Fenerbahçe Men's Volleyball, commonly known as Fenerbahçe, are the men's

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department of Fenerbahçe SK, a major Turkish

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based in

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, Turkey. Founded in 1927, they are one of the most successful volleyball teams in Turkey, having won five Turkish Volleyball League titles, four Turkish Cups, and four Turkish Super Cups, among others. In Europe Fenerbahçe have won two Balkan Cups and the

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in the 2013–14 season, thus writing volleyball history as the

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won another continental title, the

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, the very same day. By achieving this unparalleled feat, Fenerbahçe became the first and only sports club in Turkey and one of a few in Europe with European titles won in both the men's and women's volleyball departments. The club play their home matches at the 7,000-seated

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Previous names

*Fenerbahçe (1927–2011) *Fenerbahçe Grundig (2011–2015) *Fenerbahçe (2015–present)

History

After a series of intermittent existences, 1927–1935, 1940–1942, 1943–1971, it was founded in its present form in 1976. The team began in the Istanbul Fourth League and was promoted to the Third League in 1977, to the Second League in 1982 and finally to the First League in 1984. As champions of the Istanbul First League in 1985, Fenerbahçe were promoted to the top-level Men's Volleyball League.

Honours

Source:

European competitions

CEV Champions League The CEV Champions League is the top official competition for men's volleyball clubs from the whole of Europe. The competition is organised every year by the European Volleyball Confederation. Formula (2018–19 to present) Qualification A tot ...

: ''Top 16 (1):'' 2008–2009 * Shield of the European Union

CEV Top Teams Cup / CEV Cup : ''Semifinalists (2):'' 2016–17, 2023–24 : ''Quarterfinalists (3):'' 2004–05, 2011–12, 2014–15 * Shield of the European Union

: Winners (1): 2013–14 * Gold medal world centered-2

Balkan Cup The Balkan Cup was an international association football competition contested on and off from 1929 to 1980 by countries from the Balkans region. The most successful team was Romania with four titles. Overview The first edition featured Romania, ...

: Winners (2) (shared-record): 2009, 2013

Domestic competitions

* Turkish Men's Volleyball League : Winners (5): 2007–08, 2009–10, 2010–11, 2011–12, 2018–19 : ''Runners-up (6):'' 2003–04, 2005–06, 2008–09, 2013–14, 2020–21, 2023–24 : ''Third place (4):'' 2006–07, 2016–17, 2021–22, 2022–23 *

Turkish Men's Volleyball Championship The Turkish Men's Volleyball Championship ( tr, Türkiye Erkekler Voleybol Şampiyonası) was a top-level volleyball league competition in Turkish volleyball, run by the Turkish Volleyball Federation from 1948 to 1970. Champions Performance by c ...

: ''Third place (3):'' 1961–62, 1966–67, 1967–68 *

Turkish Cup The Turkish Cup ( Turkish: ''Türkiye Kupası'') is a football cup competition in Turkish football, run by the Turkish Football Federation since 1962. During a brief sponsorship period with Fortis, its sponsored name was ''Fortis Türkiye Kupası ...

: Winners (4): 2007–08, 2011–12, 2016–17, 2018–19 : ''Runners-up (2):'' 2010–11, 2013–14 *

Turkish Super Cup The Turkish Super Cup ( Turkish: ''TFF Süper Kupa''), as it is currently known, is the annual super cup football match contested between the previous season's Süper Lig champions and the Turkish Cup winners in Turkey. It was originally known a ...

: Winners (4) (shared-record): 2011, 2012, 2017, 2020 : ''Runners-up (3):'' 2010, 2014, 2019 * Turkish Federation Cup : Winners (2): 1961–62, 1965–66 : ''Runners-up (2):'' 1960–61, 1969–70 * Istanbul Men's Volleyball League : Winners (10): 1926–27, 1927–28, 1928–29, 1929–30, 1932–33, 1933–34, 1940–41, 1966–67, 1967–68, 1968–69 : ''Runners-up (6):'' 1934–35, 1945–46, 1962–63, 1963–64, 1964–65, 1965–66 : ''Third place (4):'' 1931–32, 1944–45, 1946–47, 1961–62

The road to the CEV Challenge Cup victory

Team Roster

Season 2023-2024

Technical and managerial staff

''Staff as of June 12, 2023''

Team captains

This is a list of the senior team's captains in the recent years.

Head coaches

This is a list of the senior team's head coaches in the recent years.

Home halls

This is a list of the home halls the senior team played at in the recent years.

Notable players

Domestic Players ; * Kadir Arslan *

Can Ayvazoğlu Can Ayvazoğlu (born September 14, 1979 in Germany) is a Turkish volleyball player. He is 190 cm and plays as out-side hitter. He studied at Marmara University. Career He plays for Galatasaray Volleyball team since the 2007-08 season, and w ...

* Emre Batur * Erden Çevikel *

Ersin Durgut Ersin Durgut (born 4 August 1982) is a Turkish volleyball player. He is 208 cm and plays as middle blocker. He plays for Fenerbahçe Grundig and wears 2 numbers. He played 25 times for national team. He also played for Erdemirspor and won ...

* Arslan Ekşi *

Hakan Fertelli Hakan Fertelli (born February 2, 1975 in Çorum) is a Turkish volleyball player. He is 1.99m tall and plays as a middle player. He plays for Fenerbahçe Grundig. He has played over 110 times for the national team. He also played for Eczacıbaşı, ...

* Uğur Güneş * Burak Hascan *

Cengizhan Kartaltepe Cengizhan Kartaltepe (born June 24, 1973 in Bandırma, Balıkesir) is a Turkish volleyball player. He is 193 cm and plays as libero. He has been playing for Fenerbahçe SK since 2009 and wears the number 1. He played 151 times for the nati ...

Kemal Kayhan Kemal Kayhan (born 2 January 1983) is a Turkish volleyball player. He is 200 cm and plays as middle blocker. He plays for Fenerbahçe Grundig and wears number 6. He also played for Çankaya Belediyesi (2000–06), Polis Akademisi (2006–0 ...

* Serkan Kılıç *İsmail Cem Kurtar * Soner Mezgitçi *

Ali Peçen Ali Peçen (born 30 January 1969 in Istanbul) is a Turkish volleyball player. He is 192 cm and plays as libero. Since the start of the 2007 season, he has played for Fenerbahçe Men's Volleyball Team and wears number 9. He is the team's vice- ...

Yasin Sancak Yasin Sancak (born September 9, 1978) is a Turkish volleyball player. He is 199 cm and plays as middle blocker. He played 63 times for the national team and also played for Netaş, Erdemir, Arkas Spor, Galatasaray, Ziraat Bankası and Fene ...

Nuri Şahin Nuri Şahin (born 5 September 1988) is a football manager and former professional player who played as a central midfielder. He is the manager of Antalyaspor. He began his career at Borussia Dortmund, spending six years there – including a ye ...

* Ahmet Toçoğlu * Burak Yavuz * İbrahim Başaran * Burak Hazırol *'' Metin Toy'' * Turgay Doğan * Emin Gök * Ediz Kaan Fırıncıoğlu European Players ; * Frank Depestele *

Wout Wijsmans Wout Wijsmans (born 17 July 1977 in Hasselt) is a Belgian former volleyball player. He has played at the highest level in Italy from 1999 to 2013, as well as in Belgium, China and Turkey. Biography Wijsmans is the son of Noël Wijsmans and Monie ...

; * Tomislav Čošković ; * Yacine Louati * Guillaume Quesque *

Thibault Rossard Thibault Rossard (born 28 August 1993) is a French professional volleyball player. He is a member of the France national team. A participant in the Olympic Games Rio 2016, and the 2017 World League winner. At the professional club level, he pla ...

; *

Marcus Böhme Marcus Böhme (born 25 August 1985) is a German professional volleyball player, a member of the Germany national team. The bronze medallist at the 2014 World Championship, and the 2009 European League winner. At the professional club level, he ...

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Nikos Samaras Nikos Samaras (1 July 1970 – 4 January 2013) was a Greek volleyball player, who competed for various Greek, Italian, Spanish and Turkish clubs. Samaras was born in Stuttgart. He led Orestiada, helping the team to become successful in Greec ...

† ; * Matej Černič ; * Wouter ter Maat ; *

Novica Bjelica Novica Bjelica ( sr, Новица Бјелица; born 9 February 1983) is a Serbian volleyball player, a member of Serbia men's national volleyball team and French club Stade Poitevin Poitiers, a participant of the 2008 Olympic Games, medalist ...

Konstantin Čupković Konstantin Čupković ( sr-cyrl, Константин Чупковић; born 2 January 1987) is a Serbian professional volleyball player, a former member of the Serbia national team. At the professional club level, he plays for BBTS Bielsko-Bi ...

* Andrija Gerić *

Vladimir Grbić Vladimir "Vanja" Grbić ( sr-cyrl, Владимир Вања Грбић; born 14 December 1970) is a Serbian former volleyball player. He is 193 cm and played as passer-side attacker. He is Nikola Grbić's brother and a member of the Volleyb ...

* Ivan Miljković *

Miloš Nikić Miloš Nikić ( sr-cyrl, Милош Никић born 31 March 1986 in Cetinje, SR Montenegro, Yugoslavia) is a Serbian volleyball player (Wing-spiker). He was part of the Serbia and Montenegro men's national volleyball team at the 2006 FIVB Vo ...

; * Lukáš Diviš ; *

Alen Pajenk Alen Pajenk (born 23 April 1986) is a Slovenian volleyball player who plays for Olympiacos Praeus and the Slovenia national team. With Slovenia, he was the runner-up of the European Volleyball Championship three times, in 2015, 2019 and 2021. ...

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Dariusz Stanicki Dariusz Stanicki (born 3 January 1965) is a former Polish volleyball player, a member of Poland men's national volleyball team The Poland national men's volleyball team is controlled by the Polish Volleyball Federation, which represents the ...

; * Yuriy Gladyr Non-European Players ; * Jerónimo Bidegain * Lucas Chávez *

Santiago Darraidou Santiago Pedro Darraidou (born November 24, 1980, in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine volleyball Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the ...

* Juan Pablo Porello *

Rodrigo Quiroga Rodrigo Daniel Quiroga (born March 23, 1987) is an Argentine volleyball player member of the Argentina men's national volleyball team and Polish club Jastrzębski Węgiel. He participated at the 2012 Summer Olympics. Rodrigo won the silver me ...

* Camilo Sato ; *

Luiz Felipe Fonteles Luiz Felipe Marques Fonteles (born 19 June 1984) is a Brazilian volleyball player, member of the Brazil men's national volleyball team in 2005–2016 and currently plays for Japanese team, JTEKT Stings, on club level. He is the 2016 Olympic Ch ...

Thiago Soares Alves Thiago Soares Alves (born July 26, 1986) is a Brazilian volleyball player, who is a wing spiker and has competed for Fenerbahçe Grundig and the national team. He competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics The 2012 Summer Olympics (officiall ...

; * Nicholas Hoag *

Graham Vigrass Graham Saxton Vigrass (born 17 June 1989) is a Canadian former professional volleyball player. He was a member of the Canada national team, a participant at the Olympic Games (Rio 2016, Tokyo 2020), and a bronze medallist at the 2017 World Leag ...

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Ihosvany Hernández Ihosvany Hernández Rivera (born , in Havana) is a Cuban former volleyball player and three-time Olympian who played with the Cuban men's national volleyball team. He competed with the national team at the 1992 File:1992 Events Collage V1.pn ...

Salvador Hidalgo Oliva Salvador Hidalgo Oliva (born 27 December 1985) is a Cuban professional volleyball player, a member of Greek club Olympiacos and plays as outside hitter.He has won the Asian Championship in 2012 and the European trophy CEV Challenge Cup in 2023 an ...

* Leonel Marshall ; * Saeid Marouf * Mohammad Mousavi ; *

Brook Billings Brook Michael Billings (born April 30, 1980 in Santa Barbara, California) is an American indoor volleyball player, who plays as an opposite-hitter for the U.S. National Team. He joined the team in May 2002. College highlights 2002 Earned Al ...

Gabriel Gardner Gabriel "Gabe" Bryan Gardner (born March 18, 1976, in San Diego, California) is an American professional volleyball player. He is a two-time Olympian, having played at the 2004 Athens Olympics and 2008 Beijing Olympics with the U.S. national ...

* William McKenzie * James Polster ; * Ernardo Gómez ''Players whose names are italicized still play for the team''Fenerbahçe Men's Volleyball Team rosters since 1999-00
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Sponsorship and kit manufacturers

¹ Main sponsorship ² Back sponsorship ³ Lateral sponsorship ⁴ Short sponsorship ⁵ Sleeves sponsorship

References

External links

Official website of Fenerbahçe SK
Media
Official Twitter Account of Fenerbahçe Volleyball
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