Petkim Spor Kulübü, more commonly known as Socar Spor is a Turkish professional basketball club based in

İzmir İzmir ( , ; ), also spelled Izmir, is a metropolitan city in the western extremity of Anatolia, capital of the province of the same name. It is the third most populous city in Turkey, after Istanbul and Ankara and the second largest urban agglo ...

which currently competes in the Turkish

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(BSL). The team was founded by

Petkim Petkim Petrokimya Holding A.Ş. is the leading petrochemical company of Turkey. Founded on April 3, 1965, the main plant complex is located in Yarımca, Izmit. From 1985 on a second complex has been constructed in Aliağa, İzmir. Specializin ...

in 2013 and got promoted to the first division in 2020. Their home arena is Aliağa Belediyesi ENKA Spor Salonu with a capacity of 3,000 seats. The team is sponsored by

SOCAR The State Oil Company of Azerbaijan Republic ( az, Azərbaycan Respublikası Dövlət Neft Şirkəti), largely known as SOCAR is fully state-owned national oil and gas company headquartered in Baku, Azerbaijan. The company produces oil and na ...

, an oil and gas company in

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History

On 29 July 2020 Sigortam.Net İTÜ was removed from the

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due to financial issues. Instead of them, Petkim Spor were granted a place in the Turkish top-tier league.

Players

Current roster

Notable former players

Ege Arar Ege Arar (born 2 September 1996) is a Turkish professional basketball player for Petkim Spor of the Basketbol Süper Ligi (BSL). Early years In 2010, Ege was selected to play for the Galatasaray Academy, after a try-out against 37 other competin ...

İlkan Karaman İlkan Karaman (born May 13, 1990) is a Turkish professional basketball player for Manisa BB of the Basketbol Süper Ligi (BSL). Professional career Karaman made his professional debut in the TB2L with Tofaş Bursa during the 2007-08 season. He ...

Cemal Nalga Cemal Nalga (born 16 September 1987) is a Turkish professional basketball player for Balıkesir Büyükşehir Belediyespor of the Turkish Basketball First League(TBL). He plays the center position. Jersey scandal Nalga is also known for a majo ...

* Bora Hun Paçun *

Ümit Sonkol Ümit Sonkol (born July 24, 1982) is a Turkish professional basketball player for Balıkesir BŞB of the TBL. He plays the power forward position. Personal life He has mechanical engineering Mechanical engineering is the study of physical ...

Okben Ulubay Okben Ulubay (born May 25, 1996) is a Turkish professional basketball player for Beşiktaş Emlakjet of the Basketbol Süper Ligi (BSL). He mainly plays the small forward position, but he also has the ability to play as a shooting guard. Early ...

* Kenan Bajramović *

Kaloyan Ivanov Kaloyan Toshkov Ivanov (born March 18, 1986) is a Bulgarian professional basketball player for Levski Sofia of the NBL. Standing at , he plays at the power forward position. Professional career From 2006 to 2009, Ivanov played with ViveMenorc ...

* Darko Planinić * Šarūnas Vasiliauskas * Gary Browne * Daniel Hamilton *

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Justin Wright-Foreman Justin Jamel Wright-Foreman (born October 27, 1997) is an American professional basketball player for the Westchester Knicks of the NBA G League. He previously played for the Shenzhen Leopards of the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA). He played ...

References

External links

Petkim Spor
Official Website
Eurobasket.com Page

Facebook Page

TBLStat.net Profile
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