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

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: **Runners-up (2) : 1973, 1992 * Bosnian Cup: **Winners (7) : 1998, 1999, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007

International

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

Notable former players

* Tima Džebo * Vesna Bajkuša * Olga Đoković

Notable former coaches

* Vesna Bajkuša

External links

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