Karşıyaka Basket

Pınar Karşıyaka
Pınar Karşıyaka
Leagues	Basketbol Süper Ligi
Founded	1966; 58 years ago
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
Home	Away

Karşıyaka Basket, mostly known as Pınar Karşıyaka for sponsorship reasons, 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[edit]

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 is sponsored by Pınar since 1998. It is the product of Yaşar Holding's Food and Beverage Group. Their home arena is the Karşıyaka Arena with a capacity of 6,500 seats, which was opened in 2005.^[1]

Big achievements with Sarıca[edit]

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.^[2] 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.^[3] In its second appearance ever in the top tier of European basketball, the team won 3 games and lost 7.

Honours[edit]

National competitions[edit]

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[edit]

Basketball Champions League

Runner-up (1): 2020–21

FIBA EuroChallenge

Runner-up (1): 2012–13

Home arenas[edit]

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

Players[edit]

Current roster[edit]

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

Pınar Karşıyaka roster

Players

Coaches

Pos.	No.	Name	Ht.	Wt.	Age
G	0	Brown, Jaylon	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)	84 kg (185 lb)	29 – (1994-09-11)11 September 1994
F/C	1	Carey Jr., Vernon	2.08 m (6 ft 10 in)	122 kg (269 lb)	23 – (2001-02-25)25 February 2001
G	3	McCollum, Errick	1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)	87 kg (192 lb)	36 – (1988-01-22)22 January 1988
C	7	Haltalı, Furkan	2.11 m (6 ft 11 in)	95 kg (209 lb)	22 – (2002-02-02)2 February 2002
PF	8	Sayılı, Hakan	2.05 m (6 ft 9 in)		24 – (2000-02-14)14 February 2000
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	13	Kılıçlı, Deniz	2.06 m (6 ft 9 in)	132 kg (291 lb)	33 – (1990-10-23)23 October 1990
F	30	Martin, Kelan	1.96 m (6 ft 5 in)	104 kg (229 lb)	28 – (1995-08-03)3 August 1995
G/F	32	Hilliard, Darrun	1.98 m (6 ft 6 in)	100 kg (220 lb)	31 – (1993-04-13)13 April 1993
F	33	Brown, Vitto	2.03 m (6 ft 8 in)	107 kg (236 lb)	28 – (1995-07-13)13 July 1995
PF	35	Celep, Mert	2.06 m (6 ft 9 in)	95 kg (209 lb)	28 – (1995-06-23)23 June 1995
PG	55	Sipahi, Kenan (C)	1.97 m (6 ft 6 in)	88 kg (194 lb)	28 – (1995-05-26)26 May 1995

Head coach

Ufuk Sarıca

Assistant coach(es)

Recep Şen
Sinan Aksoylar
Okan Kılıç

Strength & conditioning coach(es)

Tolga Altun

Physiotherapist(s)

Batuhan Çelik

Team manager

Selim Çınar

Legend

(C) Team captain
Injured

Roster

Updated: September 6, 2023

Depth chart[edit]

Pos.	Starting 5	Bench 1	Bench 2	Bench 3
C	Furkan Haltalı	Deniz Kılıçlı		Vernon Carey Jr.
PF	Vitto Brown	Mert Celep	Hakan Sayılı
SF	Kelan Martin	Ergi Tırpancı
SG	Jaylon Brown	Thomas Akyazılı
PG	Kenan Sipahi	Errick McCollum

(colours: Turkish or homegrown players; foreign players)

Notable players[edit]

Note: Flags indicate national team eligibility at FIBA-sanctioned events. Players may hold other non-FIBA nationality 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.

Award winners[edit]

BSL Finals MVP – Bobby Dixon: 2015
Turkish Cup Final MVP – Bobby Dixon: 2014

Head coaches[edit]

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[edit]

Season	Tier	Division	Pos.	Playoffs	Cup Competitions	European Competitions
1966–67	1	TBL	12th	–
1967–68	1	TBL	15th	–
1968–74	Lower divisions
1974–75	1	TBL	3rd	–
1975–76	1	TBL	3rd	–		Korać Cup
1976–77	1	TBL	6th	–		Korać Cup
1977–78	1	TBL	5th	–
1978–79	1	TBL	3rd	–		Korać Cup
1979–80	1	TBL	5th	–		Korać Cup
1980–81	1	TBL	3rd	4th		Korać Cup
1981–82	1	TBL	7th	6th		Korać Cup
1982–83	1	TBL	6th			Korać Cup
1983–84	1	TBL	4th	RU
1984–85	1	TBL	6th	QF		Saporta Cup
1985–86	1	TBL	7th	QF
1986–87	1	TBL	2nd	Champions		Korać Cup
1987–88	1	TBL	9th			European Champions Cup
1988–89	1	TBL	10th
1989–90	1	TBL	9th
1990–91	1	TBL	7th	QF
1991–92	1	TBL	11th
1992–93	1	TBL	14th
1993–94	1	TBL	9th	1R
1994–95	1	TBL	10th	1R
1995–96	1	TBL	12th	1R
1996–97	1	TBL	10th	1R
1997–98	1	TBL	12th	1R
1998–99	1	TBL	9th	1R
1999–00	1	TBL	4th	QF	Quarterfinalist	Korać Cup	3R
2000–01	1	TBL	10th	1R		Saporta Cup	RS
2001–02	1	TBL	6th	QF
2002–03	1	TBL	5th	QF		FIBA Europe Champions Cup	RS
2003–04	1	TBL	4th	SF	Group Stage
2004–05	1	TBL	5th	QF	Runner-up
2005–06	1	TBL	10th		Group Stage
2006–07	1	TBL	12th		Semifinalist
2007–08	1	TBL	7th	QF	Quarterfinalist
2008–09	1	TBL	9th		Group Stage
2009–10	1	TBL	6th	QF	Quarterfinalist
2010–11	1	TBL	5th	QF	Group Stage	EuroChallenge	QF
2011–12	1	TBL	6th	QF	Group Stage	EuroChallenge	T16
2012–13	1	TBL	5th	SF	Quarterfinalist	EuroChallenge	RU
2013–14	1	TBL	6th	SF	Champion	Eurocup	L32
2014–15	1	TBL	4th	Champions	Semifinalist	Eurocup	QF
2015–16	1	BSL	6th	QF	Semifinalist	Euroleague Eurocup	RS L16
2016–17	1	BSL	9th		Semifinalist	Champions League	QF
2017–18	1	BSL	10th			Champions League	QF
2018–19	1	BSL	11th			FIBA Europa Cup	QF
2019–20	1	BSL	2nd¹	–¹		FIBA Europa Cup	SF¹
2020–21	1	BSL	3rd	SF		Champions League	RU
2021–22	1	BSL	7th	QF	Quarterfinalist	Champions League	PI
2022–23	1	BSL	4th	RU		Champions League	PI
2023–24	1	BSL			Semifinalist	Champions League	R16

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

References[edit]

^ About of Karşıyaka Arena Archived 2011-11-17 at the Wayback Machine (in English)
^ Karşıyaka won Turkish Cup victory against Anadolu Efes (in English)
^ Karşıyaka plays in Euroleague

External links[edit]

38°28′28″N 27°04′36″E / 38.47448°N 27.07678°E / 38.47448; 27.07678

[1] About of Karşıyaka Arena Archived 2011-11-17 at the Wayback Machine (in English)

[2] Karşıyaka won Turkish Cup victory against Anadolu Efes (in English)

[3] Karşıyaka plays in Euroleague

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v t e Karşıyaka Spor Kulübü
Football	First Team Managers Footballers
Other branches	Basketball Volleyball
Facilities	Karşıyaka Arena
Rivalries	İzmir Derby

v t e Basketbol Süper Ligi
Turkish Basketball Federation Turkish Basketball League System Turkish Basketball League Venues
Current clubs	Anadolu Efes Bahçeşehir Koleji Beşiktaş Emlakjet Bursaspor İnfo Yatırım Çağdaş Bodrumspor Darüşşafaka Lassa Fenerbahçe Beko Galatasaray Ekmas Manisa Büyükşehir Belediyespor ONVO Büyükçekmece Petkim Spor Pınar Karşıyaka Reeder Samsunspor Tofaş Türk Telekom Yukatel Merkezefendi Belediyesi
Seasons	1966–67 1967–68 1968–69 1969–70 1970–71 1971–72 1972–73 1973–74 1974–75 1975–76 1976–77 1977–78 1978–79 1979–80 1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87 1987–88 1988–89 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95 1995–96 1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–00 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16 2016–17 2017–18 2018–19 2019–20 2020–21 2021–22 2022–23 2023–24
Playoffs	2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 ~~2020~~ 2021 2022 2023 2024
Champions	Anadolu Efes (16) Fenerbahçe (10) Eczacıbaşı (8) Galatasaray (5) İTÜ (5) Ülkerspor (4) Beşiktaş (2) Karşıyaka (2) Tofaş (2) Altınordu (1) Muhafızgücü (1)
Awards	Finals MVP Mr. King (Top Scorer) Assists Leaders
Related	Turkish Cup Turkish Cup Final MVP Presidential Cup Turkish Presidential Cup Final MVP Turkish clubs in international competitions List of Turkish basketball champions Turkish Championship (defunct) Istanbul League (defunct)