Basketball in Yugoslavia

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Basketball has been a particularly popular sport in Yugoslavia and has also been very successfully practiced internationally. In the SFR Yugoslavia until 1992 the sport was organized by the internationally recognized association Košarkaški Savez Jugoslavije (KSJ). The men's national team was Olympic champion in 1980 , won four other Olympic medals and was three times world champion and five times European champion by 1991 ; the women's selection won Olympic bronze in 1980 and silver in 1988 and was runner-up in 1990 . Yugoslav club teams have also won numerous European Cup competitions.

After the dissolution of Yugoslavia in 1992, the tradition was upheld in the successor states and other world championship titles were also won in relation to Serbia and Montenegro . A joint continuation can be found in the supranational Adriatic Basketball League (ABA League) .

history

Until 1960

After the SFR Yugoslavia was founded during the Second World War in 1943 as the successor state to the Kingdom of Yugoslavia , the first nationwide competitions were held in 1945. In a championship between regional teams and national organizations, the Yugoslav People's Army won . The official founding date of the national basketball association KSJ is December 12, 1948. Even before that, the club championships had become the most important national competitions, with KK Red Star Belgrade winning the first ten championships from 1946, before Proleter Zrenjanin from Vojvodina in 1956 and then in 1957 Slovenian club AŠK Olimpija won the men's championship. In the women’s category, Roter Stern also won the Yugoslav championship with ŽKK Roter Stern and was able to provide all of the title winners here until 1960. Subsequently, the women's team got competition from the local rivals of the ŽKK Radnički Belgrade , who won six championships in the 1960s, as well as Trešnjevka Zagreb, ŽKK Vojvodina Novi Sad and teams from Sarajevo .

The predecessor organization of the KSJ association had already been accepted into the world association FIBA in 1936, but it was not until the European Championship in 1947 that a selection of men took part in an official international competition. In the playoff for last place, the selection won their second tournament against the Albanians who were already winless and avoided last place. Like the previously successful Eastern Bloc nations, they did not take part in the next European Championship in 1949 in Egypt , but the men's national team went to the 1950 World Cup finals in Peronist Argentina , where they finished tenth and last without a win despite the absence of the Eastern Bloc countries. Only at the EM in 1953 in Moscow did the selection appear again in an international final round, this time reaching the final round and taking sixth place there. The Yugoslav women's selection hosted the final round in Belgrade when it premiered at the European Championship in 1954 and clearly won the opening game against the women from the Federal Republic of Germany, who were also playing for the first time . At the end of the tournament, the selection in fifth place in the final round is even one place better than the men a year earlier. At the European Championships in 1958 and the 1959 World Cup , the Yugoslav women only narrowly missed a first medal win in fourth place, while the men did not get beyond sixth place in the finals in the 1950s, which they also took in their first Olympic participation in 1960 .

1960 to 1970

With Radivoje Korać , Yugoslav basketball had its first big star . The forward was a gifted point collector and, as a multiple top scorer of the YUBA League, was also top scorer of the 1960 Olympic basketball tournament in Rome with almost 24 points per game. Although the team did not win a medal, Korać was the first basketball player to be named Yugoslavia's Sportsman of the Year by various sports magazines . With his club team OKK Belgrade , trained by Borislav Stanković , Korać was four times champion and seven times top scorer of the Yugoslav league individually. Yugoslav teams also achieved their first successes internationally, in the FIBA European Cup of National Champions 1958/59 OKK reached the semifinals and in January 1965 Korać generated international attention when he played in the second leg of the FIBA European Cup in 1964/65 against the defeated Swedish champions Alvik BK individually scored 99 points in a 155:57 success. After Korać had already scored 71 points in the 136:90 success in the first leg, he came up against this opponent alone to 170 points in two games. The point yield of 99 individual points in a European Cup game is still a record today.

With Korać, the men's selection remained undefeated at the European Championship finals in 1961 as the host of the final round in Belgrade until the last final round game and, like later in the final, only had to admit defeat to the defending champion Soviet Union , who already won their sixth title. In the following 30 years, the Yugoslavian selection took one of the first three places in twelve of 15 events at the European Championship. With the exception of two European Championship finals in the 1980s, the winner was always the Soviet Union or Yugoslavia. At the 1963 World Cup in Brazil, Yugoslavia was runner-up behind the hosts and was able to repeat this success four years later when they finished second behind European champions Soviet Union at the 1967 finals in Uruguay. After taking a disappointing seventh place at the 1964 Olympic Games , the selection won its first Olympic medal after losing to the United States at the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City . A year later, Korać died much too early in a car accident at the age of 30 after playing abroad for the last two years.

Another Yugoslav star player of the 1960s who, while not enjoying the national popularity of Korać, was at least as successful with his team, was the Slovenian Ivo Daneu . The Guard had already become Yugoslav champion with AŠK Olimpija from Ljubljana in 1957 at the age of 20 and won the Yugoslav title with this team a total of six times by 1970. Like Korać, Daneu and his team never made it past the semi-finals in the FIBA European Cup , most recently in 1967 . At the World Cup finals in 1967 Korać scored almost 15 points per game, while Daneu contributed an average of 14 points per game and was finally awarded as the MVP of the tournament, although his team had "only" won the silver medal. Then Daneu was the second basketball player to receive an award for Yugoslavia's individual athlete of the year. Almost four months after Korać was buried as at a state funeral, broadcast live on television in the summer of 1969, Daneu led the Yugoslav selection undefeated into the final of the European Championship finals in 1969 , adding to the Soviet Union, as in the 1963 World Cup finals and the Olympic Games 1968, a defeat, the first for the selection of the USSR in a European Championship finals since 1955. In the final for the gold medal, the Soviet Union succeeded in the 81:72 final victory once again for the defeat in the preliminary round and another Title win.

The following World Cup finals in 1970 was the first World Cup finals to be held outside of South America and the Yugoslav selection hosted the tournament. According to the format at that time, it was already qualified as the host for the final round, while the other nations first had to complete a preliminary round. As if it were a farewell present at the end of a great career, the final round took place in Daneu's Slovenian homeland, Ljubljana . With a victory over the United States in the penultimate final round game, the Yugoslav selection secured the world championship early and won a title for the first time. Due to injury, Daneu was only able to contribute little time and then ended his active career at the age of 33, a year after Korać's death. The stars in the Yugoslavian selection were long since different and were active in Croatia like Petar Skansi , Nikola Plećaš and Krešimir Ćosić .

1970 to 1975

Center Krešimir Ćosić was one of the most important Yugoslav players of the 1970s, but his career actually began at the age of 16 in the mid-1960s when he won the first Yugoslav championship for a Croatian club with KK Zadar in 1965, led by national player Josip Gjergja , followed by two more titles in 1967 and 1968. After Korać had already earned foreign currency at the end of his career, the exceptional talent Ćosić left the country at the age of 21 and went to the United States as a student at Brigham Young University in Salt Lake City , where he became one of the first star players from Europe matured on a college NCAA team . At the 1970 World Cup in Ljubljana Ćosić was the internal top scorer of the world championship team with over 17 points per game, but Sergei Below received the award as MVP. A year later at the European Championship finals in Germany in 1971 , the situation turned around when the Yugoslav world championship selection suffered their first defeat in the final again against the Soviet Union. Instead of Below was Ćosić MVP of the European Championship, but Below made history a year later when the Soviet selection inflicted their first, highly controversial defeat in an Olympic game in the final of the 1972 Olympic Games . The Yugoslav selection missed a medal after defeats against Puerto Rico and the Soviet Union, whereupon world champion coach Ranko Žeravica passed his position on to the Croat Mirko Novosel . This celebrated with the Yugoslavian selection at the European Championship finals in 1973, the first title win in this competition, when they remained unbeaten and in the final defeated host Spain , who had defeated the defending champion Soviet Union in the semifinals. Ćosić was once again a member of the "All-Tournament Team", while Wayne Brabender was named MVP by the silver medalist and host. Although Ćosić had converted to the Mormon faith in Utah and had been selected in the 1973 NBA draft , albeit relatively late, he then returned to his homeland, Zadar.

1973 was also the year when Aleksandar Nikolić initially returned from Italy , who had been national coach from 1954 to 1965 before Žeravica. Before that, coach Borislav Stanković , who was still the master coach of Radivoje Korać at OKK Belgrade, had gone to Italy in 1966 and coached Pallacanestro Cantù's club team until 1969. In the second year of 1968, Stanković was able to lead the team from the small town north of Milan to the first Italian championship, thus overtaking the renowned record champion Simmenthal Milan , who two years earlier under coach Sandro Gamba were the first Italian club to win the FIBA European Cup in 1965/66 had won. Cantù was twice national champion European Cup winner in the following two decades as well as four titles in the FIBA European Cup Winners' Cup and Korać Cup record winners of these two competitions. While Stanković left Lombardy again in 1969 and made a career as a general secretary at FIBA in Munich , Nikolić was coach that year for the Lombard competitor Pallacanestro Varese , who had previously won three Italian championship titles. Nikolić led the team around Dino Meneghin , long-time Italian competitor of Ćosić, in every year of his four-year tenure in the final of the European championship. In its first season in 1970, the team was able to secure a triple crown in the European Cup final against CSKA Moscow in Sarajevo , which reciprocated the following year, so that it was only enough for Varese under Nikolić to make a national double in 1971. 1972 Nikolić stopped with Varese KK Split's first attempt to win a European Cup and at the end of his tenure in Varese Nikolić won again a Triple Crown in 1973 in the final against CSKA Moscow. The following six national championship finals after the tenure of Nikolić should reach Varese, the last entry in the tenth final in a row for the Italian club in 1979 with the first title win by a Yugoslav team in this competition.

Stanković and Nikolić established the reputation of Yugoslav basketball coaches in Europe, which soon spoke of a "Yugoslav basketball school". In particular, the Italian club basketball in Serie A was fertilized by this and the teams of the Italian league won more titles in the old European cup competitions of FIBA Europe than any other nation. With the necessary "change" that the Yugoslav clubs did not have, the Italian clubs, but also clubs like Real Madrid , also signed foreign legionnaires, especially from the United States, but also from Yugoslavia. In addition to the European championship and cup winners' cups, FIBA ​​Europe set up a third European cup competition in 1972, analogous to the UEFA Cup in football at the time . This competition was named Korać Cup in honor of Radivoje Korać , the star player of Nikolić 'and Stanković' OKK championship team, who died three years earlier . When the Korać Cup was first held in 1972 , only eight teams took part, with the two Yugoslav clubs reaching the final. Here world champion Nikola Plećaš ensured the first European Cup triumph of a Yugoslav team in the final second leg, when Lokomotiv Zagreb, who had previously only won a national cup competition, was still able to defeat Korać's home club OKK. OKK's local rival Red Star lost the final in the FIBA European Cup Winners' Cup in 1971/72 . While the Belgrade clubs and Olimpija Ljubljana dominated the YUBA League until the mid-1960s, KK Split was the second Croatian club after Zadar in 1971 to become Yugoslavian champion and when it first took part in the FIBA European Cup in 1971/72 , it immediately became the same first Yugoslav club reached the final when Varese was able to prevail with a point difference despite 26 points from Petar Skansi and bring the title back to Lombardy. A year later, the club also lost the final in the FIBA European Cup Winners' Cup in 1972/73 when they lost to Spartak Leningrad without Skansi who had migrated to Italy . With Spilt as runner-up in the 1972 European Champions Cup and runner-up in the European Cup Winners' Cup in 1973, as well as Zagreb as the winner of the new Korać Cup, Croatian clubs had entered new territory for Yugoslav clubs and with the return of Ćosić in 1973 KK Zadar got the same the following two Yugoslav championship titles in 1974 and 1975. On his return to Belgrade Nikolić Red Star led to the title win in the FIBA European Cup Winners' Cup 1973/74 . While Nikolić then went back to Italy and trained first for Fortitudo Bologna and later also Virtus Bologna , the defending champion lost the final in the FIBA European Cup Winners' Cup 1974/75 against Spartak Leningrad, who had defeated Split in the final two years earlier and won the title back could. Red Star's local rival KK Partizan Belgrade reached the final in the 1973/74 Korać Cup , after Split had been denied the third consecutive participation in a different European Cup in the semi-finals. The first European Cup final for Partizan was then lost to defending champion Cantù from Italy.

At the 1974 World Cup finals in Puerto Rico , the Yugoslav men's selection started as defending champions and won the first five games, including one with three points difference against Olympic champion Soviet Union. After a three-point defeat against the United States, however, the selection had to watch as the USSR and the USA played off the world champions among themselves in the last round of the final game, while the silver medal was practically certain in a three-way comparison . Dragan Kićanović from the new vice world champion was named MVP of the tournament. At the European Championship finals in 1975 , Yugoslavia took up the title again and hosted the final tournament itself, in which MVP Ćosić was unbeaten and the world champion Soviet Union defeated 90:84 in the final game of the final.

1975 to 1980

In 1976, KK Partizan Belgrade won the Yugoslav championship for the first time with its star players Kićanović and Dražen Dalipagić before KK Split . In the Korać Cup 1975/76 , Split moved into a European Cup final with Skansi on the coaching bench again and this time won the title, which was also defended in the following competition in 1977 , while KK Radnički Belgrade played the final in the FIBA European Cup Winners' Cup Losing to Cantù in 1976/77 . Split did not manage to defend their title in the Korać Cup for the third time, because as Yugoslav champions in 1977 they took part in the FIBA European Cup in 1977/78 . Instead, Partizan defeated in the final of the Korać Cup 1977/78 the national competitor KK Bosna Sarajevo , which, however, was able to secure the Yugoslav championship in 1978 for the first time. Partizan defended the title in the Korać Cup 1978/79 after defeating Split in the semifinals and AMG Sebastiani Rieti in the final . The Italian team won the title, however, in the Korać Cup 1979/80 , after successively defeating the Croatian clubs Split and Cibona Zagreb. KK Bosna, on the other hand, moved into the final in the FIBA European Cup 1978/79 after the championship in 1978 as only the second Yugoslav team . Under the young coach Bogdan Tanjević , the team around star player Mirza Delibašić with, among others, Ratko Radovanović , Žarko Varajić as well as Sabahudin Bilalović , Sabit Hadžić and Svetislav Pešić won the then highest European club competition for a Yugoslav club in the final against the "eternal" finalist Varese in their tenth consecutive final. The national championship, however, was won by KK Partizan in 1979, while Bosna was able to regain the national championship title in 1980.

Olympic final round game YUG - ITA on July 21, 1980

The Yugoslav men's selection was able to defeat the world champion and defending champion Soviet Union again in the semifinals of the Olympic basketball tournament in 1976 , but in the final they lost, as in the preliminary round, to the United States, which regained the Olympic victory after the controversial decision in Munich. After the Olympics Nikolić returned as national coach and despite a somewhat surprising defeat in the preliminary round at the European Championship finals in 1977 against the Czechoslovak selection , the Yugoslavs with MVP Dalipagić were able to win the European championship for the third time in a row against the Soviet Union in the final. Dalipagic was also the MVP of the 1978 World Cup finals in the Philippines , when the Yugoslavs averaged more than 100 points per game and were undefeated, but needed extra time in the final against the defending champions Soviet Union. At the end of the year, Dalipagić was named Yugoslavia's Sportsman of the Year by various magazines . Under coach Petar Skansi, the defending champion conceded a momentous preliminary round defeat at the European Championship finals in 1979 with one point difference against Israel . After the final round defeat against the Soviet Union, the Yugoslavs then missed the final because of the poorer direct comparison and could only secure the bronze medal against the Czechoslovaks. After the Olympic boycott , the United States could not defend their title at the 1980 Olympic basketball tournament in Moscow , for which world champion coach Ranko Žeravica returned. While the host and European champion, the Soviet Union, stumbled in the final round and suffered two defeats against Yugoslavia and Italy , the Yugoslavs also won the last final round match by just one point against Brazil , which the Soviet Union finally sent to the bronze medal match. In a Brazilian victory, the final opponent would have been the Soviet Union instead of the Italians because of the three-way comparison, who defeated the Yugoslavs on July 30, 1980 in Moscow with 86:77 and became Olympic champions for the first time.

The Yugoslav women's selection had lagged behind the successes of the men in the course of the 1960s, although they had become vice-European champions in 1968 and in the following finals in 1970 with third place another medal placement. Finally, they also missed qualifying for the first Olympic basketball competition at the 1976 Olympic Games . After another European runner-up in 1978 behind the long-term winner of the Soviet Union , they were in the field of participants in the 1980 Olympic basketball tournament and thanks to the boycotts they celebrated their greatest international success to date by winning the bronze medal, which was achieved with another bronze at the subsequent European Championship finals in 1980 could confirm.

1980 to 1988

After the great successes of the 1970s - Olympic gold medalists, two world champions and three times European men's championships - Yugoslavian basketball could not easily continue this at least until the mid-1980s, but it remained at a high level, even if it did not always win the title was enough. KK Bosna and KK Partizan were mostly placed third and fourth in the FIBA European Champion Clubs' Cup , but missed the finals. In the 1981/82 FIBA ​​European Cup Winners' Cup , Mirko Novosel led a team around old star Krešimir Ćosić and younger players like Aleksandar Petrović to a narrow final victory over Real Madrid , in whose ranks Delibašić played, who like Dalipagić, Kićanović and other Olympic champions at the time were hard currencies abroad earned. At that time, Petrović's younger brother was still playing on the coast in the birthplace of Šibenik and should eventually become an even bigger idol like Radovoje Korać, at least in relation to the Croatian part of the country. Dražen Petrović reached the KK Šibenik with two other Yugoslav clubs in the semi-finals of the Korać Cup 1981/82 , but the title went to the fourth semi-finalist CSP Limoges from France. A year later, Limoges won the new edition of the final against Šibenik in the Korać Cup in 1982/83 . After not having won a national or international title with Šibenik, Petrović moved to his brother at the KK Cibona in the Croatian capital Zagreb in 1985 at the age of 21. Together they reached the final in the FIBA European Cup 1984/85 without Ćosić, who had already become national coach , which was won against Real Madrid, who had won the cup winners competition a year earlier, with 87:78. Dražen Petrović was the top scorer with 36 individual points in the final for Cibona and scored 112 individual points in a single league game of the Yugoslav league three months later against a weakened team from KK Olimpija , whereupon he was named Yugoslavia's Sportsman of the Year at the end of the year. At the end of the season, Petrović Cibona's team was able to defend its title in the FIBA European Cup 1985/86 against Žalgiris Kaunas , who, however, was the top scorer of the game with 27 points in the 82:84 final with Arvydas Sabonis . Like Sabonis later, Dražen Petrović first played for Real Madrid before they both then continued their careers in the US professional league NBA . Before moving to Real, however, Petrović had lost the final in the Korać Cup in 1987/88 with Cibona against Real after brother Aleksandar had moved to Italy a year earlier.

The fact that the best players moved abroad at the zenith of their ability did not diminish the enthusiasm for the sport in the country, but instead ensured that young talents in their clubs had to take on responsibility at the highest level at an early stage. The men's national team had lost as Olympic champion in 1980 at the European Championship finals in 1981, both in the preliminary round and in the final against defending champion Soviet Union. For the World Cup finals in 1982 Žeravica took over the last time the coaching post of Tanjević, but it was enough as the defending champion behind the Soviet Union and the United States only to the bronze medal. When 19-year-old Dražen Petrović took part in the finals for the first time and Ćosić took part in the finals for the last time as a player, his former teammate in Zadar Josip Gjergja was national coach. After the opening win over hosts France , it set two defeats against the World Cup fourth Spain and the later first-time title winner Italy , the last time the 35-year-old Ćosić and the 33-year-old Meneghin dueled. Yugoslavia had suddenly missed the round of medals and was only able to save seventh place in the placement round after a defeat against Israel after a victory over a young West German selection , which achieved their best placement so far with the later NBA players Detlef Schrempf and Uwe Blab . Mirko Novosel was able to make amends in part at the 1984 Olympic Games when the Yugoslavian selection reached the semi-finals undefeated and won the bronze medal after losing to runner-up European champions Spain, with the Soviet Union and other Eastern Bloc countries boycotting the tournament. At the European Championship finals in 1985 , the generation change in the Yugoslav selection under the new national coach Ćosić was still going on. After the opening victory over the Olympic-wide Spain, the selection was able to win the preliminary round group despite a defeat against the Soviet Union, whereby it continued in the knockout system and the selection promptly lost to Czechoslovakia , quite surprisingly . In the placement round it was again only seventh after a defeat against hosts West Germany. At the following World Cup finals in 1986 Ćosić tried a mix of proven forces such as Dalipagić and Ratko Radovanović together with the young Dražen Petrović, Franjo Arapović , Stojan Vranković and the only 18-year-old Vlade Divac . After seven wins at the start in the preliminary and intermediate rounds, there was a defeat in the last intermediate round match against the eventual title winner United States and a narrow semi-final defeat after extra time against the Soviet Union, so that ultimately it was only enough for the bronze medal against Brazil .

After the Olympic gold medal in 1984, the United States won the title again at the 1986 World Cup with a selection of students from NCAA players who were usually no older than 23 years. In the motherland of basketball, the prevailing belief was that such a U23 selection was at least sufficient to win at least one medal in FIBA tournaments with men's national teams from other countries. The Americans were convinced that the defeat in the 1972 Olympic finals was only achieved through "postponement" and otherwise a boycott was required so that other nations such as Yugoslavia could win the 1980 Olympic Games. In any case, teams from other countries would be hopelessly inferior to a selection of NBA professionals, as was initially confirmed at the 1992 Olympic basketball tournament . A first crack in this perception led to a Yugoslav junior selection at the U-19 basketball world championship in 1987 in Bormio, trained by Svetislav Pešić , formerly the European Cup winner with Bosna Sarajevo. The team around the later NBA professionals Divac, Toni Kukoč and Dino Rađa was able to defeat a junior selection of the United States twice relatively easily and win the world title. This generation should lead the Yugoslav national team to an unprecedented dominance. At the following European Championship finals in 1987 , the men's selection with the junior world champions Divac, Kukoč, Rađa and Aleksandar Đorđević as well as the barely older Žarko Paspalj lost the first two games at the start against vice-world champion Soviet Union and host Greece , but lagged behind four victories in a row in the semifinals, where after a ten-point lead at halftime they again lost to the Greeks, led by the irresistible Nikos Galis . For the 1988 Olympic basketball tournament Ćosić cleared his coaching chair for Dušan Ivković . At the start, the Yugoslavs defeated the Soviet Union once with 92:79 and also won the remaining group games with a double-digit point difference, before the group winners were determined to give the last game with two points to Puerto Rico . In the quarter and semi-finals they walked with victories with more than 20 points difference over Canada and Australia into the Olympic final, where they met again on the Soviet Union, who had defeated the defending champions United States in the semi-finals. The Soviet team, the core of which was formed by the Lithuanian players Sabonis, Valdemaras Chomičius and Rimas Kurtinaitis from Žalgiris Kaunas and Šarūnas Marčiulionis , were better prepared and only let the Yugoslavs pour 63 points in the final instead of 92 points in the opening game, which for the A 76:63 final victory and the Olympic gold medal were enough. For the Yugoslav silver medalist it would be the last defeat in a final tournament for the next three years.

The Yugoslav women's selection had always narrowly missed the medal ranks in the European Championship finals in the 1980s, before they remained undefeated in the preliminary round at the European Championships in 1987 and after a narrow semi-final victory over the Hungarians moved into the finals, where the long-term winners Soviet Union only almost went historically close final victory with ten points difference came. Also at the following Olympic Games in 1988 you could move into the final like the men. The women benefited from the fact that the Soviet women were surprised by the Australians in the group stage , who, in turn, could be defeated by just one point in the semifinals. After the Yugoslav women were inferior to the United States in the group stage by 27 points, the difference in the final was limited to seven points at 70:77.

From 1992

National competitions

Championship of men

see YUBA League

club place Number (up to 1991) Years (until 1991) Number (1991 to 2006) Years (1991 to 2006)
KK Red Star Flag of Serbia (1947–1992) .svg Belgrade 12 1946-1955, 1969, 1972 3 1993, 1994, 1998
KK / AŠK Olimpija Flag of Slovenia (1945–1991) .svg Ljubljana 6th 1957, 1959, 1961, 1962, 1966, 1970
KK Zadar Flag of Croatia (1947–1990) .svg Zadar 6th 1965, 1967, 1968, 1974, 1975, 1986
KK split Flag of Croatia (1947–1990) .svg Split 6th 1971, 1977, 1988-1991
KK Partizan Flag of Serbia (1947–1992) .svg Belgrade 4th 1976, 1979, 1981, 1987 9 1992, 1995-1997, 2002-2006
Omladinski KK Flag of Serbia (1947–1992) .svg Belgrade 4th 1958, 1960, 1963, 1964
KK Bosna Flag of Bosnia and Herzegovina (1946–1992) .svg Sarajevo 3 1978, 1980, 1983
KK Cibona Flag of Croatia (1947–1990) .svg Zagreb 3 1982, 1984, 1985
KK Radnički Flag of Serbia (1947–1992) .svg Belgrade 1 1973
KK Proleter Flag of Serbia (1947–1992) .svg Zrenjanin 1 1956
People's Army Yugoslavia Socialist Federal RepublicYugoslavia Belgrade 1 1945
KK Budućnost Flag of Montenegro (1994-2004) .svg Podgorica 3 1999-2001

Men's cup competitions

club place Number (up to 1991) Years (until 1991) Number (1991 to 2006) Years (1991 to 2006)
KK Cibona Flag of Croatia (1947–1990) .svg Zagreb 8th 1969, 1980-1983, 1985, 1986, 1988
KK split Flag of Croatia (1947–1990) .svg Split 5 1972, 1974, 1977, 1990, 1991
KK Red Star Flag of Serbia (1947–1992) .svg Belgrade 3 1971, 1973, 1975 2 2004, 2006
KK Partizan Flag of Serbia (1947–1992) .svg Belgrade 2 1979, 1989 6th 1992, 1994, 1995, 1999, 2000, 2002
Omladinski KK Flag of Serbia (1947–1992) .svg Belgrade 2 1960, 1962 1 1993
KK Bosna Flag of Bosnia and Herzegovina (1946–1992) .svg Sarajevo 2 1978, 1984
Železničar KK Flag of Slovenia (1945–1991) .svg Ljubljana 1 1959
KK Zadar Flag of Croatia (1947–1990) .svg Zadar 1 1970
KK Radnički Flag of Serbia (1947–1992) .svg Belgrade 1 1976
KK Novi IMT Flag of Serbia (1947–1992) .svg Belgrade 1 1987
KK Budućnost Flag of Montenegro (1994-2004) .svg Podgorica 3 1996, 1998, 2001
KK FMP Železnik Flag of Serbia (1992-2004) .svg Belgrade 3 1997, 2003, 2005

Women's championships

club place Number (up to 1991) Years (until 1991) Number (1991 to 2006) Years (1991 to 2006)
ŽKK Red Star Flag of Serbia (1947–1992) .svg Belgrade 24 1946–1960, 1963, 1973, 1976–1981, 1989 4th 1992, 1993, 1996, 2004
ŽKK Radnički Flag of Serbia (1947–1992) .svg Belgrade 6th 1961, 1962, 1964–1966, 1968
ŽKK Trešnjevka Flag of Croatia (1947–1990) .svg Zagreb 6th 1967, 1982, 1983
ŽKK Partizan Flag of Serbia (1947–1992) .svg Belgrade 3 1984-1986
ŽKK Jedinstvo Flag of Bosnia and Herzegovina (1946–1992) .svg Tuzla 3 1987, 1988, 1990
ŽKK Voždovac Flag of Serbia (1947–1992) .svg Belgrade 2 1972, 1975
ŽKK Vojvodina Flag of Serbia (1947–1992) .svg Novi Sad 2 1969, 1970
ŽKK Bosna Flag of Bosnia and Herzegovina (1946–1992) .svg Sarajevo 1 1974
ŽKK Šibenik Flag of Croatia (1947–1990) .svg Šibenik 1 1991
ŽKK Željezničar Flag of Bosnia and Herzegovina (1946–1992) .svg Sarajevo 1 1971
ŽKK Hemofarm Flag of Serbia (1992-2004) .svg Vršac 6th 1998-2001, 2005, 2006
ŽKK Budućnost Flag of Montenegro (1994-2004) .svg Podgorica 2 2002, 2003
ŽKK Bečej Flag of Serbia (1992-2004) .svg Bečej 2 1994, 1995
ŽKK Dinamo Flag of Serbia (1992-2004) .svg Pančevo 1 1997

Women's cup competitions

club place Number (up to 1991) Years (until 1991) Number (1991 to 2006) Years (1991 to 2006)
ŽKK Red Star Flag of Serbia (1947–1992) .svg Belgrade 5 1973, 1974, 1976, 1979, 1981 5 1992, 1994, 1995, 2003, 2004
ŽKK Trešnjevka Flag of Croatia (1947–1990) .svg Zagreb 4th 1975, 1978, 1980, 1982
ŽKK Partizan Flag of Serbia (1947–1992) .svg Belgrade 2 1985, 1986
ŽKK Radnički Flag of Serbia (1947–1992) .svg Belgrade 2 1960, 1962
ŽKK Jedinstvo Flag of Bosnia and Herzegovina (1946–1992) .svg Tuzla 2 1988, 1991
ŽKK Voždovac Flag of Serbia (1947–1992) .svg Belgrade 2 1972, 1984
ŽKK Bosna Flag of Bosnia and Herzegovina (1946–1992) .svg Sarajevo 2 1977, 1983
ŽKK Šibenik Flag of Croatia (1947–1990) .svg Šibenik 2 1987, 1990
ŽKD Ježica Flag of Slovenia (1945–1991) .svg Ljubljana 1 1989
ŽKK Hemofarm Flag of Serbia (1992-2004) .svg Vršac 6th 1996, 1998, 1999, 2002, 2005, 2006
ŽKK Vojvodina Flag of Serbia (1992-2004) .svg Novi Sad 1 2001
ŽKK student Flag of Serbia (1992-2004) .svg Niš 1 1993
ŽKK Dinamo Flag of Serbia (1992-2004) .svg Pančevo 1 1997
ŽKK Kovin Flag of Serbia (1992-2004) .svg Kovin 1 200

International competitions

Selection teams (male)

1947 to 1991

see Yugoslav national basketball team

competition gold silver bronze
Olympic games 1980 1968 , 1976 , 1988 1984
World Championship 1970 , 1978 , 1990 1963 , 1967 , 1974 1982 , 1986
European Championship 1973 , 1975 , 1977 , 1989 , 1991 1961 , 1965 , 1969 , 1971 , 1981 1963 , 1979 , 1987
U-19 World Championship 1987

1992 to 2006

see Serbian-Montenegrin national basketball team

competition gold silver bronze
Olympic games 1996
World Championship 1998 , 2002
European Championship 1995 , 1997 , 2001 1999
U-20 European Championship 1998, 2006 1996, 2005

Selection teams (female)

1954 to 1991

see Yugoslav national basketball team for women

competition gold silver bronze
Olympic games 1988 1980
World Championship 1990
European Championship 1968 , 1978 , 1987 , 1991 1970 , 1980

Club teams

Men's
club place FIBA European Champion Clubs' Cup FIBA European Cup Winners' Cup Korać Cup
Number of
titles
winner finalist Number of
titles
winner finalist Number of
titles
winner finalist
KK split Flag of Croatia (1947–1990) .svg Split 3 1989 , 1990 , 1991 1972 1973 2 1976 , 1977
KK Cibona Flag of Croatia (1947–1990) .svg Zagreb 2 1985 , 1986 2 1982 , 1987 1 1972 1980 , 1988
KK Partizan Flag of Serbia (1947–1992) .svg Belgrade 1 1992 3 1978 , 1979 , 1989
KK Bosna Flag of Bosnia and Herzegovina (1946–1992) .svg Sarajevo 1 1979 1978
KK Red Star Flag of Serbia (1947–1992) .svg Belgrade 1 1974 1972 , 1975 1984 , 1998
KK Šibenka Flag of Croatia (1947–1990) .svg Šibenik 1982 , 1983
Omladinski KK Flag of Serbia (1947–1992) .svg Belgrade 1972
Ladies
club place FIBA European Champions Cup Ronchetti EuroCup
Number of
titles
winner finalist Number of
titles
winner finalist
ŽKK Red Star Flag of Serbia (1947–1992) .svg Belgrade 1 1979 1981
ŽKK Jedinstvo Flag of Bosnia and Herzegovina (1946–1992) .svg Tuzla 1 1989 1990
ŽKK Trešnjevka Flag of Croatia (1947–1990) .svg Zagreb 1 1980 1976, 1981
ŽKK Voždovac Flag of Serbia (1947–1992) .svg Belgrade 1972

Members of the "Hall of Fame"

person Naismith FIBA
Borislav Stanković 1991 2007
Krešimir Ćosić 1996 2007
Aleksandar Nikolić 1998 2007
Drazen Petrovic 2002 2007
Dražen Dalipagic 2004 2007
Mirko Novosel 2007 2010
Ivo Daneu 2007
Mirza Delibašić 2007
Radivoje Korać 2007
Vlade Divac 2010
Dragan Kićanović 2010
Zoran Slavnić 2013

Films and documentaries

See also

Individual evidence

  1. 1960 Olympic Games: Tournament for Men - Statistics Leaders. FIBA , accessed on April 10, 2016 (English, tournament statistics).
  2. a b c d Hrvatski zbor sportskih novinara: Sportaši Jugoslavije Pojedinci. HZSN.hr, accessed on April 10, 2016 (Croatian, Chronicle of Awards).
  3. Vladimir Stanković: Radivoj Korac's 99 points. Euroleague , January 12, 2011, accessed April 10, 2016 .
  4. ^ Yugoslavia / 1967 World Championship for Men - Team Leaders. FIBA , accessed on April 10, 2016 (English, squad overview with statistics).
  5. Sebastian Finis: Basketball legend Korac: "He was bigger than his country". In: Five (magazine) , No. 91. Spiegel Online , September 18, 2012, accessed April 10, 2016 .
  6. Vladimir Stanković: Ivo Daneu, the first great Slovenian. Euroleague , February 4, 2012, accessed April 10, 2016 .
  7. Kresimir Cosic. Brigham Young University , accessed April 10, 2016 (profile on the Cougars' sports websites).
  8. Vladimir Stanković: Yugoslav coaching school. Euroleague , October 23, 2010, accessed April 10, 2016 .
  9. Vladimir Stanković: Nikola Plecas, Saint Nikola. Euroleague , December 14, 2014, accessed April 10, 2016 .
  10. Vladimir Stanković: Mirza Delibasic - The last romantic. Euroleague , April 28, 2012, accessed April 10, 2016 .
  11. Vladimir Stanković: Drazen Dalipagic, the sky jumper. Euroleague , January 21, 2012, accessed April 10, 2016 .
  12. a b Vladimir Stanković: Drazen Petrovic, an unfinished symphony. Euroleague , February 11, 2013, accessed April 12, 2016 .
  13. Vladimir Stanković: Vlade Divac, an icon without a ring. Euroleague , February 11, 2013, accessed April 12, 2016 .
  14. Third FIBA ​​Men's Junior World Championship - 1987. (No longer available online.) USA basketball , archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; accessed on April 12, 2016 (English, tournament report in the archive). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / archive.usab.com
  15. Tomislav Pakrac, Vlado Radičević: Toni Kukoč otvoreno o čarobnoj večeri 1987. u Italiji: Neponovljivo! Nova TV , July 20, 2011, accessed April 12, 2016 (Croatian).
  16. 1988 Olympic Games: Tournament for Men - Game: SOVIET UNION vs YUGOSLAVIA. FIBA , accessed on April 12, 2016 (English, game statistics).