KK Krka

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KK Krka
Founded 1948
Hall Športna Dvorana Leona Štuklja
(3,000 seats)
Homepage basket.krka.si
president Brane Kastelec
director Miro Župevec
Trainer Vladimir Anzulović
league ABA League
2015/16 : 12th place
  1. SKL
2015/16: 3rd place
Colours Green & white
Jersey colors
Jersey colors
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home
Jersey colors
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Away
successes
7 times Slovenian champion (2000, 2003, 2010 to 2014)
3 times Slovenian cup winner (2014 to 2016)
EuroChallenge 2011
finalist ULEB Cup 2003

The Košarkarski klub Krka Novo mesto is a Slovenian basketball club from Novo mesto . The men's team of the club won the European club competition EuroChallenge 2010/11 and was a finalist at the premiere of the ULEB Cup 2002/03 . At national level, they won the championship seven times and were twice cup winners, with the team also winning the national double in their first cup win in 2014 . The team has so far participated in ten of the 15 events of the supranational Adriatic Basketball League (ABA League) .

history

The club was founded in 1948 within the Partizan sports association . It was not until 1963 that an asphalted field was available, on which the team took part in the game under the name of the local textile factory as KK Novoteks . 1971 then succeeded the promotion to the first highest regional league 1. SKL of the then SR Slovenia below the two national divisions. In the 1977/78 seasons and after the 1983 championship in the 1st SKL also in the 1983/84 season, the team also played second class in a national league for one year. After relegation, the team could no longer hold in the highest Slovenian league and rose at the end of the 1989/90 season in the second regional league.

After Slovenia's independence, the association also parted with the textile factory by name and was re-established in 1992 as KK Novo mesto 92 . Only three years later they had reached the second highest division again and in 1997, among other things, with a still young Matjaž Smodiš, the renewed promotion to the A1 SKL, which was now the highest national division. The team's new name sponsor was the local pharmaceutical company Krka , which is named after the Krka river of the same name , which flows through the Dolenjska and Novo mesto . At the premiere, the team reached fourth place in the play-offs for the championship, in which they lost in the semifinals to the undefeated series champion KK Union Olimpija from the capital Ljubljana in the play-offs . As a semi-finalist, the club was immediately qualified for the European club competition Korać-Cup , in which they narrowly missed group victory after only one preliminary round defeat with Virtus Rome . In the following knockout phase of the 32 best teams, however, they lost twice significantly against the eventual title winner FC Barcelona . After third place in the national championship in 1999, the team played in the Saporta Cup , in which they won the preliminary round group tied with the German representative Skyliners Frankfurt and in the first knockout round after adding the two games just against the Italian Record champions Olimpia Adecco Milan lost. In the Slovenian championship they surprisingly won the semi-final series against series champion Union Olimpija, who could not win the championship title for the first time in the young history of Slovenia, and finally decided the final series against Pivovarna Laško , who had only lost twice in the main round, with three Win to one for yourself.

After winning the championship and the club's first title success, coach Ivan Sunara went back to Croatia and Matjaž Smodiš moved to Italy to Virtus Bologna , who played in the newly created ULEB Euroleague , while the Slovenian national champion Krka played in the highest-ranking club competition Suproleague of FIBA Europe . Here, the team under the new coach Aleš Pipan , who had come from the defeated runner-up from Laško, won a victory ahead of the German runner-up Bayer Giants Leverkusen in eighth place in the preliminary group in the FIBA Suproleague 2000/01 . In the following round of 16 play-offs, Krka lost both games against defending champions Panathinaikos Athens . After losing the final in the national cup competition against defending champion Union Olimpija, the former series champion also took back the championship title in the final series against defending champion Krka, which was repeated in the following 2001/02 season. In the newly created supranational ABA league , which in the area of ​​the former Yugoslavia, initially without Serbia and Montenegro, followed the former highest Yugoslav league, the Slovenian teams dominated in the first season 2001/02 and provided three of the four Final Four participants. Krka beat the last remaining non-Slovenian team in the semifinals with KK Cibona , but lost the final against hosts Union Olimpija. In that season, the two Slovenian championship finalists also took part in the ULEB Euroleague 2001/02 , after the Suproleague competition had already been suspended and KK Krka had prevailed in the qualification against the German runner-up Telekom Baskets Bonn , among others . With a balanced preliminary round balance, the team from Novo mesto only narrowly missed entry into the second group phase of the 16 best teams. For the following season, a second FIBA ​​independent European club competition was introduced with the ULEB Cup . Under the new Croatian coach Neven Spahija , Krka not only won his preliminary group, but also won the round of 16 against national rivals Pivovarna Laško. After beating the Spanish team Caprabo Lleida in the quarter-finals , Krka was the only non-Spanish team in the semi-finals. In the two finals, the team finally had to admit defeat to the premiere winner Pamesa Valencia . With the participation of Serbian teams, the balance of power in the ABA league changed again, in which Krka clearly missed making it into the 2003 Final Four with a balanced record in seventh place. In the national championship, however, it was enough to a narrow 3-2 final series success over defending champions Union Olimpija and to win the second title in Slovenia.

After the successful season, the team had to accept another bloodletting in 2003. In the ULEB Euroleague 2003/04 they won only two of 14 preliminary round games and the new coach Martić has already been replaced by Petar Skansi . With Skansi they reached a further seventh place in the ABA league, but seventh place in the Slovenian championship was sobering for the defending champion. In the following season the club was on the verge of dissolution for financial reasons, but could still hold on to sixth place in the Slovenian championship. In the 2005/06 season they ran after the field of participants in the Slovenian league for a long time before three wins in the relegation round ensured relegation in third from last place. Sixth place in the 2006/07 season secured the return to the championship round and in the 2007/08 season they came back in third place in the play-offs for the championship, in which they lost to defending champion KK Helios Domžale in the semifinals . However, this was enough to return to the ABA league in 2008/09 , which ended up being eleventh and fourth from last, one place ahead of the Helios Suns, which, however, defeated Krka again in the semi-final series of the championship. However, the weak performance of the Slovenian teams in the preseason initially cost Krka's starting place in the ABA League, which finally defeated the Helios Suns in the 2010 Slovenian semi-finals. Under the Serbian coach Aleksandar Džikić it was even enough in the final series to a narrow 3-2 series success over defending champion Union Olimpija.

Unlike after the first two championship successes, Krka was able to stabilize its level in 2010 and defended the Slovenian championship title in 2011 again just under five games against Union Olimpija. Previously, both teams had reached the "Final Four" tournament in the ABA League 2010/11 , in which Master Krka had lost the semifinals against runner-up and host Union Olimpija. In the EuroChallenge 2010/11, however, the Slovenian national champion reached the final game in the Final Four after defeating hosts Telenet Oostende , which was won against the Russian club Lokomotive Kuban Krasnodar . At the first international title win, Goran Ikonić was named Most Valuable Player (MVP) for Krka in the final tournament and the team was the successor of the German club BG 74 Göttingen . In the Eurocup 2011/12 , as the former ULEB Cup was now called, Krka reached the second group stage of the 16 best teams in the following season behind group leader Lietuvos rytas Vilnius with Krka's former coach Džikić, but only one victory in six more Play reached. In the ABA League 2011/12 , Krka fell short of expectations in eleventh and fourth from last place, but was able to defeat Union Olimpija again at least in the championship series after losing the final in the national cup competition.

In the EuroChallenge 2012/13 , Krka was eliminated after the first group stage and although Matjaž Smodiš returned to his home club at the end of the year, there was finally a change of coach. With no improvement in the victory record, Krka reached ninth place in the ABA league and was finally able to save the season with another title win in the championship after another success in the final series over Union Olimpija. For the 2013/14 season Džikić returned as a coach, who led the newly formed team into the second group phase of the EuroChallenge 2013/14 , where they narrowly failed to the two subsequent Final Four participants Grissin Bon Reggio Emilia and Szolnoki Olaj KK . In the ABA league it was enough to a solid seventh place, while it was enough to win the first title in the national cup competition. After winning the title for the fifth time in a row in the championship, winning the national double in 2014 for the first time . After Krka missed the desired participation in the Eurocup 2014/15 , the team reached ninth place in the ABA league and defended the title in the cup competition against KK Zlatorog Laško . In the championship, however, they lost the semi-final series against the surprise team and eventual title winner Tajfun Šentjur and missed the sixth title win in a row. After Džikić had to vacate the coaching chair, the team reached the second group stage in the FIBA Europe Cup 2015/16 behind the unbeaten group winner and eventual title winner Skyliners Frankfurt , in which two wins from six games were not enough to advance. In the ABA-League 2015/16 it was only enough for twelfth and third from bottom place in the table at the end of the season. The third title in a row in the cup competition could not help over the following failure in the championship play-offs, when you were the first to be eliminated again in the semifinals against the eventual title winner Helios Suns.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ KRKA Bring The Trophy To Slovenia. FIBA Europa , May 1, 2011, accessed on June 29, 2016 (English, match report).