# TED Ankara Kolejliler

TED Ankara Kolejliler Spor Kulübü, more commonly known as TED Ankara Kolejliler is a professional basketball team from the city of Ankara in Turkey. Their home arena is the Ankara Arena with a capacity of 10,400 seats, which was opened in April 2010. The team currently competes in the Turkish Basketball First League (TBL), the second tier league of basketball in Turkey.

## History

The team played in Turkish Basketball League (now called BSL) between 1966-1977, 1979-1981, 1982-1983, 1984-1985, 1990-1995, 1996-1997, 1998-2003 and 2006-2009. The team promoted the Turkish Basketball League (now called BSL) from the TB2L in May 2012.
The team made its European club competitions debut at the Cup Winners' Cup in the 1973-74 season due to winning Turkish Basketball Cup in 1972-73. In the early nineties, it reached the Korac Cup qualifying rounds three times, from 1991-92 to 1993-94. Most recently, it reached the 2014 Eurocup quarterfinals.

## Sponsorship names

TED Ankara Kolejliler has had several denominations through the years due to its sponsorship;
* Kolej: 1966-1993
* Tiffany Tomato Kolejliler: 1993-1994
* Kolejliler: 1994-1996
* TED Kolej: 1996-1998
* Maydonoz Kolejliler: 1998-2001
* TED Kolej: 2001-2006
* CASA TED Kolejliler: 2006-2009
* Optimum TED Ankara Kolejliler: 2009-2012
* TED Ankara Kolejliler : 2012-13
* Aykon TED Ankara Kolejliler : 2013-2014
* Rönesans TED Ankara Kolejliler : 2014–2015
* Halk Enerji TED Ankara Kolejliler : 2018-present

## Players
### Notable players

Note: Flags indicate national team eligibility at FIBA-sanctioned events. Players may hold other non-FIBA nationalities not displayed.
* Criteria
* To appear in this section a player must have either:
* Set a club record or won an individual award while at the club
* Played at least one official international match for their national team at any time
* Played at least one official NBA match at any time.
* Rüştü Yüce
* Erdal Poyrazoğlu
* Barış Küce
* Aytek Gürkan
* Ömer Bozer
* Rahmi Özyar
* Murat Evliyaoğlu
* Victor Brejnoi
* Bekir Yarangüme
* Haluk Yıldırım
* Kerem Gönlüm
* Murat Evliyaoğlu
* Nedim Yücel
* Ömer Ünver
* Polat Kocaoğlu
* Serkan Erdoğan
* Tolga Tekinalp
* Tutku Açık
* Vladimir Golubović
* Kirk Penney
* Orlando Vega
* Elshad Gadashev
* Goran Jagodnik
* Jovo Stanojević
* Vanja Plisnić
* Martynas Gecevičius
* Ashraf Amaya
* Ben Woodside
* Chuck Davis
* Clay Tucker
* Donald Little
* Erek Hansen
* Ivan McFarlin
* Marques Green
* Matt Hill
* Melvin Robinson
* Michael Maddox
* Ronald Coleman
* Sylvester Gray
* Shannon Shorter

## Season by season

| Season | Tier | League | Pos. | Turkish Cup | European competitions | European competitions |
| 1972–73 | 1 | TBL | 3rd | Champion | | |
| 1991–92 | 1 | TBL | 5th | | 3 Korać Cup | R32 |
| 1992–93 | 1 | TBL | 3rd | | 3 Korać Cup | R64 |
| 1993–94 | 1 | TBL | 10th | | 3 Korać Cup | R32 |
| 2005–06 | 2 | TB2L | 2nd | | | |
| 2006–07 | 1 | TBL | 6th | | | |
| 2007–08 | 1 | TBL | 9th | | | |
| 2008–09 | 1 | TBL | 16th | | | |
| 2009–10 | 2 | TB2L | 8th | | | |
| 2010–11 | 2 | TB2L | 5th | | | |
| 2011–12 | 2 | TB2L | 1st | | | |
| 2012–13 | 1 | TBL | 7th | Quarterfinalist | | |
| 2013–14 | 1 | TBL | 12th | Group stage | 2 Eurocup | QF |
| 2014–15 | 1 | TBL | 14th | Quarterfinalist | | |
| 2015–16 | 1 | BSL | 14th | | | |
| 2016–17 | 1 | BSL | 16th | | | |

## Honours
### International

* Eurocup:
** Quarter-final (1): 2013–2014

### Domestic

* Turkish Basketball Cup:
** Winners (1): 1972-73