MKK Kumanovo

MKK Kumanovo () is a professional basketball club based in Kumanovo, North Macedonia. They currently play in the Macedonian First League. The club play their home matches at the Sports Hall Kumanovo.

History

After its foundation in 1946 the team was only able to achieve national success in 1980 by winning the Macedonian Republic League. During the 1970s and 80s they played in the second-tier of the Yugoslav Federal Basketball League. In the 90s Kumanovo entered the qualifying round for the Korać Cup 1998/99 season, in which they lost a two-legged tie against KK Krka as well as two seasons later in the same competition against BC Yambol. A season later, they played for the first time in the 2001/02 play-off final series for the Macedonian championship, in which they lost two to four wins against record champions and defending champion Feršped Rabotnički from the capital Skopje. Already in the following season the team could not keep up due to financial difficulties and occupied a relegation zone and dissolved in 2003.

In 2009 the club was renewed and returned under the name Kumanovo 2009 in the 2010/11 season to the Macedonian First League. After being re-established in the top division, the first successes came when it reached the Macedonian Cup final in 2013, which was lost to defending champion KK MZT Skopje, and on the other hand in the Balkan League where it participated for the first time, reached the Final Four tournament in which they lost to the title holder Hapoel Gilboa Galil in the semi-finals. In the following season in the Balkan League the team reached the quarter-finals and got eliminated against the later title winner Levski Sofia and again didn't achieve a chance of winning the title in national competitions. This was to change in the 2014/15 season, when the team beat record champion Rabotnički in the play-off semi-final of the championship and went to final again after 13 years. In the final series, however, they lost in three games against defending champion KK MZT Aerodrom. For the 2015/16 season, the team registered for the FIBA Europe Cup. In the continental club competition, in six preliminary round matches, it was only enough for one home win against Kotkan TP-Basket. In the national championship play-offs they reached the final again and were able to achieve one home win against title defenders MZT Skopje before losing another chance of winning the title in four games.

In the following years, Kumanovo had financial problems, and young domestic players mostly played in the club. In the 2020/2021 season, the club played in the semi-finals of the Macedonian Championship, where they lost 2-1 to the then champion MZT Skopje.
In the 2022/2023 season, the club dropped out of the first league after 15 years. After a season where there was no club in the first league, Kumanovo got a new first league club, MKK Kumanovo, which is the successor of the old club. And after many years, the Kumani fan group returned to the stands.

𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗻 𝗗𝗼𝗸𝘂𝘇𝗼𝘃𝘀𝗸𝗶 𝗘𝗿𝗮 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟯-

When the club dropped out of the second league on the bench sat down the most trophy Macedonian coach, a coach who reached the 4th place at Eurobasket 2011 with the Macedonian national basketball team Marin Dokuzovski. He brought a new era to the club, returned the club in the first league after a season, and brought quality basketball players like Uros Lukovic, who returned to Kumanovo after 10 years, also signed Antabia Waller, Tadija Tadic and Aleksandar Radukic.

Honours

* Macedonian Basketball League
: Winner : 1980
: ''Runner-up'': 2002, 2015, 2016
*Macedonian Basketball Cup
: ''Runner-up'': 2013

* BIBL
: ''Runner-up'': 2017

Home ground

Sports Hall Kumanovo is a home ground indoor sport venue for BC Kumanovo located in Kumanovo, Macedonia. The hall has capacity of 6,500 seats and was built in 1980.

It is the biggest indoor sport hall in Kumanovo, where competitions of basketball, futsal, handball, volleyball and boxing matches.

Current roster

Depth chart

Management

Supporters

The supporters of Kumanovo are called Kumani they were formed in 1990 with the merging of couple of smaller ultras groups. Kumanovo home court is considered one of the hardest to play in because of the loyal supporters.

Former players

* Aleksandar Kostoski
* Nenad Zivčević
* Dejan Trajanovski
* Goran Dimitrijević
* Igor Mihajlovski
* Gjorgji Knjazev
* Mirza Kurtović
* Pero Blazevski
* Dimitar Mirakovski
* Srdjan Stanković
* Boris Nešović
* Dimitar Karadzovski
* Bojan Trajkovski
* Marko Simonovski
* Marjan Janevski
* Gorjan Markovski
* Damjan Robev
* Adem Mekic
* Boban Stajic
* Vukašin Mandić
* Uroš Luković
* Branislav Đekić
* Nemanja Jelesijević
* Milan Janjušević
* Saša Avramović
* Nenad Mišanović
* Ivan Mišković
* Darko Matić
* Vladimir Filipović
* Andrija Marjanović
* Djukan Djukanović
* Dusan Juzbasić
* Otis Livingston II
* Malik Evans
* Anthony Lee-Ingram
* Royce Parran
* Antabia Waller
* Corey Raley-Ross
* Jonathan Holmes
* Tyler Hines
* Žarko Rakočević
* Igor Bijelić
* Nemanja Vranješ
* Georgi Boyanov
* Anton Haralanov
* Ivica Vukotić
* Aleksandar Radukić
* Jan Rizman
* Georgi Yegorov
* Caleb Joseph

Head coaches

* Aleksandar Todorov
* Steruli Andonovski
* Goran Dimitrijević
* Marjan Srbinovski
* Igor Mihajlovski
* Strašo Todorović
* Vladimir Filipovski
* Aleksandar Petrovic
* Marin Dokuzovski
* Ljubisav Luković

References

External links

Eurobasket.com MKK Kumanovo PageTeam info at MKFEurobasket.com KK Kumanovo PageSupporters WebsiteMedia supporter Website

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Basketball teams in North Macedonia
Sport in Kumanovo
Basketball teams in Yugoslavia