KK Kumanovo
Kumanovo | |||
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Leagues | Macedonian League BIBL | ||
Founded | 1946 | ||
Arena | Sports Hall Kumanovo | ||
Capacity | 6,500 | ||
Location | Kumanovo, North Macedonia | ||
Team colors | Blue and White | ||
President | Viktor Bozinovski | ||
Head coach | Vladimir Mirkovski | ||
Website | kkkumanovo | ||
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KK Kumanovo (Macedonian: КК Куманово) is a professional basketball club based in Kumanovo, North Macedonia. They currently play in the Macedonian First League. The club play their home matches at the Sports Hall Kumanovo.
History[]
Founded: 1946[1] Name: KK Kumanovo 2009 (09-). After the founding in 1946, the team was only able to achieve national successes in 1980. In the 90s Kumanovo team qualified for the Korac Cup 1998/99 , in which they lost a two-legged home game against KK Krka as well as two years later in the same competition against the BK Jambol. A season later, they also moved into the 2002 play-off final series for the Macedonian championship, in which they lost two to four wins against record champions and defending champion Feršped Rabotnički from the capital Skopje. Already in the following season the team could not keep up due to payment difficulties and occupied a relegation zone.
After the club Pop Sport VSA from Kumanovo had tried a season largely unsuccessfully in the top division, the team of the club returned as Kumanovo 2009 in the 2010/11 season to the Prva Liga Macedonia. After being re-established in the top division, the first successes were achieved when one reached the cup final in 2013, which was lost to defending champion and champion KK MZT Skopje, and on the other hand in the supranational Balkan League when it participated for the first time reached the Final Four tournament, in which they lost to the title holder Hapoel Gilboa Galil in the semi-finals. With the following participation, the team in the Balkan League 2014 in the quarter-finals against the later title winner Lewski Sofia and also achieved no chances of winning the title in national competitions. This was to change in the 2014/15 season, when the team beat record champion Rabotnički in the play-off semi-final of the championship after beating Rilski Sportist Samokov in the quarterfinals of the Balkan League. In the final series, however, they lost in three games against defending champion KK MZT Aerodrom. For the 2015/16 season, the team registered for the FIBA Europe Cup 2015/16 and refrained from further participation in the Balkan League. In the continental club competition, in six preliminary round matches, it was only enough for one home win against Kotkan TP-Basket. In the national championship play-offs, the third round of the semifinals was still played in five games and, in the final series, they were able to achieve at least one home win against series master MZT before losing another chance of winning the title in four games.
BIBL League Seasons []
- 2013: (9-11) 4th
- 2014: (7-11) 5th
- 2015: (10-6) 5th
- 2017: (13-7) 2nd
- 2018: (1-4 ) 8th
- 2021: (6-8) 5th
Honours[]
- Winner : 1980
- Runner-up: 2002, 2015, 2016[2]
- Macedonian Basketball Cup
- Runner-up: 2013
- Runner-up: 2017
Home ground[]
Kumanovo Arena is a home ground indoor sport venue for BC Kumanovo located in Kumanovo, Macedonia. The hall has capacity of 6,500 seats and was built in 1980.
It is the biggest indoor sport hall in Kumanovo, where competitions of basketball, futsal, handball, volleyball and boxing matches
Current roster[]
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Updated: 2020-11-26 |
Depth chart[]
Pos. | Starting 5 | Bench 1 | Bench 2 |
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C | Stevan Gligorijević | Ivan Volkanovski | |
PF | Nenad Zivčević | ||
SF | |||
SG | Petar Nikolić | ||
PG | Đukan Đukanović | Andrej Nastovski |
Technical staff[]
Position | Name |
Assistant Coach | Ivan Djordjevic |
Sports Director | Darko Petkovski |
Club Doctor | Dragan Karagjinski |
Physiotherapist | Melanija Cvetkovska |
Management[]
Position | Name |
Club Owner | Kumanovo Municipality |
Board President | Viktor Bozinovski |
Team Manager | Darko Petkovski Spejko |
Club Manager | Aleksandar Krstevski |
Technical assistant | Cvetkovski Milos |
Former players[]
- Aleksandar Kostoski
- Goran Dimitrijević
- Igor Mihajlovski
- Gjorgji Knjazev
- Mirza Kurtović
- Pero Blazevski
- Dimitar Mirakovski
- Srdjan Stanković
- Boris Nešović
- Dimitar Karadzovski
- Bojan Trajkovski
- Marko Simonovski
- Marjan Janevski
- Vukašin Mandić
- Uroš Luković
- Branislav Đekić
- Nemanja Jelesijević
- Milan Janjušević
- Saša Avramović
- Nenad Mišanović
- Ivan Mišković
- Darko Matić
- Vladimir Filipović
- Malik Evans
- Anthony Lee-Ingram
- Royce Parran
- Žarko Rakočević
- Igor Bijelić
- Nemanja Vranješ
Head coaches[]
References[]
- ^ "KK KUMANOVO basketball team History". eurobasket.com.
- ^ "Македонска Прва Лига Листа на финални натпревари и шампиони". basketball.org.mk.
- ^ "Balkanleague.net".
- ^ "Balkanleague.net".
External links[]
- Basketball teams in North Macedonia
- Sport in Kumanovo
- Basketball teams in Yugoslavia