Basketball in territory of former Yugoslavia in 1941

Development of basketball in the territory we are talking about, during the WW II, remainedquite un-researched, so the subject and the goal of this paper is to research, analyze, highlight andobtain from oblivion that same period. We hope to stir up the sports historians, and also otherreaders interested in history of sports for further research.During writing usual historical method was used (finding of primary historical sources, theircritics, as also the finding and studying of the secondary historical sources) . A numerous sourcesmade in that time were reviewed and consulted (magazines, newspapers, papers, records, reports,overwrites, etc.) in: archives, libraries, institutes, private archives and museums of sports of formerYugoslavia, as also the sources made afterword.During 1941 basketball took place in Belgrade, Novi Sad, Split, Šibenik, Dubrovnik and Kotor.The competitions were played occasionally but most intensively in Belgrade. Serbian Basket -ball Federation was founded in September, also in Belgrade