Basketball league
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 of 22 regular season games. The top six teams advances continues to upper stage and the bottom six teams plays lower stage after 22 games, 5 games at home and 5 games at away versus all other teams in stage. The best two teams from lower group joins to playoffs with upper group teams. Playoffs are played best of seven format, except the quarter-finals which are played best of 5 format. Pantterit holds the record for the most league titles won, with 14. The top level Finnish league for women is the Naisten Korisliiga.
Logos
Teams
Current teams
From 2000s, Korisliiga in timeline
Title holders
Finals
Performance by club
Teams shown in italics are no longer in existence.
Records
All-time table of teams
Updated after the 2021–22 season.[1]
All-time leaders
Source: Basket.fi
Single game records
Source: Basket.fi
Individual player records
As of after the 2021–22 season.[2]
- Most points scored in a game:
- 79 by Joe Wright on February 12, 1992 in Turku NKMY 117–145 Panterit
- Highest efficiency score in a game
- 70 by Larry Pounds on November 24, 1985 in Kotka Työväe's Ballers 100–73 Säynätsalo Riento
- Most 2-point field goals made in a game
- 24 by Herbert Crook on March 11, 1993 in Helsingin NMKY 132–111 Turun NMKY
- Most 3-point field goals made in a game
- 14 by Adonis Jordan on October 17, 1999 in Espoon Honka 98–84 Pussihukat
- Most free throws made in a game
- Most rebounds in a game
- 32 by Garcia Hopkins on February 16, 1986 in Tampereen Pyrintö 131–80 Säynätsalon Riento
Awards
Attendance
See also
References
- ^ "Historia". www.basket.fi (in Finnish). Retrieved 2022-08-09.
- ^ "Historia". www.basket.fi (in Finnish). Retrieved 2022-08-09.
- ^ "Korisliigan yleisöennätys 7420 katsojaa". basket.fi (in Finnish). Finnish Basketball Federation. 7 November 2005. Retrieved 17 November 2014.
External links
- Finnish Basketball Association / Korisliiga