Arka Gdynia (basketball)

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Arka Gdynia (basketball)
Founded 2009 (in Sopot: 1995)
Hall Hala Sportowo-Widowiskowa Gdynia /
Ergo Arena
(4,334 / 15,000 seats)
Homepage http://www.assecogdynia.pl/
CEO Przemysław Sęczkowski
General Director Małgorzata Rudowska
Trainer Przemysław Frasunkiewicz
league Polska Liga Koszykówki
2018/19: 3rd place
Colours Yellow blue
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successes
Polish champion 2004 to 2012 (until 2009 as Trefl Sopot)
Polish cup winner 2000, 2001, 2006, 2008
Vice EuroCup Challenge 2003
quarter-finals ULEB Euroleague 2010

Arka Gdynia is a Polish basketball club from the northern Polish city of Gdynia , which plays in the Polska Liga Koszykówki , the highest Polish basketball league. There the club succeeded in winning the championship title several times.

history

The club was founded only a few years ago, since until the 2007/2008 season under Prokom Trefl Sopot and 2008/2009 Asseco Prokom Sopot was played. Due to disagreements in management, Ryszard Krauze , entrepreneur and main sponsor, decided to build his own team in the neighboring city of Gdynia . With the 2009/2010 season, two independent clubs from the Tri-City League started in the highest Polish league - Asseco Prokom Gdynia and Trefl Sopot . Hala Sportowo-Widowiskowa Gdynia with 4,334 seats was selected as the venue . In the following years the successes were continued without much effort and the championship was won every year. Up until the 2011/12 season, when both teams met in the final for the first time and Gdynia won the best-of-seven series 4-3, all derbies were won by Gdynia. It is noteworthy that the derbies in the Ergo Arena , where Asseco Prokom also plays its home games in the Euroleague and which is otherwise the home ground of Trefl Sopot, are attended by over 10,000 spectators.

So far, the team in European competitions rarely made it past the preliminary round. The exception, before the start of the winning streak in the Polish championship, was reaching the final of the FIBA EuroCup Challenge 2003, a competition for European clubs that had not been able to take part in three higher-ranking European club competitions. In the final the Greek club Aris Thessaloniki was defeated by one point . In 2010 , the American Ronald Burrell, also known from the German basketball league, and the German national player Jan-Hendrik Jagla reached the quarter-finals in the highest European club competition ULEB Euroleague, in which they were defeated in four games by the eventual finalist Olympiacos . Reaching the play-off series of the top eight European teams was seen as a great achievement. US-American import players in particular use the ULEB Euroleague stage at Asseco Prokom to recommend themselves for better-paid contracts in southern European leagues or in Russia. For example , after reaching the quarter-finals in 2010, David Logan moved to the Spanish ACB league , while Qyntel Woods went to Russia.

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