1986–87 Yugoslav First Basketball League

The 1986–87 Yugoslav First Basketball League season was the 43rd season of the Yugoslav First Basketball League, the highest professional basketball league in SFR Yugoslavia.

Playoff
Only the top four placed league table teams qualified for the playoffs quarterfinal automatically.

Teams placed fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, and tenth were joined by the top two Second League teams for an 8-team play-in round. The winner of each best-of-three series advanced to the playoffs quarterfinal round.

PLAY-IN QUALIFYING ROUND 17-21-24/03 - Šibenka-IMT 90-87, 95-115, 101-95

Bosna-Olimpija Ljubljana 120-101, 105-102

Zadar-Borac 77-79, 76-68, 97-80

MZT Skopje-Buducnost 93-80, 95-91

QUARTERFINALS  28-31/03,04/04 -- Jugoplastika-Bosna 89-76, 85-92, 82-84

Cibona-MZT Skopje 117-92, 84-79

Partizan-Zadar 105-88, 81-93, 110-92

Crvena zvezda-Šibenka 91-90, 94-89

SEMIFINALS 7-11-14/04 - Cibona-Crvena zvezda 92-74, 92-94, 103-104

Partizan-Bosna 	85-77, 96-103, 107-96

FINALS 18-21/04 -- Partizan-Crvena zvezda 	78-73, 89-88

The winning roster of Partizan:
 * Vlade Divac
 * Žarko Paspalj
 * Goran Grbović
 * Aleksandar Đorđević
 * Milenko Savović
 * Želimir Obradović
 * Ivo Nakić
 * Slaviša Koprivica
 * Savo Stefanović
 * Obrad Ignjatović
 * Vladimir Dragutinović
 * Dejan Lakićević
 * Slobodan Kanjevac
 * Boris Orcev

Coach: Duško Vujošević

Scoring leaders

 * 1) Dražen Petrović (Cibona) - ___ points (37.1ppg)

Qualification in 1987–88 season European competitions
FIBA European Champions Cup
 * Partizan (champions)

FIBA Cup Winners' Cup
 * IMT (Cup winners)

FIBA Korać Cup
 * Cibona (1st)
 * Jugoplastika (3rd)
 * Crvena Zvezda (4th)
 * Šibenka (5th)

Preliminary round
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Titov Vrbas tournament

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Prizren tournament

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Zenica tournament

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Čakovec tournament

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