Fenerbahçe | ||||
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Leagues |
Turkish League Turkish Cup EuroLeague |
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Founded | 1913 | |||
History |
Fenerbahçe S.K. (1913–present) |
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Arena | Ülker Sports Arena | |||
Capacity | 13,000 | |||
Location | Istanbul, Turkey | |||
Team colors | Yellow and Navy Blue |
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President | Aziz Yıldırım | |||
Team manager | Maurizio Gherardini | |||
Head coach | Željko Obradović | |||
Team captain | Melih Mahmutoğlu | |||
Championships |
7 Turkish Basketball Super League 3 Turkish Basketball League 7 Istanbul Basketball League 5 Turkish Cup 6 Turkish President's Cup 5 Basketball Federation Cup |
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Retired numbers |
6 Mirsad Türkcan 7 Ömer Onan |
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Website | fenerbahce.org | |||
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Active departments of Fenerbahçe | ||
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Football | Basketball (Men's) | Basketball (Women's) |
Volleyball (Men's) | Volleyball (Women's) | Table Tennis |
Swimming | Rowing | Sailing |
Athletics | Boxing |
Fenerbahçe Men's Basketball Team (Turkish: Fenerbahçe Erkek Basketbol Takımı) is a Turkish professional basketball team from Istanbul, Turkey. It is the men's basketball department of Fenerbahçe, a major multi-sport club. The team competes in the Turkish Basketball Super League and EuroLeague.
Fenerbahçe's men's basketball department was founded in 1913, and achieved considerable success when the sport established itself in Turkey. Fenerbahçe won Turkish Basketball Championship national titles in 1957, 1959, and 1965, just before the Turkish Basketball Super League was founded in 1966, and made it to the EuroLeague in 1960 and 1966. Its fans had to wait until 1991 for another title, when Levent Topsakal, Larry Richard, and head coach Çetin Yılmaz led Fenerbahçe to the Turkish League title over Tofaş.
Fenerbahçe returned to the EuroLeague in 1992, but lost in the preliminary round. Fenerbahçe was back in the Turkish League finals in 1992, 1993 and, 1995, but could not find a way to win the championship for some time. A third-place finish in the 1997–98 season allowed the club to return to the EuroLeague, and with players like Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf, Marko Milič, Žan Tabak, İbrahim Kutluay, and the late Conrad McRae, Fenerbahçe advanced to the eighth-final playoffs, losing there to Real Madrid. The club made it to the Korać Cup quarter-finals in 1995–96 and 2000–01, and also finished in fourth place in the 2004–05 FIBA Europe League.