Kumanovo
Leagues	Macedonian League BIBL
Founded	1946
Arena	Sports Hall Kumanovo
Capacity	6,500
Location	Kumanovo, North Macedonia
Team colors	Blue and White
President	Viktor Bozinovski
Head coach	Vladimir Mirkovski
Website	kkkumanovo.orgfree.com
Home Away

KK Kumanovo (Macedonian: КК Куманово) is a professional basketball club based in Kumanovo, North Macedonia. They currently play in the Macedonian First League. The club play their home matches at the Sports Hall Kumanovo.

History

Founded: 1946^[1] Name: KK Kumanovo 2009 (09-). After the founding in 1946, the team was only able to achieve national successes in 1980. In the 90s Kumanovo team qualified for the Korac Cup 1998/99 , in which they lost a two-legged home game against KK Krka as well as two years later in the same competition against the BK Jambol. A season later, they also moved into the 2002 play-off final series for the Macedonian championship, in which they lost two to four wins against record champions and defending champion Feršped Rabotnički from the capital Skopje. Already in the following season the team could not keep up due to payment difficulties and occupied a relegation zone.

After the club Pop Sport VSA from Kumanovo had tried a season largely unsuccessfully in the top division, the team of the club returned as Kumanovo 2009 in the 2010/11 season to the Prva Liga Macedonia. After being re-established in the top division, the first successes were achieved when one reached the cup final in 2013, which was lost to defending champion and champion KK MZT Skopje, and on the other hand in the supranational Balkan League when it participated for the first time reached the Final Four tournament, in which they lost to the title holder Hapoel Gilboa Galil in the semi-finals. With the following participation, the team in the Balkan League 2014 in the quarter-finals against the later title winner Lewski Sofia and also achieved no chances of winning the title in national competitions. This was to change in the 2014/15 season, when the team beat record champion Rabotnički in the play-off semi-final of the championship after beating Rilski Sportist Samokov in the quarterfinals of the Balkan League. In the final series, however, they lost in three games against defending champion KK MZT Aerodrom. For the 2015/16 season, the team registered for the FIBA Europe Cup 2015/16 and refrained from further participation in the Balkan League. In the continental club competition, in six preliminary round matches, it was only enough for one home win against Kotkan TP-Basket. In the national championship play-offs, the third round of the semifinals was still played in five games and, in the final series, they were able to achieve at least one home win against series master MZT before losing another chance of winning the title in four games.

BIBL League Seasons

• 2013: (9-11) 4th
• 2014: (7-11) 5th
• 2015: (10-6) 5th
• 2017: (13-7) 2nd
• 2018: (1-4 ) 8th
• 2021: (6-8) 5th
• 2022: (0-2) 12th

Honours

• Macedonian Basketball League Champions

Winner : 1980

Runner-up: 2002, 2015, 2016^[2]

• Macedonian Basketball Cup

Runner-up: 2013

• BIBL

Runner-up: 2017

Home ground

Kumanovo Arena is a home ground indoor sport venue for BC Kumanovo located in Kumanovo, Macedonia. The hall has capacity of 6,500 seats and was built in 1980.

It is the biggest indoor sport hall in Kumanovo, where competitions of basketball, futsal, handball, volleyball and boxing matches

Current roster

KK Kumanovo roster
Players	Coaches
Pos. No. Nat. Name Ht. Age PG 0 Nastovski, Andrej 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in) 84 kg (185 lb) 23 – (2000-08-23)23 August 2000 C 3 Lalović, Srgjan 2.14 m (7 ft 0 in) 24 – (1999-03-11)11 March 1999 C 7 Volkanovski, Ivan 2.09 m (6 ft 10 in) 24 – (1999-07-07)7 July 1999 PG 8 Đukanović, Đukan 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) 80 kg (176 lb) 31 – (1992-10-31)31 October 1992 G 10 Nikolić, Petar 1.89 m (6 ft 2 in) 30 – (1993-09-25)25 September 1993 G 13 Dimitrevski, Luka 1.84 m (6 ft 0 in) 70 kg (154 lb) 19 – (2004-06-29)29 June 2004 SG 14 Abrom, De'Quan 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) 83 kg (183 lb) 27 – (1996-05-06)6 May 1996 SF 21 McSwain, Freddie 2.01 m (6 ft 7 in) 100 kg (220 lb) 29 – (1994-12-02)2 December 1994 SG 23 Georgievski, Gjorgji 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in) 85 kg (187 lb) 25 – (1998-08-12)12 August 1998 PF 28 Gligorijević, Stevan 2.05 m (6 ft 9 in) 106 kg (234 lb) 25 – (1998-07-10)10 July 1998 PF 38 Zivčević, Nenad 2.04 m (6 ft 8 in) 37 – (1986-02-28)28 February 1986	Head coach Vladimir Mirkovski Assistant coach(es) Darko Smiljkovic Legend (C) Team captain Injured Roster Updated: 2020-11-26

Depth chart

Technical staff

^[3]

Position	Name
Assistant Coach	Ivan Djordjevic
Sports Director	Darko Petkovski
Club Doctor	Dragan Karagjinski
Physiotherapist	Melanija Cvetkovska

Management

^[4]

Position	Name
Club Owner	Kumanovo Municipality
Board President	Viktor Bozinovski
Team Manager	Darko Petkovski Spejko
Club Manager	Aleksandar Krstevski
Technical assistant	Cvetkovski Milos

Former players

Head coaches