KK Crvena zvezda
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| Nickname |
Crveno-beli (The Red-Whites) Zvezda (The Star) |
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| Leagues |
EuroLeague ABA League Basketball League of Serbia |
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| Founded | 1945 | ||
| History |
KK Crvena zvezda (1945–present) |
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| Arena |
Hall Aleksandar Nikolić (5,878) Kombank Arena (18,450) |
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| Location | Belgrade, Serbia | ||
| Team colors |
Red and White |
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| Main sponsor | Mobile Telephony of Serbia | ||
| President | Nebojša Čović | ||
| Team manager | Nebojša Ilić | ||
| Head coach |
 Dejan Radonjić
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| Championships |
1 Saporta Cup 2 ABA League 17 National Championships 9 National Cups |
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| Website | www |
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KK Crvena zvezda (Serbian Cyrillic: КК Црвена звезда, English: BC Red Star) is a professional basketball club based in Belgrade, the major part of the Red Star Sports Society. Crvena zvezda is a part of the Adriatic Basketball Association and compete in the ABA League, EuroLeague and in the Basketball League of Serbia. The team play domestic home matches in the Hall Aleksandar Nikolić, and the EuroLeague home matches in Kombank Arena. Zvezda's supporters are known as Delije.
By winning the first of ten consecutive championship titles after the Second World War, the golden age of Red Star began. No domestic national selection could be imagined without seven or eight Red Star basketball players and the first quintet featured Nebojša Popović, Tulio Roklicer, Aleksandar Gec, Ladislav Demšar and Srđan Kalember. Their style was unique, they made basketball popular in Serbia and achieved first international results for former Yugoslavia, playing in an open-air court at Kalemegdan fortress. The greatness of this team cannot be disputed. They were pioneers of Yugoslavian basketball who achieved amazing results, entertaining the audience with their game style, just as with their squad harmony both on and off the court. After a decade filled with nothing but success, game scores started to decline, generation shift arrived and it took Red Star fourteen long years to win another trophy.
That long-awaited eleventh title was won in the 1968–69 season, when Red Star won all six games against Jugoplastika, Zadar and Partizan, therefore proving to be better than all three fierce rivals. Led by Vladimir Cvetković, the title was won by Dragan Kapičić, Zoran Lazarević, Ivan Sarjanović, Ljubodrag Simonović, Srđan Skulić, Zoran Slavnić, Tihomir Pavlović, Nemanja Đurić, Miroslav Todosijević, Dragiša Vučinić and Dubravko Kapetanović. At that time, they were the youngest championship winning team in Yugoslavian basketball. The twelfth title was won in the 1971–72 season, after which Red Star's league success deteriorated gradually. In the 70s the club won the national cup three times, and most of the work in those years was done by Slavnić, Simonović, Kapičić, Vučinić and Živković. This generation of players definitely failed to certify their talent by winning only two national championships and three national cups, although they were widely considered capable of achieving much more.
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