KK Zadar
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| Leagues |
Croatian League ABA League |
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| Founded | 1945 | ||
| History |
KK Zadar (1945–present) |
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| Arena |
Krešimir Ćosić Hall (capacity: 7,847) |
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| Location | Zadar, Croatia | ||
| Team colors | White and Blue |
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| President |
 Darko Kasap
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| Head coach |
Aramis Naglić
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| Championships |
6 Yugoslavian Championships 1 Yugoslavian Cup 6 Croatian Cups 2 Croatian Championships 1 ABA League |
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| Website | kkzadar.net | ||
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KK Zadar is a Croatian professional basketball team from the city of Zadar playing in the Croatian League and ABA League.
Zadar is the place where Croatian basketball was born in 1930. Zadar's reputation has been of a basketball hotbed with a team that can capture trophies at any given moment. Zadar is also known for its fanatical die hard supporters, Tornado Zadar.
The first basketball ball and game rules of basketball were brought to Zadar by Italian soldiers during World War II, a time at which Zadar was occupied by the Italians. At that time all basketball games being played in Zadar were played on an outdoor, concrete court. KK Zadar was formally founded after World War II in 1945 as FD Zadar (Fiskulturno Društvo Zadar – Physical Culture Club of Zadar). Shortly after this club's founding, its basketball section went independent and became what is today's KK Zadar. Giuseppe "Pino" Giergia played his first game for Zadar in 1945; he later became one of the club's most famous players.
The 1949, KK Zadar entered Yugoslavia's first basketball division, remaining there until the country's break-up in 1990.
On November 28, 1964, Krešimir Ćosić played his first game for Zadar, while being only 16 years old.
In 1965 KK Zadar won a Yugoslav League national championship. They again became champions in 1967 and 1968. In that championship year, Kreso Cosic often knew to score even a 60 points per game. The club's new arena, Jazine, was built in 1968 in only 70 days. Also in 1966, Zadar played in the Euroleague final four; they were beaten in the semi finals and ended the tournament in third place. In 1969 Krešo Ćosić left for the United States to play college basketball at Brigham Young University from 1971 to 1973.
In 1973, Zadar was almost relegated from the Yugoslav first division. In this time of crisis, Kreso Cosic returned to the club and with 36-year-old Giuseppe "Pino" Giergia Zadar once again became Yugoslav Champions, only to repeat this success two years later.
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