237px, Petteri Koponen with Espoon Honka in 2007 Espoon Honka, also known as Honka Playboys, was a

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club based in

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and it played in

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 ...

. The club was dissolved in 2011 due to financial difficulties.

History

Espoon Honka was founded in 1975 as a professional team apart from Tapiolan Honka, which worked as a feeder team and took responsibility for organizing

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s and other activities. Espoon Honka played 16 seasons in the

and won seven championship titles. Espoon Honka didn't play in the 2011–12 season of

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.

Honours

**Winners (7): 1974, 1976, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2007, 2008 *

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**Winners (5): 1973, 1974, 1975, 2001, 2009

Notable players

Head coaches

* Gordon Herbert * Mihailo Pavićević

References

External links

Espoon Honka in Korisliiga

Espoon Honka in EuroBasket
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