Basketball as a sport was first played among Sokol and school youths in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia in 1919. The first games took place in mid-1922. The first basketball games were held at the regional Sokol competition in Maribor on June 28 and 29, 1922. In the Second Boy's Grammar School in Belgrade, there was a school competition in the school year of 1923/24. As basketball was initially being played by Sokol youngsters and within the Sokol association, it seemed rather logical to have Sokol members as the first initiators and organizers of the first basketball competitions and championships in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. The first attempt to host a state level championship was in Skopje on June 28, 1937, when three Sokol teams appeared at this event. The first championship of the Sokol Association of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia was held from September 28 to 29, 1940 in Borovo. There were teams from seven different Sokol regions with 170 men and women divided into 15 teams. This first championship was won by the Men's Zagreb team and Women's Belgrade team. The junior championship in both categories was won by the Zagreb Sokol teams.

: Sport, particularly in the realm of professional competition, is a domain of human endeavor that is increasingly dependent on the use of analytical statistical information. Consequently, mathematics and statistics are becoming increasingly crucial elements in sports. Although experts recognize the importance of analytics in women’s basketball, the literature addressing this subject remains limited. The objective of this study is to employ quantitative methodologies to discover prevailing patterns in global women’s basketball representation. The entities examined in this article were the games contested during the 2021 Olympic Games, the 2022 World Cup, and the 2023 continental championships. Two regression models were created for the research, using thirteen standard variables observed in the game. The evaluation of the regression model was conducted using the stepwise regression method, incorporating dimensionality reduction based on the outcomes of factor analysis. Among the 14 models that were observed, 13 of them exhibited strong and moderate linkages, while only 1 displayed weak connections and lacked statistical significance. The primary factors that account for the disparity between winning and losing teams in games are primarily associated with shooting accuracy toward the basket. When examining individual championships, the percentage surpassed 50% in all cases except for AfroBasket. However, when considering the overall results, the significance of shooting rose to 86%. The variable representing offensive rebound efficiency had a significant influence on the outcome, being present in all individual competitions, whereas defensive rebound efficiency was only considered in the overall results.