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| Nickname | Panteri (Panthers) | |||
| Founded | March 26, 1975 | |||
| History | KK ILR (1975–1986) KK FMP (1991–2003) KK Reflex (2003–2005) KK FMP (2005–2011) KK Crvena zvezda Beograd (2011-) |
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| Arena | Železnik Hall (capacity: 3,000) |
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| Location | Belgrade, Serbia | |||
| Team colors | Red and White |
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| Website | kk-fmp.net | |||
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KK FMP (Serbian Cyrillic: KK ФMП), also known as FMP Železnik, is a defunct Serbian basketball club.
Based in the Belgrade's neighborhood of Železnik, the club continually posts notable results every competition it competes in. Since being taken over by businessman and politician Nebojša Čović in 1994, FMP developed an impeccable reputation for talent development with players like Nikola Bulatović, Ognjen Aškrabić, Goran Nikolić, Dejan Milojević, Bojan Popović, Mladen Šekularac, Mile Ilić, Nemanja Aleksandrov, Branko Jorović, Miloš Teodosić, Aleksandar Rašić, Marko Marinović, Zoran Erceg and others leaving their mark both in the club and elsewhere.
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The club was established under the name KK ILR in 1975 on the joint initiative of Ivo Lola Ribar machine factory and Železnik local community administrative board. Initially, the club was part of the Ivo Lola Ribar Sports Society, which, in addition to basketball, also fielded teams in football, handball, volleyball, boxing, bowling, archery, and chess.
During its modest beginnings, the club competed in the Belgrade municipal league (Belgrade zone), playing its home games on the outdoor concrete court belonging to Braća Jerković primary school. Since the municipal league ran in the spring-summer period, ILR Železnik also entered the Belgrade municipal winter league in order to maintain the fitness level until the start of the next season.
The new club was well received by Železnik residents who often packed the small home court, and even made trips for many away games. Over time, as interest in basketball grew throughout the community, the club started developing a youth system by adding various age categories.
With more experience under their belt, Železnik's senior squad starting posting notable results as the club progressed up from the lower leagues.
By the mid-1980s, they made it to Serbian provincial league. However, with promotion to the higher level of competition, the operating costs also started rising. Unable to cover the costs of renting a basketball hall in which to compete, ILR Železnik effectively folded in 1986 as basketball activities ceased.
The club was essentially dormant until 1991 when it got reactivated under the name KK FMP on the initiative by Fabrika metalnih proizvoda AD metal products factory, which became the club's de facto owner.
Almost immediately, the reactivated club continued where they left off in 1986. Following a season in Second Serbian Provincial League they gained promotion to the First Provincial League.
For the 1994/95 season, FMP made it to the Second Federal League in FR Yugoslavia, second highest level of competition in the country. In a memorable season they won top spot with only 4 league losses, winning promotion to the top Yugoslav league.
Celebrating their 20th anniversary, Železnik began the 1995–96 season competing against the likes of KK Crvena zvezda, KK Vojvodina, KK Beobanka, KK Bobanik, KK Lovćen, KK Mladost and KK Gorštak in the country's highest level of basketball competition. Showing maturity beyond their years, the club finished the regular season in third place thus gaining entry into Yugoslav Basketball League where they managed to avoid relegation, finishing in ninth place.
The 1996–97 season was even more successful with the overall third place finish and the very first playoff appearance in club history. Surprising many, Železnik made it to the playoff final where they came up against powerhouse KK Partizan. In a best-of-5 series, Železnik players managed to cause an upset in game two, winning 82–76 on the away court, but were unable keep it up despite having the next two games at home. Partizan won the series 3 games to 1.
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On August 18, 2011 KK FMP started a new project. They made a fusion with another basketball club KK Crvena zvezda. Cause of the financial problems, much more popular club in Serbia KK Crvena zvezda gave rights to KK FMP on using their name, logo, players and everything else associate with KK Crvena zvezda. Now people who where fans of KK Crvena zvezda are fans of former KK FMP and that is around 50% people in Serbia. Team KK Crvena zvezda did not actually disappear, but it is currently frozen, and it will be initiated once again, when they get rid of all the costs. Because of that, new name of the team KK FMP can't be KK Crvena zvezda but KK Crvena zvezda Beograd.