Karpoš Sokoli () were a

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club based in

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. For the first time in their history, Karpoš Sokoli was invited to the

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for the 2016–17 season which is considered to be the largest success of the club so far.

History

Beginnings

KK Karpoš has been established on 31 December 1996. From the 2000–01 season the club is participating in the first league of Macedonia and the name of the well known basketball academy "Sokoli" has been added to the club's name. Since then the club's name is Karpoš Sokoli 2000 Skopje. Despite all the difficulties through the past decades, Karpoš Sokoli are, thanks to the enthusiasm and persistence of its founder Ognen Dedić, one of only few clubs that have managed to maintain continuity in senior competitions, while not neglecting the successful work with youth categories, which was club's trademark from its beginnings.

Glory days

From the 2012–13 season the Municipality of Karpoš started to finance the basketball club and since the May 2015 it became a shareholder of the club. Since then, the Club has started to develop with respectable intensity. Every new season the club is achieving better and better results. The most successful season in club's history so far is the 2015–16 season, when the club reached the finals of Macedonian National Cup and Semi-finals of the Macedonian National Championship, after finishing as runners-up in the regular part of the season. For the first time in their history, Karpoš Sokoli managed to achieve the promotion to the

for the 2016–17 season, which is considered to be the largest success of the club so far. On 19 February 2017, the club won its first national title by defeating Feni Industries in the final of the

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Honours

Domestic achievements

* Macedonian League **Runners-up (1): 2016–17 * Macedonian Cup **Winners (1):

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** Runners-up (1): 2016 * Macedonian Super Cup **Runners-up (1): 2016

Players

Current roster

Depth chart

Notable players

Darko Sokolov Darko Sokolov (; born May 8, 1986) is a Macedonian professional basketball player who plays for Gostivar of the Macedonian First League. Pro career Since beginning his professional career in 2002, Sokolov has spent the majority of his career pl ...

Bojan Trajkovski Bojan Trajkovski (; born 11 September 1986) is a former Macedonian professional basketball player who plays for Feniks 2010 of the Macedonian First League. He is a member of the Macedonian national basketball team. Pro career Trajkovski started ...

* Igor Penov * Angel Tasevski *

Dime Tasovski Dime Tasovski (born November 2, 1980) is a former Macedonian professional basketball small forward player. External links References

1980 births Living people BC Politekhnika-Halychyna players KB Trepça players KK Karpoš Sokoli players ...

* Edis Nuri *

Igor Mijajlović Igor Mijajlović (; born July 3, 1984) is a retired Serbian professional basketball player. He is in height and plays at the point guard and shooting guard positions. Career achievements * KK MZT Skopje Aerodrom, KK MZT Skopje **Macedonian Firs ...

Dragan Labović Dragan Labović ( sr-Cyrl, Драган Лабовић; 20 April 1987 – 9 May 2025) was a Serbian professional basketball player. A native of Prokuplje and a tall power forward, he rose to prominence during his teenage years, where he won four ...

Strahinja Milošević Strahinja Milošević (Serbian Cyrillic: Страхиња Милошевић; born September 25, 1985) is a Serbian professional basketball player for Falco KC of the Hungarian Basketball League. While playing for Partizan, from 2007 to 2010, ...

* Dragan Zeković * Filip Šepa * Dušan Knežević * Marko Boltić * Aleksandar Petrović * Zoran Vrkić * Dominik Mavra * Kendrick Perry * Thad McFadden * Darius Rice * Anton Kazarnovski * Chris Warren

Head coaches

* Ognen Dedić * Aleksandar Petrović * Borče Daskalovski * Sašo Todorovski * Boban Mitev * Saša Katalinić * Mihajlo Naumovski * Siniša Matić *

Dragan Nikolić Dragoslav "Dragan" Nikolić ( sr-cyr, Драгослав Драган Николић, ; 20 August 1943 – 11 March 2016) was a Serbian and Yugoslav actor. Nikolić studied at Dramatic Arts Academy in Belgrade. In 1967 he starred in the film ' ...

KK Karpoš Sokoli in European competitions

2017

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2017

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References

External links

Eurobasket.com KK Karpos Sokoli

FIBA Profile
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