KK MZT Skopje

MZT Skopje
Nickname	Штркови(Storks) Металци (Metalworkers)
Leagues	Adriatic League Macedonian First League
Founded	9 March 1966
Arena	Jane Sandanski (capacity: 6,500)
Location	Skopje, Macedonia
Team colors	Blue and White
Head coach	Aleksandar Jončevski
Championships	4 Championships of Macedonia 8 Macedonian Cups
Website	mztskopjeaerodrom.mk
Uniforms
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KK MZT Skopje Aerodrom (Macedonian: КК МЗТ Скопје Аеродром) is a basketball club based in Skopje, Republic of Macedonia. The club competes in the Macedonian First League and Adriatic League. The club's home ground is Jane Sandanski Arena, but due to small capacity the matches in the Adriatic League^[1] and Eurocup^[2] from 2012-2014 were played in Boris Trajkovski Arena. From the season 2014/2015 the new home is the renewed Jane Sandanski Arena.

In its history, MZT Skopje has won the Macedonian First League 10 times (1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1979, 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015) and the Macedonian Cup 8 times (1996, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016).

History

The Beginnings (1966-1990)

MZT Aerodrom against Cibona in the old Jane Sandanski Arena in the middle 80`s

KK Skopje was formed in 1966 by a group of enthusiasts led by the first president of the club Mile Melovski. The interest in basketball was high, and even though there were four clubs in Skopje, there was still need for more clubs. That is why the appearance of KK Skopje was welcome, and numbers of young people joined the club and started training on an open field in Avtokomanda. The first team roster consisted of Trpezanovski, Atanasovski, Strezovski, Lazarevski and Domlevski, who was also the team coach. In two years the club became a member of the Macedonian league. Many people expected KK Skopje to get relegated, but the team fought hard and became a standard member in the league.

UP: Knjazev, Maksimović, Zivčević, Nastev, Radosavljević, Medić, Knežević, Lečić DOWN: Gešovski, Kafedziski, Vladičevski, Kiridžievski, Dukovski

In 1971 Uroš Maljković was chosen to be the new president of the club, with Boris Sokolovski becoming the new head coach. After the reorganization of the leagues in Yugoslavia, KK Skopje^[3] gained the right to play in the Second league – South. In the first season of this league KK Skopje finished 7th. The second season the team reached the First league qualifications. The first try failed and due to leaving the field in Ivangrad KK Skopje received a penalty of 8 points for the next season.

KK Skopje got relegated again to the regional league and Taki Dzikov was selected to be the head coach. In 1979 the team finished first in the Macedonian league and managed to qualify for the Second league yet again. With this success the factory Metalski Zavod Tito or MZT started investing in KK Skopje. Slobodan Mucunski, one of the leading people of MZT became the president of KK Skopje. In 1984 MZT completely took the club under their wing, building the new arena Jane Sandanski in Aerodrom. In 1986 KK Skopje, under the new name MZT Skopje and the leadership of Lazar Lečić, reached the Yugoslav First Basketball League where they competed for two seasons.

The debut team in the Yugoslav First Basketball League, MZT Skopje, has made a pleasant surprise in the season 1986/1987. After many years of domination by Rabotnički, the MZT team climbed to the top of the Macedonian basketball – and they kept it so far. It is interesting that from the bench they were led by the coaching legend of the city rival Lazar Lečić. With two victories in the local derby they secured their existence, and they left Rabotnički with a lower ranking. At that period, the most prominent individuals were Vlatko Vladičevski with an average of 16,4 points, Vojislav Zivčević with 15,6 points and Darko Knežević with 14,5 points. There was also significant contribution by the former players of Partizan - Milan Medić and of Crvena zvezda - Aleksandar Milivojša. In the fourth final of the play-off, as expected, Cibona had the least problems and easily eliminated MZT in two games.

Independence of Macedonia (1991–2008)

MZT against Real Madrid in Raimundo Saporta Cup in 1996

After the independence of Macedonia, MZT Skopje immediately became one of the leading basketball clubs in the country. In the mid 90s MZT Skopje had a few successful runs on the European field, the most memorable being the 1996–97 season when the team played in the Raimundo Saporta Cup. In this period MZT Skopje struggled to get more respectful results in Europe, led by coach Aleksandar Knjazev beating teams like Real Madrid, Benfica, Ratiopharm, MZT Skopje managed to qualify for the 1/16 finals, without losing one match at home in Jane Sandanski.

Mark Dean

This was the first time Macedonia had a representative in the matches after New Year. The draw allocated that MZT Skopje were to play F.C. Porto, with the first match to be played at home. The home form continued when MZT Skopje managed to defeat Porto in Jane Sandanski. But the win was not enough, as F.C. Porto won at home by a bigger margin, ending MZT Skopje European season. However, this season in domestic competition was failure wherein MZT was defeated by KK Žito Vardar in the semifinal. The next few seasons MZT Skopje had a marginal role in the European cups, playing against teams like Žalgiris, ASVEL, Cholet, Split and others.

In the Macedonian National championship, MZT Skopje had a few tries to get to the championship trophy, playing in the play-off finals six times, and even though a few times the team was a so-called "dream team" they couldn't win the trophy in this period. During this few seasons many players emerged through MZT Skopje like Mirza Kurtović, Vrbica Stefanov, Todor Gečevski, Pero Blazevski, Gjorgji Knјazev, Gjorgje Vojnović, Slobodan Petrovski, Srdjan Stanković, Dejan Dimov, Riste Stefanov, and internacional players like Mark Dean, David Daniels, Lorenzo Orr, Frazier Johnson, Levy Middlebrooks, Bojan Tadić and Bryant Smith. Although they couldn't win the championship, this period they won 4 Macedonian Cups, in 1996 against Rabotnički at Gradski Park (69-64), next season in 1997 against Tikveš Kavadarci in Radoviš (92-86), in 1999 against Nikolfert Gostivar at Jasmin Sports Hall (78-73) and in 2000 at home in Jane Sandanski again against Rabotnički (68-66).

Moments of downfall (2008–2011)

The atmosphere in the old Jane Sandanski Arena

In 2008, after many years of failed operations of the then management of the club, the fans decided to start a boycott in order to change the entire set of the management team of MZT Aerodrom. Finally, the summer of 2009 the entire management left the club, leaving many debts behind. There were less than two weeks left to the beginning of the season, and MZT Skopje at that moment had no players, no coach, no junior school, and even worse, they had no sponsors whatsoever. A day before the deadline for application of teams for the current championship, the Family Aerodrom fan group organized a march in order to save the club. Fortunately, this produced results, so during the first season the club was taken over by the Municipality of Aerodrom, and the club received players who were told that the club had had no money. Due to the financial problems of the club, it had the worst season since the independence of Macedonia, so KK MZT Aerodrom had to play in the play-out, to secure its place in the league. Fortunately, MZT succeeded, which meant much better days for the club were to come. The next season, 2010–11, the club got solid sponsors, and there was complete reorganization of the management set, the junior school was reactivated, which had been non-functional for eight years. All debts were repaid, and the team succeeded in entering the playoff semifinals, and the finals of the Macedonian Cup.

Мoments of glory

The club's most successful season (2011–2012)

Champions season 2011/2012

Cade Davis, Nikola Vučurović and Noah Dahlman

After all the turmoil and upheavals in the past, after a long time, KK MZT Skopje created a team which became a favorite for winning the first title since its existence. Before the start of the season, an agreement had been reached on Liga ABA participation in the 2012–13 season. Aleksandar Todorov, who had previously been on the bench of MZT several times, was appointed a new coach. Since the last season, the team has included Toni Grnčarov and Igor Penov, while new players who played for the first cup in independent Macedonia were Ognen Stojanovski and Gjorgji Čekovski, as well as the foreign reinforcement players Cade Davis, Noah Dahlman and Igor Mijajlović. Towards the middle of November 2012, the latest weapon arrived too, meaning definite rise of MZT as a top favorite for the cup – Todor Gečevski arrived in Aerodrom. In the regular part of the championship they won the first place, and the roster was completed with the coming of another player from Montenegro, international player Nikola Vučurović. The first exam for this team was the Macedonian Cup, where Feni was defeated in the finals at Boris Trajkovski Arena. Playoff rival was the difficult team of Torus, which made MZT struggle for placement in the finals. In the finals, old rivals MZT and Feni met. The epilogue was 4-1 in the final series, so the Aerodrom team became a champion of Macedonia on May 2, 2012, for the first time in its history.^[4]

Domination in domestic competitions, ABA league and Eurocup (2012-present)

MZT Aerodrom’s debut season 2012/2013 in the ABA league can be assessed as highly successful. Before the season’s start, the club’s only goal had been to ensure survival in the league, but as the season went by, at one given period, MZT was strong enough to fight for the Final Four Tournament. On its first official game in the Adriatic League, MZT won a victory over Cibona in Zagreb,^[5] which was immediately followed by its first official victory at home over Široki Breg.

Kiril Nikolovski, Damjan Stojanovski and Gjorgji Čekovski after the game against Union Olimpija in 2013

Although it was previously considered as a club with one of the smallest budgets in the ABA League, MZT has managed to outperform teams with budgets many times bigger, as well as former European champions.

The list of teams that MZT has outperformed consists of Cedevita, Cibona, Krka, Zadar, Široki Breg, Split, Szolnoki Olaj, Union Olimpija, and a crown of the successful season was its latest triumph at home over Partizan. In the last round, MZT had a chance to qualify for the Eurocup. It was necessary to defeat Krka in Slovenia, and for Cedevita to be defeated by Siroki Breg.

MZT in ABA league match in season 2012/2013

The task was fulfilled by the Macedonian champion, but the qualification did not depend on MZT alone, and eventually MZT ranked seventh, with a score of 14 wins and 12 losses, thus ensuring its participation in the ABA League next year, too. In the Macedonian league, MZT is still being dominant. First, they won the Cup of Macedonia defeating Kumanovo in the finals, while in the playoff MZT Skopje succeeded in making it to the title with no single defeat, achieving victories over Feni in the semifinals with 3-0, and over Kozuv in the finals with 4-0.

The season 2013/2014 was historic as for MZT as well as for the Macedonian basketball. After a long time Macedonia had a team which was a part of the group stage in Eurocup. The new named coach Vlada Vukoičić, who replaced Aleš Pipan, brought some new players: Stefan Sinovec, Uroš Lučić, Justin Reynolds and Macedonian internacional Aleksandar Kostoski, which together with the compact team from the previous seasons: Todor Gečevski, Gjorgji Čekovski, Damjan Stojanovski, Nikola Otašević, Cade Davis, Kiril Nikolovski and Gorjan Markovski created a team that will represents Macedonia in Europe after more than a decade. The luck was not on the side of the Macedonian champion during the group stage draw, so MZT was drawn in the same group with the teams of UNICS, Banvit, Maccabi Haifa, VEF Riga and BC Kalev/Cramo. Along with the performance in the Eurocup, MZT also played in the ABA League, so maybe ambitions that were announced at the beginning of the season were not fully accomplish where was taken the last place on the table with only one win against BC Kalev/Cramo at home.

MZT was a part of the group stage in Eurocup in the season 2013/2014

Stefan Sinovec

With the completion of the matches in Eurocup, MZT got more time for rest between the games in the ABA league, and thus improved the placement on the table. Next ambition was to achieve into Eurocup for the next season by placing on the sixth place on the table. For this purpose was appointed a new coach Zoran Martić, and also were brought three new players: Sead Šehović, Aleksandar Cvetković and Ivan Marinković. They signed a contract at the request of the new coach Zoran Martič who accepted to be a coach at that point the hot seat of MZT. After all that happened during the season MZT had a chance to take a 6th place and to decide about own destiny in the last round at home court against Radnicki Kragujevac. Instead of desired 6th place, MZT was defeated by Radnicki Kragujevac and ended the season at 9th place. In the national championship dominance of MZT continued. In February 2014 National Cup has been won playing against Lirija in the Final. After that In Super-league MZT has scored 10 wins and no defeat. This fact only confirmed that MZT has great ambition to win the championship title. In the semifinals opponent was again Lirija which was eliminated with maximum 2-0 in the series. At the end in the final MZT Skopje beat eternal rival Rabotnicki. The series ended with a 3-1 victory, and MZT became champion third time in a row.^[6]

MZT was champion again in the most turbulent season 2014/2015 in the recent history

The 2014/2015 season has been the most turbulent one in MZT’s recent history. The club was left by many of the players who had been the main skeleton of the team over the past seasons, and Zmago Sagadin^[7] was appointed a new coach and he decided to rejuvenate the team. New reinforcements have arrived in the team – Milton Jennings, Jourdan DeMuynck, Marko Pajić,^[8] Giorgi Tsintsadze,^[9] Vedran Morović, Marko Simonovski,^[10] Owen Klassen, Dion Dixon, Nenad Zivčević, Adem Mekić, and there are also last season’s players Uroš Lučić, Kiril Nikolovski, Boban Stajić, Aleksandar Cvetković and Ivan Marinković. The preparatory period and especially the start of the season started in a bad way, meaning Sagadin’s fast leave from the coach position. Vrbica Stefanov was appointed his successor.

Aleksandar Ćapin

In the meantime, some players returned to the MZT team – Damjan Stojanovski,^[11] Sead Šehović and Stefan Sinovec who came from Szolnoki Olaj, and the team was left by many of the newly arrived players. But, Stefanov did not stick for a long time on the bench of MZT, and Bobi Mitev^[12] was appointed a coach after his leave. The results did not change, defeat came after defeat, and same as his predecessors, Mitev got resignation, and in his stead came Aleksandar Jončevski who used to be assistant coach during the mandates of all heretofore coaches. The elimination from the Macedonian Cup in the semifinals caused by Kozuv and the next-to-last place in the ABA League meant resignation for Joncevski. The salvation of the season was found in the former coach of MZT, Aleš Pipan, who was the fifth coach in the season. He was brought along with the new players Predrag Samardžiski,^[13] Aleksandar Ćapin^[14] and Danilo Mijatović^[15] in order to save the season by winning the championship. In the semifinals MZT was better than Feni Industries, and in the finals with a maximum result of 3-0 they defeated the Kumanovo team, which continued its dominance in the domestic championship with four victories in a row.^[16]

Name changes

• KK Skopje (1966–1984)
• KK MZT Skopje (1984–1998)
• KK MZT Boss Skopje (1998–2000)
• KK MZT Skopje 2000 (2000–2004)
• KK MZT Skopje (2004–2008)
• KK MZT FON Univerzitet (2008–2009)
• KK MZT Skopje Aerodrom (2009–present)

However, the club is best known under the name KK MZT Skopje.

Honours

Honours		No.	Years
League
Macedonian Republic League	Winners	6	1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1979
Macedonian League	Winners	4	2012, 2013, 2014, 2015
Macedonian League	Finalist	10	1993, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2004, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015
Cups
Macedonian Cup	Winners	8	1996, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016
Macedonian Cup	Finalist	12	1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2003, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014. 2016
Macedonian Super Cup	Winners	2	2004, 2015
Macedonian Super Cup	Finalist	1	2000

Winning seasons

Macedonian League

Damjan Stojanovski MVP of Macedonian Cup Final 2013 and Macedonian play-off Final 2014

Season	Champion	Runner-up	Score	MVP
2011/12	MZT Aerodrom	Feni Industri	4-1 (seven game series)	Todor Gečevski
2012/13	MZT Aerodrom	Kožuv	4-0 (seven game series)	Gjorgji Čekovski
2013/14	MZT Aerodrom	Rabotnički	3-1 (five game series)	Damjan Stojanovski
2014/15	MZT Aerodrom	Kumanovo	3-0 (five game series)	Marko Simonovski / Sead Šehović

Macedonian Cup

Season	Champion	Runner-up	Result	MVP	Host city
1996	MZT Aerodrom	Godel Rabotnički	69-64	Vlatko Vladičevski	Skopje
1997	MZT Aerodrom	Tikveš Kavadarci	92-86	Toni Simić	Radoviš
1999	MZT Aerodrom	Nikolfert Gostivar	78-73	Mirza Kurtović	Kavadarci
2000	MZT Aerodrom	Rabotnički	68-66	Gjorgji Knјazev	Skopje
2012	MZT Aerodrom	Feni Industri	84-66	Todor Gečevski	Skopje
2013	MZT Aerodrom	Kumanovo	79-71	Damjan Stojanovski	Skopje
2014	MZT Aerodrom	Lirija	76-73	Todor Gečevski	Ohrid
2016	MZT Aerodrom	Karpoš Sokoli	68-62	Marko Luković	Gevgelija

Macedonian Super Cup

Season	Champion	Runner-up	Result	MVP	Host city
2003	MZT Aerodrom	Rabotnički	77-75	Gjorgje Vojnović	Skopje
2015	MZT Aerodrom	Rabotnički	81-62	Dimitar Mirakovski	Ohrid

Current roster

Note: Flags indicate national team eligibility at FIBA sanctioned events. Players may hold other non-FIBA nationality not displayed.

KK MZT Skopje Aerodrom roster
Players	Coaches
Pos. # Nat. Name Ht. Wt. Age PG 4 Protić, Nemanja 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in) 78 kg (172 lb) 29 – 13 August 1986 G 5 Ljubičić, Marko 1.96 m (6 ft 5 in) 87 kg (192 lb) 28 – 23 July 1987 G 6 Mekić, Adem 1.95 m (6 ft 5 in) 20 – 28 December 1995 G/F 7 Markovski, Gorjan 1.96 m (6 ft 5 in) 85 kg (187 lb) 23 – 19 June 1992 SF 9 Vasiljević, Uroš 2.01 m (6 ft 7 in) 98 kg (216 lb) 27 – 8 July 1988 G 10 Carter, C.J. 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) 23 – 19 February 1993 C 11 Mladenovski, Ljubomir 2.10 m (6 ft 11 in) 110 kg (243 lb) 20 – 2 May 1995 G/F 13 Drenovac, Đorđe 2.01 m (6 ft 7 in) 97 kg (214 lb) 23 – 9 August 1992 C 14 Bunić, Duško 2.07 m (6 ft 9 in) 102 kg (225 lb) 26 – 4 December 1989 G/F 19 Stojanovski, Damjan (C) 1.97 m (6 ft 6 in) 87 kg (192 lb) 28 – 9 December 1987 F/C 22 Mijatović, Danilo 2.05 m (6 ft 9 in) 106 kg (234 lb) 32 – 6 August 1983 F 33 Luković, Marko  2.06 m (6 ft 9 in) 91 kg (201 lb) 23 – 26 May 1992 C 55 Luković, Uroš 2.13 m (7 ft 0 in) 100 kg (220 lb) 26 – 8 June 1989	Head coach Aleksandar Jončevski Assistant coach(es) Goran Krstevski Dragan Milenković Strength & conditioning coach(es) Goran Krstevski Physiotherapist(s) Petar Todorovski Legend (C) Team captain Injured Roster Updated: 24 December 2015

Depth chart

Pos.	Starting 5	Bench 1	Bench 2	Bench 3
C	Uroš Luković	Ljubomir Mladenovski
PF	Danilo Mijatović	Duško Bunić		Marko Luković
SF	Đorđe Drenovac	Gorjan Markovski	Uroš Vasiljević
SG	Damjan Stojanovski	Adem Mekić
PG	Marko Ljubičić	Nemanja Protić	C.J. Carter

Squad changes for the 2015–16 season

In Đorđe Drenovac (from Igokea) Marko Ljubičić (from Metalac Valjevo) Marko Luković (from TBB Trier) Duško Bunić (from Igokea) Nemanja Protić (from Metalac Valjevo) Uroš Vasiljević (from UPCT Cartagena) Edi Sinadinović (from PAOK Thessaloniki) Uroš Luković (from Kumanovo) C.J. Carter (from Omaha Mavericks)

Out Aleksandar Cvetković (to Partizan) Aleksandar Ćapin (to Igokea) Owen Klassen (to Phoenix Hagen) Uroš Lučić (to CSM Oradea) Kiril Nikolovski (to Feni Industries) Boban Stajić (to Feni Industries) Predrag Samardžiski (to Mega Leks) Stefan Sinovec ( to Krka Novo Mesto) Sead Šehović (to Budućnost VOLI) Edi Sinadinović (to Sloboda Tuzla) Marko Simonovski (to Kumanovo) Aleš Pipan (coach) (to Zlatorog Laško)

Management

• Club Owner: Aerodrom Municipality
• President: Kire Donevski^[17]
• General Manager: Vidoja Sekulovski
• Sport Director: TBA

Notable former players

Todor Gečevski Gjorgji Čekovski Damjan Stojanovski Vrbica Stefanov Pero Blaževski Ognen Stojanovski Mirza Kurtović Gjorgji Knјazev Gjorgje Vojnović Dimče Gaštarski Gjorgji Talevski Toni Grnčarov Kiril Nikolovski Slobodan Petrovski Borče Domlevski Dejan Dimov Srdjan Stanković Stevan Gešovski Slavko Čerepnalkovski Vasil Kafedžiski Vojislav Zivčević Vlatko Vladičevski Pero Nastev Ante Dukovski Marjan Lazovski Goce Andrevski Jane Petrovski Boris Nešović Siniša Avramovski Darko Zdravkovski Risto Janevski Dragan Radosavljević Ivica Blagojević Stojan Ristovski Josif Nikiforović Dimitar Trpezanovski Gjorgji Martinovski

Predrag Samardžiski Aleksandar Kostoski Marko Simonovski Igor Mihajlovski Sašo Strezovski Trajko Kiridžievski Gorjan Markovski Igor Penov Boban Stajić Aleksandar Lazarevski Antonio Minevski Nikolče Petrušev Dragan Milenkovič Milutin Čalčevski Vladimir Georgievski Aleksandar Sovkovski Gjorgji Kočov Dimitar Karadžovski Jovan Zdravevski Slobodan Mitić Milan Medić Darko Knežević Dušan Sučević Sveto Antić Aleksandar Milivojša Stefan Sinovec Nikola Otašević Igor Mijajlović Bojan Tadić Aleksandar Cvetković Uroš Lučić Uroš Nikolić Ivan Marinković Edi Sinadinović Miljan Pupović Ivan Gjaković Vladimir Veličković

Ivica Mavrenski Srdjan Živković Slobodan Agoč Nenad Radovski Saša Stanković Vojkan Krgović Sead Šehović Boris Bakić Nikola Vučurović Čedomir Mudreša Nikola Milatović Mark Dean Cade Davis Noah Dahlman Frazier Johnson Lorenzo Orr Dion Dixon Bryant Smith Darnell Lindsay Levy Middlebrooks Nathan Ball Justin Reynolds Darryl Hill Scott Alan Kramer Jourdan DeMuynck David Daniels Owen Klassen Aleksandar Ćapin Giorgi Tsintsadze Oleg Lebedev Damir Voloder Muamer Taletović

The Macedonian "Twin Towers" Todor Gečevski and Gjorgji Čekovski triple champions with MZT in 2012, 2013 and 2014 Nikola Otašević

Head coaches

Aleksandar Todorov Aleksandar Petrović Aleksandar Knjazev Marjan Lazovski Mitko Lukovski Janko Lukovski Lazar Lečić Taki Džikov Steruli Andonovski

Blagoja Georgievski Bobi Mitev Vrbica Stefanov Vasil Kafedžiski Ante Dukovski Igor Gacov Aleksandar Jončevski Boris Sokolovski Aleksandar Domlevski

Slobodan Ivković Vlada Vukoičić Dražen Dalipagić Peca Jačimović Miodrag Baletić Aleš Pipan Zoran Martič Zmago Sagadin

Aleksandar Todorov first coach with title in MZT

MZT Aerodrom in European Competitions

1993/1994

BK JIP Pardubice	MZT Aerodrom	97-82	111-81
MZT Aerodrom	Ratiopharm Ulm	75-78	85-70

1994/1995

BC Baltai

MZT Aerodrom

60-44

80-74

1995/1996

Zagreb	MZT Aerodrom	94-80	81-64
MZT Aerodrom	Arsenal Tula	91-78	94-70

1996/1997

Real Madrid	MZT Aerodrom	92-65	69-68
Plama Pleven	MZT Aerodrom	103-94	91-68
MZT Aerodrom	Ratiopharm Ulm	92-89	94-73
MZT Aerodrom	Hapoel Galil Elyon	65-55	95-79
Benfica	MZT Aerodrom	77-75	75-73
MZT Aerodrom	BC Porto	73-69	80-74

1997/1998

Znicz Pruszków	MZT Aerodrom	110-64	79-85
MZT Aerodrom	BC Tallinna Kalev	81-90	77-54
ASVEL Villeurbanne	MZT Aerodrom	68-48	53-58
MZT Aerodrom	Zalgiris Kaunas	93-95	97-49
Zagreb	MZT Aerodrom	77-61	52-71

1998/1999

Cholet Basket	MZT Aerodrom	90-61	71-86
MZT Aerodrom	Slovakofarma Pezinok	84-76	75-60
Türk Telekom B.K.	MZT Aerodrom	75-57	73-81
MZT Aerodrom	Split	71-69	85-74
Geofin Nový Jičín	MZT Aerodrom	94-87	100-74

2000/2001

Vojvodina

MZT Aerodrom

93-85

78-81

2013/2014

UNICS Kazan	MZT Aerodrom	85-61	62-88
MZT Aerodrom	VEF Riga	70-77	80-71
Maccabi Haifa	MZT Aerodrom	79-60	83-86
MZT Aerodrom	Kalev Cramo	79-70	84-69
Banvit	MZT Aerodrom	85-61	68-86

MZT Skopje in ABA League

Team	2012/2013	2013/2014	2014/2015	2015/2016
Budućnost	69-76 / 81-71	78-71 / 87-79	65-81 / 96-69	68-72 / 65-55
Cedevita	74-61 / 78-80	75-81 / 77-67	61-76 / 81-70	65-70 / 89-64
Cibona	82-76 / 72-77	88-93 / 93-90	78-65 / 70-61	69-68 / 68-62
Crvena Zvezda	60-75 / 87-72	65-58 / 87-77	76-79 / 89-56	66-71 / 92-79
Igokea	77-81 / 79-55	90-82 / 65-79	76-80 / 61-76	75-70 / 70-86
Krka	92-88 / 68-80	80-75 / 73-50	60-72 / 85-52	69-67 / 72-68
Levski	not participated	not participated	72-61 / 91-90	not participated
Mega Vizura	not participated	80-72 / 101-82	84-79 / 103-95	76-77 / 82-70
Metalac Valjevo	not participated	not participated	58-64 / 69-67	93-67 / 68-77
Partizan	66-64 / 68-58	69-70 / 66-73	55-63 / 65-50	82-78 / 72-69
Radnički Kragujevac	75-83 / 89-83	87-95 / 69-79	not participated	not participated
Split	73-65 / 93-84	not participated	not participated	not participated
Sutjeska	not participated	not participated	not participated	71-75 / 68-77
Szolnoki Olaj	87-53 / 81-72	73-63 / 81-69	74-58 / 73-76	not participated
Tajfun	not participated	not participated	not participated	77-70 / 68-62
Široki	63-59 / 71-72	82-71 / 67-63	not participated	not participated
Union Olimpija	76-87 / 60-64	79-60 / 73-62	57-76 / 69-56	81-62 / 91-76
Zadar	94-69 / 68-76	78-69 / 72-70	72-58 / 74-69	60-72 / 84-72
Ranking	7th	9th	13th	10th
Score	(14-12)	(12-14)	(7-19)	(10-16)

Seasons

Season	Macedonian First League	Macedonian Basketball Cup	European Competitions	Coach	Roster
1993–94	Semifinalist	Final	Eurocup (Preliminary Round)	Ante Dukovski	Vrbica Stefanov, Igor Mihajlovski, Slobodan Mitić, Milan Medić, Slobodan Petrovski, Goce Andrevski, Darko Zdravkovski, Mirza Kurtović, Toni Simić, Saša Stanković
1994–95	Semifinalist	Final	Eurocup (Preliminary Round)	Miodrag Baletić	Vrbica Stefanov, Scott Alan Kramer, Vlatko Vladičevski, Marjan Srbinovski, Igor Mihajlovski, Slobodan Mitić, Milan Medić, Risto Janevski, Darko Zdravkovski, Mirza Kurtović, Toni Simić
1995–96	Final	Champion	Eurocup (Preliminary Round)	Lazar Lečić	Vrbica Stefanov, Rodney Files, Vlatko Vladičevski, Pero Blaževski, Marjan Srbinovski, Mirza Kurtović, Toni Simić, Igor Mihajlovski, Dejan Dimov, Mark Dean, Antonio Minevski, Krste Serafimovski
1996–97	Semifinalist	Champion	Raimundo Saporta Cup (Last 32)	Aleksandar Knjazev	Vrbica Stefanov, Mirza Kurtović, Toni Simić, Gjorgji Knјazev, Pero Blaževski, Mark Dean, Slobodan Petrovski, Igor Mihajlovski, Dejan Dimov, Antonio Minevski, Denis Dervišević, Boris Nešović
1997–98	Final	Semifinalist	Raimundo Saporta Cup (Group stage)	Janko Lukovski Vasil Kafedžiski	Vrbica Stefanov, Mirza Kurtović, Toni Simić, Bojan Tadić, Dejan Dimov, Slobodan Petrovski, Nikolče Petrušev, Borče Domlevski, Bryant Smith, Nenad Radovski, Denis Dervišević (left during the season: Oleg Lebedev, Čedomir Mudreša)
1998–99	Final	Champion	Raimundo Saporta Cup (Group stage)	Dražen Dalipagić Aleksandar Knjazev	Gjorgje Vojnović, Gjorgji Knјazev, Mirza Kurtović, Pero Blaževski, Ivica Blagojević, Srdjan Stanković, Dejan Jovanovski, Dejan Dimov, Frazier Johnson, Levy Middlebrooks, Muhamed Tači, Goran Mirčić (left during the season: Ivica Mavrenski, Nikola Milatović)
1999–00	Semifinalist	Champion	DNC	Mitko Lukovski	Gjorgje Vojnović, Gjorgji Knјazev, Dimče Gaštarski, Ivan Gjaković, Ivica Blagojević, Srdjan Stanković, Toni Grnčarov, Nenad Nešović, Risto Nikolov, Erdjan Prešova, Dimitar Simovski
2000–01	Final	Semifinalist	Radivoj Korać Cup (First leg)	Aleksandar Todorov Marin Dokuzovski	Gjorgje Vojnović, Todor Gečevski, Riste Stefanov, Zlatko Gocevski, Muamer Taletović, Dimče Gaštarski, Mladen Gjuroski, Toni Grnčarov, David Daniels, Dejan Dimov, Marjan Srbinovski, Lorenzo Orr, Srdjan Stanković, Siniša Avramovski, Stojan Madzunkov, Darko Stanimirović, Gjorgji Talevski
2001–02	6th (12-15)	Semifinalist	DNC	Aleksandar Petrović	Gjorgje Vojnović, David Daniels, Dejan Dimov , Zlatko Gocevski, Enes Hadžibulić, Marjan Ilievski, Fore Kalpakov, Vojkan Krgović, Nikolče Petrušev, Siniša Avramovski, Zlatko Popovski, Mark Thomas
2002–03	Semifinalist	Final	DNC	Aleksandar Petrović	Gjorgje Vojnović, Dimče Gaštarski, Dejan Dimov , Jovan Zdravevski, Dimitar Karadzovski, Dragan Milenkovič, Siniša Avramovski, Igor Trajkovski, Borče Domlevski, Ivan Mašović
2003–04	Final	Semifinalist	DNC	Aleksandar Petrović	Gjorgje Vojnović, Gjorgji Knјazev , Gjorgji Talevski, Emil Rajković, Dimče Gaštarski, Dejan Dimov , Jovan Zdravevski, Boris Nešović, Dimitar Karadzovski, Dragan Milenkovič, Tomče Dišliev, Stojan Madzunkov, Todor Kocev
2004–05	Semifinalist	Semifinalist	DNC	Aleksandar Petrović	Jane Petrovski, Gjorgji Knјazev , Gjorgji Talevski, Nikola Karakolev, Dimče Gaštarski, Miroslav Despotović , Igor Penov, Dimitar Karadzovski, Aleksandar Sovkovski, Kiril Nikolovski, Slobodančo Hadzivasilev
2005–06	Semifinalist	1/4 finals	DNC	Aleksandar Petrović	Jane Petrovski, Dragan Milenkovič , Gjorgji Talevski, Nikola Karakolev, Dimče Gaštarski, Miroslav Despotović , Igor Penov, Aleksandar Šterjov, Mladen Gjuroski, Aleksandar Antić, Erhan Ramadan
2006–07	5th (13-13)	1/4 finals	DNC	Aleksandar Petrović	Jane Petrovski, Dragan Milenkovič , Nikola Karakolev, Darko Radulović, Dimče Gaštarski, Miroslav Despotović , Igor Penov, Igor Trajkovski, Aleksandar Šterjov, Darjan Hristov, Kiril Nikolovski
2007–08	Semifinalist	Semifinalist	DNC	Aleksandar Todorov, Marjan Lazovski	Jane Petrovski, Dragan Milenkovič, Daryll Hill, Srdjan Živković, Slobodan Agoč, Kiril Nikolovski, Aleksandar Šterjov, Bojan Nikolovski, Muhamed Tači, Daniel Milanovski, Filip Gjorevski, (left during the season: Edmond Azemi, Florijan Miftari, Nathan Ball, John Smith)
2008–09	Semifinalist	1/4 finals	DNC	Aleksandar Petrović Bobi Mitev	Pero Blaževski, Darko Sokolov, Nikola Radojičić, Darko Radulović, Miloš Trailović, Srdjan Stanković, Milorad Damjanac, Filip Kralevski, Siniša Avramovski, Filip Gjorevski, (left during the season: Angel Tasevski, Aleksandar Held, Miloš Pejanović)
2009–10	Play-out relegation	1/4 finals	DNC	Ante Dukovski	Miloš Pejanović, Vladimir Georgievski, Gjorgji Talevski, Bogdan Vukadinović, Igor Trajkovski, Nemanja Stanković, Vladan Virijević, Filip Gjorevski, Tomce Dišliev, Tošo Pavlov, (left during the season: Edi Sinadinović, Zoran Milović, Aleksandar Sovkovski, Muhamed Tači, Erhan Ramadan, Miloš Nišavić, Igor Tadić, Mladen Gjuroski
2010–11	Semifinalist	Final	DNC	Aleksandar Petrović Peca Jačimović Budimir Jolović Igor Gacov	Jane Petrovski, Toni Grnčarov, Nenad Zivčević, Miljan Pupović, Petar Naumoski, Vladimir Veličković, Darnell Lindsay, Zlatko Gocevski, Igor Penov, Kiril Nikolovski, Siniša Avramovski, Gjorgji Kočov, (left during the season: Jovan Teodosić, Vladimir Georgievski, Gjorgji Talevski, Igor Trajkovski, Filip Gjorevski)
2011–12	Champion	Champion	DNC	Aleksandar Todorov	Todor Gečevski, Gjorgji Čekovski, Ognen Stojanovski, Toni Grnčarov, Cade Davis, Igor Mijajlović, Noah Dahlman, Nikola Vučurović, Igor Penov, Nikola Gajdadziev, Aleksandar Šterjov, Gjorgji Kočov (left during the season: Riste Stefanov, Chris Grimm, Marjan Janevski, Marcus Kitts)
2012–13	Champion	Champion	ABA League (7th)	Aleksandar Todorov Aleš Pipan	Todor Gečevski, Gjorgji Čekovski, Damjan Stojanovski, Ognen Stojanovski, Nikola Otašević, Cade Davis, Noah Dahlman, Kiril Nikolovski, Boris Bakić, Gorjan Markovski, Eftim Bogoev, (left during the season: Toni Grnčarov, Igor Mijajlović, Uroš Nikolić, Stefan Popovski-Turanjanin)
2013–14	Champion	Champion	ABA League (9th) Eurocup (Group stage)	Vlada Vukoičić Zoran Martić	Todor Gečevski, Gjorgji Čekovski, Damjan Stojanovski, Aleksandar Kostoski, Nikola Otašević, Cade Davis, Stefan Sinovec, Sead Šehović, Uroš Lučić, Kiril Nikolovski, Ivan Marinković, Aleksandar Cvetković, Gorjan Markovski, Ognen Stojanovski, Ljubomir Mladenovski, Boban Stajić, (left during the season: Justin Reynolds, Carl Jones)
2014–15	Champion	Semifinals	ABA League (13th)	Zmago Sagadin Vrbica Stefanov Bobi Mitev Aleksandar Jončevski Aleš Pipan	Aleksandar Ćapin, Predrag Samardziski, Marko Simonovski, Stefan Sinovec, Aleksandar Cvetković, Damjan Stojanovski, Uroš Lučić, Kiril Nikolovski, Sead Šehović, Danilo Mijatović, Ljubomir Mladenovski, Boban Stajić, Adem Mekić, (left during the season:Jourdan DeMuynck, Milton Jennings, Ivan Marinković, Giorgi Tsintsadze, Vedran Morović, Owen Klassen, Dion Dixon, Nenad Zivčević, Marko Pajić)
2015–16	TBA	Champion	ABA League (10th)	Aleš Pipan Aleksandar Jončevski	Damjan Stojanovski, Marko Ljubičić, Đorđe Drenovac, Marko Luković, Uroš Luković, Nemanja Protić, Danilo Mijatović, Duško Bunić, Gorjan Markovski, Ljubomir Mladenovski, Adem Mekić, Uroš Vasiljević, C.J. Carter, (left during the season:Marko Simonovski, Edi Sinadinović)

Team captains

Dates	Name
1993–1994	Slobodan Mitić
1994–1996	Vlatko Vladičevski
1996–1998	Vrbica Stefanov
1998–2004	Gjorgje Vojnović
2004–2005	Gjorgji Knјazev
2005–2007	Dimče Gaštarski
2007–2008	Jane Petrovski
2008–2009	Pero Blazevski
2009–2010	Filip Gjorevski
2010–2011	Jane Petrovski
2011–2012	Toni Grnčarov
2012–2013	Todor Gečevski
2013–2014	Todor Gečevski
2014–2015	Uroš Lučić
2015–present	Damjan Stojanovski

Supporters

Family Aerodrom at the Cup Final against Feni in 2012

MZT Aerodrom's fans, Family Aerodrom, were formed in spring 1997 as a legitimate heir of Service Crew and Piramida Aerodrom

The eternal basketball derby

• MZT Aerodrom has traditional rivalry games with Rabotnički.

References

1. "MZT Skopje Adriatic League". ABA Liga.com. Retrieved 16 February 2015.
2. "MZT Skopje in Eurocup". eurocupbasketball.com. Retrieved 16 February 2015.
3. "Историјат на Кошаркарскиот клуб МЗТ Скопје". KKMZTSkopjeAerodrom.com. Retrieved 16 February 2015.
4. "МЗТ го освои Купот на Македонија". tocka.com.mk. Retrieved 25 March 2012.
5. "Cibona izgubila od MZT-a 72:77". cibona.com. Retrieved 29 September 2012.
6. "МЗТ Скопје Аеродром е освојувач на Купот на Македонија". mztskopjeaerodrom.com.mk. Retrieved 9 February 2014.
7. "Словенецот Змаго Сагадин ќе го води МЗТ Скопје". novamakedonija.com.mk. Retrieved 26 June 2014.
8. "Марко Пајиќ, нов член на МЗТ Скопје". ekipa.mk. Retrieved 27 July 2014.
9. "Очекувано: Цинцадзе го напушти МЗТ Скопје". ekipa.mk. Retrieved 31 October 2014.
10. "Марко Симоновски продолжува со МЗТ". mztskopjeaerodrom.com.mk. Retrieved 13 August 2015.
11. "MZT re-sign Damjan Stojanovski". mztskopjeaerodrom.com.mk. Retrieved 3 November 2014.
12. "Boban Mitev stays MZT head coach". mztskopjeaerodrom.com.mk. Retrieved 10 November 2014.
13. "MZT inks Samardžiski". mztskopjeaerodrom.com.mk. Retrieved 18 December 2014.
14. "MZT Skopje lands Aleksandar Ćapin". mztskopjeaerodrom.com.mk. Retrieved 3 March 2015.
15. "Mijatovic signed with MZT". mztskopjeaerodrom.com.mk. Retrieved 21 March 2015.
16. "МЗТ Скопје старо-нов шампион на Македонија". mztskopjeaerodrom.com.mk. Retrieved 2 June 2015.
17. "Club Page at the ABA Liga website (abaliga.com)" (in Macedonian). Retrieved 28 February 2015.

External links

• Official Website
• KK MZT Skopje on Facebook
• Team info at MKF
• Team info at Eurobasket
• Supporters Website
• MZT Skopje ABA info
• MZT Skopje Eurocup info
• MZT Skopje YouTube channel 1
• MZT Skopje YouTube channel 2
• MZT Skopje on Twitter