Galatasaray Istanbul (basketball)

	Galatasaray Istanbul (basketball)
Founded	1911
Hall	Sinan Erdem Dome ; (16,500 seats)
Homepage	www.galatasaray.org
president	Mustafa Cengiz
Trainer	Ergin Ataman
league	Türkiye Basketbol Ligi ; 2015/16: Play-Off: Semifinals / League 3rd place
	Eurocup ; 2015/16: 1st place
Colours	Yellow Red
home	Away
	successes
	Eurocup 2015/16 ; Turkish Championship: 1969, 1985, 1986, 1990, 2013 ; Turkish Cup victory: 1970, 1972, 1995 ; Turkish Presidential Cup : 1985, 2011

The basketball team of Galatasaray is the first professional basketball team in Turkey was founded. This happened in 1911. Galatasaray plays in the highest Turkish basketball league, the Türkiye Basketbol Ligi , where they have won five titles so far. In addition, the club's basketball department - like the football team or the women's department - was the only Turkish club to win a European title ( Eurocup 2015/16 ).

Name changes due to sponsorship

On the basis of sponsorship agreements, the club has been selling its naming rights since summer 2005 and as a result has the respective sponsor name in its club name. The previous sponsoring-related name changes are:

Galatasaray Cafe Crown (2005-2011)
Galatasaray Medical Park (2011-2013)
Galatasaray Liv Hospital (2013-2015)
Galatasaray Odeabank (2015–)

successes

(Only current competitions)

ULEB Eurocup : 2016
Turkish Championship: 1969, 1985, 1986, 1990, 2013
Turkish Cup victory: 1970, 1972, 1995
Turkish Presidential Cup: 1985, 2011

Awards

Sedat-Simavi Prize
- 1985 (9th edition) in the category: Sport
  - for the success of the Galatasaray school basketball team at the High Schools World Basketball Championship where they finished second.
- 2009 (33rd edition) in the category: Sport
  - for the winning achievements of the Galatasaray basketball wheelchair team at the European and Intercontinental Basketball Wheelchair Championships.

Current squad

Squad Galatasaray Istanbul in the 2014/2015 season

Attention: The squad information is out of date!
(current season: 2020/2021)

player
No.	Nat.	Surname	birth	size	info	Last club
		Guards ( PG , SG )
1	United States	Justin Carter	04/21/1987	193		Uşak Üniversitesi SK
30th	Puerto Rico	Carlos Arroyo	07/30/1979	188	A-Nat	Besiktas Milangaz
32	Turkey	Sinan Guler	11/08/1983	192	A-Nat	Anadolu Efes SK
33	Turkey	Ender Arslan	01/13/1983	190	A-Nat	{{{from}}}
35	Turkey	Göktürk Urals	05/31/1995	198	{{{info}}}	{{{from}}}
		Forwards ( SF , PF )
5	Serbia	Vladimir Micov	04/16/1985	201	A-Nat	PBK CSKA Moscow
7th	Serbia	Zoran Erceg	January 11, 1985	211	A-Nat	PBK CSKA Moscow
12	Turkey	Kerem Gönlüm	11/22/1977	209	A-Nat	Anadolu Efes SK
17th	Lithuania	Martynas Pocius	04/28/1986	196	A-Nat	Žalgiris Kaunas
34	Turkey	Ege Arar	09/02/1996	207	{{{info}}}	{{{from}}}
		Center ( C )
11	Australia	Nathan Jawai	10/10/1986	208	A-Nat	FC Barcelona
15th	Greece	Ian Vougioukas	05/31/1985	211	A-Nat	UNICS Kazan
4th	United States	Patric Young	02/01/1992	209		New Orleans Pelicans
24	Serbia	Aleks Marić	10/22/1984	211		Maccabi Tel Aviv