Espoon Honka

Espoon Honka
Founded	1975
Dissolved	2011
Arena	Tapiolan Urheiluhalli
Capacity	1,570
Location	Espoo, Finland
Team colors	White, Green
Championships	7 Finnish Leagues 5 Finnish Cups
Uniforms
Home Away

Petteri Koponen with Espoon Honka in 2007

Espoon Honka was a basketball club based in Espoo, Finland and it played in Korisliiga. The club was dissolved in 2011 due to financial difficulties.

History

Espoon Honka was originally founded in 1975 as a professional team apart from Tapiolan Honka, which worked as a feeder team and took responsibility for organizing youth teams and other activities. Espoon Honka played a total of 16 seasons in the Korisliiga and achieved 7 championship titles.

Espoon Honka didn't play in the 2011–12 season of Korisliiga due to financial problems and the whole team was then dissolved later that year. A new team was then founded under the name Tapiolan Honka.^[1]

Honours

• Finnish Championships (7):
  • 1974, 1976, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2007, 2008
• Finnish Cups (5):
  • 1973, 1974, 1975, 2001, 2009

Notable past players

• Ryan Bell
• Shawn Huff
• Petteri Koponen
• Tuukka Kotti
• Kimmo Muurinen
• Sasu Salin
• Aki Ulander
• Jamar Wilson

Notable past coaches

• Gordon Herbert
• Mihailo Pavićević

References

1. "Honkaa ei nähdä Korisliigassa 2011-2012". yle.fi/urheilu/ (in Finnish). YLE. 8 June 2012. Retrieved 13 November 2014.

External links

• Espoon Honka in Korisliiga
• Espoon Honka in EuroBasket