Team

Krka, Novo Mesto

Beginnings

Since the club for decades did not compete at the highest level, it is not the best known fact that Krka as a club has a truly long lasting tradition. In 1948 the club, that until the 1990's competed in the lower divisions, was founded in Novo mesto.

Glory Days

The outburst of quality basketball was seen in Novo mesto in 2000, when Krka, led by excellent, back then still youngsters, Simon Petrov and Matjaž Smodiš, has become the first team to remove Union Olimpija from Slovenian championship throne. Later they competed at the highest European club level – Suproleague and Euroleague. However, the greatest success for Novo mesto basketball came in 2011, when led by head coach Aleksandar Džikić, Krka climbed on top of EuroChallenge cup and became the champion of this European club competition. The same season Krka also reached the ABA League Final Four tournament. The club has also established itself at the top of domestic scene lately, as they have won no less than 7 national championship trophies since 2000. In 2018 the side, led by Simon Petrov won the ABA League 2 in the first edition of the ABA League 2, and they repeated the success in the 2022/23, when the squad, led from the bench by Gašper Okorn won the NLB ABA League 2 trophy in the Domžale Playoffs Tournament.

Club Information

	Župančičevo sprehajališče 1, 8000 Novo Mesto, Slovenia SHOW MAP
	info@basketkrka.si
	+386 7 39 39 550
	+386 39 39 552
	+386 7 39 39 555

Administration

President:	Andraž Šuštarič
General Manager:	Jure Balažić

Venue

ŠD Leona Štuklja Novo Mesto
	Šegova ulica 112, 8000 Novo Mesto, Slovenia SHOW MAP

Trophy Case

NLB ABA League 2

2018, 2023

Eurochallenge Cup

2011

Slovenian League

2000, 2003, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

Slovenian Cup

2014, 2015, 2016, 2021

Slovenian Supercup

2010, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2016

Club Transfers

Players left Season 2025/26

Brady Skeens
Tayler Persons (Bosna Visit Sarajevo)
Miha Cerkvenik (Cedevita Olimpija)
Tibor Mirtič
Kendall Robinson
Aleksandar Bursać
Jakob Čebašek
Jan Špan
Bine Plut (Zlatorog)
Robert Jurković (Ilirija)
Lovro Buljević (Zadar)

Players arrived Season 2025/26

Jan Rebec (Široki TT Kabeli)
Lovro Urbiha (Kansai Helios Domžale)
Lovro Buljević (Mornar-Barsko zlato)
Urban Oman (ECE Triglav Kranj)
Sukhmail Mathon (M Basket-Delamode Mazeikiai)
Mario Ihring (GTK Gliwice)
Leon Šantelj (Kvarner)
Victor Bailey Jr. (Niners Chemnitz)
Krišs Helmanis (Diablos Rojos del México)
Blaž Mahkovic (Kansai Helios)

Team Roster

#	Name	Position	Height	Date of Birth	Nationality
	Timotej Balažić	Shooting Guard	192	08.03.2008	SVN
	Blaž Mahkovic	Forward	201	21.03.1990	SVN
7	Niko Bačvić	Guard	191	23.09.1997	SVN
9	Krišs Helmanis	Center	211	07.04.2002	LVA
10	Urban Oman	Forward	198	02.12.1998	SVN
13	Lovro Urbiha	Power Forward	204	27.10.2003	SVN
20	Jazon Krošelj	Guard	185	20.09.2008	SVN
24	Žak Smrekar	Guard	196	10.08.2006	SVN
31	Jan Rebec	Shooting Guard	192	28.09.1993	SVN
33	Mario Ihring	Guard	193	13.06.1998	SVK
41	Sukhmail Mathon	Center	208	01.05.1998	USA
47	Jaka Klobučar	Guard	202	27.03.2003	SVN
55	Leon Šantelj	Power Forward	205	25.04.1995	SVN
	Dejan Jakara	Coach

Club Statistics

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Game Stats

			overall		FG2			FG3			FT			Rebs						Blck		Foul
			Pts	%	M	A	%	M	A	%	M	A	%	D	O	T	Ass	St	To	Fv	Ag	Cm	Rv	Val
1	Partizan-Krka	L	78	45.8	19	32	59.4	8	27	29.6	16	17	94.1	23	5	28	17	10	15	3	2	17	19	88
2	Krka-Cluj	L	83	33.3	19	48	39.6	8	33	24.2	21	31	67.7	24	22	46	14	7	15	3	4	19	24	75
3	Igokea m:tel-Krka	L	71	45.9	21	33	63.6	7	28	25	8	17	47.1	16	12	28	18	4	18	4	0	20	24	69
4	Krka-Dubai	L	79	44.6	15	29	51.7	10	27	37	19	23	82.6	22	8	30	14	5	13	3	1	22	23	83
5	SC Derby-Krka	L	75	43.1	20	37	54.1	5	21	23.8	20	22	90.9	16	8	24	10	5	17	5	4	18	25	70
6	FMP-Krka	L	61	37	10	25	40	10	29	34.5	11	14	78.6	18	8	26	9	3	10	0	2	22	21	49
8	Split-Krka	W	91	46	18	32	56.3	11	31	35.5	22	23	95.7	21	9	30	20	5	9	3	2	19	22	106
9	Krka-Borac	W	81	42.1	17	30	56.7	7	27	25.9	26	29	89.7	23	14	37	18	6	16	5	4	22	28	97
10	Cluj-Krka	L	82	43.8	21	41	51.2	7	23	30.4	19	23	82.6	22	7	29	18	5	12	2	5	17	21	83
11	Krka-Partizan	L	92	46.7	17	28	60.7	11	32	34.4	25	31	80.6	19	11	30	16	5	12	3	2	16	29	107
12	Dubai-Krka	L	61	35	15	34	44.1	6	26	23.1	13	15	86.7	19	5	24	13	6	10	0	2	16	20	55
13	Krka-SC Derby	W	77	50.8	24	31	77.4	7	30	23.3	8	17	47.1	16	11	27	22	7	10	1	3	15	25	92
15	Krka-FMP	W	81	41.5	19	33	57.6	8	32	25	19	23	82.6	26	7	33	15	7	8	2	1	18	24	93
16	Borac-Krka	L	69	38.6	11	31	35.5	11	26	42.3	14	20	70	21	10	31	19	6	14	1	4	20	25	72
17	Krka-Split	W	105	50	20	32	62.5	14	36	38.9	23	26	88.5	26	8	34	25	5	9	6	2	23	26	130
18	Krka - Igokea m:tel
20	Vienna - Krka
22	Krka - Ilirija
23	Zadar - Krka
25	Krka - Mega
27	Spartak - Krka
29	Ilirija - Krka
31	Mega - Krka
33	Krka - Spartak
35	Krka - Zadar
36	Krka - Vienna
	Average:		79.1	42.9	17.7	33.1	53.6	8.7	28.5	30.4	17.6	22.1	79.8	20.8	9.7	30.5	16.5	5.7	12.5	2.7	2.5	18.9	23.7	84.6
T:15	Total:		1186	42.9	266	496	53.6	130	428	30.4	264	331	79.8	312	145	457	248	86	188	41	38	284	356	1269

Player Stats

			overall		FG2			FG3			FT			Rebs						Blck		Foul
	GP	Min	Pts	%	M	A	%	M	A	%	M	A	%	D	O	T	Ass	St	To	Fv	Ag	Cm	Rv	+/-	Val
Bačvić N.	14	258	86	31	16	37	43.2	6	34	17.6	36	39	92.3	22	5	27	49	17	29	0	5	19	42	17	116
Bailey Jr. V.	11	306	188	45.2	44	81	54.3	22	65	33.8	34	37	91.9	31	1	32	12	5	21	3	2	13	32	-90	153
Buljević L.	8	109	35	39.4	9	18	50	4	15	26.7	5	10	50	15	12	27	5	0	13	5	3	21	19	-52	29
Helmanis K.	6	94	42	53.1	14	22	63.6	3	10	30	5	12	41.7	15	7	22	5	3	3	6	3	13	8	7	45
Ihring M.	13	295	129	41.7	29	52	55.8	14	51	27.5	29	34	85.3	22	7	29	54	11	23	1	3	30	50	-61	153
Klobučar J.	10	118	27	35	3	9	33.3	4	11	36.4	9	11	81.8	17	3	20	7	1	8	1	0	12	11	24	32
Krošelj J.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Mahkovic B.	3	75	43	39.3	8	14	57.1	3	14	21.4	18	22	81.8	11	3	14	9	3	5	1	1	10	19	25	52
Mathon S.	15	360	197	55	67	123	54.5	4	6	66.7	51	69	73.9	48	43	91	25	5	20	6	8	31	65	-7	254
Oman U.	15	265	58	38.8	6	11	54.5	13	38	34.2	7	8	87.5	29	9	38	15	10	5	4	1	23	6	-19	71
Rebec J.	12	236	71	28.6	13	23	56.5	9	54	16.7	18	19	94.7	21	8	29	25	7	14	2	2	24	33	-17	71
Šantelj L.	12	172	43	50	13	23	56.5	3	9	33.3	8	10	80	12	8	20	5	4	8	2	2	25	16	0	37
Smrekar Ž.	14	301	138	40.2	21	47	44.7	22	60	36.7	30	36	83.3	30	12	42	21	9	22	9	5	34	32	6	120
Urbiha L.	15	365	129	47.4	23	36	63.9	23	61	37.7	14	24	58.3	39	27	66	16	11	17	1	3	29	23	-78	136
Bačvić N.	14	18	6.1	31	1.1	2.6	43.2	0.4	2.4	17.6	2.6	2.8	92.3	1.6	0.4	1.9	3.5	1.2	2.1	0	0.4	1.4	3	1.2	8.3
Bailey Jr. V.	11	28	17.1	45.2	4	7.4	54.3	2	5.9	33.8	3.1	3.4	91.9	2.8	0.1	2.9	1.1	0.5	1.9	0.3	0.2	1.2	2.9	-8.2	13.9
Buljević L.	8	14	4.4	39.4	1.1	2.3	50	0.5	1.9	26.7	0.6	1.3	50	1.9	1.5	3.4	0.6	0	1.6	0.6	0.4	2.6	2.4	-6.5	3.6
Helmanis K.	6	16	7	53.1	2.3	3.7	63.6	0.5	1.7	30	0.8	2	41.7	2.5	1.2	3.7	0.8	0.5	0.5	1	0.5	2.2	1.3	1.2	7.5
Ihring M.	13	23	9.9	41.7	2.2	4	55.8	1.1	3.9	27.5	2.2	2.6	85.3	1.7	0.5	2.2	4.2	0.8	1.8	0.1	0.2	2.3	3.8	-4.7	11.8
Klobučar J.	10	12	2.7	35	0.3	0.9	33.3	0.4	1.1	36.4	0.9	1.1	81.8	1.7	0.3	2	0.7	0.1	0.8	0.1	0	1.2	1.1	2.4	3.2
Krošelj J.	0
Mahkovic B.	3	25	14.3	39.3	2.7	4.7	57.1	1	4.7	21.4	6	7.3	81.8	3.7	1	4.7	3	1	1.7	0.3	0.3	3.3	6.3	8.3	17.3
Mathon S.	15	24	13.1	55	4.5	8.2	54.5	0.3	0.4	66.7	3.4	4.6	73.9	3.2	2.9	6.1	1.7	0.3	1.3	0.4	0.5	2.1	4.3	-0.5	16.9
Oman U.	15	18	3.9	38.8	0.4	0.7	54.5	0.9	2.5	34.2	0.5	0.5	87.5	1.9	0.6	2.5	1	0.7	0.3	0.3	0.1	1.5	0.4	-1.3	4.7
Rebec J.	12	20	5.9	28.6	1.1	1.9	56.5	0.8	4.5	16.7	1.5	1.6	94.7	1.8	0.7	2.4	2.1	0.6	1.2	0.2	0.2	2	2.8	-1.4	5.9
Šantelj L.	12	14	3.6	50	1.1	1.9	56.5	0.3	0.8	33.3	0.7	0.8	80	1	0.7	1.7	0.4	0.3	0.7	0.2	0.2	2.1	1.3	0	3.1
Smrekar Ž.	14	22	9.9	40.2	1.5	3.4	44.7	1.6	4.3	36.7	2.1	2.6	83.3	2.1	0.9	3	1.5	0.6	1.6	0.6	0.4	2.4	2.3	0.4	8.6
Urbiha L.	15	24	8.6	47.4	1.5	2.4	63.9	1.5	4.1	37.7	0.9	1.6	58.3	2.6	1.8	4.4	1.1	0.7	1.1	0.1	0.2	1.9	1.5	-5.2	9.1

FG2, FG3 - Field Goals

M - Made

Ag - Against

Rebs - Rebounds

St - Steals

FT - Free Throws

A - Attempted

Foul - Foul

D - Defensive

To - Turnover

Min - Minutes

Blck - Blocks

Cm - Committed

O - Offensive

Val - Index Value

Pts - Points

Fv - in Favoure of

Rv - Received

Ass - Assists

W - Won, L - Lost

Krka, Novo Mesto

Beginnings

Glory Days

Club Information

Administration

Venue

Trophy Case

NLB ABA League 2

Eurochallenge Cup

Slovenian League

Slovenian Cup

Slovenian Supercup

Club Transfers

Players left Season 2025/26

Players arrived Season 2025/26

Team Roster

Club Statistics

Game Stats

Player Stats

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