KK Split
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| Nickname | Žuti | ||
| Leagues | A-1 Liga | ||
| Founded | 1945 | ||
| History |
KK Hajduk (1945–1949) KK Split (1949–1967) KK Jugoplastika (1967–1990) KK Pop 84 (1990–1991) KK Slobodna Dalmacija (1991–1993) KK Croatia Osiguranje (1993–1997) KK Split (1997–present) |
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| Arena |
Arena Gripe (capacity: 3,500) |
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| Location | Split, Croatia | ||
| Team colors | Yellow and Black |
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| President | Robert Andrijić | ||
| Team manager | Ante Marović | ||
| Head coach | Ivica Skelin | ||
| Championships |
1 Croatian League 5 Croatian Cups 6 Yugoslav Leagues 5 Yugoslav Cups 3 Euroleague 2 FIBA Korać Cups 3 Triple Crowns |
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| Website | www |
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KK Split is a Croatian professional basketball club from Split that plays in the A-1 Liga.
The club's roots are found in Hajduk sports society's basketball section, which was established in 1945. After three years of mostly sporadic activity, in 1948 the club established its own organizational structure as KK Hajduk independently of sports society. Next year, 1949, the club changed its name to KK Split.
After competing in lower divisions for more than a decade, the club finally made it to Yugoslav First Federal League for the 1963/64 season and it stayed there until the breakup of SFR Yugoslavia.
In 1967 the club adopted -for sponsorship reasons- the name KK Jugoplastika (Jugoplastika was a factory of clothing, accessories, footwear, products from thermoplastic materials and fiberglass, original predecessor of AD Plastik.) and kept it until the end of the 1989/90 season. The next season (1990/91) the club participated in the wordlawide, domestic and European competitions under the sponsorship of Pop 84 (an Italian clothes company from Ancona) .
KK Split has been a very successful club in European basketball. They are, together with the first champions, ASK Riga the only team to win the Euroleague trophy three times in a row. In the years 1989, 1990 and 1991, the team known back then as Jugoplastika and Pop 84 with players like Dino Rađa, Toni Kukoč, Žan Tabak and Velimir Perasović won the top European basketball trophy.
Apart from these successes, the club also reached the European Champions Cup final in 1972 and the Cup Winners Cup Final in 1973. It lost both finals against the 1970s superpower Ignis Varese and the soviet club Spartak Leningrad. KK Split still have won two back to back FIBA Korać Cups in 1976 against Chinamartini Torino and in 1977 against Alco Bologna.
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