Karpoš Sokoli ( mk, Карпош Соколи) is a

basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular Basketball court, court, compete with the primary objective of #Shooting, shooting a basketball (ball), basketball (appr ...

club based in

Skopje Skopje ( , , ; mk, Скопје ; sq, Shkup) is the capital and largest city of North Macedonia. It is the country's political, cultural, economic, and academic centre. The territory of Skopje has been inhabited since at least 4000 BC; r ...

North Macedonia North Macedonia, ; sq, Maqedonia e Veriut, (Macedonia before February 2019), officially the Republic of North Macedonia,, is a country in Southeast Europe. It gained independence in 1991 as one of the successor states of Socialist Feder ...

. They currently play in the Macedonian Second League. For the first time in their history, Karpoš Sokoli was invited to the

ABA League The ABA League, renamed to the ABA League First Division in 2017, is the 1st-tier regional men's professional basketball league that originally featured clubs from the former Yugoslavia (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, North Mace ...

for the 2016–17 season which is considered to be the largest success of the club so far.

History

Beginnings

KK Karpoš has been established on 31 December 1996. From the 2000–01 season the club is participating in the first league of Macedonia and the name of the well known basketball academy "Sokoli" has been added to the club's name. Since then the club's name is Karpoš Sokoli 2000 Skopje. Despite all the difficulties through the past decades, Karpoš Sokoli are, thanks to the enthusiasm and persistence of its founder Ognen Dedić, one of only few clubs that have managed to maintain continuity in senior competitions, while not neglecting the successful work with youth categories, which was club's trademark from its beginnings.

Glory Days

From the 2012–13 season the Municipality of Karpoš started to finance the basketball club and since the May 2015 it became a shareholder of the club. Since then, the Club has started to develop with respectable intensity. Every new season the club is achieving better and better results. The most successful season in club's history so far is the 2015–16 season, when the club reached the finals of Macedonian National Cup and Semi-finals of the Macedonian National Championship, after finishing as runners-up in the regular part of the season. For the first time in their history, Karpoš Sokoli managed to achieve the promotion to the

for the 2016–17 season, which is considered to be the largest success of the club so far. On 19 February 2017, the club won its first national title by defeating Feni Industries in the final of the

Macedonian Basketball Cup The Cup of Macedonia ( mk, Кошаркарски куп на Македонија), is an elimination basketball tournament held annually. It is the second most important national title in North Macedonian basketball after the Macedonian First Lea ...

Honours

Domestic Achievements

* Macedonian League **Runners-up (1): 2016–17 *

Macedonian Cup The Cup of Macedonia ( mk, Куп на Македонија, ''Kup na Makedonija'') is the top knockout tournament and the second most important football competition in Macedonia after the Macedonian First League championship. The cup was estab ...

**Winners (1):

2017 File:2017 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: The War Against ISIS at the Battle of Mosul (2016-2017); aftermath of the Manchester Arena bombing; The Solar eclipse of August 21, 2017 ("Great American Eclipse"); North Korea tests a s ...

** Runners-up (1): 2016 * Macedonian Super Cup **Runners-up (1): 2016

Players

Current roster

Depth chart

Notable players

Darko Sokolov Darko Sokolov ( mk, Дарко Соколов; born May 8, 1986) is a Macedonian professional basketball player who plays for EuroNickel 2005 of the Macedonian First League. Pro career Since beginning his professional career in 2002, Sokolov has ...

Bojan Trajkovski Bojan Trajkovski ( mk, Бојан Трајковски; born 11 September 1986) is a Macedonian professional basketball player who plays for Feniks 2010 of the Macedonian First League. He is a member of the Macedonian national basketball team. P ...

* Igor Penov *

Angel Tasevski Angel Tasevski (born October 17, 1981) is a former Macedonian professional basketball point guard who last played for Karpoš Sokoli in the Macedonian First League The Macedonian First Football League ( mk, Прва македонска фуд� ...

Dime Tasovski Dime Tasovski (born November 2, 1980) is a Macedonian professional basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular Basketball court, court, compete with t ...

* Edis Nuri * Igor Mijajlović *

Dragan Labović Dragan Labović ( sr-cyr, Драган Лабовић; born April 20, 1987) is a Serbian former professional basketball player who last played for BC Nokia of the Finnish Korisliiga. He also represented the Serbian national basketball team interna ...

* Strahinja Milošević * Dragan Zeković * Filip Šepa * Dušan Knežević * Marko Boltić * Aleksandar Petrović * Zoran Vrkić * Dominik Mavra *

Kendrick Perry Kendrick Perry (born December 23, 1992) is an American- Montenegrin professional basketball player for Unicaja of the Spanish Liga ACB and the Basketball Champions League. He played college basketball at Youngstown State University. High school ...

* Thad McFadden *

Darius Rice Darius Lashaun Rice (born October 16, 1982) is an American professional basketball player. He played college basketball for the University of Miami. He is the nephew of former professional football player, Jerry Rice. College career Rice played c ...

* Anton Kazarnovski * Chris Warren

Head coaches

* Ognen Dedić * Aleksandar Petrović * Borče Daskalovski * Sašo Todorovski * Boban Mitev * Saša Katalinić * Mihajlo Naumovski *

Siniša Matić Siniša Matić ( sr-cyr, Синиша Матић; born 13 March 1967) is a Serbian professional basketball coach. Coaching career Matić coached Zemun Lasta, Novi Sad, Vojvodina Srbijagas, Metalac Valjevo, and Karpoš Sokoli. In summer 20 ...

Dragan Nikolić Dragoslav "Dragan" Nikolić ( sr-cyr, Драгослав Драган Николић, ; 20 August 1943 – 11 March 2016) was a Yugoslav and later, Serbian actor. Nikolić studied at Dramatic Arts Academy in Belgrade. In 1967 he starred in the ...

KK Karpoš Sokoli in European competitions

2017

FIBA Champions League The Basketball Champions League (BCL) is an annual professional basketball competition for European clubs, organised by FIBA. It is the top-level competition organised by FIBA Europe, therefore the champion participates in the FIBA Intercontin ...

2017

FIBA Europe Cup The FIBA Europe Cup (FEC) is an annual professional club basketball competition organised by FIBA for eligible European clubs. It is FIBA's European-wide second level. Clubs mainly qualify for the competition based on their performance in natio ...

References

External links

Eurobasket.com KK Karpos Sokoli

FIBA Profile
{{DEFAULTSORT:Karpos Sokoli Basketball teams in North Macedonia Sport in Skopje Basketball teams established in 1996