KK Tikveš

{{Infobox basketball club | color1 = #FFFFFF | color2 = #FF0000 | color3 = #000000 | name = Tikvesh | logo = File:BC Feni Industries.svg | imagesize = | leagues = [[Macedonian Premier League (basketball)|Macedonian First League]] | founded = 1970 | arena = [[Jasmin Sports Hall]] | capacity = 2,500 | location = [[Kavadarci]], [[North Macedonia]] | colors = Red, Black, White<br>{{Color box|#FF0000}} {{color box|#000000}} {{color box|#FFFFFF}} | president = | coach = {{flagicon|MKD}} Goran Samardziev |championships = '''3''' [[Macedonian Premier League (basketball)|Macedonian Championships]] <br> '''2''' [[Macedonian Basketball Cup|Macedonian Cups]] <br> '''1''' [[Balkan International Basketball League|BIBL]] | website = [http://www.kkfeni.com kkfeni.com] | h_body = FF0000 | h_pattern_b = _blacksides | h_shorts = FF0000 | h_pattern_s = _blacksides | a_body = FF0000 | a_pattern_b = _whitesides | a_shorts = FFFFFF | a_pattern_s = _redsides }} {| class="infobox" style="font-size: 88%; width: 22em; text-align: center" ! colspan=3 style="font-size: 125%; background-color: #00529F; color: #FFFFFF" | {{center|Active departments of Sports Club Tikvesh}} |- ! [[Image:Basketball pictogram.svg|30px]] ! [[Image:Handball pictogram.svg|30px]] ! [[Image:Football pictogram.svg|30px]] |- ! Basketball ! [[GRK Tikveš|Handball]] ! [[GFK Tikvesh|Football]] |} '''Basketball Club Tikvesh''' ({{langx|mk|КК Тиквеш}}) is a professional [[basketball]] club based in [[Kavadarci]], [[North Macedonia]]. They currently play in the [[Macedonian Premier League (basketball)|Macedonian First League]]. KK Tikvesh is the first ever Macedonian club to win an international trophy in basketball, they won the 2010-11 EUROHOLD [[Balkan International Basketball League|Balkan League]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.balkanleague.net/en/news.php?id=16052 |title=KK Feni Industries makes history}}</ref>

==History== KK Tikvesh was founded on 11 January 1970.<ref>[http://www.kavadar4e.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=11263:----1970--------&catid=65:tikvesija6&Itemid=80 KK Тиквеш формирање - 11 јануари 1970 година]</ref>

Name: '''KK Tikvesh''' before it was '''Alumni Dekom Tikvesh''' (1995-1997), '''Orka Sport''' (1997-1999), Tikvesh (1999-2002), '''Feni Industries''' (2005-2019), '''EuroNickel 2005''' (born 2019).

The team was taken under the leadership of the local FErro-NIckel mining company "Feni Industries AD" in 2005, while the smelter was under the control of [[Beny Steinmetz]].

Since 2008, KK Tikvesh has organized the international basketball tournament “Dimitar Gjorgjiev", in Kavadarci. *'''2008 Champions''' The team from Kavadarci won their second championship title in season 2007/08 beating BC Strumica in the final play off 4-3 series. *'''2010 Champions''' Kvadarci team won their third championship in the season 2009/10 by beating BC Vardar in the final series play off 4-3 drama. *'''2011 Champions''' They won their fourth championship title in the season 2010/11 second in the row. This time the easiest final series against the heavy-weight BC Rabotnichki by 4-1 play off final series. *'''[[Balkan International Basketball League|BIBL]] '''Kavadarci team is one of the founding members of the BIBL League competition. They competed for 5 successful seasons in the BIBL league. They reached four semi-finals in the row. Ending 4th in the season 2009 and third in 2010, 2012. In their last season, 2017, they finished 6th. *'''[[Balkan International Basketball League|BIBL Champions]] '''Their biggest success came in the 2010/11 season winning the final four tournament in their home ground JASMIN ARENA. In the regular season they've finished 1 st in group B, having score 6-2, winning 3 games at home and 3 games away. Beating: Rilski 90:66 (humiliating victory), Mures 98:87, Balkan 101-72 (another humiliating victory) at home, and Mornar 95-84, Rilski 86-76, Balkan 83-76 away. At final four which was held in Kavadarci, at home ground first they've beat Mornar in the semi-finals by '''82-75''' in the tight game. After that in the final game Kavadarci team had an easy game against Rilski beating them by '''88-75''' in festive atmosphere at JASMIN ARENA winning the Championship. In 2019, due to the difficulties of Steinmetz and because of the uncertain economic climate for the smelter's output, the company faced court-ordered administration. The result of this process was the sale of the smelter to an organization called Euronickel,<ref name="stimm">{{cite news |last1=Moggridge |first1=Matthew |title=Euronickel Industries completes $100 Million investment and second furnace restart |url=https://www.steeltimesint.com/news/euronickel-industries-completes-100-million-investment-and-second-furnace-r |publisher=Steel Times International |date=2 December 2019}}</ref> who also took on the sponsorship of the basketball team. In the summer of 2023 EuroNickel planned to step down and stop being the main financial brand of Kavadarci club. However, company remained as the main sponsor of the club and the name was not changed.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Ljubomir |date=2023-08-09 |title=Еуро Никел останува на сцената, познат е наследникот на Самарџиев! - KOS.MK |url=https://kos.mk/euro-nikel-ostanuva-na-sczenata-poznat-e-naslednikot-na-samar%d1%9fiev/,%20https://kos.mk/euro-nikel-ostanuva-na-sczenata-poznat-e-naslednikot-na-samarџiev/ |access-date=2023-08-22 |language=en-US}}</ref>

==[[Balkan International Basketball League|BIBL]] League Seasons [[File:Shield of the European Union.svg|20px]]== * 2009: (5-7) 4th * 2010: (10-3) 3rd [[File:Bronze medal with cup.svg|15px]] * 2011: (8-2) 1st [[File:gold medal with cup.svg|15px]] * 2012: (7-6) 3rd [[File:Bronze medal with cup.svg|15px]] * 2017: (9-9) 6th

==Home arena== Jasmin Arena (Macedonian: " Јасмин") is a multi-purpose indoor sports arena located in Kavadarci, North Macedonia and seats 2,500 spectators.

The arena is used for basketball by KK Tikvesh. In May 2011, it hosted the Final Four of the Balkan International Basketball League. [[File:SportsHallJasmin.png|310px|thumb|right|Jasmin Arena]]

==Honours==

===Domestic Achievements {{flagicon|MKD}}=== * Macedonian Republic League Champion - 1985 * [[Macedonian First League (basketball)|Macedonian League Champion]] - 2008, 2010, 2011 * [[Macedonian First League (basketball)|Macedonian League Finalist]] - 2009, 2012 * [[Macedonian Basketball Cup|Macedonian Cup Winner]] - 2008, 2010 * [[Macedonian Basketball Cup|Macedonian Cup Finalist]] - 1997 (Tikveš), 1998 (Orka Sport), 2012, 2017

===European Achievements {{flagicon|EU}} === * [[Balkan International Basketball League|EUROHOLD Balkan League Champion]] - [[2010–11 BIBL season|2011]]<ref>[http://www.balkanleague.net/en/team_history.php?id=8 KK Feni Industries]</ref> * [[Balkan International Basketball League|EUROHOLD Balkan League Final Four]] - [[2008–09 BIBL season|2009]], [[2009–10 BIBL season|2010]], [[2010–11 BIBL season|2011]], [[2010–11 BIBL season|2012]]

==Current squad== {{Basketball roster header|wt=n|age=y |team=KK Tikvesh | color1 = #FFFFFF| bg1 = #003399| color2 = #FFFFFF| bg2 = #003399}}  {{player3 | num = 2 | nat = USA | first = Donaven | last = Hairstone | pos = G |m = 1.88 |kgs = | year = 2001 | month = 04 | date = 11}} {{player3 | num = 3 | nat = USA | first = Mike | last = Green III | pos = PG |m = 1.83 |kgs = | year = | month = | date = }} {{player3 | num = 7 | nat = MKD | first = Gabriel | last = Koskoski | pos = PF |m = 2.03 |kgs = | year = 1997 | month = 03 | date = 08}} {{player3 | num = 9 | nat = MKD | first = Todor | last = Zlatev | pos = F | m= 1.94 | kgs = | year = 2002 | month = 12 | date = 30}} {{player3 | num = 10 | nat = MKD | first = Marjan | last = Mladenović | pos = PG |m = 1.80 |kgs = | year = 1987 | month = 08 | date = 27}} {{player3 | num = 14 | nat = USA | first = Tom | last = Quarry | pos = F |m = 2.01 |kgs = | year = 1999 | month = 10 | date = 01}} {{player3 | num = 21 | nat = USA | first = Bryce | last = Hunt | pos = F |m = 2.01 |kgs = | year = 2000 | month = 07 | date = 07 | dab = basketball}} {{player3 | num = 28 | nat = MKD | first = Stevan | last = Gligorijević | pos = PF/C |m = 2.05 |kgs = | year = 1998 | month = 11 | date = 10}}  {{Basketball roster footer | head_coach = * {{player||MKD|Atanas Manev}} | asst_coach = * {{player||MKD|TBA}} | team_man = * | roster_url = https://kfsm.mk/codeframe/view/page/players?team=%D0%95%D1%83%D1%80%D0%BE%20%D0%9D%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B5%D0%BB%202005%20%D0%B0%D0%B4&gender=male&category=%D0%A1%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B8&competition=%D0%9F%D1%80%D0%B2%D0%B0%20%D0%9B%D0%B8%D0%B3%D0%B0%20%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%B6%D0%B8 | accessdate = 2020-11-01 }}

===Depth chart=== {{Basketball depth chart |line_color = 003399 |alt_color = F1791C |label_color = 003399 |starter_c = |starter_pf = |starter_sf = |starter_sg = |starter_pg = [[Marjan Mladenović]] |bench 1_c = |bench 1_pf = |bench 1_sf = [[Todor Zlatev]] |bench 1_sg = |bench 1_pg = |bench 2_c = |bench 2_pf = |bench 2_sf = |bench 2_sg = |bench 2_pg = |bench 3_c = |bench 3_pf = |bench 3_sf = |bench 3_sg = |bench 3_pg = }}

==Notable players== {{div col|colwidth=14em}} *{{flagicon|MKD}} [[Goran Samardziev]] *{{flagicon|MKD}} [[Vojdan Stojanovski]] *{{flagicon|MKD}} [[Ognen Stojanovski]] *{{flagicon|MKD}} [[Darko Sokolov]] *{{flagicon|MKD}} [[Todor Gečevski]] *{{flagicon|MKD}} [[Dušan Bocevski]] *{{flagicon|MKD}} [[Marko Simonovski (basketball)|Marko Simonovski]] *{{flagicon|MKD}} [[Vladimir Brčkov]] *{{flagicon|MKD}} [[Kiril Nikolovski]] *{{flagicon|MKD}} [[Bojan Trajkovski]] *{{flagicon|MKD}} [[Dime Tasovski]] *{{flagicon|MKD}} [[Slobodan Mihajlovski]] *{{flagicon|MKD}} [[Goce Andrevski]] *{{flagicon|MKD}} [[Zlatko Gocevski]] *{{flagicon|MKD}} [[Toni Simic|Toni Simić]] *{{flagicon|MKD}} [[Aleksandar Dimitrovski]] *{{flagicon|MKD}} [[Marjan Gjurov]] *{{flagicon|MKD}} [[Andrej Magdevski]] *{{flagicon|MKD}} [[Predrag Pajić]] *{{flagicon|SRB}} [[Marko Dimitrijević]] *{{flagicon|SRB}} [[Dušan Knežević (basketball player, born 1980)|Dušan Knežević]] *{{flagicon|SRB}} [[Vladimir Popović (basketball)|Vladimir Popović]] *{{flagicon|SRB}} [[Milan Preković]] *{{flagicon|SRB}} [[Boško Jovović]] *{{flagicon|SRB}} [[Milos Vranes]] *{{flagicon|Puerto Rico}} [[James Life]] *{{flagicon|BUL}} [[Ivan Lilov]] *{{flagicon|USA}} [[Randy Duck]] *{{flagicon|USA}} [[Tim Burroughs]] *{{flagicon|USA}} [[Donald Cole (basketball)|Donald Cole]] *{{flagicon|USA}} [[Taliek Brown]] *{{flagicon|USA}} [[Jarrid Frye]] *{{flagicon|USA}} [[Mychal Ammons]] *{{flagicon|CRO}} [[Matija Češković]] *{{flagicon|CRO}} [[Karlo Vragović]] *{{flagicon|GEO}} [[Giorgi Sharabidze]] *{{flagicon|Dominican Republic}} [[Carlos Morban]]

==Head coaches== {{div col|colwidth=22em}} *{{flagicon|MKD}} [[Emil Rajković]] *{{flagicon|MKD}} [[Zare Markovski]] *{{flagicon|MKD}} [[Ljupčo Malinkov]] *{{flagicon|MNE}} [[Miodrag Kadija]] *{{flagicon|MKD}} [[Goran Samardziev]] {{div col end}}

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== * [http://www.kkfeni.com/ Official Website] * [http://www.basketball.org.mk/default.asp?ItemID=26A8025A22C8214BBFC2631F5B2FEB41 Team info at MKF]{{Dead link|date=July 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} * [http://basketball.eurobasket.com/team.asp?Cntry=FYR%20Macedonia&Team=1667&Page= Eurobasket.com KK Feni Industries Page]

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