Espoon Honka - Misplaced Pages

Basketball team in Espoo, Finland

Espoon Honka

Founded

1975

Dissolved

2011

History

Espoon Honka
(1975–2011)
Tapiolan Honka
(2011–present)

Arena

Tapiolan Urheiluhalli

Capacity

1,570

Location

Espoo, Finland

Championships

7 Finnish Leagues
5 Finnish Cups

Home

Away

Espoon Honka, also known as Honka Playboys, was a basketball club based in Espoo, Finland and it played in Korisliiga. The club was dissolved in 2011 due to financial difficulties.

History

Espoon Honka was founded in 1975 as a professional team apart from Tapiolan Honka, which worked as a feeder team and took responsibility for organizing youth teams and other activities. Espoon Honka played 16 seasons in the Korisliiga and won seven championship titles.

Espoon Honka didn't play in the 2011–12 season of Korisliiga due to financial problems and the whole team was then dissolved later that year. A new team was then founded under the name Tapiolan Honka.

Honours

Korisliiga
- Winners (7): 1974, 1976, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2007, 2008
Finnish Cup
- Winners (5): 1973, 1974, 1975, 2001, 2009

Notable players

Note: Flags indicate national team eligibility at FIBA-sanctioned events. Players may hold other non-FIBA nationalities not displayed.

Criteria
To appear in this section a player must have either: Set a club record or won an individual award while at the club Played at least one official international match for their national team at any time Played at least one official NBA match at any time.

Criteria

To appear in this section a player must have either:

Set a club record or won an individual award while at the club
Played at least one official international match for their national team at any time
Played at least one official NBA match at any time.

Head coaches

References

"Honkaa ei nähdä Korisliigassa 2011-2012". yle.fi/urheilu/ (in Finnish). YLE. 8 June 2012. Retrieved 13 November 2014.

External links

Korisliiga

Clubs

2021–22	Bisons Loimaa Helsinki Seagulls Kataja Karhu Kobrat Korihait Kouvot KTP Lahti Nokia Pyrintö Salon Vilpas
Former clubs	Espoo United Lappeenrannan NMKY Namika Lahti Tapiolan Honka Ura

Seasons

1938–39
1939–40
1940–41
~~1941–42~~
~~1942–43~~
1943–44
1944–45
1945–46
1946–47
1947–48
1948–49
1949–50
1950–51
1951–52
1952–53
1953–54
1954–55
1955–56
1956–57
1957–58
1958–59
1959–60
1960–61
1961–62
1962–63
1963–64
1964–65
1965–66
1966–67
1967–68
1968–69
1969–70
1970–71
1971–72
1972–73
1973–74
1974–75
1975–76
1976–77
1977–78
1978–79
1979–80
1980–81
1981–82
1982–83
1983–84
1984–85
1985–86
1986–87
1987–88
1988–89
1989–90
1990–91
1991–92
1992–93
1993–94
1994–95
1995–96
1996–97
1997–98
1998–99
1999–00
2000–01
2001–02
2002–03
2003–04
2004–05
2005–06
2006–07
2007–08
2008–09
2009–10 [fi]
2010–11 [fi]
2011–12
2012–13
2013–14
2014–15
2015–16
2016–17
2017–18
2018–19
2019–20
2020–21
2021–22
2022–23
2023–24

Awards

Category

VTB United League

Seasons

Playoffs

2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020
2021

Finals

2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020
2021

Supercup

2021
2022

All-Star Game

2017
2018

Clubs

Current	Astana Avtodor Saratov CSKA Moscow Enisey Lokomotiv-Kuban MBA Moscow Minsk Nizhny Novgorod Parma Samara UNICS Kazan Zenit Saint Petersburg
Former	Anwil Włocławek ASK Riga Asseco Prokom Azovmash Mariupol Bisons Loimaa Budivelnyk Kyiv ČEZ Nymburk Dnipro Donetsk Dynamo Moscow Espoon Honka Kalev/Cramo Khimki Krasny Oktyabr Krasnye Krylya Kyiv Lietuvos rytas Neptūnas Klaipėda Šiauliai Spartak Saint Petersburg Torpan Pojat Turów Zgorzelec VEF Rīga VITA Tbilisi Žalgiris Kaunas Zielona Góra