Basketball League of Serbia

Basketball League of Serbia

Current season, competition or edition: File:Sports current event.svg 2011–12 Basketball League of Serbia
Sport	Basketball
Founded	2006
Inaugural season	2006-07
No. of teams	18
Country	Serbia
Continent	Europe
Most recent champion(s)	Partizan
Most titles	Partizan (18 titles)
TV partner(s)	RTS
Official website	kls.rs

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Basketball League of Serbia (Serbian: Кошаркашка лига Србије, Košarkaška liga Srbije) is the highest professional club basketball league in Serbia. It was founded in 2006.

Rules

Competition format

The league, operated by the Basketball Federation of Serbia, consists of Serbian First League which have 14 and Serbian Super League which have 10 teams. For 2010–11 season, the top four teams in First League will be promoted to Super League with four Serbian teams from Adriatic League. The teams positioned 13th and 14th in First League will be relegated to a lower league - Basketball League of Serbia B. The best 4 clubs in Super League goes to Playoff stage and qualify for the next season of Adriatic League.

Arena standards

Currently, clubs must have home arenas with capacity of minimum 1000 seats.

History

The first basketball league in Serbia started in 1945 as the Yugoslav Basketball League.

Other competitions

• Serbian Basketball Cup

Teams for 2011–12 season

Team	City	Arena	Capacity
Partizan mt:s*	Belgrade	Pionir Hall	8.150
Hemofarm*	Vršac	Millennium Center	5.000
Radnički*	Kragujevac	Lake Hall	4.000
FMP*	Železnik	FMP Hall	3.000
Red Star	Belgrade	Pionir Hall	8.150
Vojvodina Srbijagas	Novi Sad	Spens Sports Center	8.000
Metalac	Valjevo	Valjevo Sports Hall	1.500
Proleter Naftagas	Zrenjanin	Medison Hall	3.000
OKK Beograd	Belgrade	Sport Eko Hall	1.000
Tamiš	Pančevo	Strelište Sports Hall	1.100
Napredak Rubin	Kruševac	Kruševac Sports Hall	2.500
Sloboda	Užice	Veliki Park Sports Hall	2.200
Sloga	Kraljevo	Kraljevo Sports Hall	1.500
Borac	Čačak	Borac Sports Hall	2.500
Novi Sad	Novi Sad	Spens Sports Center	1.100
Mega Vizura	Belgrade	Vizura Sports Center	1.500
Radnički	Belgrade	SC Šumice	2.000
Radnički Basket	Beograd	Basket City Hall	1.000

Promoted to Basketball League of Serbia

• Radnički Beograd
• Radnički Basket

Relegated to Basketball League of Serbia B

• Crnokosa
• Superfund

(*) Teams which play in Adriatic League and Serbian Super League

Champions

• 2006–07 to present: Basketball League of Serbia

Season	Champion	Runner-up	Result	Champion's Coach
2006–07	Partizan	Red Star	3–1	Template:Country data MNETemplate:Namespace detect showall Duško Vujošević
2007–08	Partizan	Hemofarm	3–1	Template:Country data MNETemplate:Namespace detect showall Duško Vujošević
2008–09	Partizan	Red Star	3–2	Template:Country data MNETemplate:Namespace detect showall Duško Vujošević
2009–10	Partizan	Hemofarm	3–0	Template:Country data MNETemplate:Namespace detect showall Duško Vujošević
2010–11	Partizan	Hemofarm	3–0	Vlade Jovanović

Club	Titles	Years Won
Partizan	5	2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011

Championship winning teams

• Including titles in SFR Yugoslavia, FR Yugoslavia, Serbia and Montenegro and Serbia

Team	Championships	Years Won
Partizan	18	1976, 1979, 1981, 1987, 1992, 1995, 1996, 1997, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011
Red Star	15	1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1969, 1972, 1993, 1994, 1998
OKK Beograd	4	1958, 1960, 1963, 1964
Proleter	1	1956
Radnički Beograd	1	1973
Yugoslav Army	1	1945

Individual Awards

First League MVP Award

Season	MVP	Team
2006-07	Miloš Bojović	Sloga
2007-08	Nikola Ilić	Borac Čačak
2008-09	Uroš Mirković	Mašinac
2009-10	Aleksandar Mladenović	Ergonom
2010-11	Nenad Šulović	Napredak Rubin

Super League MVP Award

Season	MVP	Team
2006-07	Miloš Bojović	Sloga
2007-08	Nikola Ilić	Borac Čačak
2008-09	Novica Veličković	Partizan
2009-10	Miroslav Raduljica	FMP
2010-11	Marko Ljubičić	Metalac

Playoff MVP Award

Season	MVP	Team
2006-07	Milan Gurović	Red Star
2007-08	Template:Country data MNETemplate:Namespace detect showall Nikola Peković	Partizan
2008-09	Novica Veličković	Partizan
2009-10	Lester McCalebb	Partizan
2010-11	Curtis Jerrells	Partizan

Notable players

• Novica Veličković
• Miloš Teodosić
• Uroš Tripković
• Kosta Perović
• Nemanja Bjelica
• Milenko Tepić
• Kosta Perović
• Miroslav Raduljica
• Milan Mačvan
• Marko Kešelj
• Milan Gurović
• Stefan Marković
• Aleksandar Rašić
• Dejan Milojević
• Zoran Erceg
• Boban Marjanović
• Ivan Paunić
• Milovan Raković
• Dušan Kecman
• Marko Čakarević
• Miljan Pavković
• Vladan Vukosavljević
• Tadija Dragićević
• Dragan Labović
• Čedomir Vitkovac
• Dejan Borovnjak
• Zlatko Bolić
• Branko Milisavljević
• Marko Marinović

• Aleks Marić
• Nathan Jawai
• Steven Marković
• Template:Country data BLZTemplate:Namespace detect showall Milt Palacio
• Template:Country data BULTemplate:Namespace detect showall Filip Videnov
• Jan Vesely
• Template:Country data GABTemplate:Namespace detect showall Stephane Lasme
• Template:Country data HUNTemplate:Namespace detect showall István Németh
• Template:Country data MNETemplate:Namespace detect showall Nikola Peković
• Template:Country data MNETemplate:Namespace detect showall Slavko Vraneš
• Template:Country data MKDTemplate:Namespace detect showall Predrag Samardžiski
• Goran Jagodnik
• Vonteego Cummings
• Template:Country data MKDTemplate:Namespace detect showall Lester McCalebb
• Lawrence Roberts
• James Gist
• Curtis Jerrells
• Template:Country data MNETemplate:Namespace detect showall Omar Cook
• Michael Lee

See also

• Yugoslav Basketball League
• Serbia national basketball team

External links

• Official website

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