KK Bosna Royal
basketball club from Bosnia and Herzegovina
Košarkaški klub Bosna (transl. Basketball Club Bosna), also referred to as KK Bosna Royal, currently named Bosna BH Telecom for sponsorship reasons, is a professional basketball club based in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is the most successful Bosnian club of all time, having been the European champion by winning the 1978–79 FIBA European Champions Cup. The club has won three Yugoslav Championships, two Yugoslav Cups, five Bosnian Championships, and five Bosnian Cups, making it one of the most decorated basketball clubs in the region. The club currently competes in the Basketball Championship of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the ABA League, and the EuroCup. The club is a founding member and shareholder of the Adriatic Basketball Association. It is part of the University Sport Society Bosna (Bosnian: Univerzitetsko sportsko društvo Bosna).
Throughout the 1970s, 1980s, and early 1990s, Bosna was considered part of the so-called "Big Five" of Yugoslav basketball, alongside Partizan, Cibona, Jugoplastika, and Red Star Belgrade. The club's nicknames are The Students and Maroon-Whites. Its official colours are maroon and white, with gold occasionally used as a third colour. The club's official anthem is "Igraj Bosno" by the Bosnian alternative rock band Skroz.
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