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The national team is governed by Basketball Finland. Finland has played in 17 EuroBasket tournaments, with their best finish coming in sixth place at EuroBasket 1967, on home soil. Finland has appeared at the Olympic Games twice, in 1952 as hosts, and 1964. Finland has also qualified for the FIBA World Cup twice, in 2014 and 2023. Since 2011 ...
Helsinki Seagulls is a professional basketball team, based in Helsinki, Finland. The club plays in the Korisliiga, the highest tier of basketball in Finland. The Seagulls were founded in 2013 and made its debut in the Korisliiga in 2014, after promoting in its first season. The team has won the Finnish Cup three times. Seagulls won their first ...
Pantterit (English: Panthers) is a professional basketball club from Helsinki, Finland.The club was formed in 1938 and it has won the men's Finnish championship title for 14 times making it the most successful team in Finnish basketball history.
The Korisliiga is the top-tier professional basketball league in Finland, comprising the top 12 teams of the country.In its current format, each team plays all other teams two times in the regular season, once at home and once away, for a total of 22 regular season games.
Helsinki Basketball Academy is a joint program of the Finnish Basketball Association and Helsinki-based schools Mäkelänrinteen lukio (Mäkelänrinne Sports High School; nicknamed Märsky) and Pohjois-Haagan yhteiskoulu (PHYK). [1] PHYK operates with teens aged 13–15 where they advance to Märsky high school program.
Basketball Finland (Finnish: Suomen Koripalloliitto ry, Swedish: Finska Basketbollförbund) [1] is the governing body of Basketball in Finland. It was founded and became members of FIBA in 1939. Basketball Finland operates the Finland men's national team and Finland women's national team .
The basketball HKT has been played in the national basketball league for 26 seasons, during which it won 504 to 300 match. [1] The club has won five championships in Finland in the period from 1961 to 1965, five silver and two bronze medals. [2] Also the men's basketball department of HKT has won the 1969-70 national Cup. [3]
The Finland women's national basketball team represents Finland in international women's basketball competitions. [2] They are governed by Basketball Finland. Finland has appeared in five editions of the EuroBasket between 1952 and 1987, with 6 wins in 34 matches. It hasn't qualified for a major tournament since.