Tampereen Pyrintö (basketball) facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Pyrintö
Leagues	Korisliiga
Founded	1941; 83 years ago (1941)
History	Tampereen Pyrintö (1941–present)
Arena	Pyynikin Palloiluhalli
Location	Tampere, Finland
Team colors	White and Red
Head coach	Tero Vasell
Championships	3 Finnish Championships 2 Finnish Cups
Website	www.pyrinto.fi
Uniforms
Home Away

Tampereen Pyrintö, more commonly referred to as shortly Pyrintö, is a Finnish basketball team from Tampere. It is the basketball section of a club with the same name. Pyrintö's men's and women's teams play in Korisliiga, the highest tier of Finnish basketball.

After 2010 Pyrintö has participated internationally in the EuroChallenge and the Baltic Basketball League.

Achievements

• Korisliiga: 3

Champions: 2010, 2011, 2014

Runner-up: 1958, 1980, 1981, 2001, 2016

Third–place: 2009

• Finnish Basketball Cup: 2

Champions: 1969, 2013

Runner-up: 2000, 2009, 2011, 2019, 2021

• Baltic Basketball League

Fourth–place: 2014

Current roster

Tampereen Pyrintö roster
Players	Coaches
Pos. No. Nat. Name Ht. 2.0 SG 5 FIN Tomas Pihlajamäki 1.94 m (6 ft 4 in) 1.0 PG 7 FIN Valtteri Leppänen 1.87 m (6 ft 2 in) 1.0 PG 9 FIN Lassi Kilpinen 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) 2.5 G/F 10 FIN Osku Heinonen 1.94 m (6 ft 4 in) 1.75 G 12 USA David Gonzalvez 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in) 3.75 F 14 FIN Eero Lehtonen 1.95 m (6 ft 5 in) 4.75 F/C 16 FIN Panu Peltokangas 2.01 m (6 ft 7 in)	Head coach Miikka Sopanen Assistant coach(es) Damon Williams Santeri Liljeberg Legend (C) Team captain Injured Roster Updated: 24 July 2021

Retired numbers

Damon Williams, Pyrintö all-time statistical leader in multiple categories.

All numbers are hanging in the rafters of the home arena, but current players can still play with them excluding Williams′ #32.

Tampereen Pyrintö retired numbers
N°	Nat.	Player	Position	Tenure
5		Arvo Jantunen	N/A	1949–1966
7		Olavi Ahonen	G	1960–1970
7		Ismo Niemi	N/A	1978–1987
8		Jarmo Laitinen	N/A	As player: 1979–1989 As head coach: 1985–2008
8		Antti Nikkilä	N/A	1996–2014
15		Kalevi Tuominen	N/A	1952–1963
32		Damon Williams	F	1999–2016

Notable players

To appear in this section a player must have either: played at least one season for the club, set a club record or won an individual award while at the club, played at least one official international match for their national team at any time or performed very successfully during period in the club or at later/previous stages of his career.