KK Vršac

Košarkaški klub Vršac (Serbian Cyrillic: Кошаркашки клуб Вршац) is a professional basketball club from Vršac, Serbia. The club participates in the KLS. Their home arena is the Millennium Center, with a capacity of 5,000.

Over the years, the club competed under different names, mostly after sponsor companies. The most significant results were achieved under the sponsorship of a pharmaceutical company Hemofarm.

History

The club was founded in 1946 under the name KK Jedinstvo. From 1959 to 1967, the club competed under the name KK Mladost, when the name got changed to KK Inex Brixol due to sponsorship reasons. In the 1968–69 season, they won first place in the Vojvodina lower-league. In 1977, the club changed its name again, this time to KK Agropanonija. Four years later, in 1981, they again became champions of Vojvodina, which has won them the right to participate in the First B League, where they competed under the name KK Vršac. In 1989, Inex Hemofarm became principal sponsor and club changed its name to KK Inex.