Petkim Spor Kulübü, more commonly known as Socar Spor is a Turkish professional basketball club based in İzmir which currently competes in the Turkish Basketball Super League (BSL). The team was founded by Petkim in 2013 and got promoted to the first division in 2020. Their home arena is Aliağa Belediyesi ENKA Spor Salonu with a capacity of 3,000 seats. The team is sponsored by SOCAR, an oil and gas company in Azerbaijan.
In the 2024–25 season, Petkim Spor will play in a European competition for the first time, when the team entered the Basketball Champions League, after beating Heroes Den Bosch, Cholet and PAOK in qualification rounds.
History On 29 July 2020 Sigortam.Net İTÜ was removed from the Basketbol Süper Ligi due to financial issues. Instead of them, Petkim Spor were granted a place in the Turkish top-tier league.
Players Current roster
Notable former players
Ege Arar İlkan Karaman Cemal Nalga Bora Hun Paçun Ümit Sonkol Okben Ulubay Kenan Bajramović Kaloyan Ivanov Kenny Chery Philip Scrubb Jaime Echenique Darko Planinić Mahir Agva Martynas Sajus Šarūnas Vasiliauskas Kristers Zoriks Kristijan Nikolov Yannick Franke Daniel Utomi Tai Webster Gary Browne Damyean Dotson Daniel Hamilton Ian Hummer Josh Selby Khyri Thomas Malcolm Thomas Justin Wright-Foreman
Head coaches Şahin Ateşdağlı: 2014–2016 Burak Gören: 2016–2018 Okan Çevik: 2018–2019 Arda Vekiloğlu: 2019–2020 Kestutis Kemzura: 2020–2021 Can Sevim: 2021 Burak Gören: 2021–2025 Özhan Çıvgın: 2025–2026 Orhun Ene: 2026–present
Season by season SeasonTierDivisionCup Competitions European Competitions2014–152 TBL10th –16–182015–162 TBL7th –18–192016–172 TBL5th –29–102017–182 TBL15th –11–232018–192 TBL19th –18–142019–202 TBL – –19–52020–211BSL14th –10–20 2021–221BSL13th –9–212022–231BSL12th –12–182023–241BSL7th 15–15Quarterfinalist2024–251BSL11th12–18 Champions League 2025–261BSL13th9–21 FIBA Europe Cup
Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe.
References
External links Petkim Spor, Official Website Eurobasket.com Page Facebook Page TBLStat.net Profile