Ženski košarkaški klub Željezničar Sarajevo ( en, Women's Basketball Club Željezničar Sarajevo) is a

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n women's basketball team from

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History

In 1982. ŽKK Željezničar competed in the second division of

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, with great success and without losing a match. the team was led by coach

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, won first place and the club returned to the First division. With a very small selection of players in the 1983-84 season, the team was elected to the first division. The following season 1984-85, the team was joined by a pair of showgirls including the

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(showgirl youth branches ŽKK Željezničar), and achieved fourth place and thus won the right to contest the Cup Liliana Ronchetti. With inexperienced and very young players in the first round of the Montmontaža from

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. The following season, the team again won the fourth place in the championship of Yugoslavia and then left the Cup Liliana Ronchetti, beating the representatives of

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and

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, but losing to representatives of

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, the team from the

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sports club.

Honours

Domestic

National Championships – 14 *

Yugoslav League The Yugoslav First Federal Football League ( Serbian: Прва савезна лига у фудбалу / ''Prva savezna liga u fudbalu'', hr, Prva savezna liga u nogometu, sl, Prva zvezna nogometna liga, mk, Прва сојузна лига, ...

: **Winners (1) : 1971 * Bosnian League: **Winners (13) : 1995, 1998, 1999, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 National Cups – 7 *

Yugoslav Cup The Yugoslav Cup ( hr, Pokal Jugoslavije; sr, Куп Југославије; sl, Pokal Jugoslavije, mk, Куп на Југославија), officially known between 1923 and 1940 as the King Alexander Cup ( sh-Latn-Cyrl, Kup kralja Aleksandra, ...

: **Runners-up (2) : 1973, 1992 *

Bosnian Cup The Bosnia and Herzegovina Football Cup ( sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", Kup Bosne i Hercegovine, Куп Босне и Херцеговине) is a knock-out football competition contested annually by clubs from Bosnia and Herzegovina. The winner ...

: **Winners (7) : 1998, 1999, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007

International

International titles – 1 * Adriatic League Women: **Winners (1) : 2003

Notable former players

* Tima Džebo *

* Olga Đoković

Notable former coaches

External links

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