Beşiktaş Basketbol, for sponsorship reasons Beşiktaş Fibabanka is a Turkish professional

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team from the city of

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. The team formed in 1967 as the basketball section of Beşiktaş J.K., which was founded in 1903. The team competes in the

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History

The club's men's basketball section started out in the year 1967 and since then, Beşiktaş has played in the first

, in every season, except in the 1988–89 season, due to their

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to the

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after the 1987–88 season. The club won the Turkish Basketball Super League, under the management of and Tom Davis, in the 1974–75 season. In October 2010, Beşiktaş announced the biggest transfer in the history of the club's basketball department, with the signing of the former

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. Iverson signed a 2-year $4 million

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contract. In July 2011,

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of the

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, announced he would play for Beşiktaş, due to the 2011 NBA lockout. His $5 million net income contract included a clause that would enable him to return to the NBA during the regular season, if an agreement was made between the owners and players association. When the lockout finished, Williams was replaced by Carlos Arroyo. Arroyo led the team to the

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title in February 2012. In April 2012, the team won the 3rd-tier level EuroChallenge Final against Elan Chalon. After the EuroChallenge championship, the team won the Turkish Basketball Super League Finals against

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. On September 30, 2012, the team won the Turkish President's Cup against Anadolu Efes. Starting from the 2023-24 season, the team started to compete in EuroCup, departing from

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. They advanced to

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of the same year's league.

Sponsorship naming

Beşiktaş has had several denominations through the years due to its sponsorship; * Beşiktaş

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: 2005–2011 * Beşiktaş Milangaz: 2011–2012 * Beşiktaş Integral Forex: 2013–2015 * Beşiktaş Sompo Japan: 2015–2020 * Beşiktaş Icrypex: 2021–2022 * Beşiktaş Emlakjet: 2022–2024 * Beşiktaş Fibabanka: 2024–2025 * Beşiktaş Gain: 2025–present

Players

Retired numbers

Current roster

Depth chart

Notable players

* Erman Kunter * Haluk Yıldırım *

Ufuk Sarıca Ufuk Sarıca (born June 13, 1972) is a Turkish professional basketball coach and former player who played at the shooting guard position. Playing career Sarıca began his career at the age of 16 at Efes Pilsen's Youth Team, and played for Efes fo ...

Sertaç Şanlı Sertaç Şanlı (; born 5 August 1991) is a Turkish professional basketball player for Fenerbahçe Beko of the Turkish Basketbol Süper Ligi, BSL and the EuroLeague. He plays at the center (basketball), center position. Professional career He mad ...

* Efe Aydan * Engin Atsür * Kaya Peker *

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* Levent Topsakal * Kenan Sipahi * Ömer Büyükaycan *

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* Semih Erden *

Erkan Veyseloğlu Erkan Veyseloğlu (born 13 March 1983) is a German-born Turkish professional basketball player who last played for Çağdaş Bodrumspor of the Basketbol Süper Ligi. Standing 6 ft 7 in (2.00 m), he plays the small forward position. Early ...

* Sinan Güler * Tamer Oyguç * Barış Hersek * Kartal Özmızrak * Alperen Şengün * Şehmus Hazer * Erxhan Osmani * Ryan Broekhoff *

Ratko Varda Ratko Varda ( sr-cyr, Ратко Варда; born 6 May 1979) is a Serbian-Bosnian former basketball player who played professionally for 22 years. Standing at , he played the center position. He first represented FR Yugoslavia/Serbia and Monten ...

* Damir Markota * Sandro Nicević * Erik Murphy * Robin Benzing * Pops Mensah-Bonsu * Kimani Ffriend *

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* Gediminas Orelik *

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* Maciej Lampe * Michał Sokołowski * Carlos Arroyo * Larry Ayuso * Rick Apodaca * Fedor Likholitov * Vladimir Štimac *

Zoran Erceg Zoran Erceg (Serbian Cyrillic: Зоран Ерцег; born 11 January 1985) is a Serbian former professional basketball player. He represented the Serbian national basketball team internationally. Standing at , he played the power forward positi ...

* - D. J. Strawberry * John Holland *

Lonny Baxter Lonny Leroy Baxter (born January 27, 1979) is an American former professional basketball player. He is in height, and played the power forward and center positions. College career While attending the University of Maryland, College Park, Ba ...

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* Mire Chatman * Earl Clark *

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* Donnell Harvey *

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* Khalid El-Amin * Isaiah Whitehead *

Head coaches

* Cavit Altunay: 1967–70 * Aydan Siyavuş: 1970–71 * Ünal Büyükaycan: 1971–73 * Cavit Altunay: 1973–74 * Ateş Çubukçu / Tom Davis: 1974–75 * Ateş Çubukçu / Tom Davis / Tanju Feyzioğlu: 1975 * Mehmet Baturalp: 1975–79 * Fehmi Sadıkoğlu: 1979–85 * Hurşit Baytok: 1985–86 * Aydan Siyavuş: 1986–87 * Hurşit Baytok: 1987–89 * İren İmre: 1989–90 * Mehmet Baturalp: 1990–91 * İren İmre: 1991–93 * Hakan Yavuz: 1993–94 * Cem Akdağ: 1994–95 * Tolga Tuğsavul: 1995–96 * Erman Kunter: 1996–97 * Ahmet Kandemir: 1997–03 * İhsan Bayülken: 2003–05 * Burak Bıyıktay: 2005 * Murat Didin: 2005–07 *

: 2007 *

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: 2007–08 * Hakan Demir: 2008–09 * Burak Bıyıktay: 2009–11 *

: 2011–12 * Erman Kunter: 2012–13 * Ahmet Kandemir: 2013–15 *

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: 2015–16 * Yağızer Uluğ: 2016 *

: 2016–18 * Duško Ivanović: 2018–20 * Burak Bıyıktay: 2020 * Ahmet Kandemir: 2020–22 * Igor Miličić: 2022–23 * Dušan Alimpijević: 2023–present

Honours

National competitions

: ** Winner (2): 1975,

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** Runners-up (7): 1972, 1976, 1977, 1982, 1983,

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: **

Winner (1):

** Runners-up (4): 1971, 1973, 2011, 2025 * Turkish President's Cup ** WikiCup Trophy Gold

Winner (1): 2012 ** Runner-up (1): 1987

European competitions

* EuroCup: **Semi-final (1):

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* EuroChallenge: ** Winner (1):

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: **Quarter-final (1):

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* FIBA Europe League: **Quarter-final (1): 2005

Season by season

: Cancelled due to the

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References

External links

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Eurobasket.com ProfileTBLStat.net Profile
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