Klubi i Basketbollit Prishtina ( English: ''Basketball Club Prishtina''), officially known as Sigal Prishtina due to sponsorship reasons, is a Kosovar professional

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club based in

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. The team currently competes in the Kosovo Superleague, Balkan International Basketball League (BIBL) and the FIBA Europe Cup. They are the most successful club in Kosovo, having won 14 national championships, 15 national cups and 7 supercups in the last 14 years. Since 2013 the club has competed in the Balkan International Basketball League (BIBL), and they became the first Kosovar side to win the competition first in 2014–15 after defeating Bulgarian side BC Rilski Sportist in the finals. They would win the same competition the following season in 2015–16 in which they would beat Montenegrin side Mornar Bar in the final, to win this competition back to back as the only Kosovan Basketball club in the history at this competition. In 2015, Prishtina joined the newly formed European second tier competition, the FIBA Europe Cup. They became the first Kosovar Basketball club to reach the round of 16 in the FIBA Europe Cup in the 2018–19 season, winning six matches in their 14 match long campaign. Prishtina has won 15 games in European basketball competitions so far.

History

The club was founded in 1970. By 2004, the club had racked up huge debt, which led to the original club being forced to fold and a new club under the name OJQ KB Prishtina was formed in its place. The debts were then inherited by the new club and they were not dealt with, which led to the club folding once again on 22 September 2011 and a new club was once again formed in its place. In the 2015–16 season, Prishtina made its debut in the FIBA Europe Cup and became the first Kosovo team to play in a European club competition. Since then, Prishtina competed in every season of the FIBA Europe Cup.

European competitions

In the 2013–14 season, Prishtina played its first season in Europe in Balkan International Basketball League (BIBL). In the first season KB Prishtina took the 2nd place during the Regular Season with 11 wins and 5 losses, qualifying for the Final Four. They were organizers of the Final Four 2013–14 of BIBL, but they lost to Galil Gilboa 74–86 in the semifinal, and to Balkan (BUL) 73–79 in the 3rd place game. In the BIBL Season 2014–15, KB Prishtina won the Trophy of the for the first time Balkan International Basketball League, KB Prishtina faced in the Quarterfinals SCM Craiova they won first away in Romania 73−77 and then at home in Prishtina 70−98 to progress in the Semifinals off this Tournament. In the Semifinals KB Prishtina faced KK Kožuv from Macedonia yet again in this Tournament. At home Prishtina surprised Kožuv and beat them deservedly 85–61 at home in

especially Edin Bavčić scored 25 points in this Match and

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with six assist points helped Prishtina massively at this stage. Away in Kožuv they lost 86-80 but it was enough to qualify for their first ever Finals in the Balkan International Basketball League. In the finals they meet BC Rilski Sportist they won both matches against BC Rilski Sportist first in Prishtina 74–72, and second in Bulgaria 80–71, to win the Trophy in this Campaign. Being the only Basketball Club from Kosovo to achieve this feet so far. In 20 matches KB Prishtina achieved 13 wins and only seven losses in the process. But in the next BIBL season 2015–16, KB Prishtina would compete again in the Balkan International Basketball League where they faced in the first round KK Kožuv KK Mornar Bar and BC Beroe. In this round KB Prishtina won 4 Matches and progressed deservedly in the next Round. In the 2015–16 season, KB Prishtina played in FIBA Europe Cup for the first time. They failed to qualify for the next round with two wins and sour losses in the Group Stage. In the FIBA Europe Cup 2016–17 KB Prishtina faced in the first round Enisey BC Rilski Sportist and Demir İnşaat Büyükçekmece. KB Prishtina did improve in their performances, especially at home. Their only win was a 87–80 at home against Enisey—not enough for KB Prishtina to progress in the next round.

Sponsorship naming

The club has had several denominations through the years due to its sponsorship: * MEB Prishtina (2002–2003) * BpB Prishtina (2003–2004) * Sigal Prishtina (2004–2011, 2012–2018, 2019-2024) * Z-Mobile Prishtina (2018–2019) * Sigal Prishtina Mercure (2024) * Sigal Prishtina (2024-present)

Matches in European competitions

Arena

The club play their home games at the smaller of the two arenas in the Pallati i Rinisë dhe Sporteve (Palace of Youth and Sports) which has a capacity of 2,800. The larger arena in the building had a capacity of around 8,000 but it was damaged by a fire on 25 February 2000 and has never been restored fully since.

Honours and titles

Domestic competitions

Kosovo Basketball Superleague *Winners (14): 1991, 2002, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010,

2011 The year marked the start of a Arab Spring, series of protests and revolutions throughout the Arab world advocating for democracy, reform, and economic recovery, later leading to the depositions of world leaders in Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen ...

2014 The year 2014 was marked by the surge of the Western African Ebola epidemic, West African Ebola epidemic, which began in 2013, becoming the List of Ebola outbreaks, most widespread outbreak of the Ebola, Ebola virus in human history, resul ...

2015 2015 was designated by the United Nations as: * International Year of Light * International Year of Soil __TOC__ Events January * January 1 – Lithuania officially adopts the euro as its currency, replacing the litas, and becomes ...

2016 2016 was designated as: * International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. * International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...

2017 2017 was designated as the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development by the United Nations General Assembly. Events January * January 1 – Istanbul nightclub shooting: A gunman dressed as Santa Claus opens fire at the ...

2019 This was the year in which the first known human case of COVID-19 was documented, preceding COVID-19 pandemic, the pandemic which was declared by the World Health Organization the following year. Up to that point, 2019 had been described as ...

*Runners-up (6): 1997, 2001, 2004, 2012, 2013, 2018 Kosovo Cup *Winners (15): 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, *Runners-up (4): 2011, 2015, 2023, 2024 Kosovo Supercup *Winners (8): 2005, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022

European and regional competitions

Liga Unike *Runners-up (1): 2024–25 Balkan League *Winners (3):

2024 The year saw the list of ongoing armed conflicts, continuation of major armed conflicts, including the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Myanmar civil war (2021–present), Myanmar civil war, the Sudanese civil war (2023–present), Sudane ...

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**Quarter Finals (1): 2022–23 European North Basketball League FIBA Europe Cup **Round of 16 (1): 2018-19 FIBA Champions League ** First qualifying round (3): 2017–18 Basketball Champions League, 2018–19 Basketball Champions League, and in the 2019-20 Basketball Champions League

Players

Current roster

Depth chart

Head coaches

Notable players

;Kosovo & Albania * Florian Miftari * Florent Lila * Malcolm Armstead * Mikaile Tmušić * Granit Rugova * Samir Šaptahović * Lis Shoshi * Yll Kaçaniku * Besim Tafilaj * Gezim Morina * Anthony Drejaj * Ferit Zekolli * Aleksander Damo * Gerti Shima * Erkand Karaj * Ersid Ljuca ;Europe * Gjorgji Čekovski * Pero Blazevski * Bojan Trajkovski * Lejson Zeqiri * Edin Bavčić * Khalid Boukichou * Aurimas Kieža * Denis Krestinin * Stanimir Marinov * Andrew Lawrence * Thomas Massamba * Andrejs Selakovs * Nikola Vučurović ;United States * Divine Myles *

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* K'Zell Wesson * Khalid El-Amin * Abdul Shamsid-Deen * Jamar Anthony Diggs * Jordan Hulls * Mohamed Abukar * Adam Waleskowski * Jason Washburn * Mike Moser * Kyan Anderson ;Africa * Francois Affia * Gaston Essengue * Alhaji Mohammed ;Asia * DeMario Mayfield