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Finnish Basketball League
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. The top six teams advances continues to upper stage and the bottom six teams plays lower stage after 22 games, 5 games at home and 5 games at away versus all other teams in stage. The best two teams from lower group joins to playoffs with upper group teams. Playoffs are played best of seven format, except the quarter-finals which are played best of 5 format. Pantterit holds the record for the most league titles won, with 14. The top level Finnish league for women is the Naisten Korisliiga. Logos Korisliiga logo.png, The official Korisliiga logo used until the 2015–16 season Teams Current teams From 2000s, Korisliiga in timeline Title holders * 1938-39 Ylioppilaskoripalloilijat * 1939-40 Eiran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Naisten Korisliiga
Naisten Korisliiga (Women's Basketball League) is the highest tier of women's basketball in Finland. The competition was formerly known as Koripallon naisten SM-sarja (Women's Basketball Finnish Championship) and was renamed Naisten Korisliiga for the 2013-14 season. History Women's Finnish Championship was first introduced in 1944. The first championship was won by Helsingin Tarmo. In the 1940s, the league had six teams and the title was awarded after the regular season. In 1953 the number of teams was raised to ten. Postseason playoffs were first played in the 1973-74 season, with Nokian Urheilijat emerging victorious after defeating first Tapiolan Honka (2-1) in the Semifinals and then Työväen Mailapojat (2-1) in the Finals. For the 2014-15 season, the league has 10 teams and each team plays each other three times in the regular season, resulting in 27 games per team. The top 8 teams continue to postseason playoffs which are played in Best-of-five format. The team plac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joensuu
Joensuu (; krl, Jovensuu; ) is a city and municipality in North Karelia, Finland, located on the northern shore of Lake Pyhäselkä (northern part of Lake Saimaa) at the mouth of the Pielinen River (''Pielisjoki''). It was founded in 1848. The population of Joensuu is (), and the economic region of Joensuu has a population of 115,000. It is the largest city in Finland. The nearest major city, Kuopio in North Savonia, is located to the west. From Joensuu, the distance to Lappeenranta, the capital of South Karelia, is along Finnish national road 6, Highway 6. As is typical of cities in Eastern Finland, Joensuu is monolingually Finnish language, Finnish. Along with Kuopio, Joensuu is one of major urban, economic, and cultural hubs of Eastern Finland. Joensuu is a student city with a subsidiary of the University of Eastern Finland, which has over 20,000 enrolled students, and a further 4,000 students at the Karelia University of Applied Sciences. Heraldry The explanation of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jarno Nikula
Jarno is a Finnish male given name, which is a variant of Jeremiah. Jarno may refer to: People First name *Jarno Elg (born 1975), Finnish killer *Jarno Hams (born 1974), Dutch strongman * Jarno Heinikangas (born 1979), Finnish football player *Jarno Kärki (born 1994), Finnish ice hockey player *Jarno Koskiranta (born 1986), Finnish ice hockey player *Jarno Kultanen (born 1973), Finnish ice hockey player * Jarno Laasala (born 1979), Finnish actor * Jarno Laur (born 1975), Estonian politician * Jarno Mattila (born 1984), Finnish football player * Jarno Molenberghs (born 1989), Belgian football player *Jarno Opmeer (born 2000), Dutch esports driver *Jarno Parikka (born 1986), Finnish football player *Jarno Pihlava (born 1979), Finnish swimmer *Jarno Saarinen (1945–1973), Finnish motorcycle racer *Jarno Salomaa, Finnish musician *Jarno Sarkula (1973–2020), Finnish musician *Jarno Tenkula (born 1982), Finnish football player *Jarno Trulli (born 1974), Italian racing car driver *Jarn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pohitullin Palloiluhalli
Uusikaupunki Areena ( fi, Pohitullin palloiluhalli) is an indoor basketball sporting arena that is located in Uusikaupunki. It is currently home to the Korihait Finnish professional basketball team, which competes in the Korisliiga. It has also been the homecourt of Finland national basketball team The Finland men's national basketball team ( fi, Suomen koripallomaajoukkue, sv, Finlands herrlandslag i basket) represents Finland in international basketball competition. The national team is governed by Basketball Finland. Finland has playe ... for a couple of times. Korihait. The arena was opened in the year 1981 and has a seating capacity of 1,507 people. Record attendance is 2,500. References {{reflistExternal links [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uusikaupunki
Uusikaupunki (; sv, Nystad, ) is a town and municipality of Finland. It is located in the Southwest Finland region, northwest of Turku and south of Pori. The municipality has a population of () and covers an area of of which is inland water. The population density is . The municipality is unilingually Finnish. Both its Finnish and Swedish names translate literally to "new town". The original name of the main village that was incorporated into Uusikaupunki was Kalainen (roughly translated from Finnish as "rich in fish"). The surrounding region, and especially the neighboring town of Kalanti, which merged with Uusikaupunki in 1993, was already a lively marketplace for wooden objects and salt in the early Middle Ages. Uusikaupunki was founded to legalize this trade. Geography Uusikaupunki is located in the Vakka-Suomi sub-region on the shores of the Gulf of Bothnia. The (''Sirppujoki'') flows through the town and flows into the reservoir of Uusikaupunki in the northern par ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Korihait
Korihait ( en, Basket Sharks) is a Finnish basketball team from Uusikaupunki. It was formed as Uudenkaupungin Urheilijat, shortly UU, in 1898 and has won one Korisliiga Finnish Championship (1990) and two Finnish Cups (1986, 1988). In 1994 UU had financial problems and entered bankruptcy. Korihait then took UU's place in the league. The club play at Pohitullin Sports Hall, which has also hosted the Finland men's national handball team. Players {{player1 , num = 1 , nat = USA , first = Trevor , last = Blondin , pos = PG/SG {{player3 , num = 2 , nat = USA , first = Casey , last = Benson , pos = PG , m = 1.91 , kgs = 85 {{player3 , num = 3 , nat = FIN , first = Elias , last = Eerikinharju , pos = SG , m = 1.87 , kgs = 83 {{player3 , num = 4 , nat = FIN , first = Eemil , last = Wahlbäck , pos = SF , m = 1.95 , kgs = 80 {{player3 , num = 5 , nat = FIN , first = Elias , last = Lahdensuu , pos = SF , m = 1.93 , kgs = 88 {{player3 , num = 10 , ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ville Turja
''Ville'' or "town", but its meaning in the Middle Ages was "farm" (from Gallo-Romance VILLA < Latin '''') and then "village". The derivative suffix ''-ville'' is commonly used in names of cities, s and s, particularly throughout France, Canada and the United States. Usage in France  In France, afte ...
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Lapua
Lapua (; sv, Lappo) is a town and municipality of Finland. It is located next to the Lapua River in the region of South Ostrobothnia. The town has a population of () and covers an area of of which is water. The population density is . The municipality is unilingually Finnish. History In the early 14th century, permanent settlement began to spread to the Lapuanjoki Valley. Residents came from, among other areas, the settlement center of Suur-Sastamala in Upper Satakunta, which had good land and water connections to the north. The focus of Ostrobothnia's settlement was initially on the lower reaches of the Kyrönjoki River. The proximity to the sea of the Kvarken area, which is rich in natural resources, was especially attractive. Lapua at that time had some Lapps who considered the region their wilderness area. The name Lapuan was probably given by the coastal Swedes precisely because of the Lapps who lived in the area. The Battle of Lapua was fought between Swedish and Russ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Korikobrat
Kobrat is a Finnish professional basketball team from Lapua. The team plays in Korisliiga, the highest tier of Finnish basketball. History The club was founded in 1989 as 'Lapuan Koripojat', shortly 'LaKoPo', but was renamed 'Korikobrat' in 2000. The team is playing in the Korisliiga league since the 2012–13 season. In 2016 and 2018, Kobrat finished last and was relegated to the First Division, but recovered their place due to irregularities of other teams. Logos Notable players - Set a club record or won an individual award as a professional player. - Played at least one official international match for his senior national team at any time. * Fiifi Aidoo ( [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Janne Koskimies
Janne is a common given name in the Nordic countries. In Denmark, Norway and Estonia it is considered a feminine name, while in Sweden and Finland it is considered masculine. In Sweden and Finland it is often used as a nickname for people with related (male) names such as Jan, Jean or Johan. The name's origins lie in the ancient Hebrew names Yohanah/Yohanan (feminine/masculine), meaning "Yahweh (God) is gracious". The name spread to Greece along with Christianity, and became Ioanna/Ioannes. In the original, Greek version of the Bible both John the Baptist and John the apostle are referred to as "Ioannes", and the feminine version of the name appears in "Ioanna, the wife of Chuza". The names then, through Latin Vulgate, became Joanna/Johanna/Johanne (feminine), and Johannes (masculine). As the names spread through Europe along with Christianity, a number of simplified derivatives appeared, resulting in the large family of names to which Janne belongs: Johanna, John, Jan, Joan, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kauhajoen Liikuntahalli
Kauhajoki (; literally “Scoop River”) is a town and municipality of Finland. It is located in the province of Western Finland and is part of the Southern Ostrobothnia region, southwest of the city of Seinäjoki. The population of Kauhajoki is () and the municipality covers an area of of which is inland water (). The population density is . The town is unilingually Finnish. The neighboring municipalities of Kauhajoki are Isojoki in the southwest, Kankaanpää in the south, Karijoki in the west, Karvia in the southeast, Kurikka in the north and Teuva in the west. Kauhajoki is the center of the Suupohja sub-region. Geography Most of Kauhajoki is located north of the Suomenselkä's watershed. Most of the municipal area is a gently sloping plains to the west and north. On the border of the Kauhajoki and Isojoki is Lauhanvuori, one of the highest points in Western Finland, which rises 231 meters above sea level. However, the highest point of Lauhanvuori is on the Isojoki ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
