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Nickname
  
"Plisat"

Location
  
Prishtina, Kosovo

President
  
Blerand Stavileci

History
  
1970–present

Team colors
  
White and blue

Founded
  
1970

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Arena Capacity
  
Small Court(2500) Larger Arena(8000)

Arena
  
Palace of Youth and Sports

Leagues
  
Kosovo Basketball Superleague, Kosovo Cup, FIBA Europe Cup, Balkan International Basketball League

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Klubi i Basketbollit Prishtina (English Basketball Club Prishtina), officially known as Sigal Prishtina due to sponsorship reasons, is a Kosovar professional basketball club based in Prishtina.

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The team currently competes in the Kosovo Basketball Superleague, Balkan International Basketball League (BIBL) and the FIBA Europe Cup. They are the most successful club in Kosovo, having won 10 national championships, 11 national cups and 3 supercups in the last 13 years. Since 2013 the club has competed in the Balkan International Basketball League (BIBL), and they became the first Kosovar side to win the competition in 2015 after defeating Bulgarian side BC Rilski Sportist in the finals. In 2015 they joined the newly formed European third tier competition, the FIBA Europe Cup.

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History

The club was founded in 1970 but the club had racked up huge debt by 2004, which led to the original club being forced to fold and a new club under the name OJQ KB Prishtina was formed in its place. The debts were then inherited by the new club and they were not dealt with, which led to the club folding once again on 22 September 2011 and a new club was once again formed in its place.

European Cups

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In the 2013–14 season, Prishtina played first season in Europe in Balkan International Basketball League (BIBL). In the first season KB Prishtina took 2nd place in the Regular Season with 11 wins and 5 losses. Where they were qualified to the Final Four where they were organizers of this Final Four 2013/14 of BIBL, but they lost to Galil Gilboa 74-86 in Semifinal, and lost to Balkan (BUL) 73-79 in 3rd place game.

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In the 2014–15 season, Sigal Prishtina won the Trophy of the Balkan International Basketball League where in the final they won against BC Rilski Sportist in both matches, first in Prishtina with the win 74-72 and second in Bullgaria with 80-71 to win the Trophy.

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In 2015-16 season, KB Sigal Prishtina played in FIBA Europe Cup for the first time. They failed to qualify for next round with 2 wins and 4 losts in Group.

Arena

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The club play their home games at the smaller of the two arenas in the Pallati i Rinisë dhe Sporteve (Palace of Youth and Sports) which has a capacity of 3,000. The larger arena in the building had a capacity of around 8,000 but it was damaged by a fire on 25 February 2000 and has never been restored fully since.

Domestic competitions

Kosovo Basketball Superleague
  • Winners (12): 1991, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2014, 2015, 2016
  • Kosovo Cup
  • Winners (11): 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2013, 2014, 2016
  • Kosovo Supercup
  • Winners (3): 2012, 2013, 2014
  • Regional competitions

    Balkan League

  • Winners (2): 2015, 2016
  • References

    Sigal Prishtina Wikipedia