237px, Petteri Koponen with Espoon Honka in 2007 Espoon Honka, also known as Honka Playboys, was a

basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular Basketball court, court, compete with the primary objective of #Shooting, shooting a basketball (ball), basketball (appr ...

club based in

Espoo Espoo (, ; sv, Esbo) is a city and municipality in the region of Uusimaa in the Republic of Finland. It is located on the northern shore of the Gulf of Finland, bordering the cities of Helsinki, Vantaa, Kirkkonummi, Vihti and Nurmijärvi ...

Finland Finland ( fi, Suomi ; sv, Finland ), officially the Republic of Finland (; ), is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It shares land borders with Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of B ...

and it played in

Korisliiga 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 o ...

. 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 Tapiolan Honka is a basketball club based in Espoo, Finland. Their men's team plays in Korisliiga and their women's team plays in Naisten Korisliiga, both on highest tiers of Finnish basketball. History It was founded as a sports club Tapion Ho ...

, which worked as a feeder team and took responsibility for organizing

youth team In sporting terminology, a youth system (or youth academy) is a youth investment program within a particular team or league, which develops and nurtures young talent in farm teams, with the vision of using them in the first team in the future if t ...

s and other activities. Espoon Honka played 16 seasons in the

and won seven championship titles. Espoon Honka didn't play in the 2011–12 season of

due to financial problems and the whole team was then dissolved later that year. A new team was then founded under the name

Honours

**Winners (7): 1974, 1976, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2007, 2008 *

Finnish Cup The Finnish Cup ( fi, Suomen cup; sv, Finlands cup) is Finland's main national cup competition in football. This yearly competition is open for all member clubs of the FA of Finland and has been played since 1955. The winner qualifies for the ...

**Winners (5): 1973, 1974, 1975, 2001, 2009

Notable players

Head coaches

Gordon Herbert Gordon Walter Herbert (born February 16, 1959) is a Canadian-Finnish professional basketball coach and a retired professional basketball player. He is the head coach of the Germany men's national basketball team, Germany national team. Playing car ...

Mihailo Pavićević Mihailo Pavićević ( sr-cyr, Михаило Павићевић, born March 15, 1958) is a Montenegrin professional basketball coach and former player. He currently works as the head coach for Mornar of the Montenegrin Basketball League and the ...

References

External links

Espoon Honka in Korisliiga

Espoon Honka in EuroBasket
Basketball teams in Finland Basketball teams established in 1957 Sport in Espoo {{Europe-basketball-team-stub