Akademski košarkarski klub Branik Maribor ( en, Academic Basketball Club Branik Maribor), commonly referred to as AKK Branik Maribor or simply Branik, is a
basketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular court, compete with the primary objective of shooting a basketball (approximately in diameter) through the defender's h ...
team based in
Maribor, Slovenia. As of the 2022–23 season, Branik competes in the Slovenian Third League, the third-tier league of Slovenian basketball.
The club was originally formed in 1948 as a basketball section of SŠD Polet. Branik folded in 2005 because of financial difficulties. A new club called ŠD Primorac was founded in 2001 and joined the Branik Sports Association in 2008. The club regard themselves as the continuation of the 2005 dissolved team.
History
1948–2005
The club was formed in 1948 as a basketball section of SŠD Polet.
In 1950, Polet renamed as Branik and won its first Slovenian republic title in 1952 after defeating
Krim in the final.
In 1966, the club left the Branik Sports Association and renamed as KK Maribor 66.
Under that name, they played in the
Yugoslav First Federal Basketball League
The First Federal Basketball League () was the highest tier level men's professional club basketball competition in SFR Yugoslavia. Founded in 1945 and folded in 1992 (1991-92 Winer Broker YUBA League), it was run by the Basketball Federation o ...
in the 1969–70 season.
The club then competed as KK Marles due to the sponsorship agreement, while the Branik Sports Association formed its own team to compete in lower ranks. After Marles relegated to the republic level (third tier in Yugoslavia), both teams merged back in 1975 under the name Branik.
In 1987, the club merged with city rivals
ŽKK Maribor
Železničarski košarkarski klub Maribor, commonly referred to as ŽKK Maribor or simply ŽKK, was a basketball team based in Maribor, Slovenia. The club was founded in 1946 and was dissolved after the 2005–06 season due to financial difficulti ...
to form KK Maribor 87 as a new city team.
The latter played in the
Yugoslav 1. B League, but after Slovenia's independence in 1991 it disintegrated back to ŽKK and Branik.
Branik took Maribor 87's place in the
Slovenian top division and played there until 2000. All teams based in
Maribor, including Branik, folded in 2005.
2008–present
ŠD Primorac Basketball School, formed in 2001, joined the Branik Sports Association in 2008 and renamed as AKK Branik in 2011.
The team qualified for the
Slovenian Second League
The Slovenian Second Football League ( sl, Druga slovenska nogometna liga or commonly 2. SNL) is the second highest football league in Slovenia. The league was formed in 1991 and is operated by the Football Association of Slovenia.
Format and rul ...
in the 2007–08 season. Branik was relegated back to the third division after finishing last in the 2012–13 season. After
KK Maribor
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*KK, the production code for the 1967 ''Doctor Who'' serial ''The Faceless Ones''
* "KK" (song), a 2014 song by Wiz Khalifa
* Kk. or Kirk ...
went bankrupt in 2015 and Branik became the only remaining basketball team in the city, the
Basketball Federation of Slovenia
The Basketball Federation of Slovenia ( sl, Košarkarska zveza Slovenije) also known as KZS is the governing body of basketball in Slovenia. It was founded in 1950 as a member of the larger Yugoslav Basketball Federation (see also: Basketball in ...
invited them to compete in the Slovenian Second League for the 2015–16 season.
Arena
The team's home arena is Ljudski vrt Sports Hall in
Maribor with a capacity of 2,100.
Season-by-season records
*As Maribor 66
References
External links
Official website
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Basketball teams established in 1948
Basketball teams in Slovenia
Sport in Maribor
Basketball teams in Yugoslavia
1948 establishments in Slovenia
Basketball teams established in 2001
2001 establishments in Slovenia