Capital of Estonia back on track: welcome, TalTech/ALEXELA!

TalTech/ALEXELA returns to play in the European North Basketball league.

Estonian team first joined the competition in 2022-2023 season.

TalTech`s first win came on January 25, 2025, at Sigal Prishtina, 91-73.

Tallinn club has been playing at the Optibet Estonia and Latvia league from its inception in 2018.

TalTech advanced to the playoffs in 2019 and 2022, both times losing quarterfinal series against BK Ogre.

Last season TalTech posted a 14-14 record to share the eighth-tenth place with Ventspils and Rapla.

Tallinn University of Technology – formerly Tallinn Technical University (Tallinna Tehnikaülikool, TTÜ in Estonian) – was founded in 1918 and is of the same age as the Estonian State.

On September 17, 2018, Tallinn University of Technology adopted a new short name – TalTech. It`s the third highest ranked university in the Baltic States, behind Tartu University and Vilnius University.

TTÜ basketball team was founded in 1951 and won eight Estonian championships (1961-1966, 1984, 1985).

After Estonia regained independence on August 20, 1991, the Tallinn team wasn`t as visible and spent some seasons outside the Korvpalli Meistriliiga (KML, Estonia`s top flight).

TTÜ earned three bronze finishes in the KML (2004, 2009, 2011) and played in some more semifinals as well to finish in the fourth place (2010, 2022, 2025).

The students were even more successful in the Estonian Cup.

TTÜ won the Estonian Cup in 2004 and reached the Final Four on four more occasions (final in 2009, bronze in 2021, the fourth place in 2014 and 2016).

Gregor Arbet, a long time Estonian international – represented the National team from 2002 until 2019 – spent his last two seasons as a player with the TalTech (2018-2020).

An eight time KML champion and a five time Estonian Cup winner was an assistant coach and sports director of TalTech from 2020 until 2022.

Allar Varrak is a TalTech head coach from 2021.

A former point guard won eight Estonian titles with BC Kalev as a player (2002) and a coach (2009, 2011-2014, 2016, 2017).

Home court is a TalTech Sport hall with a capacity of 1000.

Estonian capital is served by the Lennart Meri Tallinn Airport (TLL).

Club`s website: www.taltech.ee/spordiklubi