Basketball Finland (, ) is the governing body of
Basketball in Finland
Sport is considered a national pastime in Finland and many Finns visit different sporting events regularly. Pesäpallo is the national sport of Finland, although the most popular forms of sport in terms of television viewers and media coverage ...
. It was founded and became members of
FIBA
The International Basketball Federation (FIBA ; French language, French: ) is an association of national organizations which governs the sport of basketball worldwide. FIBA defines the rules of basketball, specifies the Basketball equipment ...
in 1939.
Basketball Finland operates the
Finland men's national team and
Finland women's national team. They organize national competitions in Finland, for both the men's and women's senior teams and also the youth national basketball teams. They also organize the
Helsinki Basketball Academy.
The top professional league in Finland is
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 ...
.
See also
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Finland men's national basketball team
The Finland men's national basketball team (, ) represents Finland in international basketball competition. The national team is governed by Basketball Finland.
Finland has played in 17 EuroBasket tournaments, with their best finish coming in ...
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Finland men's national under-20 basketball team
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Finland men's national under-18 basketball team
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Finland men's national under-17 basketball team
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Finland women's national basketball team
The Finland women's national basketball team represents Finland in international women's basketball competitions. They are governed by Basketball Finland.
Finland has appeared in five editions of the EuroBasket Women, EuroBasket between 1952 a ...
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Finland women's national under-20 basketball team
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Finland women's national under-18 basketball team
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Finland women's national under-16 basketball team
References
External links
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Finland FIBA profile
1939 establishments in Finland
Sports organizations established in 1939
Basketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular Basketball court, court, compete with the primary objective of #Shooting, shooting a basketball (ball), basketball (appro ...
Basketball in Finland
National members of FIBA Europe
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