KK Kožuv

KK Kožuv (Macedonian: КК Кожув) is a basketball club based in Gevgelija, North Macedonia. They currently play in the Macedonian First League.

KK Kožuv
Leagues	Macedonian First League
Founded	1955
Arena	26th April Hall
Capacity	1,600 seats
Location	Gevgelija, North Macedonia
Team colors	Red and White
Head coach	Apostoli Apostolov
Website	kozuv.com.mk
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History

The club was founded in 1955.^[1]

Kozhuv's biggest success came in 2013, they made the Macedonian First League playoff final but ended up losing against MZT Skopje Aerodrom.^[2] Kozhuv reached the Macedonian Cup Final in 2015. They lost the final match against the heavy-weight Rabotnichki 66-74 .Kozhuv also competed in BIBL league for 6 seasons. They reached the 3rd place twice in seasons 2015 and 2016.^{[citation needed]} Since its second top-flight season in 2012, the team from the border town has also participated in the supranational Balkan League, a position it has consistently held ever since. After two rather moderately successful campaigns, it remained undefeated in the 2014/15 preliminary round and qualified directly for the semifinals in the second group stage, losing to eventual champions KB Sigal Prishtina on aggregate. In the following Balkan League season, the team lost to KK Mornar Bar in the 2016 semifinals. In the season 2019-20 KK Blokotehna fused in KK Kozhuv. All the players joined Kozhuv at this season.

As Blokotehna Gevgelija in the season 2017/2018 they played in the semifinals with Levski Lukoil finishing 4th.Next season in 2019, Blokotehna won BIBL League trophy beating Teuta in the Final. In season 2018/19 they were hosts of the domestic cup and they played in the Final against Rabotnicki. They made it to the semi-finals in the domestic Championship play-off.

BIBL League Seasons

• 2013: (4-4) 7th
• 2014: (5-11) 9th
• 2015: (13-3) 3rd
• 2016: (6-8) 3rd
• 2017: (9-9) 5th
• 2018: (10-4) 4th
• 2019: (11-3)

Honours

Domestic Achievements

• Macedonian League Finalist - 2013
• Macedonian Cup Finalist - 2015

European

• BIBL Champions 2019

International Achievements

• Mavroskoufia Basketball Tournament - 2013, 2014

Current roster

KK Kožuv roster
Players	Coaches
Pos. No. Nat. Name Ht. Age SG 6 Karadžovski, Dimitar 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in) 85 kg (187 lb) 40 – (1984-10-07)7 October 1984 SG 8 Pilepić, Fran 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in) 86 kg (190 lb) 36 – (1989-05-05)5 May 1989 G 9 Bojčev, Nikola 1.92 m (6 ft 4 in) 20 – (2004-08-21)21 August 2004 F 14 Kolev, Ilija 1.98 m (6 ft 6 in) 29 – (1996-08-03)3 August 1996 C 33 Howard, Myles 2.06 m (6 ft 9 in) 96 kg (212 lb) 27 – (1998-04-22)22 April 1998 PG 55 Wilson, C.J. 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) 77 kg (170 lb) 30 – (1994-09-03)3 September 1994 C Simić, Teodor 2.10 m (6 ft 11 in) 21 – (2004-02-04)4 February 2004	Head coach Apostoli Apostolov Assistant coach(es) Ilija Eftimov Legend (C) Team captain (L) On loan Injured Roster Updated: 2023-02-14

Depth chart

Pos.	Starting 5	Bench 1	Bench 2
C	Myles Howard	Teodor Simić
PF	Ilija Kolev
SF	Fran Pilepić	Jordan Kuzmanov
SG	Andreja Stevanović	Dimitar Karadžovski	Alek Petkoski
PG	C.J. Wilson	Goran Glavčev	Nikola Bojčev

Former players

• Dimitar Karadzovski
• Pero Blazevski
• Kiril Pavlovski
• Darko Radulović
• Zlatko Gocevski
• Vladimir Brčkov
• Aleksandar Šterjov
• Igor Penov
• Stojan Gjuroski
• Kiril Toshev
• Ranko Mamuzić
• Nikola Karakolev
• Daniel Nacevski
• Ivica Dimcevski
• Martin Shalev
• Bojan Krstevski
• Bojan Trajkovski
• Boban Stajic
• Predrag Pajic
• Jetmir Zeqiri
• Dimitar Mirakovski
• Vojče Lefkoski
• Marko Simonovski
• Ratko Varda
• Miladin Peković
• Igor Mijajlović
• Vladimir Filipović
• Milivoje Mijović
• Filip Šepa
• Slobodan Božović
• Slobodan Dunđerski
• Milan Janjušević
• Slaven Čupković
• Vladimir Ivelja
• Nikola Djurasović
• Uros Lukovic
• Draško Albijanić
• Aleksej Nešović
• Kenyon McNeail
• Larry Hall
• Jason Carter
• Austin Dufault
• Brandon Penn
• Ryan White