Anadolu Efes Spor Kulübü, commonly referred to as Anadolu Efes or simply Efes, is a Turkish professional

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team based in

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. Founded in 1976, the club was formerly known as Efes Pilsen until 2011. Efes is the 2021–22

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champion and on the first place of European Club Ranking after the

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2020–21. Efes is also the most successful club in the history of the

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(BSL), having won the league's championship 16 times. Efes has won a total of 42 domestic trophies, more than any other Turkish basketball club. The home arena of Anadolu Efes S.K. is the

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in Istanbul, which has a

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of 16,000 for basketball games. The club has its own practice facility in the district of Bahçelievler, which was built in 1982. The team competes in the

and the

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. The team is owned by the

Efes Beverage Group Anadolu Efes Biracılık ve Malt Sanayii A.Ş.'' (lit. Anadolu Efes Brewery and Malt Industries)'' produces and markets beer and malt and non-alcoholic beverages in Turkey, the United States, Russia, the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), E ...

. Anadolu Efes has developed a fierce rivalry with Fenerbahçe in recent years. The two clubs often meet in playoff series and cup finals.

History

The club was established in 1976 as Efes Pilsen S.K., by taking over the Turkish second-division club Kadıköyspor, which had failed due to financial problems. Its initial sponsor was its former longtime namesake, Efes Pilsen, a subsidiary of the Anadolu Group. It won the 1978 Turkish second division national championship undefeated, earning promotion to the Turkish first division, where it has continuously competed ever since. In its first top-flight season (1978–79), Efes Pilsen S.K. won the Turkish national league title, immediately establishing itself as one of the country's top clubs. After finishing 2nd in the 1992–93 FIBA European Cup, Efes Pilsen S.K. won the 1995–96 FIBA Korać Cup, which marked the first-ever European-wide title won by a Turkish club in any team sport. Efes Pilsen S.K. (later renamed Anadolu Efes S.K.) has also become a fixture in the European-wide top-tier level

, making it to the competition's EuroLeague Final Four in

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, and also to the

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's 2001 Final Four, and finishing 3rd on both occasions. In 2011, the club changed its name to Anadolu Efes S.K., after the TAPDK ( Tobacco and Alcohol Market Regulatory Authority) in Turkey prohibited the advertisement of tobacco and alcohol products in sports organizations. In the 2017–18 season, Efes finished in the 16th and last place in the

. In the 2018–19 season, Efes had success in the

as it managed to clinch the fourth-seed in the regular season. In the play-offs, the team beat

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to advance to its first EuroLeague Final Four in 19 years. In the semi-final, Efes beat Fenerbahçe 92–73 to reach its first EuroLeague Final in history. In the championship game, Efes was defeated by

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, eventually finishing as the runner-up. In the same season, Efes won its first BSL championship since 2009. In Game 7 of the Finals against Fenerbahçe, Efes won 89–74 after Shane Larkin scored 38 points. Larkin was later named BSL Finals MVP. In the 2020–21 and 2021–22 seasons Anadolu Efes won back-to-back EuroLeague Championships. But later in the following 2022–23 EuroLeague season they had ended 11th place in the season and out of the playoff bound.

Home arenas

* Abdi İpekçi Arena: 1986–2010, 2012–2017 *

: 2010–2012, 2017–2024 * Basketball Development Centre: 2024–present Image:Abdi İpekçi Arena 2.jpg, Abdi Ipekçi Arena interior during a match Image:EuroBasket_2017_Top_16_Spain_vs_Turkey,_2017-09-10.jpg,

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of 12,270, to host its home games. From 2017 to 2024, Efes uses the 16,000 seat

for its home games. Since 2024, they used their newly opened arena Basketball Development Centre using their home games

Players

Current roster

Depth chart

Retired numbers

Honours

Domestic competitions

: Winners (16) (record): 1978–79, 1982–83, 1983–84, 1991–92, 1992–93, 1993–94, 1995–96, 1996–97, 2001–02, 2002–03, 2003–04, 2004–05, 2008–09, 2018–19, 2020–21, 2022–23 : Runners-up (13): 1985–86, 1997–98, 1998–99, 1999–00, 2000–01, 2005–06, 2006–07, 2009–10, 2011–12, 2014–15, 2015–16, 2021–22, 2023–24 *

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: Winners (12) (record): 1993–94, 1995–96, 1996–97, 1997–98, 2000–01, 2001–02, 2005–06, 2006–07, 2008–09, 2014–15,

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2022 The year began with another wave in the COVID-19 pandemic, with SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant, Omicron spreading rapidly and becoming the dominant variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus worldwide. Tracking a decrease in cases and deaths, 2022 saw ...

: Runners-up (5): 2003–04, 2013–14,

2017 2017 was designated as the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development by the United Nations General Assembly. Events January * January 1 – Istanbul nightclub shooting: A gunman dressed as Santa Claus opens fire at the ...

2019 This was the year in which the first known human case of COVID-19 was documented, preceding COVID-19 pandemic, the pandemic which was declared by the World Health Organization the following year. Up to that point, 2019 had been described as ...

2024 The year saw the list of ongoing armed conflicts, continuation of major armed conflicts, including the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Myanmar civil war (2021–present), Myanmar civil war, the Sudanese civil war (2023–present), Sudane ...

* Turkish Presidential Cup : Winners (14) (record): 1986, 1992, 1993, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2006, 2009, 2010, 2015,

: Runners-up (11): 1994, 1997, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2012,

2016 2016 was designated as: * International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. * International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...

European competitions

: Winners (2): 2020–21, 2021–22 : Runners-up (1): 2018–19 : 3rd place (2): 1999–00, 2000–01 : Final Four (5):

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2021 Like the year 2020, 2021 was also heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, due to the emergence of multiple Variants of SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19 variants. The major global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, which began at the end of 2020, continued ...

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(defunct) : Runners-up (1): 1992–93 *

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(defunct) : Winners (1): 1995–96

Other competitions

* FIBA International Christmas Tournament (defunct) : 3rd place (1):

1996 1996 was designated as: * International Year for the Eradication of Poverty Events January * January 8 – A Zairean cargo plane crashes into a crowded market in the center of the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...

*Sondrio, Italy Invitational Game : Winners (1): 2008 * Bandirma Invitational Game : Winners (1): 2008 * Sarajevo Invitational Game : Winners (1): 2010 * Istanbul, Turkey Invitational Game : Winners (1): 2014 * Crete Heraklion Basketball Tournament : Winners (1): 2016 * TUBAD Basketball Tournament : Winners (1): 2018 * Zadar Basketball Tournament : Winners: 2019 * Gloria Cup : Winners (2): 2020, 2021

Notable players

* Cedi Osman * Furkan Korkmaz * Volkan Aydın * Tamer Oyguç * Murat Evliyaoğlu * Hüseyin Beşok * Ufuk Sarıca *

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* Hidayet Türkoğlu * İbrahim Kutluay * Serkan Erdoğan * Alper Yılmaz * Erdal Bibo * Ömer Onan * Mustafa Abi * Kaya Peker * Ender Arslan * Ersan İlyasova * Sinan Güler *

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* Semih Erden * Kerem Gönlüm * Cenk Akyol * Birkan Batuk * Onuralp Bitim * Mirsad Türkcan * Ermal Kuqo *

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* Brock Motum * Damir Mulaomerović *

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* Marko Popović * Nikola Prkačin * Nikola Vujčić * Mario Kasun * Zoran Planinić * Stanko Barać * Rodrigue Beaubois * Thomas Heurtel * Adrien Moerman * Stéphane Lasme *

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* Stratos Perperoglou * Kaspars Kambala * Saulius Štombergas * Petar Naumoski *

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* Vlado Šćepanović * Goran Nikolić * Slavko Vraneš * Milko Bjelica * - Daniel Santiago * Vasili Karasev * Vasilije Micić * Igor Rakočević * Zoran Savić * Duško Savanović * Vladimir Štimac * Dušan Kecman *

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* Boštjan Nachbar * Zoran Dragić * Edo Murić * Alen Omić * Sasha Vujačić * Esteban Batista *

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* Conrad McRae * Larry Richard * Marcus Brown * Trajan Langdon * Willie Solomon * Drew Nicholas * Scott Roth * Anthony Mason * Henry Domercant * Marcus Haislip * Chris Corchiani * Brian Howard * Andrew Wisniewski * Derrick Alston * Rickie Winslow * Kenny Green * Jon Diebler * Bryce Cotton * Toney Douglas * Derrick Brown * Ricky Ledo * Tyler Honeycutt * Josh Adams * Errick McCollum *

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* Mark Pope * Scoonie Penn *

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* Bootsy Thornton * Antonio Granger *

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* Kenny Gregory * Charles Smith * Justin Doellman * Preston Shumpert * Erwin Dudley * Shane Larkin * Jordan Farmar * Alex Tyus * Jamon Gordon * Matt Janning * Will Clyburn

Players at the
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Season by season

: Cancelled due to the

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International record

Matches against NBA teams

In 2006, Efes Pilsen became the first Turkish basketball club to be invited to play with

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teams. They competed against the

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on October 11, and against the

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on October 12. In 2007, Efes Pilsen hosted the

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at the Abdi İpekçi Arena.Efes Pilsen: 81 - Minnesota Timberwolves: 84.
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Head coaches

* Rıza Erverdi (1983–1984) * Aydan Siyavuş (1984–1986) * Rusmir Halilovic (1986–1987) * Aydan Siyavuş (1987–1990) * Halil Üner (1990–1992) * Aydın Örs (1992–1999) *

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(1999–2001) * Oktay Mahmuti (2001–2007) * David Blatt (2007–2008) * Ekrem Memnun (2008) *

(2008–2010) *

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(2010–2011) * Ufuk Sarıca (2011–2012) * Ilias Zouros (2012) * Oktay Mahmuti (2012–2013) * Vangelis Angelou (2013–2014) * Dušan Ivković (2014–2016) * Ahmet Çakı (2016) *

(2016–2017) *

(2017–2023) * Erdem Can (2023–2024) * Tomislav Mijatović (2024–2025) * Luca Banchi (2025)

References

External links

*
Euroleague profile

TBLStat.net profile

Eurobasket.com profile
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