The Norrköping Dolphins are a professional basketball club from

Norrköping Norrköping (; ) is a city in the province of Östergötland in eastern Sweden and the seat of Norrköping Municipality, Östergötland County, about 160 km southwest of the national capital Stockholm, 40 km east of county seat Linköp ...

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. It plays in the

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 ...

, the highest league in Sweden and won the league six times. Home games of Norrköping are played at the Stadium Arena.

History

The club was established as Hageby BK ( sv, Hageby Basketklubb) on May 8, 1963, by Åke Björck. Its name was taken from the

Hageby Hageby is a Million Programme area in southern Norrköping, Sweden. It is mostly made up of multi-family residential buildings built between the years of 1950 and 1960. One of the biggest shopping mall A shopping mall (or simply mall) is a North ...

district in

. The men's team made its debut in the Swedish first tier in 1964–65 but were relegated after only one year. They returned eleven years later, in 1976–77, with the American players Fran O'Hanlon and Kenny Grant on the roster. In 1980, Hageby won its first national championship after defeating

Alviks BK Alviks Basketklubb or simply Alvik was a Swedish basketball club based in Alvik, a residential district in western Stockholm Municipality. History The club was formed on August 31, 1956 by Erik Bremer and became one of the major basketball power ...

in the finals, 3–1. In 1992 the Swedish basketball league was formed and the club changed its name to Norrköping Dolphins.

Arena

The Stadium Arena is the home arena of the Dolphins since its opening in December 2008. It holds capacity for 3,500 people.

Trophies

*Winners (7): 1979–80, 1997–98, 2009–10, 2011–12, 2017–18, 2020-21, 2021–22 *''Runners-up (1):'' 2015–16

Season by season

Players

Roster

Notable players

Women's team

The Dolphins also have a women's team playing in the highest Swedish level and have won the championship in 2000, 2013 and 2022. In the 1999–2000 season, they were known as Norrköping Flamingos.

External links

Team profile at eurobasket.com
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