Trabzonspor B.K.

Trabzonspor B.K.
Trabzonspor Basketbol Kulübü, also known as Trabzonspor Basket or Trabzonspor, was a professional basketball club based in the city of Trabzon, Turkey. It was a department of the multi-sport club of Trabzonspor. Trabzonspor played seven seasons in the Basketbol Süper Ligi, the highest tier in Turkey. The club withdrew in 2018 due to financial problems.
Their home arena was the Hayri Gür Arena, which has a capacity of 7,500 seats, and was opened in 2011.
History
Trabzonspor's football club was founded in 1967, and it opened its basketball section in 2008. After Alpella's relegation in the 2007–08 season, Trabzonspor's board purchased all of the rights related to the team from the Ülker Group, and took their place in the Turkish Second Division for the 2008–09 season.
Trabzonspor promoted to the top-tier TBL (now called BSL), after they won the championship of the Turkish Division in the 2009–10 season.
In the 2014–15 season, Trabzonspor made its European debut in the EuroChallenge. The club managed to reach the Final Four which was played in its home arena Hayri Gür Arena. In the semi-final, Trabzonspor beat Romanian side Energia by a wide margin, 63–83. In the final, the team narrowly lost to JSF Nanterre from France with a score of 63–64. Nanterre scored a buzzer-beater which costed Trabzon its first European title.
In 2015, Trabzonspor played in the EuroCup Basketball competition, Europe's second tier. Here, it was eliminated in the Round of 32.
On 2 October 2018, Trabzonspor announced its withdrawal from the BSL due to financial problems. Eventually, the club ceased its basketball activities.
Sponsporship names
Trabzonspor : 2008–2010
Medical Park Trabzonspor : 2010–2011
Trabzonspor : 2011–2013
Trabzonspor Medical Park : 2013–2017
Trabzonspor : 2017–2018
Achievements
Turkish Basketball League
Fourth: (1) 2015
Turkish Second League
Winners (2): 2010, 2013
EuroChallenge
Runners-up: (1) 2015
Season by season
Notable players
Birkan Batuk
Kerem Özkan
Polat Kaya
Kaya Peker
Tutku Açık
Can Maxim Mutaf
Nusret Yıldırım
Berkay Candan
Sertaç Şanlı
Can Korkmaz
Can Altıntığ
Alper Saruhan
Erolcan Çinko
Deniz Kılıçlı
Aleksandar Rašić
- Igor Milošević
Jurica Žuža
Kirk Penney
Andrija Stipanović
Novica Veličković
Kaloyan Ivanov
Damian Kulig
- Michael Wright
- Derrick Obasohan
Mike Scott
Harold Jamison
Elton Brown
Jonathan Gibson
Russell Robinson
Marc Salyers
Kevinn Pinkney
Khalid El-Amin
Jack Cooley
- Paul Stoll
Jerome Randle
- Gani Lawal
Dee Bost
Sean Marshall
Tarence Kinsey
Darius Johnson-Odom
Derwin Kitchen
J.P. Prince
Julian Wright
Jorge Gutierrez
Dwight Hardy
Šarūnas Vasiliauskas
Head coaches
Alaeddin Yakan (2008–09, 2009–10, 2010–11)
Dragan Sakota (2010–11)
Tolga Öngören (2011–12)
Halil Üner (2011–12, 2012–13)
Hasan Özmeriç (2012–13, 2013–14)
Hakan Demir (2013–14, 2014–15)
Nenad Markovic (2014–15, 2015–16)
Ahmet Kandemir (2015–16)
Sergey Bazarevich (2016–17)
Zare Markovski (2017–18)
See also
Trabzonspor
References
External links
Official Site
Team Profile at Eurobasket
ULEB Eurocup
FIBA Eurochallenge
TBLstat.net Profile
BSL.org.tr
Trabzonspor
Sport in Trabzon
Basketball teams established in 2008
Basketball teams disestablished in 2019
2008 establishments in Turkey
Basketball