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Twarde Pierniki Toruń

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Twarde Pierniki Toruń
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Twarde Pierniki Toruń is a Polish professional basketball team based in Toruń. The team currently plays in the Polish Basketball League (PLK). The club has won Polish Cup and Polish Supercup titles in 2018. Currently the team plays under the name Arriva Polski Cukier Toruń due to sponsorship commitments.

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History

Twarde Pierniki was founded in 2004. Toruń was offered a spot in the 2014–15 PLK season as a wild card because of the expansion from 12 to 16 teams. In the 2016–17 season, Toruń had its best season in club history and reached the PLK Finals. Here it lost to Stelmet Zielona Góra which meant the team ended in second place.

Toruń won its first trophy in on 19 February 2018, when it beat Zielona Góra 88–80 in the final of the Polish Cup, behind Karol Gruszecki who was named Most Valuable Player of the tournament.[2]

Team also starts next season with winning the Polish Basketball Supercup. Another time Karol Gruszecki was named Most Valuable Player of the final match. [3]

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Sponsorship names

Due to sponsorship reasons, the club has been known as:

Honours

Runners-up (2): 2016–17, 2018–19
3rd place (1): 2017–18
Winners (1): 2018
Winners (1): 2018

Season by season

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Players

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Current roster

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Coaches

  • Poland Marek Ziółkowski
  • Poland Grzegorz Sowiński: 2008–2011, 2013–2014
  • Poland Jarosław Zyskowski: 2011–2012
  • Poland Eugeniusz Kijewski: 2012–2013
  • Serbia Milija Bogicević: 2014–2015
  • Poland Jacek Winnicki: 2015–2017
  • Slovenia Dejan Mihevc: 2017–2019
  • Germany Sebastian Machowski: 2019–2020
  • Poland Jaroslaw Zawadka: 2020–2021
  • Croatia Ivica Skelin: 2021–2022
  • Serbia Miloš Mitrović: 2022–2023
  • France Cédric Heitz: 2023
  • Croatia Srđan Subotić: 2023–present

Individual awards

Polish Cup MVP

Polish Supercup MVP

PLK Most Improved Player

  • Krzysztof Sulima – 2017

PLK Best Coach

All-1 Liga Team

  • Tomasz Wojdyła – 2014

All-PLK Team

Notable players

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