OKK Belgrade
| OKK Belgrade | |||
| Founded | 1945 | ||
| Hall |
Aleksandar Nikolić Hall (8,178 seats) |
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| Homepage | okkbeograd.org.rs | ||
| president | Slobodan Jovanović | ||
| Trainer | Marko Ičelić | ||
| league |
Košarkaška liga Srbije |
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| Colours | white and blue | ||
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Omladinski Košarkaški Klub Belgrade ( Serbian - Cyrillic ОКК Београд ; transliteration : OKK Beograd ) is a Serbian basketball club from Belgrade . He was four times Yugoslav basketball champion and three times cup winner.
history
The club was founded in 1945 as Metalac . In 1950 the name was changed to BSK , until the club was renamed OKK Beograd in 1958 and is part of the OK Belgrade sports club together with other sports clubs such as the OFK Belgrade football club .
In 1953 Borislav Stanković was the coach of the first men's team and the most successful phase of the club began when Radivoj Korać moved up to the first team in 1955. In 1958 they won the Yugoslav championship for the first time. Three more titles and two cup wins followed by 1964. There was also a sensation in Europe . The club reached the semi-finals of the European Cup , the most important European Cup at the time, three times . It was only because of poor performance away from home in these semi-finals that they never made it to the final. In 1966, Stanković finally left the coaching post and moved to Italy to Pallacanestro Cantù , while Korać also moved abroad in 1967.
When the local competition from the Red Star had ousted OKK as the most successful Belgrade club, OKK finally reached a European Cup final in 1972 in the Korać Cup , which was held for the first time and was named after Korać, who died early in 1969. But here the team was subject to the national competition from KK Cibona Zagreb .
OKK Belgrade has been part of the inventory of the Yugoslav-Serbian first division in basketball for decades and is also one of the top teams there. Nevertheless, no championship could be won since 1964. This is largely due to city rivals Partizan , who won the last eleven titles in a row.
Hall
The club plays its home games in the 8,178-seat Aleksandar-Nikolić-Halle .
successes
- 4 × Yugoslav champions (1958, 1960, 1963, 1964)
- 3 × Yugoslav Cup winners (1960, 1962, 1993)
- 3 × semi-finalist European Cup (1959, 1964, 1965)
- Korać Cup finalist (1972)
Known players
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