KK Igokea

Igokea
Leagues Adriatic League
Bosnian League
Founded 23 July 1973 (1973-07-23)
History KK Potkozarje
(1973–1997)
KK Igokea
(1997–present)
Arena Laktaši Sports Hall
(capacity: 3,050)
Location Aleksandrovac, Republika Srpska, Republika Srpska
Team colors Midnight blue, lake blue, white
              
President Boris Spasojević
Head coach Nenad Trajković
Championships 6 Bosnian Championship
6 Bosnian Cup
Retired numbers 1 (6)
Website igokea.rs
Uniforms

Košarkaški klub Igokea (Serbian Cyrillic: Кошаркашки клуб Игокеа), commonly referred to as KK Igokea or simply Igokea, is a professional serbian basketball club from Aleksandrovac, Laktaši municipality, Republika Srpska. The club currently participates in the Adriatic League and the Bosnian League.

Even though they have become well known to the broader basketball public in the territory of the former Yugoslavia only several years ago, when they joined the regional competition called the Adriatic Liga, Igokea is a club with a long lasting tradition. Its beginnings go back into 23 July 1973, when KK Potkozarje was established in Aleksandrovac by a group of enthusiasts that set themselves a main goal to introduce basketball to local youth and teach them the basics. In the second half of the 1990s, the club was renamed to Igokea and that's when the club's main emphasis was put on its youth categories and got another dimension and adopted the highest ambitions at the senior level. Igokea's first trophy came in 2001, when the club from Aleksandrovac conquered the entire competition in Bosnia and Herzegovina and became champion. Six years later, it won their first national cup trophy. By now the club has won six championship and five cup trophies. In 2010/11 season, Igokea participated in the ABA League for the first time and in 2013 it reached the regional league's final four tournament, securing themselves also a spot in the Eurocup and that's when it entered the biggest international stage.

History

2012–13 ABA League controversy

At the beginning of the 2012–13 ABA League Season, the ABA League Board announced that starting this season the only way to qualify for the European Club Competitions under ULEB, will be through Adriatic League and not the national championships of each ABA country member. ABA League Board also informed clubs and public that the winner of the regular season will directly qualify for the Euroleague Group Phase in season 2013/14 and that the second ABA team in Euroleague will be the Final Four winner. If the same team wins regular season and the Final Four, then second placed team from regular season will go to Euroleague. Third placed team from regular season would enter the Qualification for the 2013/14 Euroleague. During February 2013, when it became clear that Igokea will win the regular season, Euroleague Basketball clarified the situation of the Adriatic League spots saying the three first teams in the Final Four will qualify. Due to the different interpretation of both associations, Euroleague and Liga ABA negotiated a solution to be applied only for the 2012–13 season. Finally, both organizations agreed that if the team is in the first positions after the Regular Season meets all of the B-licence minimum requirements, will qualify to Euroleague. In this case KK Igokea doesn't meet required criteria, so Euroleague Basketball applied the 2012-13 Euroleague Bylaws by which the 2013 ABA Final Four champion and the runner-up will take the first two Adriatic positions in this order, whilst the next highest regular season team will take the final Adriatic position.[1]

2013–14 European Club Competitions

On June 25, 2013, Executive Board of Igokea Basketball Club announced that the club won't use its right to compete in the 2013-14 Euroleague Qualifying Tournament citing that even if the club would win the tournament it would not be allowed to play games in its home arena since it doesn't meet the standards for obtaining Euroleague "B" license (mainly because of the capacity). Instead, BC Igokea will be playing in 2013-14 Eurocup competition.[2]

Arena

Laktaši Sports Hall

Laktaši Sports Hall (Serbian Cyrillic: Хала спортова у Лакташима) is a multi-purpose indoor arena located in the city of Laktaši, Republika Srpska, Republika Srpska. It is the home ground of basketball club Igokea and has a capacity of 3,050 seats.

Honours

Champions (6): 2001, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017
Champions (6): 2007, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018

European Competitions History

2000/01 Radivoj Korać Cup

Elimination Round I

Team 1 Agg. Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Rabotnički Republic of Macedonia 133–141 Bosnia and Herzegovina Igokea 63–71 70–70

Elimination Round II

Team 1 Agg. Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Igokea Bosnia and Herzegovina 143–148 Turkey Fenerbahçe 78–75 65–73

2001/02 Reimond Saporta Cup

Qualification Round - Group D

IGO FMP IRA SLO KEO SPL
Igokea 77–78 81–90 78–81 91–83 99–110
FMP 72–64 63–92 81–92 82–64 96–83
Iraklis 86–50 71–76 62–66 80–48 88–78
Slovakofarma 62–58 95–92 86–74 93–62 85–89
Keravnos 83–86 59–100 72–80 54–87 87–88
Split 82–84 73–78 87–92 86–80 87–84

Players

Current roster

Note: Flags indicate national team eligibility at FIBA sanctioned events. Players may hold other non-FIBA nationality not displayed.

Igokea roster
PlayersCoaches
Pos.No.Nat.NameHt.Age
SG 3 United States Kell, Trey 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in) 95 kg (209 lb) 22 – (1996-04-05)5 April 1996
PG 5 Bosnia and Herzegovina Talić, Darko 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in) 20 – (1998-02-23)23 February 1998
PF 7 Serbia Lešić, Sava 2.06 m (6 ft 9 in) 101 kg (223 lb) 30 – (1988-02-23)23 February 1988
PG 8 Bosnia and Herzegovina Adamović, Filip 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) 75 kg (165 lb) 29 – (1988-12-15)15 December 1988
SG 9 Bosnia and Herzegovina Nikolić, Nemanja 1.96 m (6 ft 5 in) 20 – (1998-10-07)7 October 1998
SG 10 Bosnia and Herzegovina Janković, Aljoša 2.02 m (6 ft 8 in) 19 – (1999-02-08)8 February 1999
F/C 11 Croatia Zubčić, Tomislav 2.11 m (6 ft 11 in) 110 kg (243 lb) 28 – (1990-01-17)17 January 1990
G/F 13 Serbia Milošević, Đorđe 1.99 m (6 ft 6 in) 90 kg (198 lb) 25 – (1993-06-20)20 June 1993
G 18 Serbia Radivojević, Vuk 1.96 m (6 ft 5 in) 90 kg (198 lb) 35 – (1983-07-30)30 July 1983
SF 22 Serbia Ilić, Dalibor 2.03 m (6 ft 8 in) 90 kg (198 lb) 18 – (2000-03-04)4 March 2000
C 33 Croatia Rikić, Robert 2.19 m (7 ft 2 in) 101 kg (223 lb) 28 – (1990-04-29)29 April 1990
G/F 35 Slovenia Lorbek, Domen 1.98 m (6 ft 6 in) 33 – (1985-03-06)6 March 1985
SG 44 United States Gavin, Jimmy 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in) 84 kg (185 lb) 27 – (1991-08-28)28 August 1991
SG Bosnia and Herzegovina Njegovanović, Filip 1.98 m (6 ft 6 in) 18 – (2000-06-02)2 June 2000
Head coach
Assistant coach(es)
Strength & conditioning coach(es)
  • Bosnia and Herzegovina Aleksandar Kukrić
Physiotherapist(s)
  • Bosnia and Herzegovina Boško Jungić
Team manager
  • Bosnia and Herzegovina Darko Čubrilović
Legend
  • (C) Team captain
  • Injured
Updated: September 19, 2018

Retired numbers

KK Igokea retired numbers
No. Player Position Tenure Date
6Milan DozetSF2010–2014February 7, 2016[3]

Rеferences

  1. ↑ "Euroleague Basketball - ABA League Agreement on Access to the 2013-14 Euroleague". Euroleague. 5 March 2013. Retrieved 8 July 2013.
  2. ↑ "Igokea odustala od Eurolige" (in Serbian). Nezavisne Novine. 25 June 2013. Retrieved 8 July 2013.
  3. ↑ "Dozet: Velika sreća i čast što pod svodove dvorane u Laktašima ide moj dres". nezavisne.com (in Serbian). Retrieved 3 September 2017.
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