Color1: | blue |
Color2: | yellow |
Arka Gdynia | |
League: | Energa Basket Liga Kobiet |
Founded: | 1946 |
Arena: | Gdynia Arena (capacity: 4,010) |
Location: | Gdynia, Poland |
Colors: | Yellow and Blue |
President: | Bogusław Witkowski |
Coach: | Gundars Vētra |
Arka Gdynia is a Polish professional women's basketball club based in Gdynia. With 13 Polish Championships and 10 Polish Cups won (as of 2022), it is one of the country's most accomplished women's basketball clubs. It plays in the Energa Basket Liga Kobiet, the highest division in Poland.[1]
It was founded in 1946 in the city of Gdańsk as Spójnia Gdańsk. In 1992 the club moved from Gdańsk to Gdynia and changed the name to Bałtyk Gdynia. Then it changed its name several times. From 2001 till 2010 the name of the club was Lotos Gdynia after its titular sponsor Grupa Lotos S.A. From 2014 until 2018 the name was Basket 90 Gdynia. Since 2018, the club has been called Arka Gdynia.