# VK Šabac

VK Šabac (Serbian Cyrillic: ВК Шабац) is a professional water polo club based in Šabac, Serbia. As of 2023–24 season, the club competes in the Serbian League and Regional League A1.

## History
### 1990–2015: The beginnings and turbulent period

The club was established in 1990. In 2001–02 season, VK Šabac promoted to the top-tier National Championship of FR Yugoslavia where it played for four consecutive seasons. In 2004–05 season, the club participated in continental LEN Euro Cup. In 2005, the city-governed Swimming Pool in Šabac was closed due to poor conditions and the club was forced to merge with Belgrade-based "Sever" water polo club.

### 2015–present: Rise to prominence

In June 2015, the city of Šabac finally opened renovated indoor Swimming Pool, thus way creating conditions for VK Šabac to return to hometown. The city government entrusted the club's management to manage the Swimming Pool. The club has also managed to gain promotion to the Serbian Water Polo League A for 2015–16 season.
In 2016–17 season, VK Šabac participated in second-tier Regional Water Polo League A2, finishing in third place behind VK Primorac Kotor and POŠK.
In December 2017, VK Šabac was runner-up of the 2017–18 Serbian Water Polo Cup, after losing to VK Partizan with 6–5 in the final game. In March 2018, VK Šabac gained promotion to top-tier Regional Water Polo League A1, after securing second place in Regional Water Polo League A2 and defeating VK Budva in playoffs. In Serbian Water Polo League A, VK Šabac finished the season in third place.
On October 19, 2018, VK Šabac won its first match in Regional Water Polo League A1, after defeating VK Partizan with 12–10. In December 2018, VK Šabac won the 2018–19 Serbian Water Polo Cup, after defeating VK Radnički Kragujevac with 10–9 in the final game. In 2018–19 season, VK Šabac finished the season of Regional Water Polo League A1 in sixth place, with 7–0–11 record. VK Šabac finished the historic club's season by winning its first national championship, defeating VK Crvena zvezda with 2–1 in the final series of the Serbian Water Polo League A.
The club started the 2019–20 season with matches in 2019–20 LEN Champions League Qualification round I as tournament host, winning the second place in a group and advancing to Qualification round II, where it lost in all three matches of group C thus way failing to advance to the final Qualification round. In December 2019, VK Šabac lost in the final game of the Serbian Water Polo Cup to Radnički Kragujevac with 10–8, failing to defend the title.

## Season by season

| Season | Tier | League | Regional League | Domestic cup | European competitions | European competitions |
| 2023–24 | 1 | 3rd place | 10th place | QF | 2 LEN Euro Cup | GS |
| 2022–23 | 1 | 4th place | 7th place | QF | 2 LEN Euro Cup | QF |
| 2021–22 | 1 | SF | 11th place | QF | 2 LEN Euro Cup | Q2 |
| 2020–21 | 1 | SF | 7th place | QF | - |
| 2019–20 | 1 | CX | 7th place | Runners-up | - |
| 2018–19 | 1 | Champions | 5th place | Champions | - |
| 2017–18 | 1 | 3rd place | 2nd place (tier 2) | Runners-up | - |
| 2016–17 | 1 | 4th place | 3rd place (tier 2) | QF | - |

### In European competition

* Participations in Champions League: 1x
* Participations in Euro Cup: 2x
| Season | Competition | Round | Club | Home | Away | Aggregate |
| 2019-20 | Champions League | elimination in Second qualifying round | |
| 2021-22 | Euro Cup | elimination in Second qualifying round | |
| 2022-23 | Euro Cup | Round of 16 | Barcelona | 13-10 | 11-12 | 24–22 |
| 2022-23 | Euro Cup | Quarter-finals | Vasas | - | - | – |

## Current squad

VK Šabac squad as of 2020–21 season:
| Νο | Player | Position |
| 1 | Radoslav Filipović | GK |
| 2 | Aleksandar Eraković | W |
| 3 | Nikola Marković | W |
| 4 | Mihajlo Repanović | W |
| 5 | Marek Tkač | W |
| 6 | Stefan Ilić | W |
| 7 | Đorđe Vučinić | W |
| 8 | Filip Gardašević | W |
| 9 | Marko Janković | W |
| 10 | Mateja Tonković | W |
| 11 | Ognjen Stojanović | W |
| 12 | Petar Velkić | C |
| 13 | Andrej Vukadinović | GK |
| 14 | Savo Ćetković | C |
| 15 | Milan Marić | W |
| 16 | Stefan Milinković | GK |
| 17 | Veljko Savković | W |
| Head coach: Emil Nikolić |||
| Ass. coach: Nemanja Ličanin |||
| Physio: Nikola Đokić |||

## Honours

* National Championship
** Winners (1) : 2018–19
* National Cup
** Winners (1) : 2019
** Runners-up (2) : 2018, 2020