Antalya Büyükşehir Belediyesi Spor Kulübü (English: Antalya Greater Metropolitan Municipality Sports Club), commonly abbreviated as Antalya BB is a basketball team based in the city of Antalya in Turkey. Their home arena is the Dilek Sabancı Sport Hall with a capacity of 2,500 seats.
History It was founded first as Antalyaspor in 1966. It played in First League between 1993 and 1996. It qualified to play-offs in 1994–1995 season after finishing 6th with 17 wins. It 3–1 defeated Meysuspor at 1st round but was eliminated by Tofaş SAS by 3–0 at quarter final. It was renamed as Muratpaşa Belediyespor in 1996–1997 season and returned to First League in 1997. Muratpaşa Belediyespor played the league between 1997 and 1999. It merged with basketball branch of Antbirlik (founded in 1978), who played First League between 1981–1982 and 1994–1996. It also played in 2000–2001 season as Muratpaşa Belediyespor Antbirlik. It took present name in 2002 and was promoted to First League as champions of final group in 2006–2007 season. It finished 6th with 18 wins and qualified to play-offs but was eliminated by Fenerbahçe Ülker as 3–1 in 2007–2008 season. It finished again 6th and qualified to play-offs but was eliminated by again Fenerbahçe Ülker as 3–0 in 2008–2009 season.
Season by season SeasonTierLeagueTurkish Cup European competitions1999–002 TB2L4th 2000–012 TB2L 2001–043 EBBL 2004–052 TB2L 2005–063 EBBL1st 2006–072 TB2L1st 2007–081 TBL6th Group Stage2008–091 TBL6th Quarterfinalist 3 EuroChallenge 2009–101 TBL11th Group Stage2010–111 TBL8th Group Stage2011–121 TBL13th Quarterfinalist 2012–131 TBL16th Group Stage2013–142 TB2L15th2013–143 TB3L 2015–163 TB3L 2016–173 TB2L 1st
Notable players
Barış Hersek Bora Paçun Can Akın Melih Mahmutoğlu Muratcan Güler Nedim Yücel Rasim Başak Patrick Femerling Yll Kaçaniku Kristaps Valters Marcus Douthit Stevan Jelovac Aaron Jackson Corey Fisher Frank Elegar Jamon Gordon Marcus Douthit Mike Green Patrick Christopher Ralph Mims Ricardo Marsh Cartier Martin Jermareo Davidson Jordan Theodore Stacey King
References
External links TBLStat.net profile