1953 Yugoslav First Basketball League

The 1953 Yugoslav First Basketball League season is the 9th season of the Yugoslav First Basketball League, the highest professional basketball league in SFR Yugoslavia.

Yugoslav First Basketball League
Season	1953
Number of games	12
Number of teams	4
Regular season
Top seed	Crvena zvezda
Finals
Champions	Crvena zvezda (8th title)
Runners-up	Enotnost
← 1952 1954 → All statistics correct as of 26 April 2017.

Teams

PR Serbia BSK Belgrade Crvena Zvezda Partizan Proleter

PR Croatia Lokomotiva Zagreb Montažno Zagreb

PR Slovenia Enotnost Železničar Ljubljana

Regular season

East

Pos	Teams	Pld	W	D	L	PF	PA	Pts	Status
1.	Crvena zvezda	6	5	0	1	375	317	10	Advance to final group
2.	Partizan	6	4	0	2	370	386	8
3.	BSK Belgrade	6	2	0	4	327	326	4
4.	Proleter	6	1	0	5	376	419	2

West

Pos	Teams	Pld	W	D	L	PF	PA	Pts	Status
1.	Enotnost	6	4	0	2	344	301	10	Advance to final group
2.	Lokomotiva	6	3	1	2	269	270	7
3.	Železničar Ljubljana	6	2	1	3	287	304	5
4.	Montažno Zagreb	6	2	0	4	296	321	4

Final group

Pos	Teams	Pld	W	D	L	PF	PA	Pts	Champion or relegation
1.	Crvena zvezda	6	5	1	0	380	305	11	Champion
2.	Enotnost	6	3	1	2	331	347	7
3.	Lokomotiva	6	1	2	3	293	322	4
4.	Partizan	6	1	0	5	329	359	2

Source: Partizanopedia

Winning Roster

The winning roster of Crvena zvezda:

• Aleksandar Gec
• Srđan Kalember
• Branko Nešić
• Đorđe Konjović
• Vojislav Pavasović
• Borislav Ćurčić
• Ladislav Demšar
• Đorđe Andrijašević
• Milan Bjegojević
• Borko Jovanović
• Dragan Godžić
• Obren Popović
• Rastko Radulović
• Milan Radivojević

Coach: Nebojša Popović

External links

• Yugoslav First Basketball League Archive (in Serbian)