OKK Beograd

Omladinski Košarkaški Club Belgrade ( Serbian Cyrillic ОКК Београд, transliteration: OKK Beograd ) is a Serbian basketball club from Belgrade. He was four times Yugoslavian basketball champion and Cup winner three times.

History

The club was founded in 1945 as Metalac. 1950 one changed the name to BSK, until finally in 1958 the club changed its name to OKK Beograd and thus also notably separated from the other departments such as the football club OFK Belgrade.

1953 Borislav Stanković coach of the first men's team and it began the most successful period of the club, as Radivoj Korać 1955 aufrückte in the first team. In 1958, the first time they won the Yugoslav Championship. By 1964, followed by three more titles and two cup wins. Also in Europe, we created a furore. Three times, the club reached the semi-finals of the European Cup of Champions, the then most important European Cup. Only for bad away performance in these semi-finals you never made ​​it to the finals. 1966 Stanković finally left the coaching job and moved to Italy to Pallacanestro Cantu while Korać 1967 also sold abroad.

When the local competition had repressed again as the most successful club of the Red Star Belgrade OKK, OKK reached in the inaugural Korać Cup, the 1969 early deceased Korać had given his name, last a 1972 European Cup final. But here was subject to the team calculated the national competition by KK Cibona Zagreb.

For decades, OKK Belgrade part of the inventory of the Yugoslav- Serbian first league in basketball and there also one of the top teams. Nevertheless, since 1964 no championship could be won over. This is to a large extent on city rivals Partizan, who won the last eleven titles in series.

Hall

The club plays its home games from the comprehensive 8,100 places Pionir Hall.

Achievements

  • 4x Yugoslav champion (1958, 1960, 1963, 1964)
  • 3x Yugoslav Cup winner (1960, 1962, 1993)
  • 3x semifinalist European Champions Cup (1959, 1964, 1965 )
  • Finalist of Korać Cup (1972 )

Known player

  • Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia / Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Aleksandar Nikolić 1992 1950/51
  • Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Radivoj Korać 1955-67
  • Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia / Serbia Miodrag Nikolic
  • Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia / Serbia Slobodan Gordić
  • Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia / Montenegro Zoran Marojevic
  • Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia / Montenegro Zarko Knezevic
  • Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia / Serbia and Montenegro Rajko Žižić 1971-80
  • Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia / Serbia Veselin Matic 1980-88
  • Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Zoran Radovic 1992/Serbien 1992/93, 1994-95
  • Federal Republic of Yugoslavia 1992/Serbien Nebojša Zorkić 1993/94
  • Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Zoran Jovanović 1992/Serbien 1995/96
  • Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Nikola 1992/Serbien Dačević 1996/97
  • New Zealand Paul Henare 2002/ 03
  • Serbia and Montenegro / Serbia Vladimir Micov 2003/ 04
  • Serbia and Montenegro / Montenegro Miloš Borisov 2005/ 06
  • Serbia Aleksej Nešović since 2012

Well-known former coach

  • Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia / Serbia Borislav Stanković 1953-63, 1965
  • Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia / Serbia Veselin Matic 1988-90
  • Serbia and Montenegro / Montenegro Luka Pavićević 2003-04
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