Klubi i Basketbollit Peja (

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: ''Basketball Club Peja'') is a Kosovar professional

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club based in

Pejë Peja (Indefinite Albanian form: ''Pejë'' ) or Peć ( sr-Cyrl, Пећ ) is the fourth largest city of Kosovo and seat of Peja Municipality and Peja District. It is situated in the region of Rugova on the eastern section of the Accursed Mount ...

. The club currently plays in the

Kosovo Basketball Superleague The Kosovo Basketball Superleague ( Albanian: Superliga e Kosovës në Basketboll) and known as the ArtMotion Superliga due to sponsorship reasons is the top men's professional basketball league in Kosovo. Basketball Superleague was founded in 199 ...

. KB Peja has won 6 National Championships, 4 Kosovo Basketball Cups and 2 Kosovo Supercups. The team's roster has included big names like Acie Earl, Fred House,

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, 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. 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

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.KB Peja Profile at EuroCup
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Honours and titles

Domestic

Kosovo Superleague Kosovo ( sq, Kosova or ; sr-Cyrl, Косово ), officially the Republic of Kosovo ( sq, Republika e Kosovës, links=no; sr, Република Косово, Republika Kosovo, links=no), is a partially recognised state in Southeast Eur ...

**Winners (6): 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2004, 2013 **Runners-up (8): 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 *

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**Semi-finalist (2): 2015, 2017 * Liga Unike **Winners (1): 2022 **Runners-up (1): 2021

Players

Current roster

Depth chart

Notable players

;Kosovo and Albania # Dardan Berisha # Edis Kuraja # Ersid Ljuca # Gerti Shima # Malcolm Armstead # Samir Shaptahu # Valdet Grapci # Valdet Spahija ;Balkans # Adnan Bajramović # Dragan Pusić # Goran Kalamiža # Hrvoje Puljko #

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# Mirza Ahmetbašić # Nedžad Spahić # Teo Simović ;United States # Acie Earl # Anthony Knox # Cyril Awere # Dustin Scott # Fred House # George Odufuwa # Janou Rubin # Mario Austin # Mario Edwards #

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# Theo Little ;Other countries # Carlos Morban # Harouna Mutombo

Coaching history

* Valdet Spahija * 2006/07 Robert Matijević * 2007 - 2011

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* 2011/12

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* 2012/13 Rudolf Jugo * 2013/14 Danijel Lutz * 2013/14 Boban Savović * 2014/15 Borislav Kurtović * 2015–2016

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* 2016–2017

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* 2020

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* 2020 Şemsettin Baş * 2021

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* 2021

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* 2021-2022 Şemsettin Baş * 2022–present Marin Dokuzovski

References

External links

Official websiteEurobasket.com Team Profile
{{Balkan International Basketball League Basketball teams in Kosovo Sport in Peja