Galatasaray S.K. (men's basketball)

Galatasaray Nef
Galatasaray Nef
2021–22 Galatasaray S.K. Basketball season
Nickname	Sarı Kırmızılılar (The Yellow-Reds); The Lions
Leagues	Basketbol Süper Ligi; Champions League
Founded	1911; 111 years ago
History	Galatasaray; (1911–present)
Arena	Sinan Erdem Dome
Capacity	16,000
Location	Istanbul, Turkey
Team colors	Yellow, red;
President	Burak Elmas
Team manager	Turgay Zeytingöz
Head coach	Ekrem Memnun
Team captain	Göksenin Köksal
Championships	1 EuroCup; 16 Turkish Championships; 3 Turkish Cups ; 2 Turkish President's Cups
Website	galatasaray.org

Galatasaray S.K., is a professional basketball team based in the city of Istanbul in Turkey. It is a part of the Galatasaray Sports Club. The team competes in the Turkish Basketball Super League and Basketball Champions League. The team has won 16 Turkish championships (5 titles in the Turkish Super League and 11 in the former Turkish Basketball Championship). The team furthermore won 3 Turkish Cups, 2 Turkish Super Cups, and 1 EuroCup.

History[]

According to the official records, in Turkey, basketball was first played in 1904 at Robert College. An American physical education teacher laid the foundations of this sport in Turkey. 7 years later, Ahmet Robenson, a physical education teacher in Galatasaray High School decided to introduce a new game to students in 1911. Robenson, who also became a Galatasaray S.K. president later, popularized this sport in Turkey.^[3]^[4]

Basketball had always been very important for the club. The team has won 16 national championship titles and 15 İstanbul League titles. Former president of the club, Özhan Canaydın was a former player of the basketball team. The team dominated Turkish basketball in the 1940s, and won titles in the 1950s and 1960s, while remaining a competitive team in the 1970s. In the 1980s, Galatasaray won two more championships, in 1985 and 1986, and won the 1990 title. For much of the 1990s and 2000s, Galatasaray struggled. In 2013, Galatasaray won back the Turkish championship.

On 24 June 2011, Galatasaray announced that Cafe Crown's sponsorship was over.^[5]

Galatasaray qualified for the EuroLeague for the first time in history after winning the qualification knockout round that gained them a place in the EuroLeague season.^[6]

On April 27, 2016, Galatasaray defeated SIG Strasbourg with the score of 78–67 at Abdi Ipekci Arena in the second leg of the 2016 EuroCup Finals. With this result Galatasaray won the EuroCup championship for the first time.^[7]

Sponsorship naming[]

Due to sponsorship deals, Galatasaray have been also known as:

Galatasaray Cafe Crown: (2005–2011)^[8]
Galatasaray Medical Park: (2011–2013)^[9]
Galatasaray : (2013–2015)^[10]^[11]
Galatasaray : (2015–2018)^[12]
Galatasaray : (2019–2020)^[13]
Galatasaray: (2020–2021)
Galatasaray Nef: (2021–present)^[14]

Home courts[]

A Galatasaray home match in 2013 at the Abdi İpekçi Arena

#	Court	Capacity	Period
1	Abdi İpekçi Arena	12,270	2000–2005
2	Ahmet Cömert Sport Hall	3,500	2005–2006
3	Ayhan Şahenk Arena	3,500	2006–2009
4	Abdi İpekçi Arena	12,270	2009–2017
5	Sinan Erdem Dome	16,000	2017–present

Technical staff[]

As of 4 October 2021^[15]

Name	Job
Kerem Tunçeri	General Director
	General Manager
Ekrem Memnun	Head Coach
	Administrative Manager
Cenk Akyol	Assistant Coach
	Assistant Coach
	Assistant Coach
	Assistant Coach
	Media Officer
	Physiotherapist
	Condition and Performance Coach
	Conditioner
	Masseur
	Quartermaster
	Transport

Players[]

Current roster[]

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

Galatasaray roster

Players

Coaches

Pos.	No.	Name	Ht.	Wt.	Age
SG	0		1.93 m (6 ft 4 in)		18 – (2003-04-26)26 April 2003
PG	1	Bost, Dee	1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)	80 kg (176 lb)	32 – (1989-10-12)12 October 1989
PG	3	Trimble, Melo	1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)	85 kg (187 lb)	27 – (1995-02-02)2 February 1995
PF	6	Kabaca, Sadık Emir	2.08 m (6 ft 10 in)	95 kg (209 lb)	21 – (2000-12-03)3 December 2000
PG	7	Öncel, Rıdvan	1.91 m (6 ft 3 in)	83 kg (183 lb)	24 – (1997-02-21)21 February 1997
PG	9	Erdoğan, Eray	1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)		21 – (2000-02-25)25 February 2000
F/C	11	Arar, Ege	2.08 m (6 ft 10 in)	104 kg (229 lb)	25 – (1996-09-02)2 September 1996
SF	12	Kuş, Canberk	1.98 m (6 ft 6 in)	94 kg (207 lb)	25 – (1996-08-12)12 August 1996
SF	13	Ulubay, Okben	2.00 m (6 ft 7 in)	86 kg (190 lb)	25 – (1996-05-25)25 May 1996
PF	24	Blackshear, Kerry	2.08 m (6 ft 10 in)	109 kg (240 lb)	25 – (1997-01-28)28 January 1997
SF	44	Akoon-Purcell, DeVaughn	1.98 m (6 ft 6 in)	91 kg (201 lb)	28 – (1993-06-05)5 June 1993
C	45	Kravish, David	2.08 m (6 ft 10 in)	109 kg (240 lb)	29 – (1992-09-12)12 September 1992
G/F	61	Köksal, Göksenin (C)	1.97 m (6 ft 6 in)	93 kg (205 lb)	31 – (1991-01-08)8 January 1991
F/C		Ndour, Maurice	2.06 m (6 ft 9 in)	91 kg (201 lb)	29 – (1992-06-18)18 June 1992

Head coach

Ekrem Memnun

Assistant coach(es)

Cenk Akyol
Tulüat Demirkuş
Ümit Temoçin
Gökhan Turan

Athletic trainer(s)

Bora Bölükbaşı
Semih Eroğlu

Team manager

Kerem Tunçeri
Turgay Zeytingöz
İbrahim Tilki

Legend

(C) Team captain
Injured

Roster

Updated: February 3, 2022

Depth chart[]

Pos.	Starting 5	Bench 1	Bench 2
C	David Kravish	Maurice Ndour	Ege Arar
PF	Kerry Blackshear Jr.	Sadık Emir Kabaca
SF	DeVaughn Akoon-Purcell	Okben Ulubay	Canberk Kuş
SG	Melo Trimble	Göksenin Köksal
PG	Dee Bost	Rıdvan Öncel	Eray Erdoğan

Honours[]

Domestic competitions[]

Turkish Super League ^[16]

Winners (5): 1968–69, 1984–85, 1985–86, 1989–90, 2012–13
Runners-up (3): 1986–87, 2010–11, 2013–14

Turkish Championship (defunct)

Winners (11) (record): 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1953, 1955, 1956, 1960, 1963, 1964, 1966
Runners-up (4): 1946, 1951, 1952, 1961

Turkish Cup^[17]

Winners (3): 1969–70, 1971–72, 1994–95
Runners-up (2): 1968–69, 2012–13

President's Cup ^[18]

Winners (2): 1985, 2011

Istanbul Basketball League

Winners (17):[2]

European competitions[]

EuroCup

Winners (1): 2015–16
4th place (1): 2007–08^[19]

Season by season[]

Season	Division	Pos.	Turkish Cup	European competitions
2002–03	TBL	3rd	Semifinalist
2003–04	TBL	12th	Semifinalist
2004–05	TBL	13th	Group stage
2005–06	TBL	8th	Quarterfinalist
2006–07	TBL	4th	Quarterfinalist
2007–08	TBL	5th		2 ULEB Cup	4th
2008–09	TBL	4th	Semifinalist	3 EuroChallenge	L16
2009–10	TBL	9th		2 Eurocup	L16
2010–11	TBL	2nd	Semifinalist	2 Eurocup	L16
2011–12	TBL	3rd	Third place	1 Euroleague	L16
2012–13	TBL	1st	Runner-up	2 Eurocup	L16
2013–14	TBL	2nd	Semifinalist	1 Euroleague	QF
2014–15	TBL	8th	Quarterfinalist	1 Euroleague	L16
2015–16	BSL	3rd	Quarterfinalist	2 Eurocup	C
2016–17	BSL	6th	Semifinalist	1 EuroLeague	12th
2017–18	BSL	9th		2 EuroCup	T16
2018–19	BSL	4th	Quarterfinalist	2 EuroCup	RS
2019–20	BSL	3rd¹	Semifinalist	2 EuroCup	T16¹
2020–21	BSL	14th		3 Champions League	RS
2021–22	BSL			3 Champions League

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

Team captains[]

Dates	Name
2010–2011	Ermal Kuqo
2011–2012	Haluk Yıldırım
2012–2013	Ender Arslan
2013–2015	Carlos Arroyo
2015–2017	Sinan Güler
2017–present	Göksenin Köksal

Head coaches[]

Head coach	Years
Osman Kermen	1966-67
Yalçın Granit	1967–68
	1968-70
	1970–73
	1973-74
Jim Richardson	1974–75
/	1975
/	1976
	1976–77
	1977–79
	1979–80
	1980–81
	1981–83
	1983–84
Yalçın Granit	1984
	1984
	1984–85
	1985–87
	1987
Jack Avina	1987-1989
	1989–91
Hakan Yavuz	1991–92
	1992–93
Aydan Siyavuş	1993–96
	1996
Aydan Siyavuş / Hakan Yavuz	1996–97
	1997
Aydan Siyavuş	1998
	1998–99
	1999–00
	2000–02
Erman Kunter	2002–03
	2003–06
Murat Özyer	2006–08
	2009
Okan Çevik	2009
Cem Akdağ	2009–10
Oktay Mahmuti	2010–12
Ergin Ataman	2012–17
Erman Kunter	2017–18
Oktay Mahmuti	2018
Ertuğrul Erdoğan	2018–2020
	2020–2021
Ekrem Memnun	2021–present

Notable players[]