KK Heo Bileća (a.k.a. KK HEO; previously known as KK Hercegovac Bileća) is a Bosnian basketball club that currently competes in the
First League of R Srpska. Founded in 1981, the club is based in
Bileća
Bileća ( sr-cyrl, Билећа) is a town and municipality in Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina. As of 2013, the town has a population of 7,476 inhabitants, while the municipality has 10,807 inhabitants.
History
The first traces of ci ...
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For most of the 2000s, Hercegovac Bileća competed in the
Basketball Championship of Bosnia and Herzegovina
The Basketball Championship of Bosnia and Herzegovina is the top–tier men's professional basketball league in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina, sometimes known as Bosnia-Herzegovina and informally as Bosnia, is a country in ...
, the top basketball league in the country. In 2002–03, the club participated in the
FIBA Europe
FIBA Europe is the administrative body for basketball in Europe, within the FIBA, International Basketball Federation (FIBA), which includes all List of men's national basketball teams#FIBA Europe, 50 national European basketball federations.
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Regional Challenge Cup. Hercegovac Bileća later withdrew from the Bosnian top league in 2012 and the club took on a new name in KK HEO and re-joined the second division Srpska Liga. They finished first on the Srpska Liga ladder in both 2012–13 and 2013–14, which earned them promotion to the Basketball Championship of Bosnia and Herzegovina for
2014–15. They returned to the Srpska Liga in 2015–16.
KK HEO Aleksic Komerc Bileca – History
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Notable former players
* Milan Milošević
Milan Milošević (born September 26, 1985) is a Bosnian professional basketball player. He also represents the senior men's Bosnia and Herzegovina national basketball team. He is 2.05 m (6 ft. 8 in.) tall, and he can play at both the small ...
* Draško Albijanić
* Žarko Vujović
* Željko Bošnjak
Željko (), sometimes written Zeljko, is a South Slavic masculine given name.
In Croatia, the name Željko was among the most common masculine given names in the decades between 1950 and 1979, and was the most common name in the 1960s.
Notable pe ...
* Goran Radmilović
* Dragan Vujović
* Saša Topčov
* Zoran Negovanović
* Lazar Simonović
Lazar may refer to:
* Lazar (name), any of various persons with this name
* Lazar BVT, Serbian armoured personnel carriers
* Lazar 2, Serbian multi-role armoured personnel carrier
* Lazar 3, Serbian multi-role armoured personnel carrier
* Lazăr, a ...
* Dragan Timotić
References
External links
Team profile
at Eurobasket.com
{{Basketball Championship of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Basketball teams established in 2012
2012 establishments in Bosnia and Herzegovina