Uşak Sportif, also known as Uşak Üniversitesi Belediyespor, was a professional

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team that is based in the city of

Uşak Uşak (; el, Ουσάκειον, Ousakeion) is a city in the interior part of the Aegean Region of Turkey. The city has a population of 500,000 (2016 census) and is the capital of Uşak Province. Uşak city is situated at a distance of from İz ...

, in

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. The team was founded in 2006. Their home arena was the Uşak Üniversitesi Sport Hall, which has a

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of 2,000.

History

The basketball brand of Uşak Sportif was founded in 2006, after the club's football section had already been active since 1984. From 2006 to 2013, the team played in the ( Turkish 2nd-tier level TB2L. In the 2012–13 season, Uşak finished 1st in the regular season, and was promoted to the Turkish top-tier level

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(now called BSL) as the league's playoffs runner-up. In the 2013–14 season, the team made its debut in the Turkish highest level league, and immediately sealed a playoffs spot. This achievement led to the European-wide league debut of Uşak in the 2014–15 season, when it participated in the European-wide 3rd-tier level

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. In April 2015, the team became known as "Muratbey Uşak Sportif", for name sponsorship reasons.Muratbey Uşak Sportif, İsim Sponsoruna Konuk Oldu .
/ref> In the 2017–18 season, Uşak relegated to the second tier

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(TBL). In August 2018, the club announced it was shutting down for the next season, as the club was unable to pay off its past debts.

Season by season

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Players

Notable players

Alper Saruhan Alper Saruhan (born September 4, 1982 in İstanbul, Turkey) is a Turkish professional basketball player who played for Pınar Karşıyaka, Trabzonspor Basketball, Oyak Renault, Manisa BB, Sakarya BŞB Basketball, Muratbey Uşak, Türk Telekom. He ...

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* Sertaç Şanlı *

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* Orhan Hacıyeva *

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* Miha Zupan * Šarūnas Vasiliauskas *

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* Chris Warren *

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* Paul Harris * Courtney Fells * Eli Holman *

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References

External links

Official Website

Eurobasket.com Profile
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