KK Igokea Aleksandrovac

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KK Igokea Aleksandrovac
Founded 23rd August 1973
Hall Sports center Nenad Baštinac
(4,000 places)
Homepage igokea.rs
president Boris Spasojevic
Trainer Dragan Bajić
league ABA League
2016/17: 5th place
  Bosnian Division I
2016/17: 1st place
Colours Blue , red & white
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Bosnian champions 2001, 2013 to 2017
Bosnian cup winners 2007, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017

The Košarkaški klub Igokea Aleksandrovac is a basketball club from Aleksandrovac in the Opština Laktaši in Bosnia and Herzegovina . After the first championship in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2001 and the first cup victory in 2007, the club’s men's team won all Bosnian championships from 2013, including four times as a double in connection with the cup victory except in 2014 . By participating in the Final Four tournament of the supranational Adriatic Basketball League (ABA League) , the team was able to qualify once for the continental club competition ULEB Eurocup .

history

The association was founded in 1973 as KK Potkozarje in the town north of the main town Laktaši and the Banja Luka airport , through which the M16 road also runs, the importance of which has decreased due to the Gradiška – Banja Luka autoput opened in 2011 . At the end of the Bosnian War , the club in the Serbian-dominated region was renamed KK Igokea and the first men's team continued their rise from a regional leading team to one of the best Bosnian teams. In March 2000, the club was able to put the sports hall named after the first club president Nenad Baštinac into operation and immediately afterwards won the regional division of the Republika Srpska for the first time in front of the previously dominant KK Borac Nektar from Banja Luka . A year later, this success was not only repeated, but the championship of the entire country was also won. As a result, however, the men missed further title successes before winning the Bosnian Cup competition for the first time in 2007.

In the ABA League 2010/11 , KK Igokea was one of the two Bosnian participants in the supranational ABA League and finished eleventh at its premiere. Two years later, the team surprised with their second participation with first place after the main round. As originally planned, the team would have qualified for the highest European club competition, the Euroleague , since for the first time a B license was reserved as a starting place for both the winner of the main round and the winner of the Final Four tournament. However, the sports hall in Laktaši did not meet the infrastructural requirements of the Euroleague and, with fewer than 5,000 spectators, did not have the necessary capacity. After KK Igokea, the first in the main round and host of the final tournament, lost the semi-finals against defending champion and serial winner KK Partizan Belgrade , the Euroleague starting places were fixed for the final tournament finalists. The KK Igokea then played in the Eurocup 2013/14 , in which, however, they only won three out of ten preliminary round games and were eliminated after the preliminary round.

The team, which is successful in the ABA league, was able to achieve its second title success in both the Bosnian championship and in the national cup competition in 2013 and thus the national double for the first time . In the following years they developed into the dominant team within Bosnia and were able to successfully defend their title win in the championship up to and including 2016. Except for the 2014 cup competition, which was won by the Herzegovinian competitor HKK Široki Brijeg , this also succeeded in the national cup competition. In the ABA league, however, there was no further qualification for the Final Four tournament, so that no further participations were made in recognized continental club competitions.

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