title: Tampereen Pyrintö (basketball)
text: # Tampereen Pyrintö (basketball)
  
  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
  
  Note: Flags indicate national team eligibility at FIBA-sanctioned events. Players may hold other non-FIBA nationality not displayed.
  
  ### Retired numbers
  
  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° | 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.
  
  ## Women's team
  
  Pyrintö's women's team currently plays in Women's Korisliiga, the highest tier of basketball for women in Finland, and has won eight Finnish titles and the Finnish Cup once. Among club's women's team, Pyrintö has retired the jersey of Seija Leino.
  
  