KK Rabotnički Skopje
| KK Rabotnički Skopje | |||
| Nickname | Шпедитери (railway worker) | ||
| Founded | 1946 | ||
| Hall | Gradski Park sports hall (2,000 seats) |
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| Homepage | kkrabotnicki.mk | ||
| president | Risto Gapic | ||
| Trainer | Marin Dokuzovski | ||
| league |
Prva Liga 2015/16: 6th place |
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| Colours | Red & white | ||
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| successes | |||
| 14 times Macedonian champion (1993 to 1999, 2001 to 2006, 2009) 9 times Macedonian cup winner (1993, 1994, 1998, 2003 to 2006, 2011, 2015) |
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The Košarkaški klub Rabotnički ( Macedonian кошаркарски клуб Работнички , basketball club workers ) is a basketball club from the North Macedonian capital Skopje . The men's team was founded in 1946 as part of Rabotnički Skopje and was considered the leading team of the Yugoslav republic of SR Macedonia . Even after the independence of Macedonia, the team won 13 of the first 14 championships played as well as those of 2009. The last national title win was achieved by the men of Rabotnički in the 2015 cup competition; all other title wins in national competitions since 2012 reached local rivals KK MZT Skopje up to and including 2016 .
history
- 1946 to 1992
The basketball department was established in 1946 as part of the Rabotnički Skopje Railway Sports Club and is one of the oldest basketball teams in the later independent Macedonia . As a result, the regional championships of the then Yugoslav republic were won in the first seven years of existence due to the lack of special competition from 1947 to 1953. Then you belonged initially to the second highest division of the SFR Yugoslavia for a short time . After four more regional championships of Macedonia had been won in the early 1960s, the team became an elevator team in the top national league after the YUBA League was expanded to twelve teams in 1965 . After relegation in 1969, the team was able to establish itself in the top division and reached three times in 1971, 1972 and 1975 with a balanced season balance a fifth place as the best placement. For cup winners KK Radnički Belgrade, cup finalist Rabotnički moved into the FIBA European Cup Winners' Cup 1975/76 , in which the team reached the semifinals with, among others, the national player Blagoja Georgievski, who was popular throughout Yugoslavia at the time . After a heavy away defeat at the established Italian record champions and later title winners Olimpia Milano , a 104:89 win in Skopje was not enough to make it into the final. Rabotnički, on the other hand, rose again in 1978 after ten years from the YUBA league and was again the elevator team in Yugoslavia. After the immediate return they were fourth from bottom in 1980, third from bottom in 1981 and finally bottom of the table in 1982 and after returning second to last in 1984. When third from bottom in 1986 it was enough to keep their league since 1981, but in the following season they were not only relegated, but became also outstripped by local rivals KK MZT , who achieved relegation at its premiere in the top national league. But also MZT only stayed one more season in the YUBA before Rabotnički returned to the YUBA for a final season in 1991/92 after the departure of the Croatian and Slovenian clubs and came third. In the semi-finals of the championship, the team from Macedonia, which has now also declared itself independent, lost to KK Red Star Belgrade .
- 1992 to 2000
After independence, Rabotnički initially remained the leader in Macedonia and won the double in the first two years as a title winner in championship and cup competitions. In the championship, Godel Rabotnički was initially able to win all titles except for the 1999/2000 season, when KK Nikol Fert Gostivar broke into the phalanx of Rabotnički's title wins and the championship play-off final series with three to two wins in five games won against the defending champion. After winning titles in the first two cup competitions Godel Rabotnički only reached the finals in 1996 and 1998, with only the last won against KK Tikveš Kavadarci.
With independence from 1992 Rabotnički now also regularly participated in European club competitions. The FIBA European Champions Cup had become the FIBA European League through the participation of several clubs from individual nations, in which KK Rabotnički failed three times between 1993 and 1995 in qualifying before reaching the group stage. In the FIBA European Cup, which emerged from the European Cup Winners' Cup and later named the Saporta Cup, the group stages were reached with ten preliminary round games, but in 1993/94 they were eliminated early with two, 1996/97 with one and 1997/98 with no victory at all . When they last participated in this competition in the 1999/2000 season, they shared the last group place with the Portuguese club from Ílhavo, each with a win .
- since 2000
Under the new name sponsor Feršped Rabotnički , the following six championship titles went back to the capital before the defending champion in the 2007 final series was clearly defeated by the club from Strumica . The two cup final games in 2001 and 2002 were still lost to Nikol Fert Gostivar, before they won the double four times in a row from 2003 onwards, also in the cup competition. After Strumica had lost the championship in 2008 to the Feni Industries club from Kavadarci , Rabotnički won the championship back in 2009 against the then defending champion Feni Industries. Feni Industries won again the following two championships, the last of which in 2011 in the final series against Rabotnički, who won another cup victory in the final against local rivals MZT Aerodrom , clearly with four wins to one. Then the club from the wine region around Tikveš had to hand over the title to Rabotničkis local rival MZT Aerodrom, who won all championships from 2012, including 2014 back in best-of-five with 3-1 against Rabotnički. The only national title win since 2012 that MZT could not win was the 2015 cup competition, which Rabotnički won in the final against Kožuv from Gevgelija .
Internationally, it was not enough for Rabotnički in the Korać Cup 2000/01 again to reach the group stage when they lost to the Bosnian club KK Igokea Aleksandrovac at the beginning of the first qualifying round . After the reorganization of the European Cup competitions through the entry of the ULEB as an organizer, Rabotnički tried to continue with very moderate success in the remaining, less sporting competitions of FIBA Europe . In the first season of the competition later called FIBA EuroCup Challenge , there was only one win in ten preliminary round matches in the 2002/03 season. In the reduced field of participants of the following season, they prevailed as group runner-up against CSU Asesoft Ploieşti and, after victories in knockout rounds over two Cypriot teams, reached the final of the Conference South against hosts Tuborg Pilsner SK in Izmir , which just barely did two points difference was lost. The following participation in the FIBA Europe League 2004/05 , from which the EuroChallenge emerged , then again proved to be a size too big for the team when they could only win two of twelve preliminary round games.
Rabotnički could not agree with the organizers about participation in the supranational ABA league , which was formed as the successor to the old Yugoslav YUBA league from 2001, instead the club took part in the Balkan League in the premiere season, in which one 2009 reached the final, which was lost to the host Rilski athlete Samokow . In the following season, the previous finalist was eliminated early from this competition after only one win in eight preliminary round matches in his second and last participation since then.
Known players
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Web links
- КК Работнички Скопје: Историјат - Chronicle of the club in its own representation ( Macedonian )
- BC FERSPED RABOTNICKI - overview of participation in continental club competitions of FIBA Europe ( English ; since 1992)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Tuborg Pilsener 80 Fersped Rabotnicki 78th FIBA Europe , 29 February 2004 Retrieved on June 4, 2016 (English, game).
- ↑ 2008/2009 Eurohold Balkan League / Final Four Round 2: BC Rilski Sportist 84 - 77 Rabotnicki. Balkan International Basketball League , March 25, 2009, accessed June 4, 2016 (English, final game statistics).