Karşıyaka Basket 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
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 was sponsored by Yaşar Holding's Food and Beverage Group; Pınar between 1998 and 2024. Their home arena is the Karşıyaka Arena with a capacity of 6,500 seats, which was opened in 2005.About of Karşıyaka Arena
Achievements with Sarıca
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.Karşıyaka won Turkish Cup victory against Anadolu Efes 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.Karşıyaka plays in Euroleague In its second appearance ever in the top tier of European basketball, the team won 3 games and lost 7.
Honours National competitions 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 Basketball Champions League
Runner-up (1): 2020–21
FIBA EuroChallenge Runner-up (1): 2012–13
Home arenas İzmir Atatürk Sport Hall: (1966–2005) Mustafa Kemal Atatürk Karşıyaka Sport Hall: (2005–present)
Players
Current roster
Depth chart
Notable players
Efe Aydan Hüseyin Beşok Arda Vekiloğlu Kaya Peker Şemsettin Baş Ufuk Sarıca Muratcan Güler Mehmet Yağmur - Asım Pars Hakan Köseoğlu Serhat Çetin Ümit Sonkol Barış Ermiş Furkan Aldemir Birkan Batuk İlkan Karaman Erkan Veyseloğlu Barış Hersek Kerem Gönlüm İnanç Koç Berk Uğurlu Metin Türen - Adem Bona - Metecan Birsen Onuralp Bitim Semih Erden Berkan Durmaz - Kenan Sipahi Muhsin Yaşar Samet Geyik Braian Angola Juan Palacios Siniša Kelečević Ángel Delgado Assem Marei Edon Maxhuni Roberts Štelmahers Mindaugas Kuzminskas Vrbica Stefanov Thomas Abercrombie Alade Aminu Jaime Lloreda Mateusz Ponitka Michał Sokołowski Zakhar Pashutin Jovo Stanojević Mirko Milićević Esteban Batista Jim Rowinski Dallas Comegys Dewayne Jefferson - Henry Domercant Jerry Holman Roberto Bergersen Rashard Griffith Marcus Slaughter Sean Marshall Gary Neal - Quinton Hosley Leon Williams Andre Smith David Holston Mire Chatman - Will Thomas - D. J. Strawberry - Ali Muhammed Jon Diebler Colton Iverson Kenny Gabriel DaJuan Summers - Jordan Morgan D.J. Kennedy - Michael Roll Tony Taylor Bonzie Colson Kelan Martin Vitto Brown Errick McCollum - Daron Russell Roberto Gallinat Cameron Young Charles Manning
Award winners
Head coaches
Aydan Siyavuş (1973–75) Nadir Vekiloğlu (1986-88) Aydan Siyavuş (1990–91) Halil Üner (1993-1995) Aclan Kavasoğlu (1995-97) Halil Üner (1997-98) Murat Didin (1998–99) Ergin Ataman (1999) Aclan Kavasoğlu (1999-2000) Mete Babaoğlu (2000-03) Ahmet Kandemir (2003–06) Levent Topsakal (2006) Okan Çevik (2006–07) Ahmet Kandemir (2007–08) Ayhan Kalyoncu (2008–09) Hakan Demir (2009–12) Ufuk Sarıca (2012–2016) Nenad Marković (2016–17) Aleksandar Trifunović (2017–18) Özhan Çıvgın (2018–19) Dirk Bauermann (2019) Ufuk Sarıca (2019–25) Ahmet Çakı (2025) Faruk Beşok (2025) Candost Volkan (2025–26) Ahmet Kandemir (2026)
Season by season SeasonTierDivisionCup Competitions European Competitions1966–671 TBL12th –1967–681 TBL15th – 1968–74Lower divisions1974–751 TBL3rd – 1975–761 TBL3rd – Korać Cup1976–771 TBL6th– Korać Cup1977–781 TBL5th–1978–791 TBL3rd– Korać Cup1979–801 TBL5th– Korać Cup1980–811 TBL3rd4th Korać Cup1981–821 TBL7th6th Korać Cup1982–831 TBL6th Korać Cup1983–841 TBL4th1984–851 TBL6th Saporta Cup1985–861TBL7th1986–871 TBL 2ndChampions Korać Cup1987–881 TBL9th European Champions Cup1988–891 TBL10th1989–901 TBL9th1990–911 TBL7th1991–921 TBL11th1992–931 TBL14th1993–941 TBL9th1994–951 TBL10th1995–961 TBL12th1996–971 TBL10th1997–981 TBL12th1998–991 TBL9th1999–001 TBL4thQuarterfinalistKorać Cup2000–011 TBL10th Saporta Cup2001–021 TBL6th 2002–031 TBL5th FIBA Europe Champions Cup2003–041 TBL4th Group Stage2004–051 TBL5thRunner-up2005–061 TBL10th Group Stage2006–071 TBL12th Semifinalist2007–081 TBL7thQuarterfinalist2008–091 TBL9th Group Stage2009–101 TBL6thQuarterfinalist2010–111 TBL5th Group StageEuroChallenge 2011–121 TBL6th Group Stage EuroChallenge 2012–131 TBL5thQuarterfinalistEuroChallenge 2013–141 TBL6thChampion Eurocup 2014–151 TBL4thChampionsSemifinalistEurocup 2015–161 BSL6thSemifinalist Euroleague Eurocup 2016–171 BSL9thSemifinalistChampions League 2017–181 BSL10th Champions League 2018–191BSL11thFIBA Europa Cup 2019–201BSL2nd– FIBA Europa Cup 2020–211BSL3rd Champions League 2021–221BSL7thQuarterfinalist Champions League 2022–231BSL4th Champions League 2023–241BSL4thSemifinalist Champions League 2024–251BSL14th Quarterfinalist Champions League 2025–261BSL14th
Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe.
See also Karşıyaka S.K. Karşıyaka Women's Volleyball Team
References
External links Official website Official website TBLStat.net Profile Eurobasket Profile