Espoon Honka is a basketball

Basketball

Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...

 club based in Espoo

Espoo

Espoo is the second largest city and municipality in Finland. The population of the city of Espoo is . It is part of the Helsinki Metropolitan Area along with the cities of Helsinki, Vantaa, and Kauniainen. Espoo shares its eastern border with Helsinki and Vantaa, while enclosing Kauniainen....

, Finland

Finland

Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...

. Espoo is Finland's second largest city, with a population over 240,000. It is nearby Helsinki

Helsinki

Helsinki is the capital and largest city in Finland. It is in the region of Uusimaa, located in southern Finland, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, an arm of the Baltic Sea. The population of the city of Helsinki is , making it by far the most populous municipality in Finland. Helsinki is...

.

Originally, one sport club Tapion Honka existed in Espoo. It was founded in 1957. However, in 1975 the club split into three separate clubs, divided by their respective sports of basketball (Tapiolan Honka), soccer (FC Honka

FC Honka

FC Honka is a Finnish football club, based in Tapiola, Espoo. It was promoted into the Finnish premier division , for the first time in its history, at the end of the 2005 season. The club's manager is Mika Lehkosuo, and it plays its home matches at Tapiolan urheilupuisto...

), and ice hockey

Ice hockey

Ice hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...

 (Jäähonka).

Tapiolan Honka has men's, women's, and youth teams. The Honka Playboys won the Korisliiga

Korisliiga

Korisliiga is the top league of basketball in Finland, comprising the top 12 teams of the country. In current format each team plays all other teams twice in the regular season, both at home and away...

 championship in 2006, under the command of Serbian coach Mihailo Pavicevic.

Top players that currently play for Honka are Finnish nationalteam players Kimmo Muurinen and Jukka Matinen and Americans Monte Cummings and Akeem Scott.

External links

• Espoon Honka - Official site (Finnish)
• Finnish Basketball Association / Korisliiga (Finnish)
• Eurobasket - Team page (English)