KK Rabotnički
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Nickname | Шпедитери (Forwarders) | ||
Leagues | Macedonian League Second ABA League | ||
Founded | 1946 | ||
Arena | Gradski Park SRC Kale | ||
Capacity | 1 400 / 2 250 | ||
Location | Skopje, North Macedonia | ||
Team colors | Red and White | ||
President | Goran Veselinovski | ||
Team manager | Todor Gečevski | ||
Head coach | Goran Samardziev | ||
Championships | 15 Championships of Macedonia 10 Macedonian Cups 2 Macedonian Super Cups | ||
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Football | Basketball | Handball |
KK Rabotnički (Macedonian: КК Работнички) is a basketball club based in Skopje, North Macedonia. They currently play in the Macedonian First League and ABA League Second Division. The club has won the Macedonian championship 15 times and the Macedonian Cup 10 times.
History
[edit]The club was founded in 1946 in Skopje. In 1964, KK Rabotnički became a member of the first federal "A" league in the former Federation of six republics Yugoslavia and competed there on a regular basis until 1990. In the 1991–92 season, the team played in the Federal YUBA Liga. They have never won a Federal championship but they were finalists in the Federal Yugoslav Cup on two occasions in 1976 and 1983. Since the Macedonian Republic League became the new Macedonian First League, Rabotnički have been the most successful Macedonian basketball team of all time, winning a record 15 league titles and 9 national cups.[1]
- In the season 2023/24 Rabotichki was the host of the Qualifying tournament Group A of 2023–24 FIBA Europe Cup.Playing against Donar (basketball club)
,CS Rapid București (men's basketball)
and Sabah BC
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Honours
[edit]Domestic competitions ![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/34/Coat_of_arms_of_the_President_of_North_Macedonia.svg/20px-Coat_of_arms_of_the_President_of_North_Macedonia.svg.png)
[edit]Macedonian Republic League
- Winners (9): 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1960, 1961, 1963, 1964
Macedonian Republic Cup
- Winners (4): 1976, 1983, 1985, 1988
- Winners (15): 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2009, 2018
- Winners (10): 1993, 1994, 1998, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2011, 2015, 2019
- Winners (2): 2001, 2011
European achievements ![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/06/Shield_of_the_European_Union.svg/20px-Shield_of_the_European_Union.svg.png)
[edit]- Runners-up (1): 2003–04
Balkan International Basketball League
- Runners-up (1): 2008–09
Players
[edit]Roster 2024-2025
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Updated: 3 August 2024 |
Depth chart
[edit]Pos. | Starting 5 | Bench 1 | Bench 2 |
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C | Imran Polutak | Amar Hot | |
PF | Njegoš Sikiraš | Oliver Dvojakovski | Filip Bakoč |
SF | Stojan Gjuroski | Damjan Robev | |
SG | Wesley Person Jr. | Viktor Efremovski | |
PG | Mihailo Jovičić | Andrej Shoshkikj |
Retired numbers
[edit]KK Rabotnički retired numbers | |||
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No. | Player | Position | Tenure |
13 | Blagoja Georgievski | PG | 1968–1984 |
KK Rabotnicki in European competitions
[edit]In their rich European history KK Rabotnicki competed in many European competitions. Their most successful period was in the 1990s. They competed for eleven seasons in four different cups.
BIBL League Seasons
Seasons and results of Rabotnicki in Europe:
1975 FIBA European Cup
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1993 Saporta Cup
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1995 FIBA European League
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1995 Europe Champions Cup
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1996 FIBA Saporta Cup
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1997 FIBA Saporta Cup
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1999 FIBA Saporta Cup
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2000 Radivoj Korać Cup
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2002 FIBA Euro Challenge
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2003 FIBA Euro Challenge – South Conference
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2004 FIBA Euro Challenge
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2017 FIBA Europe Cup
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Rivalries
[edit]KK Rabotnički Skopje's fiercest and long standing city rival is MZT Skopje, the other large and popular basketball club in Macedonia. They also have supporters in the capital city named Family Aerodrom. The rivalry started after the Independence of Macedonia, and the matches between these rivals have been labeled as the Eternal derby.
Team | Mutual score |
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Rabotnički | 92 |
MZT Skopje Aerodrom | 76 |
Notable players
[edit]Goran Veselinovski
Toni Simić
Gjorgji Čekovski
Goran Samardziev
Dime Tasovski
Aleksandar Dimitrovski
Pero Blazevski
Ognen Stojanovski
Pero Antić
Bojan Trajkovski
Dimitar Mirakovski
Aleksandar Kostoski
Dušan Bocevski
Jordančo Davitkov
Gjorgji Knjazev
Dejan Jovanovski
Mirza Kurtović
Todor Gečevski
Srdjan Stanković
Marjan Gjurov
Riste Stefanov
Goce Gerasimovski
Vlatko Vladičevski
Vrbica Stefanov
Darko Sokolov
Budimir Jolović
Emil Rajković
Dimitar Karadžovski
Vlado Ilievski
Toni Grnčarov
Vasko Najkov
Marjan Srbinovski
Jane Petrovski
Marko Simonovski
Aleksandar Ugrinoski
Eftim Bogoev
Boris Nešović
Đorđe Vojnović
Goran Dimitrijević
Enes Hadžibulić
Ivica Dimčevski
Bojan Krstevski
Kiril Nikolovski
Boban Stajić
Marko Ivanović
Zoran Jovanović
Miško Marić
Dragoljub Vidačić
Dragan Smiljanić
Vladimir Dragutinović
Vladimir Filipović
Miljan Pavković
Vladimir Popović
Srdjan Božić
Predrag Joksimović
Kendrick Johnson
Marcus Ginyard
Russell Robinson
Sean Evans
Paul Culbertson
Antoni Wyche
William Coleman
Phil Zevenbergen
Hameed Kashif
Gary Ware
Vernand Hollins
Vincent King
Igor Bijelić
Danilo Mitrović
Stojan Ivković
Luka Pavićević
Mohamed Abukar
Goran Ikonić
Bariša Krasić
Bora Paçun
Rudy Mbemba
William Njoku
Chavdar Kostov
Lazar Lečić
Predrag Bogosavljev
Nikola Matovski
Slavko Matovski
Blagoja Georgievski
Janko Lukovski
Stefan Todorovski
Slobodan Bocevski
Aleksandar Knjazev
Dragan Radosavljević
Steruli Andonovski
Stevan Gešovski
Boban Samardžiski
Branko Kacarski
Kosta Hadžitrifunov
Borče Serafimovski
Head coaches
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "KK FERSPED-RABOTNICKI SKOPJE basketball team History".
- ^ "За клубот накратко". Archived from the original on 2013-01-04. Retrieved 2012-04-10.