Volleyball club Niš (Serbian: Odbojkaški klub Niš), is a professional volleyball team based in Niš, Serbia. It plays in the Serbian volley league.
History
Volleyball club Niš (OK Niš) is a successor team of a former volleyball club Student Niš. The club was founded on 24.06.1972. and during that time, the team was a competitor of lower Serbian leagues. Games and practices were conducted at the basketball club Radnički outdoor court, until 1973, when "22. December" Hall was opened.
In the season 1975-1976, volleyball club Niš (volleyball club Student, at the time) won title of 2nd league East champion, and played in promotion play-offs with the winner of the 2nd league South, Rabotnički Skopje. Student won that play-off game with 3-1, and was promoted into the 1st league of Yugoslavia. It was the club's biggest achievement until promotion to Wiener Staditsche Superliga in 2014-2015 season.
Club name was officially changed in 1997.
2015-2016 squad
| Number
|
Name
|
Position
|
Height (cm)
|
Year of Birth
|
| 2
|
 Andrej Rakić
|
Setter
|
187
|
1997.
|
| 3
|
Aleksandar Pejčić
|
Setter
|
190
|
1990.
|
| 5
|
Strahinja Kuburović
|
Setter
|
197
|
1988.
|
| 6
|
Ivan Perović
|
Outside Hitter
|
193
|
1991.
|
| 8
|
Nemanja Jelić
|
Outside Hitter
|
195
|
1996.
|
| 10
|
Milan Stamenković
|
Opposite
|
195
|
1995.
|
| 11
|
Milan Stojković
|
Middle Blocker
|
204
|
1989.
|
| 12
|
Milan Kostadinović
|
Libero
|
186
|
1990.
|
| 13
|
Predrag Pržić
|
Opposite
|
194
|
1987.
|
| 15
|
Milan Mijalković
|
Middle Blocker
|
202
|
1985.
|
| 16
|
Nemanja Opaćič
|
Outside Hitter
|
197
|
1991.
|
| 17
|
 Darko Angelovski
|
Libero
|
180
|
1994.
|
| 18
|
Aleksandar Ilić
|
Middle Blocker
|
190
|
1993.
|
| 19
|
Dušan Jović
|
Outside Hitter
|
190
|
1997.
|
External links
Club's web page: http://oknis.co.rs/
