Trefl Sopot is a Polish professional

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team, based in

Sopot Sopot (; or ) is a seaside resort city in Pomerelia on the southern coast of the Baltic Sea in northern Poland, with a population of approximately 40,000. It is located in Pomeranian Voivodeship, Pomerania Province and has the City with powiat ri ...

, Poland. The team plays in the

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and EuroCup. The club was founded as the replacement of Prokom Asseco Sopot that left the city of Sopot for

Gdynia Gdynia is a city in northern Poland and a seaport on the Baltic Sea coast. With an estimated population of 257,000, it is the List of cities in Poland, 12th-largest city in Poland and the second-largest in the Pomeranian Voivodeship after Gdańsk ...

in 2009.

History

The team was founded as a phoenix club with a new corporate identity after

Asseco Prokom Sopot Arka Gdynia, also known as AMW Arka Gdynia for sponsorship reasons, is a Polish professional basketball team, based in Gdynia. The team plays in the Polish Polish Basketball League, PLK. The club's sponsorship name comes from Akademią Marynarki ...

decided to relocate to

. In its inaugural season, the club played in the Hali 100-lecia. At the beginning of the 2010–11 season, Trefl moved to the

Ergo Arena Ergo Arena (Hala Gdańsk-Sopot) is a multi-purpose indoor arena that was opened in 2010. The boundary between two cities – Sopot and Gdańsk – runs through the very middle of the hall. The arena has a capacity of 11,409 people for sports eve ...

, with a capacity of 15,000 people the largest arena in the PLK. In the 2011–12 season, Sopot reached the PLK Finals where the team faced its predecessor Asseco Prokom Gdynia. In a thrilling best-of-seven series, Sopot lost 4–3. In 2011–12, Sopot won its first trophy when it won the

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. In the following season, Sopot repeated as Cup champions. Alongside these victories, the team also won the

Polish Supercup The Polish Super Cup (, ) is an annually held match between the champions of the Ekstraklasa and the Polish Cup winners or, if the Ekstraklasa champions also win the Polish Cup, the Cup's runners-up. As of 2024, the Polish Super Cup has been p ...

in 2012 and 2013. In the

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, Sopot finished 5th overall, a result that exceeded expectations.Łukasz Kolenda opuści Polskę? Koszykarz mówi, co może się wydarzyć [WYWIAD]
Karol Wasiek (sportowefakty.wp.pl), 16 April 2021. Accessed 20 May 2021.

Trophies

* Polish League (1): **Winners (1): 2023–24 **Runners-up (1): 2011–12 **Third place (1): 2013–14 * Polish Cups (3): **Winners (3): 2011–12, 2012–13,

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**Runners-up (): * Polish Supercups (2): **Winners (2): 2012, 2013 **Runners-up (1): 2023

Season by season

Players

Current roster

Depth chart

Notable players

Head coaches

Kārlis Muižnieks Kārlis Muižnieks (born March 17, 1964, in Riga, Latvian SSR, Soviet Union) is a Latvian professional basketball coach and former player. He was most recently the head coach of Prometey Kamianske of the Ukrainian SuperLeague. Coaching career ...

Žan Tabak Žan Tabak (born 15 June 1970) is a Croatian professional basketball coach and former player who is now serving as the head coach for Trefl Sopot of the PLK. His basketball career, spanning twenty years, was marked by several notable achievemen ...

Darius Maskoliūnas Darius Maskoliūnas (born 6 January 1971) is a Lithuanian professional basketball coach, former player, and politician. Early life Maskoliūnas graduated from the first secondary school, in Jonava. Professional career During his pro club play ...

Jukka Toijala Jukka Toijala (born 9 May 1972) is a Finnish professional basketball coach and former player, who is currently working as the assistant coach of the Yokohama B-Corsairs in Japan's B.League. Previously he worked as the head coach of the Estonia n ...

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Trefl Sopot (Basketball) Basketball teams established in 1995 Basketball teams in Poland Sport in Sopot