KK Helios Domžale

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KK Helios Domžale
Founded 1949
Hall Hala Komunalnega centra
(2,100 seats)
Homepage kkhelios.si
president Aleš Klavžar
director Ladivoj Gorjan
Trainer Jakša Vulić
league 1st SKL
2015/16: 1st place
Colours Blue , white & orange
Jersey colors
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home
Jersey colors
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Away
successes
Alpe Adria Cup 2016
Slovenian Champion 2007, 2016
Slovenian Cup Winner 2007

The Košarkarski club Domžale is a Slovenian basketball club of Domžale . The first men's team has a name sponsor with the local chemical manufacturer "Helios" and competes as Helios Suns . The team has won the Slovenian championship twice so far. The first championship in 2007 was only the third club since Slovenia's independence in 1991 to win a men's championship. Most recently, the team won the newly created Alpe Adria Cup as well as the national championship in 2016 and in the 2016/17 season, alongside the Slovenian championship, after a five-year break, they will play their eighth season in the supranational Adriatic Basketball League (ABA League) .

history

The first local basketball team was set up in 1949 in the sports association TVD Partizan, which eventually became independent in KK Domžale. In SR Slovenia , the team behind KK Olimpija from the Slovenian capital Ljubljana , which, along with personalities like Ivo Daneu , was one of the leading teams in Yugoslavia in the 1950s . But from the mid-1980s onwards, KK Domžale was able to keep up at least in the junior division at national level and in 1987 was runner-up in the junior division.

After Slovenia's independence, the men's team also played first class and reached the play-off semi- finals in third place in the Slovenian league's premier season . Then they played three years in a row in the international Korać Cup , in which the team survived the first qualifying round against a Luxembourg team only when they participated for the first time and were otherwise eliminated from the start. Participation in the semi-finals in the premiere season should, however, remain the best place in the Slovenian championship for a few years at the national level. In the mid-1990s, they just barely managed to stay in the league twice as third from bottom. In the Korać Cup 1997/98 they tried again at international level and lost all six group games as well as the two opening games of the first qualifying round of the following event against the Bosnian club KK Sloboda Tuzla . In that 1998/99 season, the team even had the worst sporting record of all Slovenian first division clubs and only held the class through the withdrawal of other teams.

From the 2000/01 season, the men's team was able to catch up at least nationally to the teams in the upper half of the table in Slovenia. This was enough for the first qualification for the supranational ABA league 2004/05 , in which they were the fourth Slovenian team, however, after only five wins in 30 games, the 16th and last place at the end of the season. As a national fourth in the 2004/05 season, the team was back in the following ABA league season and was able to improve in the league, which was reduced to 14 teams, in twelfth and third from bottom, with the national competitor KK Pivovarna Laško as last behind let himself. Nationally, as third, they initially again missed entry into the play-off finals series for the championship, which, however, succeeded in the following season when, under coach Memi Bečirović, the series champion and defending champion KK Union Olimpija could and just defeat in five games Slovenian men's champion in 2007. With the title win in the national cup competition against the same opponent, that was synonymous with winning the double . After the KK Krka from Novo mesto 2003, the KK Helios Domžale was only the third club to win a men's championship after independence.

In the championship season they had reached eighth place in the ABA league as the best Slovenian team, but in the following season they found themselves in the supranational league in 13th and penultimate place, leaving only KD Slovan behind could. After the final defeat in the national cup competition against Union Olimpija, the again strengthened capital club was also victorious in the Slovenian championship against defending champion Helios in the play-off final series with three wins to one. A season later, the KK Helios even remained without a win in the final series against defending champions Union Olimpija. The finals with the runner-up saved the third from bottom Helios another season in the ABA league, although the national competitor Krka Novo mesto was placed one place better. After only six wins in 26 games in the ABA league in 2009/10 , the team only finished last and disappeared for at least one season from the supranational league, in which the new Slovenian champions Krka, who had previously runner-up Helios in the national semi-finals had vanquished, returned. The good performance of the two Slovenian Final Four participants in the ABA League 2010/11 enabled the national third Helios, who had failed in qualifying for the EuroChallenge 2010/11 against the Czech representative BK Prostějov , to participate again in the ABA League 2011/12 , in which he could only leave KK Zlatorog Laško behind as the penultimate.

Between 2010 and 2014, the participation in the play-off final series of the Slovenian championship was practically "firmly" awarded to the KK Union Olimpija and the KK Krka, who were able to become champions five times in a row. Unlike in 2011, the performance of these two teams in the ABA league was not enough for other Slovenian teams to participate in this supranational competition. After participating in the national semi-finals in 2012, KK Helios also slipped out of the group of four play-off participants in Slovenia in 2013, although they had reached the cup final in 2013, as in 2011, which was lost to Union Olimpija. In the 2013/14 season, the team returned in third place in the play-offs, which were extended by a quarter-finals. In the quarter-finals they defeated the KK Rogaška and lost the semi-final series against the record champions KK Union Olimpija. In the following season you could surprisingly defeat the second-placed Union Olimpija in the quarter-final series, but lost the semi-final series against Rogaška.

In the 2015/16 season, the Helios Suns tried their hand at international competitions again; In the FIBA Europe Cup 2015/16 , however, it was only enough to win one away win in six group matches after extra time against the Polish representative Turów Zgorzelec . In the Alpe Adria Cup, which was played for the first time between two teams from Croatia , Austria , Slovakia and Slovenia, the team reached the final, in which they defeated national competitor Zlatorog Laško with a difference of three points and became the premiere winner of this competition. After a modest start in the preliminary round of the Slovenian championship with five defeats in 16 games, KK Helios reached the play-offs with a balanced record in the championship round, level with KK Olimpija in fourth. After the team was able to defeat Rogaška in the quarter-finals and the first Krka in the semi-finals, it was enough in the final series over the KK Zlatorog to the second Slovenian championship with three wins to one. As the Slovenian champions, the team qualified for another and eighth overall participation in the supranational ABA League 2016/17 after a five-year break .

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