KK Partizan Belgrade

	KK Partizan Belgrade
Nickname	Crno-Beli ("The Black and Whites"), ; Parni Valjak ("The Steamroller ")
Founded	October 4, 1945
Hall	Štark Arena; (18,386 seats)
Homepage	kkpartizan.rs
president	Mijajlovic Ostoja
Trainer	Andrea Trinchieri
league	Euroleague ; ABA League ; Serbian Basketball League;
Colours	black-and-white
home	Away
	successes
	European Champion ; 's Cup (1) Korać Cup (3) ; Yugoslav and Serbian champions (21) ; Yugoslav and Serbian cup winners (16) ; ABA champions (6) ; ABA Super Cup (1)

The KK Partizan ( Serbian - Cyrillic КК Партизан - Кошаркашки клуб Партизан , Košarkaški club Partizan , German basketball club Partizan , from sponsorship reasons currently Partizan NIS , in German-speaking countries often Partizan Belgrade ) is the basketball department of Serbian sports club Partizan Belgrade . The capital city club has spent its entire history in the top tier of Yugoslav and Serbian basketball.

With a total of 43 trophies, including 20 national championships, 13 national cups, 6 ABA titles as well as 3 Korać Cups , the former third most important European Cup and the European Cup and thus four European Cup trophies, Partizan is the most successful basketball club in Serbia and the former Yugoslavia as well as one of the most successful in Europe. By winning the European Cup, the Yugoslav Championship and the national cup competition in the 1991/92 season, a Yugoslav or Serbian team achieved the so-called triple for the first time .

The club has played its home games in the Pionir Hall since 1973 and in the Kombank Arena since 2009 . With the city rival Red Star , Partizan has one of the most famous rivalries in sport and one of the most famous basketball derbies worldwide. This encounter is known as the Eternal Derby . After an invitation from the Phoenix Suns and the Denver Nuggets , Partizan was the first Serbian team to play against teams from the American basketball league NBA in 2009 .

history

The basketball club was founded in 1945 by senior officers as a club of the Yugoslav People's Army . 1953 took place the separation from the army and the assignment to the Yugoslavian sports community Partizan . The club was very successful right from the start and won a tournament in 1945, in which a team from each part of the republics took part.

In its first 25 years of existence Partizan supplied many players who were used in the national team of Yugoslavia , including Mirko Marjanović, Boža Munćan, Radomir Šaper, Vilmoš Loci, Lajoš Engler, Čeda Stojičević, Bora Stanković, Borislav Ćurčić, Branko Radović, Radović, Branko Radović , Miloš Bojović, Dragutin Čermak or Slobodan Jelić.

1970s and early 1980s

Partizan was runner-up five times in the early 1970s, but had to wait until 1976 for the first title to be won. This also represented the first high point of a continuous development based on engaging former players as coaches who in turn consistently focused on young talent. This was followed by two victories in the Korać Cup , the third most important European Cup, after they won the final in Banja Luka in 1978 with 117: 110 against KK Bosna and in 1979 they kept the upper hand against the Italian representative AMG Sebastiani Basket Rieti with 108: 98. In 1979 they also won the Yugoslav Cup with a victory over KK Zadar , and in 1981 the championship title again. Formative players of this time included Dražen Dalipagić , Dragan Kićanović , Farčić, Todorić, Kerkez, Marić, Petrović, Pešić, Berals, Zecević and Savović.

Late 1980s

The club was able to build on these successes at the end of the 1980s. During this time, players like Aleksandar Đorđević , Vlade Divac , Žarko Paspalj , Ivo Nakić and Miroslav Pecarskog made the leap from youth to the first team. With the support of the older generation around Željko Obradović , Milenko Savović and Goran Grbović, they won the championship title again in 1987. A year later they caused a stir internationally when they qualified for the Final Four in the European Cup in Belgium after a sensational series of victories against, among others, Aris Thessaloniki , FC Barcelona and the later finalists Maccabi Tel Aviv and Philips Milan . There you only came in third place. In 1989 they won again and for the third time the Korać Cup. In the final they defeated the Italian representative Pallacanestro Cantù . With a win against Jugoplastika Split they also secured the national cup in the same year.

1990s

After Divac, Paspalj, Grbović, Savović and other top performers left, Partizan formed a new, young team in the early 1990s. The stars of the team at that time were Aleksandar Đorđević and Predrag Danilović . The then still young coach Željko Obradović told the media before the season that Partizan had an extremely strong team and that they would not be an outsider in the European Cup. Due to the civil war in Yugoslavia, Partizan had to play its home games abroad in 1991. Partizan chose the Madrid suburb of Fuenlabrada , which turned out to be a stroke of luck, as the Spanish audience gave the young team excellent support.

This year they finished fourth after the group stage of the European Cup. In the quarterfinals you had to play against the Italian representative Virtus Bologna , who you could defeat. Partizan thus moved into the round of the last four for the second time in the club's history. After victories against Philips Milan and Joventut de Badalona they secured the title there. If you take into account that the average age of the team at that time was just 21 years and Partizan was only allowed to play one game in front of a home crowd, this triumph should be rated even higher.

In the following season, however, the title could not be defended because all Yugoslav clubs had been excluded from international competitions due to UN sanctions . Because of this, u. a. Đorđević and Danilović the club.

Therefore one was again forced to build a new team from young talents. With players like Nikola Lončar, Miroslav Berić, Haris Brkić, Željko Rebrača , Predrag Drobnjak and Aleksandar Čubrilo, it was possible to win the national cup again in the 1993/1994 season with a 104: 102 victory over local rivals Red Star . A year later they even won the championship and cup double. Since 1995, Yugoslav teams have also been allowed to take part in European competitions again, but could not immediately build on their old successes. In 1996/1997 they qualified for the last sixteen of the European Cup, where they failed with a total of 1: 2 at the eventual title winner Olympiacos Piraeus .

In the 1997/98 season, surprisingly, for the third time in the history of the club, they made it into the Final Four, leaving behind the reigning national championship winner Olympiakos and CSKA Moscow . In the Final Four itself, however, it was only enough for fourth place.

2000s

In the 2000/01 season, the player Haris Brkić was shot in the parking lot after training and the season ended without a title. Since 2002, however, they have won twelve national championships in a row, as well as the national cup in 2002, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012.

Title / Achievements

National

Yugoslav / Serbian championship (21 ×): 1976, 1979, 1981, 1987, 1992, 1995–1997, 2002–2014 (record)
Yugoslav / Serbian Cup (16 ×): 1979, 1989, 1992, 1994, 1995, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2008–2012, 2018–2020 (record)