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Karşıyaka Basket
Leagues	Basketbol Süper Ligi Champions League
Founded	1966; 58 years ago (1966)
History	Karşıyaka Basket (1966 – present)
Arena	Mustafa Kemal Atatürk Karşıyaka Sport Hall
Capacity	6,500
Location	İzmir, Turkey
Team colors	Green, red
President	Azat Yeşil
Head coach	Ufuk Sarıca
Team captain	Kenan Sipahi
Championships	2 Turkish Championships 1 Turkish Cup 2 President's Cups
Website	www.kskbasketbol.net
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Karşıyaka Basket is a Turkish professional basketball team located in Karşıyaka, İzmir, that competes in the Turkish Basketball Super League. It is a section of the multi-sport club Karşıyaka SK. The team also goes by the name of KSK, which stands for Karşıyaka Spor Kulübü (i.e. Karşıyaka Sport Club).

History

Karşıyaka SK was founded in 1912 and opened its basketball section in 1966. Karşıyaka Basket is considered to be one of the most important basketball teams in all of Turkey. They first played in the Turkish Basketball League in 1966. They relegated to lower divisions in 1968. The club also played in lower divisions from 1968 to 1974. The team is still participating in the Turkish Basketball League since 1974. Karşıyaka Basket was sponsored by Yaşar Holding's Food and Beverage Group; Pınar between 1998 and 2024. Their home arena is the Karşıyaka Arena with a capacity of 6,500 seats, which was opened in 2005.

Big achievements with Sarıca

Karşıyaka set to name Ufuk Sarıca as head coach in the summer of 2012. Sarıca was dreamed to be in Euroleague with Karşıyaka and he said that "We have a dream and we want to be in Euroleague in 3 years." On February 9, 2014, the team won the Turkish Cup with a victory against Anadolu Efes under managing Ufuk Sarıca. It was the first championship of club in Turkish Cup. On October 8, 2014, the team won the President's Cup by beating Fenerbahçe Ülker. In the 2014–15, Karşıyaka won its second Turkish League after 1987 championship, despite finishing the regular season in the fourth place, by defeating Fenerbahçe Ülker in the playoffs semifinals by 3–1 and Anadolu Efes 4–1 in the finals.

On 29 July 2015, EuroLeague announced the participating teams for the following season and included Karşıyaka with for the 2015–16 EuroLeague season. In its second appearance ever in the top tier of European basketball, the team won 3 games and lost 7.

Honours

National competitions

Turkish Super League

• Winners (2): 1986–87, 2014–15
• Runner-up (2): 1983–84, 2022–23

Turkish Cup

• Winner (1): 2013–14
• Runner-up (1): 2004–05

President's Cup

• Winners (2): 1987, 2014

European competitions

Basketball Champions League

• Runner-up (1): 2020–21

FIBA EuroChallenge

• Runner-up (1): 2012–13

Home arenas

• İzmir Atatürk Sport Hall: (1966–2005)
• Mustafa Kemal Atatürk Karşıyaka Sport Hall: (2005–present)

Players

Current roster

Note: Flags indicate national team eligibility at FIBA-sanctioned events. Players may hold other non-FIBA nationalities not displayed.

Karşıyaka Basket roster
Players	Coaches
Pos. No. Nat. Name Ht. Wt. Age G 3 McCollum, Errick 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) 87 kg (192 lb) 36 – (1988-01-22)22 January 1988 F 6 Yılmaz, Ozan 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in) 21 – (2003-01-17)17 January 2003 PG 7 Russell, Daron 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) 75 kg (165 lb) 26 – (1998-05-06)6 May 1998 PF 8 Sayılı, Hakan 2.05 m (6 ft 9 in) 24 – (2000-02-14)14 February 2000 F 9 Webb III, James 2.06 m (6 ft 9 in) 92 kg (203 lb) 31 – (1993-08-19)19 August 1993 SF 10 Tırpancı, Ergi 2.01 m (6 ft 7 in) 93 kg (205 lb) 24 – (2000-01-01)1 January 2000 SG 11 Akyazılı, Thomas 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in) 88 kg (194 lb) 27 – (1997-01-15)15 January 1997 C 16 Boutsiele, Jerry 2.07 m (6 ft 9 in) 94 kg (207 lb) 32 – (1992-04-20)20 April 1992 C 17 Demirel, Mehmet Efe 2.14 m (7 ft 0 in) 19 – (2005-01-04)4 January 2005 SF 22 McDermott, Sean  1.98 m (6 ft 6 in) 88 kg (194 lb) 28 – (1996-11-03)3 November 1996 F 23 Jefferson, Damien 1.96 m (6 ft 5 in) 100 kg (220 lb) 27 – (1997-10-03)3 October 1997 PF 35 Celep, Mert 2.06 m (6 ft 9 in) 95 kg (209 lb) 29 – (1995-06-23)23 June 1995 PG 55 Sipahi, Kenan (C) 1.97 m (6 ft 6 in) 88 kg (194 lb) 29 – (1995-05-26)26 May 1995 C 77 Yaşar, Muhsin 2.08 m (6 ft 10 in) 96 kg (212 lb) 28 – (1995-12-31)31 December 1995	Head coach Ufuk Sarıca Assistant coach(es) Rüçhan Tamsöz Sinan Aksoylar Okan Kılıç Strength & conditioning coach(es) Tolga Altun Physiotherapist(s) Batuhan Çelik Team manager Nihat Mala Legend (C) Team captain Injured Roster Updated: October 5, 2024

Depth chart

Pos.	Starting 5	Bench 1	Bench 2	Bench 3
C	Jerry Boutsiele	Muhsin Yaşar	Mehmet Efe Demirel
PF	James Webb	Mert Celep	Hakan Sayılı
SF	Damien Jefferson	Ergi Tırpancı		Sean McDermott
SG	Errick McCollum	Thomas Akyazılı	Ozan Yılmaz
PG	Kenan Sipahi	Daron Russell

(colours: Turkish or homegrown players; foreign players)

Notable players

Note: Flags indicate national team eligibility at FIBA-sanctioned events. Players may hold other non-FIBA nationalities not displayed.

• Efe Aydan
• Hüseyin Beşok
• Kaya Peker
• Arda Vekiloğlu
• Mehmet Yağmur
• Şemsettin Baş
• Ufuk Sarıca
• Hakan Köseoğlu
• Muratcan Güler
• - Asım Pars
• Serhat Çetin
• Ümit Sonkol
• Barış Ermiş
• Furkan Aldemir
• Birkan Batuk
• İlkan Karaman
• Erkan Veyseloğlu
• Barış Hersek
• Kerem Gönlüm
• İnanç Koç
• - Kenan Sipahi
• Berk Uğurlu
• Metin Türen
• - Metecan Birsen
• Onuralp Bitim
• Semih Erden
• Berkan Durmaz
• Braian Angola
• Juan Palacios
• Siniša Kelečević
• Ángel Delgado
• Assem Marei
• Amath M'Baye
• Alex Tyus
• Mindaugas Kuzminskas
• Roberts Štelmahers
• Vrbica Stefanov
• Thomas Abercrombie
• Alade Aminu
• Jaime Lloreda
• Mateusz Ponitka
• Zakhar Pashutin
• Jovo Stanojević
• Mirko Milićević
• Esteban Batista
• Jim Rowinski
• Dallas Comegys
• Dewayne Jefferson
• - Henry Domercant
• Jerry Holman
• Roberto Bergersen
• Rashard Griffith
• Marcus Slaughter
• Sean Marshall
• Gary Neal
• - Quinton Hosley
• Leon Williams
• David Holston
• Mire Chatman
• - Will Thomas
• - D. J. Strawberry
• - Ali Muhammed
• Jon Diebler
• Colton Iverson
• Kenny Gabriel
• DaJuan Summers
• - Jordan Morgan
• D.J. Kennedy
• - Michael Roll
• Tony Taylor
• Bonzie Colson
• Vernon Carey Jr.
• Kelan Martin
• Vitto Brown

Award winners

Head coaches

• Aydan Siyavuş (1973–1975)
• Nadir Vekiloğlu
• Aydan Siyavuş (1990–1991)
• Murat Didin (1998–1999)
• Ergin Ataman (1999)
• Ahmet Kandemir (2003–2006)
• Levent Topsakal (2006)
• Okan Çevik (2006–2007)
• Ahmet Kandemir (2007–2008)
• Ayhan Kalyoncu (2008–2009)
• Hakan Demir (2009–2012)
• Ufuk Sarıca (2012–2016)
• Nenad Marković (2016–2017)
• Aleksandar Trifunović (2017–2018)
• Özhan Çıvgın (2018–2019)
• Dirk Bauermann (2019)
• Ufuk Sarıca (2019–present)

Season by season

^1 Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe.

See also

• Karşıyaka S.K.
• Karşıyaka Women's Volleyball Team

References

1. Işık, Muhammet (2024-08-07). "26 yıllık Pınar & Karşıyaka birlikteliği sona erdi!". Basketbol Haberleri (in Turkish). Retrieved 2024-10-12.
2. About of Karşıyaka Arena Archived 2011-11-17 at the Wayback Machine (in English)
3. Karşıyaka won Turkish Cup victory against Anadolu Efes (in English)
4. Karşıyaka plays in Euroleague

External links

• Official website (in English)
• Official website (in Turkish)
• TBLStat.net Profile
• Eurobasket Profile

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• Karşıyaka S.K.
• Basketball teams in Turkey
• Basketball teams established in 1912
• Basketbol Süper Ligi teams
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