Wikipedia - Korisliiga

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.

Finland - Korisliigan er den øverste professionelle basketballliga i Finland. Den blev grundlagt i 1957 og består af 10 hold. Sæsonen løber fra september til maj, og hvert hold spiller 36 kampe i den regulære sæson. De seks bedste hold går videre til slutspillet, mens de to nederste hold rykker ned i den næstbedste liga.

Korisliigan er en af de stærkeste basketballligaer i Nordeuropa. Flere hold fra ligaen har deltaget i europæiske turneringer, herunder EuroLeague og EuroCup. De mest succesfulde hold i Korisliigan er Helsinki Seagulls, som har vundet 12 mesterskaber, og KTP Basket, som har vundet 10 mesterskaber.

Nogle af de mest bemærkelsesværdige spillere, der har spillet i Korisliigan, omfatter Hanno Möttölä, Petteri Koponen og Sasu Salin.