Karşıyaka Basket, mostly known as Pınar Karşıyaka for sponsorship reasons, is a Turkish professional

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team located in

Karşıyaka Karşıyaka () is a district of İzmir Province in Turkey. The district extends for twelve kilometres along the northern and eastern coastline of the tip of the Gulf of İzmir. Its centre is at a distance of to the north from the traditional cen ...

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, that competes in the

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. It is a section of the multi-sport club

Karşıyaka SK Karşıyaka () is a district of İzmir Province in Turkey. The district extends for twelve kilometres along the northern and eastern coastline of the tip of the Gulf of İzmir. Its centre is at a distance of to the north from the traditional cen ...

. The team also goes by the name of KSK, which stands for Karşıyaka Spor Kulübü (i.e. Karşıyaka Sport Club).

History

Karşıyaka SK was founded in 1912 and opened its basketball section in 1966. Karşıyaka Basket is considered to be one of the most important basketball teams in all of Turkey. They first played in the

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in 1966. They relegated to lower divisions in 1968. The club also played in lower divisions from 1968 to 1974. The team is still participating in the Turkish Basketball League since 1974. Karşıyaka Basket is sponsored by Pınar since 1998. It is the product of Yaşar Holding's Food and Beverage Group. Their home arena is the

Karşıyaka Arena Karşıyaka Arena (also known as Mustafa Kemal Atatürk Karşıyaka Sport Hall) is a multi-purpose indoor arena in İzmir, Turkey. It was opened in 2005. It is owned and run by Karşıyaka SK. The 6,500 seating capacity arena is used mostly to ho ...

with a capacity of 6,500 seats, which was opened in 2005.

Big achievements with Sarıca

Karşıyaka set to name

Ufuk Sarıca Ufuk Sarıca (born June 13, 1972) is a Turkish former professional basketball player and current head coach of Pınar Karşıyaka of the Basketbol Süper Ligi (BSL). Playing career Sarıca began his career at the age of 16 at Efes Pilsen's Youth ...

as head coach in the summer of 2012. Sarıca was dreamed to be in Euroleague with Karşıyaka and he said that "We have a dream and we want to be in Euroleague in 3 years." On February 9, 2014, the team won the

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with a victory against

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under managing Ufuk Sarıca. It was the first championship of club in Turkish Cup. On October 8, 2014, the team won the

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by beating Fenerbahçe Ülker. In the 2014–15, Karşıyaka won its second Turkish League after 1987 championship, despite finishing the regular season in the fourth place, by defeating Fenerbahçe Ülker in the playoffs semifinals by 3–1 and Anadolu Efes 4–1 in the finals. On 29 July 2015, EuroLeague announced the participating teams for the following season and included Karşıyaka with for the 2015–16 EuroLeague season.Karşıyaka plays in Euroleague
/ref> In its second appearance ever in the top tier of European basketball, the team won 3 games and lost 7.

Honours

National competitions

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* Winners (2): 1986–87, 2014–15 * ''Runner-up (1):'' 1983–84

* Winner (1): 2013–14 * ''Runner-up (1):'' 2004–05

* Winners (2): 1987, 2014

European competitions

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* ''Runner-up (1):''

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FIBA EuroChallenge FIBA EuroChallenge (called the FIBA Europe League in 2003–05, and FIBA EuroCup in 2005–08) was the 3rd-tier level transnational men's professional continental club basketball competition in Europe, from 2003 to 2015. It was organized and run ...

* ''Runner-up (1):'' 2012–13

Home arenas

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: (1966–2005) *

: (2005–present)

Players

Current roster

Depth chart

Notable players

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* Arda Vekiloğlu *

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* Muratcan Güler *-

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* Furkan Aldemir *

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* Erkan Veyseloğlu *

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* Berk Uğurlu * Metin Türen *-

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* Semih Erden * Berkan Durmaz *

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* Juan Palacios *

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* Amath M'Baye * Alex Tyus *

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* Thomas Abercrombie *

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* Michael Roll *

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*- Quinton Hosley *- Will Thomas *- D. J. Strawberry *- Ali Muhammed *

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*- Jordan Morgan * Bonzie Colson *

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Award winners

Head coaches

Aydan Siyavuş Aydan Siyavuş (15 May 1947 - 11 January 1998) was a Turkish basketball coach and former basketball player. He coached a number of teams like Kadıköyspor, Eczacıbaşı, Efes Pilsen, Beşiktaş, Fenerbahçe, Çukurova, Darüşşafaka, Karşıyak ...

(1973–1975) * Nadir Vekiloğlu * Aydan Siyavuş (1990–1991) *

Murat Didin Kamil Murat Didin (born 19 March 1955) is a Turkish people, Turkish former basketball player and coach. Coaching career Didin had begun his managerial career in 1982 at Ankara DSİ Sports Club. Then he coached various teams in Turkey. He achieved ...

(1998–1999) *

Ergin Ataman Halil Ergin Ataman (born January 7, 1966) is a Turkish professional basketball coach. He is the current head coach of Panathinaikos of the Greek Basket League and the EuroLeague. He also coaches the Turkey men's national basketball team. During ...

(1999) *

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(2003–2006) *

Levent Topsakal Mete Levent Topsakal (born 9 June 1966) is a former professional basketball player from Turkey and currently assistant manager of Turkey national basketball team. He played as a point and shooting guard at height 1,90 m. External linksTurkSports ...

(2006) *

Okan Çevik Okan Çevik (born 8 June 1966 in Edirne, Turkey) is a Turkish professional basketball coach. Çevik studied at Galatasaray High School and graduated from Istanbul University Faculty of Dentistry. Coaching career Early years Çevik, began his car ...

(2006–2007) * Ahmet Kandemir (2007–2008) * Ayhan Kalyoncu (2008–2009) * Hakan Demir (2009–2012) *

(2012–2016) * Nenad Marković (2016–2017) * Aleksandar Trifunović (2017–2018) * Özhan Çıvgın (2018–2019) *

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(2019) *

(2019–present)

Season by season

: Cancelled due to the

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References

External links

Official website

Official website

TBLStat.net Profile

Eurobasket Profile
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