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| Nickname | Studenti (Students) Bordo-bijeli (Maroon-whites) | ||
| Leagues | Bosnian League | ||
| Founded | 1951; 74 years ago (1951) | ||
| History | KK Bosna (1951–2014) KK Bosna Royal (2014–present) | ||
| Arena | Mirza Delibašić Hall (capacity: 6,500) Zetra Olympic Hall (capacity: 12,000) | ||
| Location | Sarajevo,Bosnia and Herzegovina | ||
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| Main sponsor | VisitSarajevo[1] | ||
| President | Dubravko Barbarić | ||
| Head coach | Aleksandar Damjanović | ||
| Team captain | Haris Delalić | ||
| Championships | 1EuroLeague 4Bosnian Championships 4Bosnian Cups 3Yugoslav Championships 2Yugoslav Cups | ||
| Website | www | ||
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Košarkaški klub Bosna (transl. Basketball Club Bosna), commonly referred to asKK Bosna, currently namedBosna VisitSarajevo for sponsorship reasons,[1] is a professionalbasketballclub based inSarajevo,Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is the most successful Bosnian club of all time, having been theEuroLeague champion by winning the1978–79 FIBA European Champions Cup. The club competes in theBasketball Championship of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is part of the University Sport SocietyUSD Bosna (Bosnian:Univerzitetsko sportsko društvo Bosna).
The club was founded in 1951 as a member of the University Sports Society Bosna (Bosnian:Univerzitetsko sportsko društvo Bosna). The club's first chairman and coach was doctor Nedžad Brkić, with the roster composed mostly of students enrolled in theUniversity of Sarajevo.[2] The first four years of the club's existence were spent in the lower-tier Sarajevo city league, which the team went on to win in 1955, earning a promotion to theSR Bosnia and Herzegovina league. The team roster in these early years included the likes of Brkić, Marušić, Takač, Bise, Bjelica, Cindrić, Bilić, Đurasković, Fetahagić, Uzelac, Džapa, Pilav, Hofbauer, Lovrenović, Beganović and Dimitrijević.[2]
For the next 17 years the club competed in the regionalSR Bosnia and Herzegovina league, steadily building a team with which it could enter theYugoslav First League.
On 28 April 1972 a decisive win against cross-town rivalsKK Željezničar Sarajevo would promote the club to the top-tier ofYugoslav basketball where it would compete for the next 20 years.[3] The architect of the club's historic triumf and later European glory was charismatic young coachBogdan Tanjević. The players that managed to achieve the promotion to the top national league were Jovo Terzić, Mirsad Milavić, Zdravko Čečur, Milan Pavlić, Aleksandar Nadaždin, Dumić, Bruno Soče,Žarko Varajić, Slobodan Pejović,Svetislav Pešić, Rođeni Krvavac, andAnto Đogić.[3]
The futureEuropean championship winning roster was completed with the arrival of legendaryMirza Delibašić in 1972. The first 6 seasons in the Yugoslav First League represented a coming of age process, with the team eventually going on to win its first title in 1978, led by star playersRatko Radovanović,Žarko Varajić andMirza Delibašić. A year later KK Bosna became the first team, aside fromCSKA Moscow, to win theEuropean championship without a single foreign player on its roster. Namely, on April 5, 1979 the team, led by the late Delibašić and game MVP Varajić, defeatedItalian PowerhouseEmerson Varese 96:93.[4] The club started its EuroLeague season in the Quarterfinal group stage, finishing first in its group. Once in the Semifinals, the side sent a message to contenders by edging the defending championsReal Madrid 114:109 in overtime, in Sarajevo. KK Bosna would eventually win all of its home games and would advance to the title game by edgingGreek sideOlympiacos 83–88, in Piraeus. Bosna's opponent in the final would either be Emerson Varese or Real Madrid, who faced each other off in the final game of the round. The Italian side beat Madrid 82:83. The aforementioned game will be remembered for Prada's misses: Namely, Luis Maria Prada famously missed 3 consecutive free throws with no time on the clock, forever changing European basketball history. Once in the title game, KK Bosna downed mighty Emerson Varese 96:93 in front of 15,000 fans in thePalais des Sports,Grenoble,France. Varajić led the team in scoring with 45 points, while Delibašić followed with 30. The former is still the record holder for most points in a Euroleague final.[5] Radovanović added 10 more points, while AmericansBob Morse andCharlie Yelverton scored 30 and 27 points respectively for Varese.[6] In the next four seasons KK Bosna would go on to win two more Yugoslav championships (1979-80;1982-83), as well as a silver medal in the1980 FIBA Intercontinental Cup, which it hosted. A secondYugoslav Cup triumf followed a year later.[7]
After nearly a decade of continuous success, most of the star players transferred abroad in the mid-1980s. Namely, Delibašić, Varajić, Radovanović, Đogić along with coach Bogdan Tanjević who took overJuventus Caserta moved to foreign clubs. As a result, the club management decided to transfer members of its talented youth department to the senior team, along with bringing in a handful of new players from other Yugoslav clubs.Nenad Marković,Gordan Firić,Samir Avdić and others all came in through the youth ranks but their time in the club was cut short by the start of theBosnian War.
With the start of theBosnian War in 1992 competitive basketball was halted in the newly independent country for nearly four years. A talented generation on the verge of success was forced to transfer to foreign sides, and in doing so the club was forced to fight for bare survival. The side's star prospect, Nenad Marković, joined Italian sideStefanel Trieste, while the likes of Avdić, Firić and others left to Spain, Italy and Turkey. In 1993, under the helm of legendary Ante Djogic and his assistant Mladen Jojic, a talented group of youngsters, who stayed in Sarajevo under the siege, was selected and which continued with trainings and competition organized in difficult war environment. Those youngsters, aged btw. 15 and 19, were:Konaković, Moratić, Bradić, Tihić, Mirković, Džafo, Isaković, brothers Damir and Vedran Vukotić, Branković, Tinjak. At the end of the 1997–98 season, a play-off for the national title was organized. KK Bosna lost 2–1 toHKK Široki in the final series. A year later the maroon-whites, brandishing a roster that included Mirković, Terzić, Subašić, Konaković, Kurtagić, Halimić, Lerić, Isaković, Bukva, Džuho and Radović, coached by former European championship-winning team member,Sabit Hadžić won the national title after a play-off victory.
The club remembrance has gathered all players, coach Tanjević, assistant coaches Prodanović, Krehić, first club's coach Halilović and all the club members who helped Bosna achieve a great success, such as the winning of theEuropean title. Unfortunately, two key members of Bosna championship team are not alive anymore. Mirza Delibašić and Sabahudin Bilalović have died, but they will be remembered by the club and fans forever. Many great players and coaches from the region joined the remembrance in memory to one great generation of Bosna players and their accomplishments.
In October 2014, the club decided to continue under the new name,Bosna Royal.[8][9]
Bosna has had several denominations through the years due to its sponsorship:
KK Bosna traditionally garnered a majority of its fan base from supporters ofFK Sarajevo, and more specifically the latter'sultras firm,Horde zla, given the fact that both clubs share uniquemaroon and white team colours.
Through time the two sides became colloquially interchangeable, as Horde zla equally followed both, with the two clubs forming an unofficial, so-calledMaroon Family. On 29 August 2013 FK Sarajevo and KK Bosna'shandball sister club,RK Bosna, signed a cooperation agreement based on the principle of strengthening ties between the aforementionedfamily members.[12] On 6 November 2013 the same was done between FK Sarajevo and KK Bosna Royal, by which the forty-year-old relationship was officialized.[13]
KK Bosna Royal play their home fixtures at theSkenderija Sports Center, located in theCentar Municipality ofSarajevo. It was constructed in 1969 as a cultural and sport center, but was later revitalized and expanded for the 1984 Winter Olympic Games. Below the structure is a shopping mall. It sustained minor damage during the war, but is decaying due to lack of upkeep, it is revitalized since 2007. On 12 February 2012, after a record snowfall in Sarajevo, the roof of one of the halls fell in making that building unusable. The damage after this is said to be 'huge' and is yet unknown if that building will be rebuilt.[14]
In 1977, when Sarajevo was voted to host the1984 Winter Olympics, they discovered that they needed more than only the brand-new buildingZetra to host everyfigure skating andice hockey event. So they started to reconstruct and expand the Skenderija into a real state-of-the-art ice-sports centre. It was also chosen as the centre for the representatives and press-reporters.[15]
KK Bosna Royal occasionally hosts games in theOlympic Hall Juan Antonio Samaranch, previously known as Zetra Olympic Hall. The arena was constructed specifically for the 1984 Winter Olympics, hosted in Sarajevo, and was completed in 1983. Its first major event was the 1983World Junior Speed Skating Championships. It was described as an "ultramodern, angular edifice"[16] with acopper roof.
Note: Flags indicate national team eligibility atFIBA-sanctioned events. Players may hold other non-FIBA nationalities not displayed.
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Žarko VarajićMirza DelibašićAnto ĐogićRatko RadovanovićPredrag BenačekBoro VučevićEmir MutapčićZdravko RadulovićMario Primorac
Sabahudin BilalovićKenan BajramovićEdin BavčićJ.R. BremerNihad ĐedovićGoran IkonićNenad MarkovićElvir OvčinaVedran BosnićMuhamed PašalićSaša Vasiljević
Hasan Rizvić
Suad Šehović
Lance WilliamsTotal titles: 14
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| 1978–79 | Champions | defeatedEmerson Varese, 96–93 in the final of European Champions Cup inGrenoble | |
| 1979–80 | Semi-final group stage | 3rd place in a group withMaccabi Tel Aviv,Real Madrid,Sinudyne Bologna,Nashua EBBC andPartizan | |
| 1980–81 | Semi-final group stage | 4th place in a group withSinudyne Bologna,Maccabi Tel Aviv,Nashua EBBC,Real Madrid andCSKA Moscow | |
| 1983–84 | Semi-final group stage | 4th place in a group withFC Barcelona,Banco di Roma Virtus,Jollycolombani Cantù,Maccabi Tel Aviv andLimoges CSP | |
| FIBA Korać Cup | |||
| 1977–78 | Final | lost toPartizan, 110–117 in the final (Banja Luka) | |
| 1989–90 | Semi-finals | eliminated byRam Joventut, 90-90 (D) inSarajevo and 72-94 (L) inBadalona | |
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| 1979 | 2nd | 2nd place in a league withSírio,Emerson Varese,Piratas de Quebradillas andMo-Kan NCAA Stars | |
| 1980 | 3rd | 3rd place in a league withMaccabi Tel Aviv,Atlética Francana,Real Madrid andKansas NCAA All-Stars | |
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Below is a list of KK Bosna coaches from 1951 until the present day.
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