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Crvena zvezda (3x3 team)

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Crvena zvezda
Crvena zvezda logo
Nicknamered and whites
Founded9 January 2026 (2026-01-09)[1]
LocationBelgrade, Serbia
Team colorsRed and White
   
Head coachDanilo Lukić

3x3 Crvena zvezda (English: Red Star 3x3 Basketball Club) is a men's professional 3x3 basketball club based in Belgrade, Serbia.[2] It is part of the sports society SD Crvena zvezda. The highest position of this club on FIBA Team ranking was 22nd place, first time achieved on 23 June 2026.

Beginnings

The inaugural roster of 3x3 Crvena zvezda consisted of players that had previously won the silver medal at the 2025 FIBA 3x3 U23 World Cup for the U23 Serbian 3x3 national team.[3] Those players were Miloš Cvrkota, Marko Đorđević, Lazar Kovačević and Vuk Vukićević. In their first–ever appearance, they won the U23 tournament, the fifth stop of the winter BG 3x3 league on 8 February 2026. In the group stage, they defeated Laćarak (22–10) and Aranđelovac (21–14). In the knockout phase, they defeated U23 ANNS (21–6), then Čuka (21–18) and in the final, U23 Partizan (21–15),[4] thus taking first place in the competition of 12 teams. The first coach in the club's history was Danilo Lukić, the former coach of both the world champion, Ub[5], and the Serbia men's national 3x3 team.[6]

Season by season

As of 28 June 2026

Season Tournaments played Tournaments won Wins Defeats
2026 14 3 40 18

2026 Season

First senior tournaments

The first senior tournament they played was the senior version of the Winter BG League, whose U23 edition (V stop) they had won before. They reached the final. The first tournament played abroad was the Light Quest in Antwerp, which served as a qualifier for the Manila Challenger. There they took third place, losing to the eventual winners, Baskets Bonn. At the end of that week, they played in the VI stop of the Winter BG League. Following a pool stage loss to Zagreb Nitui, the team finished second in the pool stage, and set up a quarterfinal matchup with Liman, then the 4th team in the world on FIBA team ranking. This was Zvezda's first-ever duel against a top-tier team, which they lost 15–21.

Domestic title and first participation in FIBA Challengers

Through the performance slot, they secured participation in their first FIBA tournaments, such as the Hengqin Challenger in China, the Shibuya City Challenger in Tokyo, and the World Tour Shanghai. They advanced from the qualifying draw of the Hengqin Challenger, then won against Hangzhou in the pool stage, and finished 7th in the tournament after losing to two German teams. Marko Đorđević got injured early in the qualifying draw of the Shibuya City Challenger, and with the remaining 3 players, Zvezda lost both games later on in the pool stage, finishing the tournament 9th. Those 3 players later won the final tournament of the winter U23 BG League during the break between senior tournaments, playing for the Serbian 3x3 Academy.[7] Zvezda's first senior tournament won was the 15th edition of 3x3 Kragujevac, which was also the second stop of the Serbian championship for the year 2026.[8] The tournament marked the club debut of Dejan Majstorović, who replaced Vuk Vukićević. That was one of the first tournaments in which Majstorović played, following an injury sustained on World Tour in Hong Kong on 20 July 2025[9] and the surgery that followed in August that year.[10]

International Quest domination and FIBA World Tour participations

The first Quest abroad followed, in Valencia, which Zvezda won with all 5 victories, including the final against the host team, who was the first seed.[11][12] This ensured participation in the World Tour in Vienna. The biggest breakthrough came at World Tour Shanghai, where Zvezda finished 4th, while Vuk Vukićević won the Shootout Contest Final.[13] Another international Quest title arrived in Arnhem, where Zvezda defeated 4 Dutch teams and qualified for the World Tour in Amsterdam.[14] They finished World Tour Vienna in 11th place, after 2 losses in pool stage against eventual finalists, Liman, and hosts, Vienna. In the match against Liman, both teams recorded 11 fouls,[15] and the game against Vienna was decided by 12 points from Quincy Diggs[16] and a game-winning two-pointer by Toni Blazan, who played through an injury sustained during that game.[17] At World Tour Amsterdam, they were eliminated in the Qualifying draw. First they lost to the eventual competition winners, Baskets Bonn, in a game in which Vuk Vukićević got injured, and Zvezda committed 12 fouls total, most of them in an early stage of the game. The remaining 3 players then lost to Bucharest and finished tournament 15th.

Roster expansion for new challenges

Injury of Vuk Vukićević and the return of Dejan Majstorović to Ub lead Zvezda to add new players for the Quest in East Sarajevo. Miloš Antić and Aleksa Stojanović joined the team for that Quest after playing for Zvezda on lower ranked tournaments in Croatia that month, alongside some other players. Antić already had a lot of experience at World Tours playing for Riffa from Bahrein, and used to play for Serbian national team in youth categories. Stojanović had a title at Quest in East Sarajevo as a Liman player in 2025. Zvezda lost the final match against Utrecht, and failed to qualify for the World Tour in Lausanne.

Table view

Senior tournaments
WINTER BG LEAGUE - Stop V - 16 February 2026 (Belgrade Serbia)[18] 2nd place
Marko Đorđević - Vuk Vukićević - Miloš Cvrkota - Lazar Kovačević
Pool B Serbia ANNS 21–11
Pool B Serbia Bix agro 3x3 17–16
Quarterfinals Serbia Aranđelovac 21–12
Semifinals Croatia Cibona 18–15
Final Serbia Čuka 17–21
3x3GRIT Lite Quest - 18 March 2026 (Antwerp Belgium)[19] 3rd place
Marko Đorđević - Vuk Vukićević - Miloš Cvrkota - Lazar Kovačević
Pool C Germany Der Stamm 21–11
Pool C France Bordeaux 21–18
Quarterfinals France Ermont 21–11
Semifinals Germany Baskets Bonn 19–21
WINTER BG LEAGUE - Stop VI - 22 March 2026 (Belgrade Serbia)[20] 8th place
Marko Đorđević - Vuk Vukićević - Miloš Cvrkota - Lazar Kovačević
Pool C Serbia U23 Krupanj 19–14
Pool C Croatia Zagreb Nitui 16–20
Quarterfinals Serbia Liman 15–21
Hengqin Challenger - 11–12 April 2026 (Zhuhai Shi China)[21] 7th place
Marko Đorđević - Vuk Vukićević - Miloš Cvrkota - Lazar Kovačević
Qualifying draw pool B Hong Kong HK Central 21–9
Qualifying draw pool B China Hengqin 22–8
Pool D China Hangzhou 19–16
Pool D Germany Baskets Bonn 13–17
Quarterfinals Germany Skyliners 13–21
Shibuya City Challenger - 18–19 April 2026 (Tokyo Japan)[22] 9th place
Marko Đorđević - Vuk Vukićević - Miloš Cvrkota - Lazar Kovačević
Qualifying draw pool B Australia Perth 21–16
Qualifying draw pool B Poland Warsaw 20–18
Pool D Canada Toronto 15–19
Pool D United Kingdom London 15–17
3x3 Kragujevac - 10 May 2026 (Kragujevac Serbia)[23] 1st place
Dejan Majstorović - Marko Đorđević - Miloš Cvrkota - Lazar Kovačević
Pool A Serbia Blok 70 21–14
Pool A Serbia ANNS 21–11
Quarterfinals Serbia Pirot 21–16
Semifinals Serbia Bix agro 3x3 21–14
Final Serbia Užice 22–16
L'Alqueria del Basket 3x3 Quest - 14–16 May 2026 (Valencia Spain)[24] 1st place
Marko Đorđević - Vuk Vukićević - Miloš Cvrkota - Lazar Kovačević
Pool B Spain Bbal Center 22–16
Pool B Republic of Ireland Dublin 21–11
Quarterfinals France Ermont 17–14
Semifinals Latvia Jurmala 22–16
Final Spain Valencia 21–12
World Tour Shanghai 2026 - 23–24 May 2026 (Shanghai China)[25] 4th place
Marko Đorđević - Vuk Vukićević - Miloš Cvrkota - Lazar Kovačević
Pool A China DeQing 21–13
Pool A Serbia Liman 17–22
Quarterfinals Belgium Antwerp 22–15
Semifinals China Hangzhou 12–21
PRO 3x3 TOUR 2026 - Stop III - 5–6 June 2026 (Donji Miholjac Croatia)[26] 2nd place
Marko Đorđević - Aleksa Stojanović - Aleksandar Topalović - Stojan Dodić
Pool A Croatia Osijek 16–21
Pool A Croatia Bazen 3x3 21–14
Quarterfinals Croatia EvoCars 3x3 21–5
Semifinals Hungary HUN 2 16–13
Final Bosnia and Herzegovina Prnjavor 19–22
3x3 PRO Cup 2026 Finals Quest - 6 June 2026 (Arnhem Netherlands)[27] 1st place
Dejan Majstorović - Vuk Vukićević - Miloš Cvrkota - Lazar Kovačević
Pool A Netherlands Twente | OR 21–15
Pool A Netherlands TeamNL U23 21–17
Semifinals Netherlands Almere 20–14
Final Netherlands Utrecht 22–13
World Tour Vienna 2026 - 12–14 June 2026 (Vienna Austria)[28] 11th place
Marko Đorđević - Vuk Vukićević - Miloš Cvrkota - Lazar Kovačević
Pool B Serbia Liman 13–21
Pool B Austria Vienna 18–21
PRO 3x3 TOUR 2026 - Stop IV - 19–20 June 2026 (Vinkovci Croatia)[29] 3rd place
Miloš Antić - Aleksa Stojanović - Aleksandar Topalović - Vukašin Arsović
Pool A Bosnia and Herzegovina Ekskurzija 22–15
Pool A Croatia VEVU 21–10
Quarterfinals Croatia EvoCars 3x3 22–8
Semifinals Bosnia and Herzegovina Srebrenik 20–22
World Tour Amsterdam 2026 - 19–21 June 2026 (Amsterdam Netherlands)[30] 15th place
Marko Đorđević - Vuk Vukićević - Miloš Cvrkota - Lazar Kovačević
Qualifying draw pool B Germany Baskets Bonn 14–18
Qualifying draw pool B Romania Bucharest 14–21
Quest tournament Pale 2026 - 27–28 June 2026 (East Sarajevo Bosnia and Herzegovina)[31] 2nd place
Marko Đorđević - Miloš Antić - Aleksa Stojanović - Lazar Kovačević
Pool B Bosnia and Herzegovina Team 3x3 Zenica 21–17
Pool B Bosnia and Herzegovina Caffe Rebus 21–15
Eightfinals Bosnia and Herzegovina Old School 21–8
Quarterfinals Bosnia and Herzegovina Rusovo 22–14
Semifinals Serbia Radnički Kragujevac 21–19
Final Netherlands Utrecht 16–21

Total matches record at senior level

As of 28 June 2026

TournamentsWinsDefeats
World Tour Finals--
World Tours26
Challengers54
Super Quests--
Super Leagues--
Quests141
Lite Quests31
All other open166
TOTAL4018

Top 3 finishes at senior tournaments

As of 28 June 2026

Tournaments🥇 🥈 🥉
World Tour Finals
World Tours
Challengers
Super Quests
Super Leagues
Quests2 1
Lite Quests 1
All other open1 2 1
TOTAL3 3 2

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