1985–86 Yugoslav First Basketball League

Yugoslav First Basketball League
League	Yugoslav First Basketball League
Sport	Basketball
1985-86
Season champions	Zadar
Finals
Champions	Zadar
Runners-up	Cibona

Regular season

Classification

	Regular season ranking 1985-86	Pt	G	V	P	PF	PS
1.	Cibona	43	22	21	1	2474	2074
2.	Zadar	37	22	15	7	2050	1921
3.	Budućnost	35	22	13	9	1990	2002
4.	Šibenka	34	22	12	10	2069	2066
5.	Partizan	34	22	12	10	2165	2119
6.	Jugoplastika	34	22	12	10	2013	1979
7.	Bosna	32	22	10	12	1979	2046
8.	Crvena Zvezda	32	22	10	12	2098	2114
9.	Borac Čačak	30	22	8	14	1901	1964
10.	Rabotnički	29	22	7	15	1884	2058
11.	Smelt Olimpija	29	22	8	14	2058	2142
12.	Sloga	26	22	4	18	2028	2193

Notes

• First week of fixtures on 5 October 1985 included a game in Zagreb between Cibona and visiting Smelt Olimpija. Since the visitors failed to fulfill their player registration administrative obligations in time, they were left without entire first team roster for the regular season opening game and had to field junior players. Cibona for their part decided to send out a mixed roster consisting of players from their youth system plus their 21-year-old superstar Dražen Petrović who used the opportunity to shatter Radivoj Korać's single game Yugoslav League scoring record from 1962 when he scored 74 points for OKK Beograd versus Mladost Zemun. In a 158-77 blowout against the hapless Ljubljana team, Petrović scored 112 points on 40 for 60 field goal shooting that included 10 for 20 three-point shooting.
• Cibona dominated the regular season with only a single loss in 22 games, thus equaling a feat of one regular season loss that had previously been managed only by Zadar in 1974-75 and Crvena Zvezda in 1949. Behind young Dražen Petrović's scoring exploits (his regular season scoring average was 43.3 points per game), the Zagreb club opened the campaign 20-0 before losing 102-100 away to Šibenka (Petrović's old team) in the second last game of the regular season — a contest in which Petrović recorded 52 points, but Šibenka still managed to eek out a famous win led by Predrag Šarić's (Dario Šarić's father) 36 points.
• Budućnost was the season's biggest surprise package. The unfancied side from Titograd was almost unbeatable at home, losing only one game, against Cibona, in front of its home fans. Led by veterans Duško Ivanović (28.5ppg season average), Dragan Ivanović, Nikola Antić, Milatović, and Jadran Vujačić, the team also received a great contribution from its rising star Žarko Paspalj who turned 20 years of age over the course of the season.

Playoff

	Quarterfinals					Semifinals					Finals
	1	Cibona
	8	Crvena Zvezda
						1	Cibona
						4	Šibenka
	4	Šibenka
	5	Partizan
											1	Cibona	1
											2	Zadar	2
	2	Zadar
	7	Bosna
						2	Zadar
						3	Budućnost
	3	Budućnost
	6	Jugoplastika

( Cibona vs Zadar: 84-70, Zadar vs Cibona: 84-73 & Cibona vs Zadar: 110-111 )

The winning roster of Zadar:

• Darko Pahlić
• Petar Popović
• Milan Mlađan
• Ante Matulović
• Drago Čiklić
• Ivan Sunara
• Zdenko Babić
• Dražen Blažević
• Stojko Vranković
• Veljko Petranović
• Ivica Obad
• Boris Hrabrov
• Samir Žuža

Coach: Vlade Đurović

Qualification in 1986-87 season European competitions

FIBA European Champions Cup

• Zadar (Champions)

FIBA Cup Winner's Cup

• Cibona (Cup finalist)

FIBA Korać Cup

• Budućnost (3rd)
• Šibenka (4th)
• Partizan (5th)
• Jugoplastika (6th)