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KB Peja

KB Peja

Basketball team in Pejë, Kosovo

Klubi i Basketbollit Peja (English: Basketball Club Peja) is a Kosovan professional basketball club based in Pejë.[1][2] The club competes in the Kosovo Basketball Superleague, Kosovo Cup and Liga Unike.

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The team's roster has included big names like Acie Earl, Fred House, Ricardo Marsh, Samir Shaptahu, Dardan Berisha, and Gerti Shima.

History

The team was officially formed on 13 March 1993 under the ownership of Ilhami Gashi. The club's first manager was Valdet Spahija and the first roster consisted of Valdet Spahija (as player-manager), Riza Gjakova, Ahmet Nimani, Besim Gjuka, Sebajdin Sylejmani, Agim Lluka, Agim Beqiraj and Turhan Zajmi.

The team name was KB Peja until 2001, when Ekrem Lluka bought the club and renamed it KB Dukagjini(Dukagjini is the company named after the region). In 2005 the name was changed back to KB Peja.[3] In the 1996-97 season KB Peja played in the second division, due to problems with the Basketball Federation of Kosovo. In 2003-04, the team didn't compete in any league organized by the Basketball Federation of Kosovo.

In the 2016–17 season, Peja would play in a European competition for the first time, when the team entered the FIBA Europe Cup.[4][5]

Honours and titles

  • Kosovo Superleague
    • Winners (7): 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2004, 2013, 2023
    • Runners-up (9): 1993, 2000, 2005, 2008, 2011, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2021
  • Kosovo Cup
    • Winners (6): 1994, 1995, 1997, 2011, 2015, 2020
    • Runners-up (7): 2001, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2013, 2016, 2017
  • Kosovo Supercup
    • Winners (2): 1997, 2015
  • Balkan International Basketball League
    • Runners-up (1): 2023
    • Semi-finalist (3): 2015, 2017, 2024
  • Liga Unike
    • Winners (1): 2022
    • Runners-up (1): 2021

Players

2022–2023 roster

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Depth chart

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Notable players

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Kosovo and Albania
  1. Kosovo Dardan Berisha
  2. Kosovo Edis Kuraja
  3. KosovoAlbania Ersid Ljuca
  4. Albania Gerti Shima
  5. KosovoUnited States Malcolm Armstead
  6. Kosovo Samir Shaptahu
  7. Kosovo Valdet Grapci
  8. Kosovo Valdet Spahija
Balkans
  1. Bosnia and Herzegovina Adnan Bajramović
  2. Slovenia Dragan Pusić
  3. Croatia Goran Kalamiža
  4. Croatia Hrvoje Puljko
  5. Slovenia Jan Močnik
  6. CroatiaBosnia and Herzegovina Jozo Brkić
  7. Bosnia and Herzegovina Mirza Ahmetbašić
  8. Bosnia and Herzegovina Nedžad Spahić
  9. Croatia Teo Simović
United States
  1. United States Acie Earl
  2. United States Anthony Knox
  3. United States Cyril Awere
  4. United States Dustin Scott
  5. United States Fred House
  6. United States George Odufuwa
  7. United States Janou Rubin
  8. United States Mario Austin
  9. United States Mario Edwards
  10. United States Nic Wise
  11. United States Ricardo Marsh
  12. United States Theo Little
Other countries
  1. Dominican Republic Carlos Morban
  2. Canada Harouna Mutombo

Coaching history

References

  1. [1]
    "Home". kbpeja.com.
  2. [2]
    "Balkanleague.net".
  3. [3]
    Eurobasket Profile of KB Peja
  4. [4]
    Draw results in for 2016-17 FIBA Europe Cup season
  5. [5]
    KB Peja Profile at EuroCup
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