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Arka Gdynia (basketball)

Arka Gdynia (basketball)

Polish basketball team

Arka Gdynia is a Polish professional basketball team, based in Gdynia. The team plays in the Polish PLK. The club's sponsorship name comes from the company Asseco. Historically the team is one of the most successful in Poland, mainly because of the nine championships in a row the team won from 2004 to 2012.

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History

The team was founded in 1995, as STK Trefl Sopot. In its first season, the team won the Polish third division and promotion to the Polish second division. In the 1996–97 season, after winning Group B of the Polish second division, the team was promoted to the top Polish Basketball League, the Dominet Bank Ekstraliga.

In 2003, Prokom Trefl played in the final of the FIBA Europe Champions Cup, against Aris. Starting in 2004, the team began to play in the EuroLeague. In its first EuroLeague season, the club became the first Polish team to reach the EuroLeague's Top 16 stage. In 2009, the club relocated from Sopot to its neighbouring city of Gdynia within the Tricity. Through the 2012–13 season, it was one of 14 clubs across Europe that held Euroleague Basketball A Licenses, which (normally) gave their holders an automatic place in the Regular Season phase of the EuroLeague.[1]

The logo of Asseco Gdynia, used from 2013, until 2018

In 2018, the club changed its name to Arka Gdynia. It also made a return to European-wide competitions for the first time in 6 years, by playing in the 2018–19 EuroCup.

Home match with Zastal Zielona Góra in the 2013–14 PLK season

Names

  • Trefl Sopot (1995–1998)
  • Prokom Trefl Sopot (1998–2008)
  • Asseco Prokom Sopot (2008–2009)
  • Asseco Prokom Gdynia (2009–2013)
  • Asseco Gdynia (2013–2018)
  • Arka Gdynia (2018–2019)
  • Asseco Arka Gdynia (2019–2022)
  • Suzuki Arka Gdynia (2022-)

Arena

Since 2009, Arka Gdynia has played its home games at the 5,500 seat Gdynia Sports Arena.

Honours and titles

Domestic competitions

2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012
2000, 2001, 2006, 2008
2001, 2010

European competitions

Runners-up (1): 2002-03

Season by season

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^1 Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe.

Players

Current roster

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Notable players

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Head coaches

References

  1. [1]
    "Euroleague assembly meets before 2011-12 draw" (Press release). Euroleague Basketball. 2011-07-07. Retrieved 2011-08-01.
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