Namika Lahti was a

basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular court, compete with the primary objective of shooting a basketball (approximately in diameter) through the defender's h ...

club based in

Lahti Lahti (; sv, Lahtis) is a city and municipality in Finland. It is the capital of the region of Päijänne Tavastia (Päijät-Häme) and its growing region is one of the main economic hubs of Finland. Lahti is situated on a bay at the southern e ...

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 ...

. The club played in the

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 top Finnish championship league. The club was established in 1898 in

Vyborg Vyborg (; rus, Вы́борг, links=1, r=Výborg, p=ˈvɨbərk; fi, Viipuri ; sv, Viborg ; german: Wiborg ) is a town in, and the administrative center of, Vyborgsky District in Leningrad Oblast, Russia. It lies on the Karelian Isthmus n ...

and moved to Lahti in 1947. In 2015, the club was dissolved, after economic problems.

Name and history

"Namika" is a nickname for NMKY, meaning

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. The association was founded in 1898 in

, and moved to Lahti after the

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as Vyborg became a part of

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.Lahden NMKY
Namika Lahti Official Homepage (in Finnish). Retrieved 27 August 2014.

Titles

(2): :2000, 2009 :''Runners-up (4):'' 1996, 2002, 2004, 2007 :Third place: 2001 *

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(3): :1989, 1994, 2000

Season by season

Notable players

* Ricky Hickman (1 season: 2009–10) * Robert Arnold (1 season: 2013–14) * Timo Lampen (8 seasons: 1959-67, retired jersey #6)

References

External links

Official website
Defunct basketball teams in Finland Sport in Lahti Sports clubs founded by the YMCA 1898 establishments in Finland 2015 disestablishments in Finland {{Korisliiga