Kotkan Työväen Palloilijat Basket, shortly KTP Basket, is the largely independent
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 ...
team of
Kotkan Työväen Palloilijat
Kotkan Työväen Palloilijat (abbreviated as KTP) is a Finnish association football, football club based in Kotka, and currently competing in Finland's top-tier, the Veikkausliiga. The club was founded in 1927 and its colours are green and whi ...
, a
Finnish sports club based in
Kotka
Kotka (; ) is a town in Finland, located on the southeastern coast of the country at the mouth of the Kymi River. The population of Kotka is approximately , while the Kotka-Hamina sub-region, sub-region has a population of approximately . It is th ...
, and has played in the
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 ...
since 1957. The club has won the
Finnish championship six times.
Trophies
*
Finnish Championships: 6
:1958, 1967, 1988, 1991, 1993, 1994
:
Runner-up: 1960, 1961, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1990, 2013
2013 was the first year since 1987 to contain four unique digits (a span of 26 years).
2013 was designated as:
*International Year of Water Cooperation
*International Year of Quinoa
Events
January
* January 5 – 2013 Craig, Alask ...
:
Bronze: 1957, 1959, 1964, 1966, 1970, 1976, 1982, 1984, 2004, 2011, 2015
2015 was designated by the United Nations as:
* International Year of Light
* International Year of Soil __TOC__
Events
January
* January 1 – Lithuania officially adopts the euro as its currency, replacing the litas, and becomes ...
, 2019
This was the year in which the first known human case of COVID-19 was documented, preceding COVID-19 pandemic, the pandemic which was declared by the World Health Organization the following year.
Up to that point, 2019 had been described as ...
*
Finnish Cups: 9
:1978, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1987, 1990, 1993, 2003, 2004
Sponsorship names
Due to sponsorship reasons the team has also been known as:
*Team TEHO Sport (2013–14; European competitions)
Players
Current roster
Individual awards
;
Korisliiga MVP
*
Larry Pounds – 1991
*
Jerald Fields – 2007
*
Tim Blue – 2012
*
Remu Raitanen - 2022
Notable players
Season by season
External links
Official website
{{Korisliiga
Basketball teams established in 1927
Basketball teams in Finland
Kotka
1927 establishments in Finland
Sport in Kymenlaakso