Vršac
Leagues	Basketball League of Serbia
Founded	1946; 79 years ago (1946)
Arena	Millennium Centar
Capacity	4,400
Location	Vršac,Serbia
Team colors	Maroon, White
President	Kristian Serman
Head coach	Lazar Spasić
Championships	1Adriatic League
Website	kkvrsac.rs

Košarkaški klub Vršac Meridianbet (Serbian Cyrillic:Кошаркашки клуб Вршац Меридианбет), commonly referred to asKK Vršac Meridianbet,^[1] is a men's professionalbasketballclub based inVršac,Serbia. They are currently competing in theBasketball League of Serbia. Their home arena is theMillennium Centar, with a capacity of 4,400.

Over the years, the club competed under different names, mostly after sponsor companies, carrying for an extended period of time the name of pharmaceutical companyHemofarm.

The club was founded in 1946 under the nameKK Jedinstvo. From 1959 to 1967, the club competed under the nameKK Mladost until the name got changed toKK Inex Brixol due to sponsorship reasons. In the 1968–69 season, they won first place in the Vojvodina lower-league. In 1977, the club changed its name again, this time toKK Agropanonija. Four years later, in 1981, they again became champions of Vojvodina, which won them the right to participate in theFirst B League, where they competed under the nameKK Vršac. In 1989, Inex Hemofarm became principal sponsor and club changed its name toKK Inex.

Under the sponsorship ofHemofarm since 1992, the club went from average participants of the lower leagues inVojvodina to one of the leading clubs in the country. In their first season under the name ofKK Hemofarm, they competed in the First League of Vojvodina and regularly improved. In the 1995–96 season, the team was led byMarin Sedlaček, a young and ambitious coach, who led the team to a higher league.

Hemofarm's top league status was achieved in the 1997–98 season, under the guidance of coachSlobodan Lukić. The first season among the elite kept their survival, but during the 1999–2000 season, they finished fourth in the standings, providing their first trip to Europe in theFIBA Korać Cup. As newcomers, they reached the finals under coachŽeljko Lukajić during the 2000–01 season, where they fell short toSpain'sUnicaja Málaga, which was headed byBožidar Maljković. That same year, the team's quality was confirmed with placement at the National Cup final tournament, which was organized inVršac for the first time, at the opening of theMillennium Centar.

During the 2001–02 season, they played the playoff semifinal of the national championship, where they fell short toBudućnost after five games. In the next season, they played in the final of the National Cup, where they were defeated byFMP, and in the 2003–04 season, they once again fell short, playing in the National League finals againstPartizan.

The 2004–05 season was the most successful in the club's history. As rookies, they won the regionalAdriatic League. Hemofarm finished the regular season in first place in the standings, and at the Final Eight inBelgrade, they eliminatedBosna,FMP andPartizan in the final. That same season, Vršac was again hosting the final tournament of the National Cup, but the club lost toBudućnost in the first game. In theULEB Cup, they reached the semifinals, where they fell short by theGreek teamMakedonikos.

In the 2005–06 season, they once again played in theULEB Cup semifinals and took part in the Adriatic League Final Eight. In the 2006–07 season, they played in the semifinals of the National Cup and the Adriatic League semifinals.

In the 2008–09 season, the team was taken over byStevan Karadžić who led them to the semifinals in all competitions;Radivoj Korać Cup,Basketball League of Serbia,ABA League andEurocup. Reaching the Eurocup Final Eight inTurin was a major success for Serbian basketball, especially as the club had the youngest team in the whole competition. In the first match of the tournament inItaly, they bested the favoredDynamo Moscow, but lost toLietuvos rytas, who went on to win the competition.

In the middle of the 2011–12 season,Hemofarm stopped financing the club after 20 years because of financial instabilities within the company. All of the players were informed that they were free to leave the club.^[2][3]

In the summer of 2012, the club changed its name back toKK Vršac.

A few days after the end of the 2023–24 season, on April 16, the club announced that it had signed a title sponsorship agreement with Meridianbet.

The club has had several denominations through the years due to its sponsorship:

• Hemofarm STADA (2007–2012)
• Vršac Swisslion (2014–2016)
• Vršac Meridianbet (2024–present)

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  1992–2012
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  2012–present

KK Vršac roster
Players	Coaches
Pos. No. Nat. Name Ht. Age SG 0 Radovanović, Nikola 1.95 m (6 ft 5 in) 24 –(2001-05-29)29 May 2001 PG 2 Mićović, Ognjen 1.87 m (6 ft 2 in) 25 –(2000-03-10)10 March 2000 PG 4 Dukić, Marko 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in) 23 –(2001-12-09)9 December 2001 F 6 Jovanović, Luka 2.03 m (6 ft 8 in) 25 –(2000-06-04)4 June 2000 PG 8 Jovanović, Slobodan 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in) 28 –(1997-02-19)19 February 1997 F 9 Agoč, Stegan 2.01 m (6 ft 7 in) 23 –(2002-05-27)27 May 2002 SG 13 Jurček, Žiga 1.96 m (6 ft 5 in) 27 –(1998-04-22)22 April 1998 F 15 Vasiljević, Toma 2.05 m (6 ft 9 in) 25 –(2000-10-07)7 October 2000 SF 16 Tomić, David 1.98 m (6 ft 6 in) 21 –(2004-07-14)14 July 2004 SG 17 Dimić, Miloš 1.94 m (6 ft 4 in) 36 –(1989-10-17)17 October 1989 PG 22 Milić, Andrija 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in) 23 –(2002-09-02)2 September 2002 F/C 31 Jeković, Bratislav 2.02 m (6 ft 8 in) 29 –(1996-08-31)31 August 1996 SG 67 Majstorović, Mateja 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) 22 –(2003-08-04)4 August 2003 PG 77 Nikolić, Miloš 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in) 29 –(1996-10-17)17 October 1996 C 88 Juzbašić, Dušan 2.07 m (6 ft 9 in) 27 –(1998-06-08)8 June 1998 SG Simić, Stefan 1.96 m (6 ft 5 in) 29 –(1996-01-03)3 January 1996 PG Vasić, Lazar (L) 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in) 24 –(2001-01-03)3 January 2001 SG Radović, Matija 2.01 m (6 ft 7 in) 27 –(1998-04-25)25 April 1998	Head coach Vladimir Đokić Assistant coach(es) Marko Lalić Legend (C) Team captain (TW) Two-way affiliate player Injured Roster Updated:August 24, 2022

Position	Player	Year	Round	Pick	Drafted by
C	Darko Miličić	2003	1st round	2nd	Detroit Pistons

Hemofarm (1992–2012)

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• Miroslav Popov (1993–1994)
• Miroslav Kanjevac (1994–1995)
• Marin Sedlaček (1995–1996)
• Ivan Jeremić (1996–1997)
• Slobodan Lukić (1997–1998)
• Željko Lukajić (1998–2005)
• Luka Pavićević (2005)
• Miroslav Nikolić (2005–2008)
• Vlada Vukoičić (2008)
• Stevan Karadžić (2008–2010)
• Željko Lukajić (2010–2012)
• Dušan Gvozdić (2012, interim)
• Nebojša Bogavac (2012)

Vršac (2012–present)

• Oliver Popović (2012–2014)
• Dušan Gvozdić (2014–2015)
• Miloš Pejić (2015–2016)
• Milan Gurović (2016)
• Vladimir Đokić (2016–2018)
• Goran Topić (2018)
• Mihajlo Mitić (2018)
• Branko Maksimović (2018)
• Darko Kostić (2019–2020)
• Zoran Todorović (2020)
• Vladimir Lučić (2020–2021)
• Vladimir Đokić (2021–2022)
• Siniša Matić (2022)
• Vladimir Đokić (2022–present)

• Serbia and Montenegro League
  • Runners-up (2) – 2004, 2005
• Basketball League of Serbia
  • Runners-up (3) –2008,2010,2011
• Radivoj Korać Cup
  • Runners-up (3) – 2003, 2006, 2008
• Adriatic League
  • Winners (1) –2005
  • Runners-up (1) –2008
• FIBA Korać Cup
  • Runners-up (1) –2001

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