1979–80 Yugoslav First Basketball League

Notable occurrences

• The season saw the pro debut of fifteen-year-old Dražen Petrović. He appeared in 8 games for Šibenka throughout the season, scoring a total of 13 points. His scoring debut came on 29 December 1979 at home against OKK Beograd, a contest fifteen-year-and-two-month-old Petrović entered by coming on for Šibenka's veteran point guard Zoran Slavnić who in addition to playing also shared the team's head coaching duties with Vojislav Vezović.

  Classification

• Borislav Vučević
• Emir Mutapčić
• Predrag Benaček
• Boško Bosiočić
• Nihad Izić
• Ratko Radovanović
• Dragan Zrno
• Žarko Varajić
• Mirza Delibašić
• Sabahudin Bilalović
• Sabit Hadžić
• Miroljub Mitrović

Scoring leaders

1. Branko Skroče - ___ points
2. Dražen Dalipagić - ___ points

   Qualification in 1980-81 season European competitions

• Bosna

• Cibona

• Jugoplastika
• Partizan
• Crvena Zvezda
• Zadar