# KK Rabotnički

Active departments of Sports Club Rabotnichki :
| Football | Basketball | Handball |
KK Rabotnički (Macedonian: КК Работнички) is a basketball club based in Skopje, North Macedonia. They currently play in the Macedonian First League and ABA League Second Division. The club has won the Macedonian championship 15 times and the Macedonian Cup 10 times.

## History

The club was founded in 1946 in Skopje. In 1964 under the leadership of Lazar Lečić, KK Rabotnički became a member of the First Federal Basketball League of the former SFR Yugoslavia and competed there on a regular basis until 1992. They have never won a Federal championship but they were finalists in the Federal Yugoslav Cup on two occasions in 1976 and 1983. Since the Macedonian Republic League became the new Macedonian First League, Rabotnički have been the most successful Macedonian basketball team of all time, winning a record 15 league titles and 9 national cups.
* In the season 2023/24 Rabotichki was the host of the Qualifying tournament Group A of 2023–24 FIBA Europe Cup.Playing against Donar (basketball club),CS Rapid București (men's basketball) and Sabah BC .

## Honours
### Domestic competitions

Macedonian Republic League
* Winners (9): 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1960, 1961, 1963, 1964
Macedonian Republic Cup
* Winners (4): 1976, 1983, 1985, 1988
Macedonian League
* Winners (15): 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2009, 2018
Macedonian Cup
* Winners (10): 1993, 1994, 1998, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2011, 2015, 2019
Macedonian Super Cup Winner
* Winners (2): 2001, 2011

### European achievements

FIBA Saporta Cup
* Semi-finalist (1): 1975–76
FIBA Europe Conference South
* Runners-up (1): 2003–04
Balkan International Basketball League
* Runners-up (1): 2008–09

## Players
### Depth chart

| Pos. | Starting 5 | Bench 1 | Bench 2 |
| C | Julian Roche | Corey Manigault | |
| PF | Stojan Gjuroski | Miljan Markovic | |
| SF | Damjan Robev | Amar Hot | |
| SG | Viktor Efremovski | Nemanja Kapetanović | Bojan Stojanovski |
| PG | Jackson Dubinski | Andrej Šoškić | Stefan Ilijev |

### Retired numbers

KK Rabotnički retired numbers :
| No. | Player | Position | Tenure |
| 13 | Blagoja Georgievski | PG | 1968–1984 |

## KK Rabotnicki in European competitions

In their rich European history KK Rabotnicki competed in many European competitions. Their most successful period was in the 1990s. They competed for eleven seasons in four different cups.
BIBL League Seasons
* 2009: (7-5) 2nd
* 2010: (3-7) 9th
Seasons and results of Rabotnicki in Europe:
| Round | Team | Home | Away |
| Group stage | Olympiacos | 90–79 | 91–71 |
| Group stage | CSKA Sofia | 117–88 | 90–84 |
| Group stage | Tours Basket | 107–90 | 99–83 |
| Semi-final | Olimpia Milano | 104–89 | 90–67 |
| Round | Team | Home | Away |
| Round 1 | BV Den Helder | 85–62 | 92–76 |
| Group stage | Saski Baskonia | 102–97 | 113–90 |
| Group stage | Tofaş | 109–107 | 92–87 |
| Group stage | Olimpija Ljubljana | 66–88 | 89–77 |
| Group stage | Bellinzona | 92–94 | 87–70 |
| Group stage | Split | 85–91 | 82–74 |
| Round | Team | Home | Away |
| Round 1 | Budivelnyk | 65–64 | 83–69 |
| Round | Team | Home | Away |
| Qualif.Round | HKK Brotnjo | 78–64 | 76–59 |
| Round | Team | Home | Away |
| Group stage | Rīgas ASK | 84–97 | 99–80 |
| Group stage | Włocławek | 86–88 | 82–76 |
| Group stage | Scavolini Pesaro | 78–71 | 95–77 |
| Group stage | Hopsi Polzela | 89–91 | 74–66 |
| Group stage | Fenerbahçe | 78–84 | 90–61 |
| Round | Team | Home | Away |
| Group stage | ToPo Helsinki | 80–81 | 85–55 |
| Group stage | Joventut Badalona | 55–70 | 105–72 |
| Group stage | BIPA-Moda | 57–77 | 78–63 |
| Group stage | Tofaş | 76–77 | 73–47 |
| Group stage | Žemaitijos Lokiai | 78–88 | 86–70 |
| Round | Team | Home | Away |
| Group stage | Bosna | 51–82 | 59–52 |
| Group stage | TAU Cerámica | 57–73 | 70–49 |
| Group stage | PSG Racing | 57–70 | 83–43 |
| Group stage | Illiabum Clube | 68–76 | 67–68 |
| Group stage | Znicz Pruszków | 64–65 | 84–41 |
| Round | Team | Home | Away |
| Qualif.Round | Igokea | 63–71 | 70–70 |
| Round | Team | Home | Away |
| Group stage | Peristeri | 59–72 | 85–72 |
| Group stage | NIS Vojvodina | 81–83 | 102–77 |
| Group stage | Pinar Karşıyaka | 66–96 | 99–91 |
| Group stage | Hapoel Jerusalem | 89–90 | 90–64 |
| Group stage | Yambolgaz-92 | 75–69 | 73–85 |
| Round | Team | Home | Away |
| Group stage | Fenerbahçe | 91–87 | 80–65 |
| Group stage | CSU Ploiești | 75–66 | 60–46 |
| Group stage | APOEL Nicosia | 81–77 | 93–100 |
| Semi-final | Keravnos | 96–75 | 96–75 |
| Final | Tuborg Izmir | 78–80 | 78–80 |
| Round | Team | Home | Away |
| Group stage | UNICS Kazan | 95–99 | 87–53 |
| Group stage | Nymburk | 102–86 | 84–60 |
| Group stage | Hapoel Galil Elyon | 97–109 | 92–87 |
| Group stage | Fenerbahçe | 67–79 | 109–60 |
| Group stage | CSKA Sofia | 82–81 | 84–97 |
| Group stage | Kyiv Basket | 62–88 | 102–73 |
| Round | Team | Home | Away |
| Qualifying Round 1 | Parma Basket | 73–95 | 88–63 |

## Rivalries

KK Rabotnički Skopje's fiercest and long standing city rival is MZT Skopje, the other large and popular basketball club in Macedonia. They also have supporters in the capital city named Family Aerodrom. The rivalry started after the Independence of Macedonia, and the matches between these rivals have been labeled as the Eternal derby.
| Team | Mutual score |
| Rabotnički | 92 |
| MZT Skopje Aerodrom | 79 |

## Notable players

* Goran Veselinovski
* Toni Simić
* Gjorgji Čekovski
* Goran Samardziev
* Dime Tasovski
* Aleksandar Dimitrovski
* Pero Blazevski
* Ognen Stojanovski
* Pero Antić
* Bojan Trajkovski
* Dimitar Mirakovski
* Aleksandar Kostoski
* Dušan Bocevski
* Jordančo Davitkov
* Gjorgji Knjazev
* Dejan Jovanovski
* Mirza Kurtović
* Todor Gečevski
* Srdjan Stanković
* Marjan Gjurov
* Riste Stefanov
* Goce Gerasimovski
* Vlatko Vladičevski
* Vrbica Stefanov
* Darko Sokolov
* Budimir Jolović
* Emil Rajković
* Dimitar Karadžovski
* Vlado Ilievski
* Toni Grnčarov
* Vasko Najkov
* Marjan Srbinovski
* Jane Petrovski
* Marko Simonovski
* Aleksandar Ugrinoski
* Eftim Bogoev
* Boris Nešović
* Đorđe Vojnović
* Goran Dimitrijević
* Enes Hadžibulić
* Ivica Dimčevski
* Bojan Krstevski
* Kiril Nikolovski
* Boban Stajić
* Marko Ivanović
* Zoran Jovanović
* Miško Marić
* Dragoljub Vidačić
* Dragan Smiljanić
* Slobodan Kanjevac
* Vladimir Dragutinović
* Vladimir Filipović
* Miljan Pavković
* Vladimir Popović
* Srdjan Božić
* Predrag Joksimović
* Kendrick Johnson
* Marcus Ginyard
* Russell Robinson
* Sean Evans
* Paul Culbertson
* Antoni Wyche
* William Coleman
* Phil Zevenbergen
* Hameed Kashif
* Gary Ware
* Vernand Hollins
* Vincent King
* Igor Bijelić
* Danilo Mitrović
* Stojan Ivković
* Luka Pavićević
* Mohamed Abukar
* Goran Ikonić
* Bariša Krasić
* Bora Paçun
* Rudy Mbemba
* William Njoku
* Chavdar Kostov
* Lazar Lečić
* Predrag Bogosavljev
* Nikola Matovski
* Slavko Matovski
* Blagoja Georgievski
* Janko Lukovski
* Stefan Todorovski
* Slobodan Bocevski
* Aleksandar Knjazev
* Dragan Radosavljević
* Steruli Andonovski
* Stevan Gešovski
* Boban Samardžiski
* Branko Kacarski
* Kosta Hadžitrifunov
* Borče Serafimovski

## Head coaches

* Marin Dokuzovski
* Steruli Andonovski
* Aleksandar Knjazev
* Tihomir Matevski
* Marjan Lazovski
* Lazar Lečić
* Emil Rajković
* Marjan Srbinovski
* Dimitar Mirakovski
* Goran Krstevski
* Igor Gacov