Darüşşafaka Basketbol (Darüşşafaka Basketball), commonly also known as Daçka Basketbol or simply Daçka, also known as Darüşşafaka Lassa for sponsorship reasons, is a professional

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club that is based in

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, Turkey. Darüşşafaka's basketball section, which was founded in 1914, is a part of Darüşşafaka Spor Kulübü (Darüşşafaka Sports Club)

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, which was founded in 1914. The club's basketball department is their most successful section. The club plays in the

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. Its home arena for national domestic Turkish Super League games is the Darüşşafaka Ayhan Şahenk Sports Hall, with a

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of 3,500, while its home arena for European-wide games is the Volkswagen Arena Istanbul, with a seating capacity of 5,240. Daçka have won two Turkish Basketball Championships (in 1961 and 1962) over the course of their history. In

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an-wide competitions they have won the second tier level EuroCup, in the 2017–18 season, by defeating the Russian club Lokomotiv Kuban in

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History

From 1993 until 2010, Darüşşafaka was a stable TBL (now called BSL) competitor. In the 2000–01 and 2001–02 seasons, the team took the third place in the regular season. In the 2009–10 season, the club ended up in 16th place in the TBL, and was

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. The team was then a middle-tier team in the TB2L, from 2010 until 2013. In 2013,

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became the main sponsor of the team, which instantly turned Darüşşafaka into a wealthy and ambitious club. In the 2013–14 season, they won the TB2L title, and were promoted to the TBL (now called BSL). In the 2014–15 season, Darüşşafaka took the third place in the regular season, after some big names like Renaldas Seibutis and Jamon Gordon were signed for the season. Despite the huge expectations, the team lost in the quarterfinals of the league playoffs to

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. The team received a wild card for the

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season. Darüşşafaka started playing its EuroLeague home games at the Volkswagen Arena Istanbul, starting from November 2015. In September 2018, the club announced a new multi-year sponsorship deal with Tekfen, which changed the team's name sponsorship name to Darüşşafaka Tekfen.

Sponsorship naming

Due to sponsorship deals, Darüşşafaka have been also known as: * Darüşşafaka (1992–2008) * Darüşşafaka Cooper Tires (2008–2010) * Darüşşafaka (2010–2013) * Darüşşafaka Doğuş (2013–2017) * Darüşşafaka (2017–2018) * Darüşşafaka Tekfen (2018–2021) * Darüşşafaka (2021–2023) * Darüşşafaka Lassa (2023–present)

Arenas

Darüşşafaka plays its national domestic

home games at the 3,500 seat Darüşşafaka Ayhan Şahenk Sports Hall. In November 2015, the 5,240 seat Volkswagen Arena Istanbul was officially inaugurated as the home arena of Darüşşafaka for

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home games.

Season by season

Source
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Honours

European competitions

* EuroCup : Winners (1): 2017–18

Domestic competitions

* Turkish Basketball Championship : Winners (2): 1961, 1962 : ''Runners-up (1):'' 1960 *

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: ''Runners-up (3):'' 2002, 2016, 2020 * Turkish Basketball Second Division : Winners (1): 2014 * Istanbul Basketball League (defunct) : Winners (1): 1960 : ''Third place (3):'' 1961, 1962, 1963

Other competitions

* Sibenik, Croatia Invitational Game : Winners (1): 2015 * Antalya, Turkey Invitational Game : Winners (1): 2016 * Heimspiel Kranz Parkhotel Cup : Winners (1): 2016 * Zadar Dogus Basketball Tournament : Winners (1): 2016 * Casale Monferrat, Italy Invitational Game : Winners (1): 2018 * Lumezzane, Italy Invitational Game : Winners (1): 2018

History

Sponsorship naming

Arenas

Season by season

Honours

European competitions

Domestic competitions

Other competitions

Players

Current roster

Depth chart

Notable players

Head coaches

References

External links