KB Besa

KB Besa
KB Besa
Leagues	Kosovo Superleague; Kosovo Cup
Founded	1961; 2012
Arena	Karagaq Sports Hall; (2,500 seats)
Location	Pejë, Kosovë
Team colors	Purple, red, white, and yellow;
President	Arbër Elshani
Head coach	Fabian Gjuka
Championships	1x Kosovo First League (2013)
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KB Besa Pejë was the first basketball team from Pejë founded in 1961. Besa was part of the Kosovo Superleague.^[1]^[2]

History edit

The team was founded in 1961, and its first name was KB Buduçnosti. These years team have present Kosovo in first league of Yugoslavia with great results and a lot of trophy winners. In 1979–80 the Albanian board of the team had change name of club from Buduçnost to Ramiz Sadiku. The ex-secretary of team, Muhamet Ahma, was also the first coach of the new team. In this year the team debuted in Balkanska league who lost in semi-final from Mornar 74–75. The best player of us was Blerim Vuniqi. Then Besa continued to play in local league and in 1992 we're in final of play-off against Prishtina and we lost 30–36.

In 2012–2013 Arber Elshani was elected as president and he backed Besa Pejë team to win first league in 2012–2013 and to be part of Superleague after great season. Elshani as President of team for first time in team make some great thinks to make history. Firstly, he brought one from the best coaches in Croatia. The new head coach of Besa in that time was Boris Kurtovic who led the team to the semi-final of final four of cup after a big win against Trepça in Gjakova with great result 70–83 with all local players and reality was great season. Then Elshani brought ex-Real Madrid player Venson Hamilton who for our fans in 2014 was totally unbelievable but Hamilton coming and in his first game he scored 25 points, 25 rebounds and 10 blocked shots to help Besa team to win against RTV21. However, he was released due to an injury in the same season.^[3]

Besa since 2015 have been out from all leagues in Federation after a conflict between the president of Federation and the board of Besa.^[4]