Korisliiga

Korisliiga ( German Basketball League ) is the highest league in basketball club of men in Finland. The league was in the past also sponsors names; so she was temporarily known as Sparliiga. After the first Finnish Championship 1939, a round-robin tournament between eight teams for the determination of the Master was in fact already been discharged, which can be described as the birth of the Finnish league. The league currently consists of twelve teams that determine the Finnish masters and their best teams to qualify for European club competitions. Master record is Pantterit from Helsinki with 14 title wins, Master 2012, for the first time Nilan Bisons from Loimaa. In the past, aroused among other sensation that with Dennis Rodman and Scottie Pippen in 2005 In 2008, two former NBA All-Stars and NBA champion individual games in the jersey of Torpan Pojat completed in Korisliiga.

Mode

The teams will play in a double round in round-robin tournament (English Round Robin ), so that if his current number of twelve teams, each club has completed 44 games in the regular season. The championship title between the top eight teams will then be played in play-offs. The play-off series will stand in 2012 mode " Best-of -Five" discharged through all rounds of time.

Participant

2012/13 season

  • Forssan Koripojat ( climber )
  • Kataja Basket Club
  • Kauhajoen Karhu
  • Kotkan TP Basket
  • Kouvolan Kouvot
  • Lappeenrannan NMKY
  • Lapuan Korikobrat ( climber )
  • Nilan Bisons ( master )
  • Namika Lahti
  • Salon Vilpas Vikings
  • Tampere Pyrintö
  • UU Korihait

Other well-known teams in the recent past were Espoon Honka and Torpan Pojat, but had to log off their professional teams from the league for financial reasons.

Title holders

International Competitions

Finnish teams succeeded so far no title in European club competitions. In Europe Champions Cup, in which only the respective national champion was qualified besides the defending champion, the respective Finnish champion reached a fairly regular basis in the 1980s, the second round of the twelve best teams, but was never able to qualify for the final round of the top six teams.

The Finnish league is not a member of ULEB why Finnish teams have not participated at European level in the applicable since 2001 club competitions. Finnish teams competed in the recent past alone in competitions of FIBA ​​Europe. Because of the tight schedule Finnish teams took part but only sporadically, so was alone represented Lappeenrannan NMKY before 2012 and reached the same in the FIBA EuroCup Challenge 2006, the semi-finals. After this competition was set a year later, the club participated in the FIBA EuroCup 2007/ 08, in which they reached the main round of the 16 best teams. It was not until 2012 then took two Finnish teams participated in the said competition now Euro Challenge. While Tampere Pyrintö eliminated in the Euro Challenge 2012/13 in the first round, Kataja Basket Club immediately reached the quarter-final play-offs, where they lost against BCM Gravelines.

FIBA Europe 2007–08 FIBA EuroCup EuroChallenge 2012–13 FIBA EuroChallenge
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