KK Gostivar

KK GOSTIVAR
Leagues	Macedonian First League
Founded	1954 (1954)
History	List 1996–2004 Nikol Fert 2004–2008 Mavrovo 2009–2011 Gostivar 2009 2015–present Gostivar 2015
Arena	``Mladost``Gostivar
Location	Gostivar, North Macedonia
Team colors	White and blue
President	Stojmir Dejanoski
Head coach	Nikola Dimitrievski
Championships	1 Championships of Macedonia 2 Macedonian Cup 2 Macedonian Super Cup
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BC Gostivar (Macedonian: КК Гостивар) is a basketball club based in Gostivar, North Macedonia. In the past it was known as Nikol Fert for sponsorship reasons.

History

The team was established in 1954 under name KK Mavrovo. It changed its name numerous times over the year. KK Goteks, KK Vardar-Komerc, KK Gostivar and KK Nikol-Fert Gostivar. KK Gostivar is three times republic league champion of Macedonia. In the golden age of its existence it won three title in: 1965, 1967 and 1968. They waited for a long time for their fourth title but after 32 years they won their 4th title in 2000. Next year in the season 2000-01 they won their first Macedonian Basketball Cup by beating KK Rabotnički in the final 72–65. Next season they once again defeated Rabotnički 88–82 to claim back to back Cup titles.

Honours

• Macedonian First League

Winner (4): 1964–65, 1966–67, 1967–68, 1999–2000

• Macedonian Cup

Winner(2): 2001, 2002

• Macedonian Super Cup

Winner (2): 2000, 2002

Players

Current roster

KK Gostivar roster
Players	Coaches
Pos. No. Nat. Name Ht. Age G 1 Burton, Deonte 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) 33 – (1991-07-26)26 July 1991 PG 2 Pipkins, Luwane 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) 28 – (1996-03-10)10 March 1996 F 6 Stojanoski, Toma 1.98 m (6 ft 6 in) 20 – (2004-06-14)14 June 2004 PG 7 Taneski, Mladen 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) 22 – (2002-04-20)20 April 2002 G/F 10 Dimitrievski, Robert 1.96 m (6 ft 5 in) 33 – (1991-10-17)17 October 1991 F/C 11 Korsantia, Giorgi 2.07 m (6 ft 9 in) 26 – (1998-01-11)11 January 1998 SG 12 Dimitrievski, Renato (C) 1.96 m (6 ft 5 in) 33 – (1991-10-17)17 October 1991 SG 23 Levkoski, Vojce 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in) 33 – (1991-03-08)8 March 1991 SG 24 Mitevski, Maksim 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in) 24 – (2000-02-18)18 February 2000 SF 25 Efremovski, Viktor 1.94 m (6 ft 4 in) 26 – (1998-10-21)21 October 1998 F 33 Vuckovic, Arsenije 2.06 m (6 ft 9 in) 26 – (1998-08-16)16 August 1998	Head coach Ljupcho Malinkov Assistant coach(es) Nikola Dimitrievski Petar Angelov Legend (C) Team captain Injured Roster Updated: 2023-01-02

Depth chart

Pos.	Starting 5	Bench 1	Bench 2
C		Giorgi Korsantia
PF	Arsenije Vuckovic	Toma Stojanoski
SF	Viktor Efremovski	Robert Dimitrievski
SG	Maksim Mitevski	Renato Dimitrievski	Vojce Levkovski
PG	Deonte Burton	Luwane Pipkins	Mladen Taneski

Former players

• Radislav Jovanoski
• Milan Sotirovski
• Todor Gečevski
• Jordančo Davitkov
• Dejan Dimov
• Marjan Janevski
• Slobodan Petrovski
• Vlatko Vladičevski
• Vojislav Zivčević
• Pero Blazevski
• Gjorgji Knjazev
• Budimir Jolović
• Bojan Trajkovski
• Josip Sičić
• Dušan Sučević
• Dejan Jeftić
• Michail Misunov
• Artan Kuqo

European competitions

They played 4 times in European competition. In the season 1996/97, 1999/00 and 2000/01 they played in FKC/FIBA Korac Cup. In the 2002/03 season they played in FRC/FIBA-Europe Regional Challenge.

Scores of KK Nikolfert Gostivar in Europe:

1996 Radivoj Korać Cup

Round	Team	Home	Away
Qualif.Round	Debreceni	74–43	70–56
Group stage	Pepinster	90–83	80–65
	Telecomp Vinkovci	83–75	66–48
	Saski Baskonia	72–74	118–73

1999 Radivoj Korać Cup

Round	Team	Home	Away
Qualif.Round	Zagorje	82–87	80–97
Group stage	Maccabi Haifa	86–92	72–45
	Pallacanestro Reggiana	75–71	96–71
	Beopetrol	Quit	Quit

1999 Radivoj Korać Cup

Round	Team	Home	Away
Qualif.Round	Sloboda Tuzla	66–61	81–60

2002 Europe Champions Cup

Round	Team	Home	Away
Qualif.Round	HKK Brotnjo	64–78	59–76
Group stage	Zrinjevac	87–79	89–92
	AEL Limassol	67–87	75–84

External links

• Eurobasket.com KK Gostivar Page
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