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The Norrköping Dolphins are a professional basketball club from Norrköping, Sweden. It plays in the Basketligan, the highest league in Sweden and won the league seven times. Home games of Norrköping are played at the Stadium Arena.
History
The club was established as Hageby BK (Swedish: Hageby Basketklubb) on May 8, 1963, by Åke Björck. Its name was taken from the Hageby district in Norrköping.
The men's team made its debut in the Swedish first tier in 1964–65 but were relegated after only one year. They returned eleven years later, in 1976–77, with the American players Fran O'Hanlon and Kenny Grant on the roster.
In 1980, Hageby won its first national championship after defeating Alviks BK in the finals, 3–1.
In 1992 the Swedish basketball league was formed and the club changed its name to Norrköping Dolphins.
Dolphins blev grundlagt i 2007 og har siden været et af de mest succesfulde hold i svensk kvindebasketball. Holdet har vundet det svenske mesterskab to gange (2014 og 2019) og har også vundet den svenske cup tre gange (2014, 2019 og 2021).
Dolphins har deltaget i europæiske konkurrencer flere gange og har nået kvartfinalen i FIBA EuroCup Women 2019. Holdet har også deltaget i kvalifikationen til EuroLeague Women og har nået anden kvalifikationsrunde i 2014 og 2019.