Location Maribor, Slovenia Home Away Date founded 1946 | Team colors Blue, White Arena Tabor Hall Color Blue, White | |
Leagues Yugoslav First League
(1955)
Yugoslav 1. B league
(1985–1987) Dissolved 2006; 11 years ago (2006) | ||
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. The club was dissolved after the 2005–06 season due to financial difficulties.
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History
The club was founded in 1946 as a basketball section of SŠD Železničar. It won its first Slovenian title in 1949 and renamed to ŽKK Maribor in 1954. They played in the Yugoslav First Federal Basketball League in the next year, but were releagated with only one win and finished in the last place. In the 1970s, ŽKK also played in the Yugoslav Second League and later renamed to Tima MTT. Under that name they played in the Yugoslav 1. B League from 1985 until 1987. In that year the club merged with fierce city rival KK Branik Maribor to form KK Maribor 87 as a new city team. The latter played in the 1. B Yugoslav League, but after the independence of Slovenia it disintegrated back to ŽKK and Branik. ŽKK played mostly in the second and third division until 2005–06, when it went bankrupt.
In 2005, a club's youth school KŠ Maribor registered as KK Maribor and started competing as its own club in 2006.
Arena
The team played their home games at the Tabor Hall, a 3,800 capacity multi-purpose hall in Maribor.