Trabzonspor Basketbol Kulübü ( en, Trabzonspor Basketball Club), also known as Trabzonspor Basket or Trabzonspor, was a professional

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club that is based in the city of

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. It was a department of the

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Trabzonspor Trabzonspor Kulübü is a Turkish sports club located in the city of Trabzon. Formed in 1967 through a merger of several local clubs, the men's football team has won seven Süper Lig championships. Trabzonspor also have a women's football team, ...

. Their home arena was the Hayri Gür Arena, which has a capacity of 7,500 seats, and was opened in 2011. Trabzonspor played seven seasons in the

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, the highest tier in Turkey. The club withdrew in 2018 due to financial problems.

History

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club was founded in 1967, and it opened its basketball section in 2008. After

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in the 2007–08 season, Trabzonspor's board purchased all of the rights related to the team from the

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, and took their place in the Turkish Second Division for the 2008–09 season. Trabzonspor promoted to the top-tier

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(now called BSL), after they won the championship of the Turkish Division in the 2009–10 season. In the 2014–15 season, Trabzonspor made its European debut in the

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. The club managed to reach the Final Four which was played in its home arena Hayri Gür Arena. In the semi-final, Trabzonspor beat Romanian side Energia by a wide margin, 63–83. In the final, the team narrowly lost to

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from France with a score of 63–64. Nanterre scored a buzzer-beater which costed Trabzon its first European title. In

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, Trabzonspor played in the EuroCup Basketball competition, Europe's second tier. Here, it was eliminated in the Round of 32. On 2 October 2018, Trabzonspor announced its withdrawal from the BSL due to financial problems. Eventually, the club ceased its basketball activities.

Sponsporship names

* Trabzonspor : 2008–2010 * Medical Park Trabzonspor : 2010–2011 * Trabzonspor : 2011–2013 * Trabzonspor Medical Park : 2013–2017 * Trabzonspor : 2017–2018

Achievements

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:''Fourth: (1)''

* Turkish Second League :Winners (2): 2010, 2013 *

:''Runners-up: (1)''

Season by season

Notable players

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* Erolcan Çinko *

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* Novica Veličković *

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* Mike Scott *

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* Jonathan Gibson * Russell Robinson *

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* Sean Marshall *

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* J.P. Prince *

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* Jorge Gutierrez * Dwight Hardy *

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Head coaches

* Alaeddin Yakan (2008–09, 2009–10, 2010–11) * Dragan Sakota (2010–11) * Tolga Öngören (2011–12) * Halil Üner (2011–12, 2012–13) * Hasan Özmeriç (2012–13, 2013–14) * Hakan Demir (2013–14, 2014–15) * Nenad Markovic (2014–15, 2015–16) *

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(2015–16) *

Sergey Bazarevich Sergei Valerianovich Bazarevich (russian: Сергей Валерьянович Базаревич; born 16 March 1965) is a Russian former professional basketball player and coach. At and , he played at the point guard and shooting guard positio ...

(2016–17) * Zare Markovski (2017–18)

References

External links

Official SiteTeam Profile at EurobasketULEB EurocupTBLstat.net ProfileBSL.org.tr
{{Trabzonspor Kulübü

Sport in Trabzon Basketball teams established in 2008 Basketball teams disestablished in 2019 2008 establishments in Turkey

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