Fenerbahçe S.K. (men's volleyball)

For the parent multi-sport club, see Fenerbahçe S.K.

Fenerbahçe Men's Volleyball, currently known as Fenerbahçe Medicana for sponsorship reasons, are the men's volleyball department of Fenerbahçe SK, a major Turkish multi-sport club based in Istanbul, Turkey. Founded in 1927, they are one of the most successful volleyball teams in Turkey, having won five Turkish Volleyball League titles, four Turkish Cups, and four Turkish Super Cups, among others. In Europe Fenerbahçe have won two Balkan Cups and the CEV Challenge Cup in the 2013–14 season, thus writing volleyball history as the women's team won another continental title, the CEV Cup, the very same day.^[1][2][3] By achieving this unparalleled feat, Fenerbahçe became the first and only sports club in Turkey and one of a few in Europe with European titles won in both the men's and women's volleyball departments.

Fenerbahçe

Full name	Fenerbahçe Spor Kulübü
Short name	FB Fener
Nickname	Sarı Lacivertliler (The Yellow-Navy Blues) Fener
Founded	1927
Ground	Ülker Sports Arena Metro Energy Hall (Capacity: 2,000)
Chairman	Ali Koç
Manager	Kerem Eryılmaz
League	Efeler Ligi
2023–24	2nd place
Website	Club home page
Uniforms
Home Away
Championships
1 CEV Challenge Cup 2 Balkan Cups 5 Turkish Championships 4 Turkish Cups 4 Turkish Super Cups

The club play their home matches at the 7,000-seated TVF Burhan Felek Sport Hall.^[4]

Previous names

• Fenerbahçe (1927–2011)
• Fenerbahçe Grundig (2011–2015)
• Fenerbahçe (2015–2019)
• Fenerbahçe HDI Sigorta (2019–2023)
• Fenerbahçe Parolapara (2023–2024)

History

After a series of intermittent existences, 1927–1935, 1940–1942, 1943–1971, it was founded in its present form in 1976. The team began in the Istanbul Fourth League and was promoted to the Third League in 1977, to the Second League in 1982 and finally to the First League in 1984. As champions of the Istanbul First League in 1985, Fenerbahçe were promoted to the top-level Men's Volleyball League.^{[citation needed]}

Honours

Source:^[5]

European competitions

• CEV Champions League

Top 16 (1): 2008–2009

• CEV Top Teams Cup / CEV Cup

Semifinalists (2): 2016–17, 2023–24

Quarterfinalists (3): 2004–05, 2011–12, 2014–15

• CEV Challenge Cup

Winners (1): 2013–14

• Balkan Cup

Winners (2) (shared-record): 2009, 2013

Domestic competitions

• Turkish Men's Volleyball League

Winners (5): 2007–08, 2009–10, 2010–11, 2011–12, 2018–19

Runners-up (6): 2003–04, 2005–06, 2008–09, 2013–14, 2020–21, 2023–24

Third place (4): 2006–07, 2016–17, 2021–22, 2022–23

• Turkish Men's Volleyball Championship

Third place (3): 1961–62, 1966–67, 1967–68

• Turkish Cup

Winners (4): 2007–08, 2011–12, 2016–17, 2018–19

Runners-up (2): 2010–11, 2013–14

• Turkish Super Cup

Winners (4) (shared-record): 2011, 2012, 2017, 2020

Runners-up (3): 2010, 2014, 2019

• Turkish Federation Cup

Winners (2): 1961–62, 1965–66

Runners-up (2): 1960–61, 1969–70

• Istanbul Men's Volleyball League

Winners (10): 1926–27, 1927–28, 1928–29, 1929–30, 1932–33, 1933–34, 1940–41, 1966–67, 1967–68, 1968–69

Runners-up (6): 1934–35, 1945–46, 1962–63, 1963–64, 1964–65, 1965–66

Third place (4): 1931–32, 1944–45, 1946–47, 1961–62

The road to the CEV Challenge Cup victory

Round	Opponent	Home	Away
Qualification Round 1	Anorthosis Famagusta	3–0	1–3
Qualification Round 2	AZS Politechnika Warszawska	3–1	0–3
16th Final	Lokomotyv Kharkiv	3–1	3–2
8th Final	VaLePa Sastamala	3–0	3–2
Quarterfinal	Stroitel Minsk	3–0	2–3
Semifinal	Nantes Rezé Métropole	3–1	0–3
Final	Andreoli Latina	3–0	3–2

Roster

Season 2024–2025

No.	Player	D.O.B.	Position	Height (m)
1	Kaan Gürbüz	16/08/2001	Opposite	1.95
2	Caner Pekşen	09/06/1987	Setter	1.84
4	Ahmet Samet Baltacı	08/06/1999	Middle blocker	2.06
5	Baturalp Burak Güngör	28/07/1993	Libero	1.90
7	Osman Çağatay Durmaz	09/09/1996	Middle blocker	2.00
8	Dražen Luburić	02/11/1993	Opposite	2.02
9	Hakkı Çapkınoğlu	20/07/1990	Middle blocker	2.00
11	Fabian Drzyzga	03/01/1990	Setter	1.97
13	Yiğit Gülmezoğlu	28/12/1995	Outside hitter	1.94
15	Mert Cuci	10/08/2005	Middle blocker	2.03
17	Meisam Salehi	17/11/1998	Outside hitter	1.98
18	Denis Karyagin	28/09/2002	Outside hitter	2.02
19	Yasin Aydın	11/07/1995	Outside hitter	1.94
21	Caner Dengin	15/12/1987	Libero	1.87

Technical and managerial staff

Staff as of July 02, 2024^[6]

Name	Position
Hulusi Belgü	Board member
Dariusz Stanicki	Team manager
Kerem Eryılmaz	Head coach
Mert Karatop	Assistant coach
Mehmet Yücel	Assistant coach

Team captains

This is a list of the senior team's captains in the recent years.

Period	Captain
2005–2006	Burak Hascan
2006–2009	Hakan Fertelli
2009–2015	Arslan Ekşi
2015–2018	Selçuk Keskin
2018–2021	Ulaş Kıyak
2021–2022	Salvador Hidalgo Oliva
2022–2023	Saeid Marouf
2023–2024	Hasan Yeşilbudak
2024–	Fabian Drzyzga

Head coaches

Veljko Bašić

This is a list of the senior team's head coaches in the recent years.

Period	Head coach
1927–1929	Aziz Torun
1955–1958	Alaaddin Güneş
1958–1959	Atilla Sesören
1959–1961	Alaaddin Güneş
1961–1962	Ayhan Demir
1962–196?	Alaaddin Güneş
1966–1969	Hilmi Tüker
1969–1970	Metin Bıkmaz
1976–1977	Alaaddin Güneş
1978–1979	Mustafa Elitez
1980–1985	Erkan Yasa
1985–1990	İsmail Vuran
1990–1992	Richard Mislinkova
1992–1993	Abdullah Paşaoğlu
1993–2001	İsmail Vuran
2002	Cem Akyol
2002–2003	Deniz Esinduy
2005–2007	Jesús Savigne
2007–2011	György Demeter
2011–2012	Daniel Castellani
2012	Daniele Bagnoli
2013	Fabio Soli
2013–2015	Daniel Castellani
2015–2018	Veljko Bašić
2018–2020	Mariusz Sordyl
2020–2021	Erkan Toğan
2021–2023	Daniel Castellani
2023–	Kerem Eryılmaz

Home halls

This is a list of the home halls the senior team played at in the recent years.

#	Hall	Period
1	Caferağa Sport Hall	2004–2006
2	Burhan Felek Sport Hall	2006–2007
3	Caferağa Sport Hall	2007–2008
4	50th Anniversary Sport Hall	2008–2010
5	Burhan Felek Sport Hall	2010–2015
6	Ülker Sports Arena	2015–

Notable players

Criteria
To appear in this section a player must have either: Played at least one season for the club. 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. To perform very successfully during period in the club or at later/previous stages of his career.

Domestic Players  Turkey Kadir Arslan Can Ayvazoğlu Emre Batur Erden Çevikel Ersin Durgut Arslan Ekşi Hakan Fertelli Uğur Güneş Burak Hascan Cengizhan Kartaltepe Kemal Kayhan Serkan Kılıç İsmail Cem Kurtar Soner Mezgitçi Ali Peçen Yasin Sancak Nuri Şahin Ahmet Toçoğlu Burak Yavuz İbrahim Başaran Burak Hazırol Metin Toy Turgay Doğan Emin Gök Ediz Kaan Fırıncıoğlu

European Players  Belgium Frank Depestele Wout Wijsmans  Croatia Tomislav Čošković  France Yacine Louati Guillaume Quesque Thibault Rossard  Germany Marcus Böhme  Greece Nikos Samaras †  Italy Matej Černič  Netherlands Wouter ter Maat  Serbia Novica Bjelica Konstantin Čupković Andrija Gerić Vladimir Grbić Ivan Miljković Miloš Nikić  Slovakia Lukáš Diviš  Slovenia Alen Pajenk  Poland Dariusz Stanicki  Ukraine Yuriy Gladyr

Non-European Players  Argentina Jerónimo Bidegain Lucas Chávez Santiago Darraidou Juan Pablo Porello Rodrigo Quiroga Camilo Sato  Brazil Luiz Felipe Fonteles Thiago Soares Alves  Canada Nicholas Hoag Graham Vigrass  Cuba Ihosvany Hernández Salvador Hidalgo Oliva Leonel Marshall  Iran Saeid Marouf Mohammad Mousavi  United States Brook Billings Gabriel Gardner William McKenzie James Polster  Venezuela Ernardo Gómez

Players whose names are italicized still play for the team^[7]

Sponsorship and kit manufacturers

Period Kit sponsors 2004–2005 Anadolu Sigorta1 – Sırma2 – Franke4 2005–2006 Genel Sigorta1 – Blue House 2 – Kosifler3 – Formart4 2006–2007 İstikbal3 – Özsüt5 2007–2008 yüzyıllarca.com1 – Alpet3 2008–2009 Alpet3 – Pilsa5 2009–2010 none 2010–2011 Kiğılı1 2011– Grundig1 2 3 1 Main sponsorship 2 Back sponsorship 3 Lateral sponsorship 4 Short sponsorship 5 Sleeves sponsorship

Period Kit manufacturers 2000– Fenerium

See also

• Fenerbahçe SK
• Fenerbahçe Women's Volleyball

References

1. "Russia wins three of the European Cups, Fenerbahçe – two". www.cev.eu. European Volleyball Confederation. March 31, 2014. Retrieved June 10, 2018.
2. "Fenerbahçe writes history by claiming CEV Challenge Cup!". www.cev.eu. European Volleyball Confederation. March 29, 2014. Retrieved June 10, 2018.
3. "What a day for Fenerbahçe! Yellow Angels win CEV Cup!". www.cev.eu. European Volleyball Confederation. March 29, 2014. Retrieved June 10, 2018.
4. Fenerbahçe started with winning
5. "Erkekler Kupa Şampiyonlukları". tvf.org.tr (in Turkish). Turkish Volleyball Federation. Retrieved March 17, 2019.
6. Technical Staff Team squad Archived February 23, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
7. Fenerbahçe Men's Volleyball Team rosters since 1999-00

External links

• Official website of Fenerbahçe SK (in Turkish and English)