KK Metalac Valjevo
| KK Metalac Valjevo | |||
| Founded | March 24, 1948 | ||
| Hall | Valjevska Arena, Hala September 15 (5000 seats, 2500 seats) |
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| Homepage | kkmetalac.org.rs | ||
| president | Zoran Vraneš | ||
| Secretary General | Biljana Pucarevic | ||
| Trainer | Dragan Simeunović | ||
| league |
ABA League 2015/16 : 11th place |
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KLS 2015/16: 5th place |
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| Colours | Red & white | ||
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The Košarkaški klub Metalac is a basketball club from Valjevo in the Kolubara district . The club's men's team, founded in 1948, played first-class within the former Yugoslavia as early as the 1970s . Only after the separation from Serbia and Montenegro could the team regain this status within Serbia in 2007. Since 2014, the team has also played in the supranational Adriatic Basketball League (ABA League) , which ties in with the former Yugoslav league. For sponsorship reasons, the team is currently trading as KK Metalac Farmakom .
history
The team was founded in 1948 as KK Budućnost and did not take their name Metalac until six years later. After the team had already worked their way up into regional leagues within Serbia, the game was initially stopped in 1960, before starting again in the lowest division. As early as 1973 one could then realize the promotion to the highest national league YUBA league , which one belonged six years. Among the 14 teams of the top division Yugoslavia, Metalac did not come at the end of the season over placements in the lower half of the table. The best placement was two ninth places in 1977 and 1978, before relegating a year later in 1979 in a league reduced by two to twelve teams as the penultimate again. After the split of Yugoslavia, the team briefly belonged to the lower half of the top division of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in the 1993/94 season . As ninth you could not qualify for the following, again single-track season of the top division. Although the league was expanded again in the following years, the club's team did not qualify for the top division again until the independence of Montenegro .
After the independence of Montenegro, Metalac first rose in 2007 from a regional league to the second highest league 1B in Serbia . Just one season later they played the preliminary round of the highest Serbian league, which they finished third. This qualified for the main round or super league, in which the internationally active teams in the ABA league also took part. On the fourth place in the group in 2009, however, they initially missed entry into the play-offs for the Serbian championship. After two sixth places in 2010 and 2011 in the main round, the team only just managed to stay in league in 2012 in eleventh place in the preliminary round. After two further sixth places in 2013 and 2014, the team for the ABA League 2014/15 received a wildcard to take part in the supranational competition, which is the successor to the previous YUBA League, as a replacement for KK Radnički Kragujevac . With a balanced season balance, Metalac achieved sixth place at its premiere, followed by eleventh place in the ABA league 2015/16 . Metalac won its second ABA league participation by losing the semi-final to series champion and defending champion KK Partizan Belgrade and third place in the play-offs for the 2015 Serbian championship. In the following season, however, Metalac missed the third place in the group in the main round to return to the Serbian play-offs and is no longer directly qualified for the ABA league. This hits the club at an inopportune time, as Arena Valjevo is due to go into operation in 2016 after various delays and years of construction.
Known players
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Web links
- KK METALAC VALJEVO: Istorijat - history of the club according to its own account ( Serbian )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Start of construction for "Valjevska arena" - sports hall worth 10 million euros, ready by 2015. eKapija.com, December 6, 2012, accessed on June 22, 2016 .
- ↑ Dragan Ilić: GLASS RAZUMA: VALJEVSKA ARENA REALNOST MAY 1, 2016! MojSvetSporta.net, May 1, 2015, accessed June 22, 2016 (Serbian).