KK Rabotnički

KK Rabotnički
KK Rabotnički logo
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 (Template:Lang-mk) 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.

Honours

Domestic competitions

Macedonian Republic League

• Winners (11): 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1960, 1961, 1963, 1964

Macedonian League

• Winners (14): 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2009

Macedonian Cup

• Winners (13): 1976, 1983, 1985, 1988, 1993, 1994, 1998, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2011, 2015

Macedonian Super Cup Winner

• Winners (1): 2011

European achievements

FIBA Saporta Cup

• Semi-finalist (1): 1975–76

FIBA Europe Conference South

• Runners-up (1): 2003–04

Balkan International Basketball League

• Runners-up (1): 2008–09

Current roster

KK Rabotnički roster
Players	Coaches
Pos. No. Nat. Name Ht. Age C 4 Pavlovski, Kiril 2.10 m (6 ft 11 in) 105 kg (231 lb) 41 – (1983-09-18)18 September 1983 PG 5 Mirakovski, Dimitar (C) 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) 86 kg (190 lb) 43 – (1981-05-14)14 May 1981 PG 6 Ilievski, Vlado 1.87 m (6 ft 2 in) 82 kg (181 lb) 44 – (1980-01-19)19 January 1980 SG 8 Nikolić, Petar 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in) 85 kg (187 lb) 31 – (1993-09-25)25 September 1993 C 9 Čekovski, Gjorgji 2.03 m (6 ft 8 in) 105 kg (231 lb) 45 – (1979-12-11)11 December 1979 F 10 Tasovski, Dime 2.01 m (6 ft 7 in) 90 kg (198 lb) 44 – (1980-11-02)2 November 1980 C 18 Mišanović, Nenad 2.17 m (7 ft 1 in) 106 kg (234 lb) 40 – (1984-06-11)11 June 1984 F 22 Maslinko, Andrej 2.08 m (6 ft 10 in) 88 kg (194 lb) 27 – (1997-05-20)20 May 1997 SG 24 Petrovski, Luka 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in) 87 kg (192 lb) 28 – (1996-10-20)20 October 1996 SF 25 Efremovski, Viktor 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in) 83 kg (183 lb) 26 – (1998-10-21)21 October 1998	Head coach Marin Dokuzovski Assistant coach(es) Pero Blazevski Marko Dokuzovski Team manager Todor Gečevski Legend (C) Team captain Injured Roster Updated: 2016-09-09

Depth chart

Pos.	Starting 5	Bench
C	Nenad Mišanović	Kiril Pavlovski
PF	Gjorgji Čekovski	Andrej Maslinko
SF	Dime Tasovski	Viktor Efremovski
SG	Vlado Ilievski	Luka Petrovski
PG	Dimitar Mirakovski	Petar Nikolić

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.

Seasons and results of Rabotnicki in Europe:

1975 FIBA European Cup

Round	Team	Home	Away
Group stage	Olympiacos	90–79	91–71
	CSKA Sofia	117–88	90–84
	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
	Tofaş	109–107	92–87
	Olimpija Ljubljana	66–88	89–77
	Bellinzona	92–94	87–70
	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	ASK Riga	84–97	99–80
	Włocławek	86–88	82–76
	Scavolini Pesaro	78–71	95–77
	Hopsi Polzela	89–91	74–66
	Fenerbahçe	78–84	90–61

1997 FIBA Saporta Cup

Round	Team	Home	Away
Group stage	ToPo Helsinki	80–81	85–55
	Joventut Badalona	105–72	70–55
	BIPA-Moda	57–77	78–63
	Tofaş	76–77	73–47
	Žemaitijos Lokiai	78–88	86–70

1999 FIBA Saporta Cup

Round	Team	Home	Away
Group stage	Bosna	51–82	59–52
	Tau Cerámica	57–73	70–49
	PSG Racing	57–70	83–43
	Illiabum Clube	68–76	67–68
	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
	NIS Vojvodina	81–83	102–77
	Pinar Karşıyaka	66–96	99–91
	Hapoel Jerusalem	89–90	90–64
	Yambolgaz-92	75–69	73–85

2003 FIBA Euro Challenge - South Conference

Round	Team	Home	Away
Group stage	Fenerbahçe	91–87	80–65
	CSU Ploiești	75–66	60–46
	APOEL Nicosia	81–77	93–100
Semi-final	Keravnos	96–75
Final	Tuborg Izmir	78–80

2004 FIBA Euro Challenge

Round	Team	Home	Away
Group stage	UNICS Kazan	95–99	87–53
	Nymburk	102–86	84–60
	Hapoel Galil Elyon	97–109	92–87
	Fenerbahçe	67–79	109–60
	CSKA Sofia	82–81	84–97
	Kyiv Basket	62–88	102–73

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	80
MZT Skopje Aerodrom	55

Notable former 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 Knјazev
• Dejan Jovanovski
• Mirza Kurtović
• Todor Gečevski
• Darko Sokolov
• Srdjan Stanković
• Marjan Gjurov
• Riste Stefanov
• Goce Gerasimovski
• Vlatko Vladičevski
• Toni Grnčarov
• Vrbica Stefanov
• Budimir Jolović
• Emil Rajković

• Marjan Srbinovski
• Vasko Najkov
• 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
• Jovan Markovski
• Bojan Krstevski
• Dušan Knežević
• Vladimir Filipović
• Miljan Pavković
• Marko Djurković

• Marko Ivanović
• Zoran Jovanović
• Dragoljub Vidačić
• Dragan Smiljanić
• Vladimir Dragutinović
• Vladimir Popović
• Nemanja Jelesijević
• 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
• Leemire Goldwire
• Ricky Harry
• John Sharper
• Brandon Cole
• Vernand Hollins

• Vincent King
• Mohamed Abukar
• Stojan Ivković
• 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
• Nick Wiggins
• Lazar Lečić
• 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

Supporters

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

External links

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