 | 3 | 15 | 495 | 795 | |||||||||
| 10. | 2 | 18 | 1 | 17 | 228 | 254 |
The winning roster of Crvena zvezda:
Coach: Nebojša Popović