Poznan

The trophy that put the current era on the map came in 2021/2022, when the senior side won the 2 Liga and earned promotion into the 1 Liga, the tier where it still plays. It was not built on inherited weight; the club had only been reconstituted as KKS Basket Poznań in August 2020, folded together from a lineage that had moved through Suchy Las and back before settling at Hala AWF, the University of Physical Education's own hall, which holds 800 for basketball.

The name attached to that promotion, and to the shirt itself, reaches further back than the club's paperwork does. "Kolejorz" was the nickname of the basketball section run by Lech Poznań until 1997, a side that took the Polish Championship eleven times between 1935 and 1990 and added the Polish Cup on three occasions. Basket Poznań plays in the same blue and white and carries the same nickname, standing as the closest thing Poznań basketball has to a continuation of that team rather than a fresh start under an old name.

Below the senior side, the academy has already produced a title of its own: the under-19 team won the Polish Championship in both 2022 and 2023, back to back. Matches against MKK Pyra Poznań are billed locally as the Derby Poznania, the closest rivalry the club has within the city.

On the bench sits Edmunds Valeiko, the coach tasked with taking a club four seasons removed from the third tier through the 1 Liga and, eventually, toward the championship its predecessor once won so often.