KK Rabotnički
KK Rabotnički is a basketball club based in Skopje, North Macedonia. They currently play in the Macedonian First League. The club has won the Macedonian championship 15 times and the Macedonian Cup 10 times.
Fans of KK Rabotnički are known as City Park Boys or simply The Boys, the reds or the mighty reds.
History
The club was founded in 1946 in Skopje. In 1964, KK Rabotnički became a member of the first federal "A" league in the former Federation of six republics Yugoslavia and competed there on a regular basis until 1990. In the 1991–92 season, the team played in the Federal YUBA Liga. The have never won a Federal championship but they were finalists in the Federal Yugoslav Cup on two occasions in 1976 and 1983. Since the Macedonian Republic League became the new Macedonian First League, Rabotnički have been the most successful Macedonian basketball team of all time, winning a record 15 league titles and 9 national cups.Honours
Domestic competitions
Macedonian Republic League- Winners : 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1960, 1961, 1963, 1964
- Winners : 1976, 1983, 1985, 1988
- Winners : 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2009, 2018
- Winners : 1993, 1994, 1998, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2011, 2015, 2019
- Winners : 2001, 2011
European achievements [File:Shield of the [European Union.svg|20px]]
- Semi-finalist : 1975–76
- Runners-up : 2003–04
- Runners-up : 2008–09
Players
Current roster
Depth chart
Retired numbers
KK Rabotnicki in European competitions
In their rich European history KK Rabotnicki competed in many European competitions. Their most successful period was in the 1990s. They competed for eleven seasons in four different cups.Seasons and results of Rabotnicki in Europe:
1975 FIBA European Cup
Round | Team | Home | Away |
Group stage | Olympiacos | 90–79 | 91–71 |
Group stage | CSKA Sofia | 117–88 | 90–84 |
Group stage | Tours Basket | 107–90 | 99–83 |
Semi-final | Olimpia Milano | 104–89 | 90–67 |
1993 Saporta Cup
Round | Team | Home | Away |
Round 1 | BV Den Helder | 85–62 | 92–76 |
Group stage | Saski Baskonia | 102–97 | 113–90 |
Group stage | Tofaş | 109–107 | 92–87 |
Group stage | Olimpija Ljubljana | 66–88 | 89–77 |
Group stage | Bellinzona | 92–94 | 87–70 |
Group stage | Split | 85–91 | 82–74 |
1995 FIBA European League
Round | Team | Home | Away |
Round 1 | Budivelnyk | 65–64 | 83–69 |
1995 Europe Champions Cup
Round | Team | Home | Away |
Qualif.Round | HKK Brotnjo | 78–64 | 76–59 |
1996 FIBA Saporta Cup
Round | Team | Home | Away |
Group stage | Rīgas ASK | 84–97 | 99–80 |
Group stage | Włocławek | 86–88 | 82–76 |
Group stage | Scavolini Pesaro | 78–71 | 95–77 |
Group stage | Hopsi Polzela | 89–91 | 74–66 |
Group stage | Fenerbahçe | 78–84 | 90–61 |
1997 FIBA Saporta Cup
Round | Team | Home | Away |
Group stage | ToPo Helsinki | 80–81 | 85–55 |
Group stage | Joventut Badalona | 55–70 | 105–72 |
Group stage | BIPA-Moda | 57–77 | 78–63 |
Group stage | Tofaş | 76–77 | 73–47 |
Group stage | Žemaitijos Lokiai | 78–88 | 86–70 |
1999 FIBA Saporta Cup
Round | Team | Home | Away |
Group stage | Bosna | 51–82 | 59–52 |
Group stage | TAU Cerámica | 57–73 | 70–49 |
Group stage | PSG Racing | 57–70 | 83–43 |
Group stage | Illiabum Clube | 68–76 | 67–68 |
Group stage | Znicz Pruszków | 64–65 | 84–41 |
2000 Radivoj Korać Cup
Round | Team | Home | Away |
Qualif.Round | Igokea | 63–71 | 70–70 |
2002 FIBA Euro Challenge
Round | Team | Home | Away |
Group stage | Peristeri | 59–72 | 85–72 |
Group stage | NIS Vojvodina | 81–83 | 102–77 |
Group stage | Pinar Karşıyaka | 66–96 | 99–91 |
Group stage | Hapoel Jerusalem | 89–90 | 90–64 |
Group stage | Yambolgaz-92 | 75–69 | 73–85 |
2003 FIBA Euro Challenge – South Conference
2004 FIBA Euro Challenge
Round | Team | Home | Away |
Group stage | UNICS Kazan | 95–99 | 87–53 |
Group stage | Nymburk | 102–86 | 84–60 |
Group stage | Hapoel Galil Elyon | 97–109 | 92–87 |
Group stage | Fenerbahçe | 67–79 | 109–60 |
Group stage | CSKA Sofia | 82–81 | 84–97 |
Group stage | Kyiv Basket | 62–88 | 102–73 |
Group stage | - | - | - |
2017 FIBA Europe Cup
Round | Team | Home | Away |
Qualifying Round 1 | Parma Basket | 73–95 | 88–63 |
Rivalries
KK Rabotnički Skopje's fiercest and long standing city rival is MZT Skopje, the other large and popular basketball club in Macedonia. They also have supporters in the capital city. The rivalry started after the Independence of Macedonia, and the matches between these rivals have been labeled as the Eternal derby.Team | Mutual score |
Rabotnički | 89 |
MZT Skopje Aerodrom | 62 |
Notable players
- Goran Veselinovski
- Toni Simić
- Gjorgji Čekovski
- Goran Samardžiev
- Dime Tasovski
- Aleksandar Dimitrovski
- Pero Blazevski
- Ognen Stojanovski
- Pero Antić
- Bojan Trajkovski
- Dimitar Mirakovski
- Aleksandar Kostoski
- Dušan Bocevski
- Jordančo Davitkov
- Gjorgji Knjazev
- Dejan Jovanovski
- Mirza Kurtović
- Todor Gečevski
- Srdjan Stanković
- Marjan Gjurov
- Riste Stefanov
- Goce Gerasimovski
- Vlatko Vladičevski
- Vrbica Stefanov
- Darko Sokolov
- Budimir Jolović
- Emil Rajković
- Dimitar Karadžovski
- Vlado Ilievski
- Toni Grnčarov
- Vasko Najkov
- Marjan Srbinovski
- Jane Petrovski
- Marko Simonovski
- Aleksandar Ugrinoski
- Eftim Bogoev
- Boris Nešović
- Đorđe Vojnović
- Goran Dimitrijević
- Enes Hadžibulić
- Ivica Dimčevski
- Bojan Krstevski
- Kiril Nikolovski
- Boban Stajić
- Marko Ivanović
- Zoran Jovanović
- Dragoljub Vidačić
- Dragan Smiljanić
- Vladimir Dragutinović
- Vladimir Filipović
- Miljan Pavković
- Vladimir Popović
- Srdjan Božić
- Predrag Joksimović
- Kendrick Johnson
- Marcus Ginyard
- Russell Robinson
- Sean Evans
- Paul Culbertson
- Antoni Wyche
- William Coleman
- Phil Zevenbergen
- Hameed Kashif
- Gary Ware
- Vernand Hollins
- Vincent King
- Igor Bijelić
- Danilo Mitrović
- Stojan Ivković
- Luka Pavićević
- Mohamed Abukar
- Goran Ikonić
- Bariša Krasić
- Bora Paçun
- Rudy Mbemba
- William Njoku
- Chavdar Kostov
- Lazar Lečić
- Predrag Bogosavljev
- Nikola Matovski
- Slavko Matovski
- Blagoja Georgievski
- Janko Lukovski
- Stefan Todorovski
- Slobodan Bocevski
- Aleksandar Knjazev
- Dragan Radosavljević
- Steruli Andonovski
- Stevan Gešovski
- Boban Samardžiski
- Branko Kacarski
- Kosta Hadžitrifunov
- Borče Serafimovski
Head coaches
- Marin Dokuzovski
- Steruli Andonovski
- Aleksandar Knjazev
- Tihomir Matevski
- Marjan Lazovski
- Lazar Lečić
- Emil Rajković
- Marjan Srbinovski
- Goran Krstevski
- Igor Gacov