Twarde Pierniki Toruń
Twarde Pierniki Toruń is a Polish professional basketball team based in Toruń. The team currently plays in the Polish Basketball League. 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.
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.
Team also starts next season with winning the Polish Basketball Supercup. Another time Karol Gruszecki was named Most Valuable Player of the final match.
Sponsorship names
Due to sponsorship reasons, the club has been known as:- MMKS VIII LO SIDEn Toruń
- SIDEn MMKS VIII LO Toruń
- SIDEn Polski Cukier Toruń
- Polski Cukier Toruń
- Arriva Twarde Pierniki Toruń
- '''Arriva Polski Cukier Toruń'''
Honours
- Polish League
- Polish League
- Polish Cup
- '''Polish Supercup'''
Season by season
Players
Current roster
Coaches
- Marek Ziółkowski
- Grzegorz Sowiński: 2008–2011, 2013–2014
- Jarosław Zyskowski: 2011–2012
- Eugeniusz Kijewski: 2012–2013
- Milija Bogicević: 2014–2015
- Jacek Winnicki: 2015–2017
- Dejan Mihevc: 2017–2019
- Sebastian Machowski: 2019–2020
- Jaroslaw Zawadka: 2020–2021
- Ivica Skelin: 2021–2022
- Miloš Mitrović: 2022–2023
- Cédric Heitz: 2023
- Srđan Subotić: 2023–present
Individual awards
- Karol Gruszecki – 2018
- Karol Gruszecki – 2018
- Krzysztof Sulima – 2017
- Dejan Mihevc – 2018
- Tomasz Wojdyła – 2014
- Danny Gibson – 2016
- Maksym Korniyenko – 2016
- Aaron Cel – 2018, 2019
Notable players