Basketball League of Serbia
Founded | 2006 |
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First season | 2006–07 |
Country | Serbia |
Confederation | FIBA Europe |
Number of teams | 18 |
Level on pyramid | 1 |
Relegation to | Serbian League B |
Domestic cup(s) | Radivoj Korać Cup |
Current champions | Crvena zvezda (19th title) (2017–18) |
Most championships | Partizan (21 titles) |
CEO | Darko Jovičić |
TV partners | RTS Arena Sport |
Website | kls.rs |
2018–19 season |
The Basketball League of Serbia (Serbian: Кошаркашка лига Србије (КЛС) / Košarkaška liga Srbije (KLS)), is the highest tier level (excluding the level 0 ABA) men's professional club basketball competition in Serbia. Founded in 2006, it is run by the Basketball Federation of Serbia.
Rules
Competition format
The league, operated by the Basketball Federation of Serbia, consists of Serbian First League which have 14 and Serbian Super League which have 8 teams.
For the 2013–14 season, the top four teams in First League will be promoted to Super League with four Serbian teams from the Adriatic League. The team positioned 14th in First League will be relegated to a lower league – Basketball League of Serbia B. The best 4 clubs in Super League goes to Playoff stage and top four teams in regular part will qualify for the next season of the Adriatic League.
Arena standards
Currently, clubs must have home arenas with capacity of minimum 1,000 seats.
History
Competition name
- 2006–2007: Sinalco Basketball League of Serbia
- 2007–2009: Swisslion Basketball League of Serbia
- 2009–2011: Basketball League of Serbia
- 2011–2013: Agroživ Basketball League of Serbia[1]
- 2013–2016: Basketball League of Serbia
- 2016–present: Mozzart Basketball League of Serbia
League commissioners
- 2006–2011: Tihomir Bubalo
- 2011–2013: Predrag Bojić
- 2013–present: Darko Jovičić
Current teams
Team | Home city | Arena | Capacity |
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Beovuk 72 | Belgrade | Mega Factory | 700 |
Borac | Čačak | Borac Hall | 2,000 |
Crvena zvezda mts | Belgrade | Aleksandar Nikolić Hall | 5,878 |
Dunav | Stari Banovci | Park Hall | |
Dynamic VIP PAY | Belgrade | Dynamic Arena | 500 |
FMP | Belgrade | Železnik Hall | 3,000 |
Mega Bemax | Sremska Mitrovica | Mega Factory | 700 |
Metalac | Valjevo | Valjevo Sports Hall | 1,500 |
Mladost | Zemun | Vizura Sports Center | 1,500 |
Novi Pazar | Novi Pazar | Sports Hall Pendik | 1,600 |
OKK Beograd | Belgrade | SC Šumice | 1,300 |
Partizan NIS | Belgrade | Aleksandar Nikolić Hall | 5,878 |
Sloboda | Užice | Veliki Park Hall | 2,200 |
Spartak | Subotica | SC Dudova Šuma | 3,000 |
Tamiš | Pančevo | Strelište Sports Hall | 1,100 |
Vojvodina | Novi Sad | SPC Vojvodina | 7,022 |
Vršac | Vršac | Millennium Center | 4,400 |
Zlatibor | Čajetina | WAI TAI - STC Zlatibor | 712 |
Teams that play in the 2018–19 First Adriatic League | |
Teams that play in the 2018–19 Second Adriatic League |
Title holders
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Titles by club
Club | Champions | Winning years | Runner-up |
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Partizan | 2006–07, 2007–08, 2008–09, 2009–10, 2010–11, 2011–12, 2012–13, 2013–14 | ||
Crvena zvezda | 2014–15, 2015–16, 2016–17, 2017–18 | ||
Vršac | |||
FMP |
Play-off Finals
All–time national champions
Total number of national champions won by Serbian clubs. Table includes titles won during the Yugoslav First Federal League (1945–1992) and First League of Serbia and Montenegro (1992–2006) as well.
Club | Champions | Winning years | Runner-up |
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Partizan | 1975–76, 1978–79, 1980–81, 1986–87, 1991–92, 1994–95, 1995–96, 1996–97, 2001–02, 2002–03, 2003–04, 2004–05, 2005–06, 2006–07, 2007–08, 2008–09, 2009–10, 2010–11, 2011–12, 2012–13, 2013–14 | ||
Crvena zvezda | 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1968–69, 1971–72, 1992–93, 1993–94, 1997–98, 2014–15, 2015–16, 2016–17, 2017–18 | ||
OKK Beograd | 1958, 1960, 1963, 1964 | ||
Proleter Zrenjanin | 1956 | ||
Radnički Belgrade | 1972–73 |
Clubs in international competitions
Tier 1 | Tier 2 | Tier 3 | Regional | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Euroleague (1958–) |
Eurocup (2002–) |
Saporta Cup (1966–2002) |
FIBA Europe Cup (2015–) |
EuroChallenge (2003–2015) |
Korać Cup (1971–2002) |
ABA League (2001–) |
Balkan League (2008–) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
C | RU | SF | C | RU | SF | C | RU | SF | C | RU | SF | C | RU | SF | C | RU | SF | C | RU | SF | C | RU | SF | ||||||||
Partizan | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
OKK Beograd | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Crvena zvezda | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Radnički Beograd | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Vršac | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
FMP Železnik | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Mega Basket | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |||||||
Radnički Kragujevac | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
FIBA European League and EuroLeague
So far, 17 Serbian teams took part in a FIBA or Euroleague Basketball Company club competition since 1958. The most successful club by participation and trophies is Partizan. They had a total of 39 seasons of which 22 in the elite competition, EuroLeague. Partizan won four trophies, the Champions Cup in Istanbul in 1992 and 3 Korać Cups in 1978, 1979 and 1989. The second most successful is Crvena zvezda with 30 seasons and one trophy in Europe. They won the Cup Winners' Cup in 1974.
Statistical leaders
This section needs to be updated.(June 2018) |
Awards
Notable players
- Nemanja Aleksandrov
- Stefan Birčević
- Nemanja Bjelica
- Bogdan Bogdanović
- Luka Bogdanović
- Zlatko Bolić
- Branko Cvetković
- Marko Čakarević
- Tadija Dragićević
- Zoran Erceg
- Marko Gudurić
- Milan Gurović
- Nikola Jokić
- Stefan Jović
- Nikola Kalinić
- Raško Katić
- Dušan Kecman
- Marko Kešelj
- Ognjen Kuzmić
- Dragan Labović
- Vladimir Lučić
- Milan Mačvan
- Marko Marinović
- Boban Marjanović
- Stefan Marković
- Branko Milisavljević
- Dragan Milosavljević
- Nemanja Nedović
- Ivan Paunić
- Kosta Perović
- Vuk Radivojević
- Miroslav Raduljica
- Igor Rakočević
- Milovan Raković
- Aleksandar Rašić
- Boris Savović
- Marko Simonović
- Miloš Teodosić
- Milenko Tepić
- Milenko Topić
- Uroš Tripković
- Novica Veličković
- Čedomir Vitkovac
- Rade Zagorac
- Jonah Bolden
- Nathan Jawai
- Aleks Marić
- Steven Marković
- Ratko Varda
- Milt Palacio
- Filip Videnov
- Ivica Zubac
- Jan Veselý
- Jamar Wilson
- Joffrey Lauvergne
- Timothé Luwawu-Cabarrot
- Léo Westermann
- Stéphane Lasme
- Maik Zirbes
- Rawle Marshall
- István Németh
- Dāvis Bertāns
- Corey Webster
- Bo McCalebb
- Pero Antić
- Predrag Samardžiski
- Omar Cook
- Vladimir Dašić
- Predrag Drobnjak
- Aleksandar Pavlović
- Nikola Peković
- Slavko Vraneš
- Jaka Blažič
- Goran Jagodnik
- Edo Murić
- Duşan Çantekin
- Vonteego Cummings
- James Gist
- Dominic James
- Charles Jenkins
- Curtis Jerrells
- Michael Lee
- Quincy Miller
- DeMarcus Nelson
- Lawrence Roberts
- Michael Scott
- David Simon
- Omar Thomas
- Nate Wolters
- Terrico White
- Marcus Williams
See also
- Radivoj Korać Cup
- Basketball Federation of Serbia
- Serbia national basketball team
- Yugoslav Basketball League
References
- ^ "Kompanija Agroživ generalni sponzor KLS". kls.rs (in Serbian). Retrieved 5 May 2013.
External links
- Official website Template:Sr icon
- Basketball League of Serbia at eurobasket.com