KK Rabotnički

KK Rabotnički
Nickname	Шпедитери (Forwarders)
Leagues	Macedonian First League
Founded	1946
Arena	Gradski Park (capacity: 2,000)
Location	Skopje, Macedonia
Team colors	Red and White
President	Risto Gapic
Head coach	Marin Dokuzovski
Championships	14 Championships of Macedonia 9 Macedonian Cups
Website	kkrabotnicki.mk
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KK Rabotnički (Macedonian: КК Работнички) is a basketball club based in Skopje, Republic of Macedonia. They currently play in the Macedonian First League.

History

The club was founded in 1946, in Skopje. In 1964 it becomes member of the first federal "A" league in the former Federation of six Republics Yugoslavia and competes there on a regular basis until 1990. In the 1991-92 season, the team played in the Federal YUBA Liga. Although, they never won a Federal championship they were finalist in the Federal Yugoslav Cup on two occasions: 1976 and 1983. Since the transformation of the Macedonian Republic League in to Macedonian First League, Rabotnički are the most successful Macedonian basketball team of all time, winning a record 14 league titles and 9 national cups.^[1]

Honours

Domestic achievements

• Macedonian Republic League Champion - 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1960, 1961, 1963, 1964
• Macedonian League Champion - 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2009
• Macedonian Cup Winner - 1976, 1983, 1985, 1988, 1993, 1994, 1998, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2011, 2015
• Macedonian Super Cup Winner - 2011

European achievements

• FIBA Europe Cup South Conference Finalist - 2004
• Balkan League Finalist - 2009

In the 1975-76 season, Rabotnički was semi-finalist in the European Cup Winners' Cup.^[2]

Current roster

KK Rabotnički roster
Players	Coaches
Pos. # Nat. Name Ht. Age SF 4 Dimčevski, Ivica  1.92 m (6 ft 4 in) 26 – 27 June 1989 PG 5 Mirakovski, Dimitar (C) 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) 34 – 14 May 1981 F 6 Stankov, Nenad 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in) 24 – 16 January 1992 PG 7 Cvetkovski, Andrej 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in) 19 – 20 September 1996 SG 8 Nikolić, Petar 22 – 25 September 1993 SF 9 Efremovski, Viktor 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in) 17 – 21 October 1998 SF 10 Markovski, Jovan 1.97 m (6 ft 6 in) 28 – 28 March 1988 F 11 Tasovski, Dime 2.01 m (6 ft 7 in) 35 – 2 November 1980 PF 12 Krstevski, Bojan  2.06 m (6 ft 9 in) 26 – 4 June 1989 PF 14 Veselkovski, Ilin 2.02 m (6 ft 8 in) 20 – 22 January 1996 C 15 Stefanovski, Aleksandar 2.00 m (6 ft 7 in) 28 – 24 August 1987 C 22 Čekovski, Gjorgji 2.03 m (6 ft 8 in) 105 kg (231 lb) 36 – 11 December 1979	Head coach Marin Dokuzovski Assistant coach(es) Pero Blazevski Legend (C) Team captain Injured Roster Updated: 2015-10-21

Depth chart

Pos.	Starting 5	Bench 1	Bench 2	Bench 3
C	Gjorgji Čekovski	Aleksandar Stefanovski		Bojan Krstevski
PF	Dime Tasovski		Ilin Veselkovski
SF	Jovan Markovski	Nenad Stankov		Ivica Dimčevski
SG	Petar Nikolić	Viktor Efremovski
PG	Dimitar Mirakovski	Andrej Cvetkovski

KK Rabotnicki in European competitions

In their rich European history KK Rabotnicki competed in many European competitions. Their most successful period was in the 90's. They competed for eleven seasons in four different cups. FEC=FIBA Europe Eurocup (ex FIBA-Europe League) once, FCC=FIBA-Europe Eurocup Challenge (ex FIBA-Europe Cup) twice, FKC=FIBA Korac Cup once, FSC=FIBA Saporta Cup (ex Cup Winners' Cup, European Cup)four times, and FSL=FIBA Suproleague (ex Champions' Cup, EuroLeague) three times.

Seasons and results of Rabotnicki in Europe:

• 2004/05 FEC R1 (Grp A): Unics Kazan (RUS), 95-99 & 53-87*

R1 (Grp A): Kaposvar Basket (HUN), Kaposvar quit R1 (Grp A): ECM Nymburk (CZE), 102-86 & 60-84* R1 (Grp A): Hapoel Galil Elyon (ISR), 87-92* & 97-109 R1 (Grp A): Fenerbahce Istanbul (TUR), 60-109* & 67-79 R1 (Grp A): CSKA Sofia (BUL), 84-97* & 82-81 R1 (Grp A): Kiev Basket (UKR), 62-88 & 73-102*

• 2003/04 FCC [S] QR (Grp B): Fenerbahce Istanbul (TUR), 91-87 & 65-80*

[S] QR (Grp B): CSU Ploiesti (ROM), 46-60* & 75-66 [S] PO: APOEL Nicosia (CYP), 100-93* & 81-77 [S] FF-SF: Keravnos Nicosia (CYP), 96-75** [S] FF-FL: Tuborg Izmir (TUR), 78-80**

• 2002/03 FCC [S] QR (Grp A): Peristeri Athens (GRE), 59-72 & 72-85*

[S] QR (Grp A): Vojvodina Novi Sad (SRB), 77-102* & 81-83 [S] QR (Grp A): Karsiyaka Izmir (TUR), 66-96 & 91-99* [S] QR (Grp A): Hapoel Jerusalem (ISR), 64-90* & 89-90 [S] QR (Grp A): Yambol 92 Basket (BUL), 75-69 & 73-85*

• 2000/01 FKC Q1: KK Aleksandrovac (BIH), 63-71 & 70-70*
• 1999/00 FSC R1 (Grp D): Bosna Sarajevo (BIH), 52-59* & 51-82

R1 (Grp D): Saski Baskonia Vitoria (ESP), 57-73 & 49-70* R1 (Grp D): PSG Racing Paris (FRA), 43-83* & 57-70 R1 (Grp D): Illiabum Ilhavo (POR), 68-76 & 68-67* R1 (Grp D): KC Pruszkow (POL), 64-65 & 41-84*

• 1997/98 FSC R1 (Grp A): Torpan Pojat Helsinki (FIN), 80-81 & 55-85*

R1 (Grp A): Joventut Badalona (ESP), 72-105* & 55-70 R1 (Grp A): MBK Odessa (UKR), 57-77 & 63-78* R1 (Grp A): Tofas Bursa (TUR), 47-73* & 76-77 R1 (Grp A): Zemaitijos Olimpas Plunge (LTU), 70-86* & 78-88

• 1996/97 FSC R1 (Grp A): ASK Riga (LVA), 80-99* & 84-97

R1 (Grp A): WTK Wloclawek (POL), 76-82* & 86-88 R1 (Grp A): Victoria Libertas Pesaro (ITA), 77-95* & 78-71 R1 (Grp A): Savinjski Polzela (SVN), 89-91 & 66-74* R1 (Grp A): Fenerbahce Istanbul (TUR), 78-84 & 61-90*

• 1995/96 FSL Q1: Budivelnik Kiev (UKR), 65-64 & 69-83*
• 1994/95 FSL Q1: Honved Budapest (HUN), 82-99* & 73-64
• 1993/94 FSL Q1: Honved Budapest (HUN), 73-61 & 79-74*

R1: EB Pau-Orthez (FRA), 74-86 & 89-91* FSC Q3: Den Helder Basket (NED), 76-92* & 85-62 QF (Grp A): Saski Baskonia Vitoria (ESP), 90-113* & 102-97 QF (Grp A): Tofas Bursa (TUR), 109-107 & 87-92* QF (Grp A): Olimpija Ljubljana (SVN), 77-89* & 66-80 QF (Grp A): Bellinzona Basket (SUI), 70-87* & 92-94 QF (Grp A): KK Split (CRO), 85-91 & 74-82*

• 1975/76 FSC QF (Grp A): Olympiakos Piraeus (GRE), 90-79 & 71-91*

QF (Grp A): CSKA Sofia (BUL), 117-88 & 84-90* QF (Grp A): Tours Basket (FRA), 83-99* & 107-90 SF: Olimpia Milano (ITA), 67-90* & 104-89

Supporters

• KK Rabotnički fans are known as 'City Park Boys' .

Rivalries

• KK Rabotnički Skopje has traditional rivalry games with MZT Aerodrom.

Notable former players

Goran Veselinovski Blagoja Georgievski Goran Samardžiev Ognen Stojanovski Bojan Trajkovski Dimitar Mirakovski Toni Simić Aleksandar Kostoski Dušan Bocevski Jordančo Davitkov Gjorgji Knјazev Dejan Jovanovski Mirza Kurtović Dime Tasovski Todor Gečevski Gjorgji Čekovski Darko Sokolov Srdjan Stanković Marjan Gjurov Janko Lukovski Dragan Radosavljević Lazar Lečić Riste Stefanov Goce Gerasimovski Pero Blazevski Vlatko Vladičevski Toni Grnčarov

Vrbica Stefanov Pero Antić Budimir Jolović Emil Rajković Marjan Srbinovski Vasko Najkov Aleksandar Dimitrovski Jane Petrovski Marko Simonovski Aleksandar Ugrinoski Eftim Bogoev Nenad Zivčević Boris Nešović Gjorgje Vojnović Goran Dimitrijević Nikola Karakolev Ilija Bocevski Siniša Avramovski Enes Hadžibulić Vladimir Brčkov Ivica Dimčevski Slobodan Mihajlovski Filip Kralevski Gjorgji Kočov Stojan Gjuroski Kiril Pavlovski Marjan Janevski

Marko Ivanović Zoran Jovanović Dragoljub Vidačić Dragan Smiljanić Vladimir Dragutinović Vladimir Popović Dušan Knežević Nemanja Jelesijević Vladimir Filipović Miljan Pavković Marko Djurković Aleksandar Kalanj Aleksandar Mitrović Zoran Majkić Vladimir Zujović Miloš Pavlović Rade Džambić Srdjan Božić Djordje Jovanović Predrag Joksimović Kendrick Johnson William Coleman Paul Culbertson Antoni Wyche Phil Zevenbergen Hameed Kashif Gary Ware

Ricky Harry John Sharper Brandon Cole Vernand Hollins Vincent King Leemire Goldwire Mohamed Abukar Sanjin Kalaica Saša Vukas Goran Ikonić Josip Lovrić Bariša Krasić Rafael Maldonado Bora Hun Paçun Igor Bijelić Rudy Mbemba William Njoku Yordan Kolev Blagoj Janev

References

1. "KK FERSPED-RABOTNICKI SKOPJE basketball team History".
2. http://kkrabotnicki.cubus.com.mk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=46&Itemid=120

External links

• Official Website
• KK Rabotnički on Facebook
• Team info at MKF
• Team info at Eurobasket
• Supporters Website