Arka Gdynia is a Polish professional women's
basketball
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club. It was founded in 1946 in the city of
Gdańsk
Gdańsk ( , also ; ; csb, Gduńsk;Stefan Ramułt, ''Słownik języka pomorskiego, czyli kaszubskiego'', Kraków 1893, Gdańsk 2003, ISBN 83-87408-64-6. , Johann Georg Theodor Grässe, ''Orbis latinus oder Verzeichniss der lateinischen Benen ...
as Spójnia Gdańsk. In 1992 the club moved from Gdańsk to
Gdynia
Gdynia ( ; ; german: Gdingen (currently), (1939–1945); csb, Gdiniô, , , ) is a city in northern Poland and a seaport on the Baltic Sea coast. With a population of 243,918, it is the List of cities in Poland, 12th-largest city in Poland and ...
and changed the name to Bałtyk Gdynia. Then it changed its name several times. From 2001 till 2010 the name of the club was Lotos Gdynia after its titular sponsor
Grupa Lotos S.A. Since 2014 the name was Basket 90 Gdynia and from 2018 the club is called Arka Gdynia. It plays in the
Energa Basket Liga Kobiet, the highest competition in
Poland
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.
Profile
in eurobasket.com
Titles
* EuroLeague Women:
** 2nd place (2): 2002, 2004
* Polish Championship (13): 1996, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2009, 2010, 2020, 2021
* Polish Cup
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(9): 1970, 1980, 1997, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2020
Current roster
Notable former players
References
External links
Sport in Gdynia
Women's basketball teams in Poland
EuroLeague Women clubs
Basketball teams established in 1946
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