Djurgårdens IF Basket, also known as simply Djurgården, is a Swedish

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club based in

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. It is the basketball section of the

Djurgårdens IF Djurgårdens Idrottsförening, commonly known simply as Djurgårdens IF, Djurgården (), and (especially locally) Djurgår'n (), Dif or DIF – is a Swedish sports association with several sections, located in Stockholm. Name The club is named ...

multi-sports club, established in 1891. In 2019, Djurgården won the

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, Sweden's second tier league, and thus promoted to the first tier

Basketligan Svenska Basketligan, or the Swedish Basketball League (SBL), is the premier league for professional basketball in Sweden. The league was originally established in 1992 as Basketligan and was known as that prior to the season of 2006–07, but whe ...

for the first time.

Honours

**Winners (1): 2018–19

Notable players

* Bryan Alberts (1 season: 2019–20) *

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(2 season: 2016–18) *

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(1 season: 2019–20) * Aaron Pervis Williams (1 season: 2019–20)

References

External links

Official website
{{Basketligan Djurgårdens IF Basketball teams in Sweden