Karşıyaka Basket

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).

Karşıyaka Basket
Leagues	Basketbol Süper Ligi
Founded	1966; 59 years ago (1966)
History	Karşıyaka Basket (1966 – present)
Arena	Mustafa Kemal Atatürk Karşıyaka Sport Hall
Capacity	6,500
Location	İzmir, Turkey
Team colors	Green, red
President	İlker Ergüllü
Head coach	Vacant
Team captain	Mert Celep
Championships	2 Turkish Championships 1 Turkish Cup 2 President's Cups
Website	www.kskbasketbol.net
Home Away

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.^[1] Their home arena is the Karşıyaka Arena with a capacity of 6,500 seats, which was opened in 2005.^[2]

Big 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.^[3] 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.^[4] 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

Note: Flags indicate national team eligibility at FIBA-sanctioned events. Players may hold other non-FIBA nationalities not displayed.

Karşıyaka Basket roster
Players	Coaches
Pos. No. Nat. Name Ht. Wt. Age G 6 Yılmaz, Ozan 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in) 22 – (2003-01-17)17 January 2003 PF 8 Sayılı, Hakan 2.05 m (6 ft 9 in) 25 – (2000-02-14)14 February 2000 SF 10 Tırpancı, Ergi 2.01 m (6 ft 7 in) 93 kg (205 lb) 25 – (2000-01-01)1 January 2000 SG 11 Akyazılı, Thomas 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in) 88 kg (194 lb) 28 – (1997-01-15)15 January 1997 C 17 Demirel, Mehmet Efe 2.14 m (7 ft 0 in) 20 – (2005-01-04)4 January 2005 G/F 20 Hollins, Austin 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in) 86 kg (190 lb) 33 – (1991-11-08)8 November 1991 PG 21 Smith, Mike 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) 84 kg (185 lb) 27 – (1997-10-13)13 October 1997 PF 35 Celep, Mert (C) 2.06 m (6 ft 9 in) 95 kg (209 lb) 29 – (1995-06-23)23 June 1995 SG 44 Gallinat, Roberto 1.92 m (6 ft 4 in) 82 kg (181 lb) 28 – (1996-12-29)29 December 1996 C 77 Yaşar, Muhsin 2.08 m (6 ft 10 in) 96 kg (212 lb) 29 – (1995-12-31)31 December 1995	Head coach Sinan Aksoylar Assistant coach(es) Arda Demirbağ Yağız Sertoğlu Strength & conditioning coach(es) Tolga Altun Physiotherapist(s) Batuhan Çelik Team manager Nihat Mala Legend (C) Team captain Injured Roster Updated: March 23, 2025

Depth chart

Pos.	Starting 5	Bench
C	Muhsin Yaşar	Mehmet Efe Demirel
PF	Mert Celep
SF	Austin Hollins	Hakan Sayılı
SG	Roberto Gallinat	Ergi Tırpancı
PG	Ozan Yılmaz	Thomas Akyazılı

(colours: Turkish or homegrown players; foreign players)

Notable players

Note: Flags indicate national team eligibility at FIBA-sanctioned events. Players may hold other non-FIBA nationalities not displayed.

Criteria
To appear in this section a player must have either: 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 Played at least one official NBA match at any time.

• Efe Aydan
• Hüseyin Beşok
• Kaya Peker
• Arda Vekiloğlu
• Mehmet Yağmur
• Şemsettin Baş
• Ufuk Sarıca
• Hakan Köseoğlu
• Muratcan Güler
• - Asım Pars
• Serhat Çetin
• Ümit Sonkol
• Barış Ermiş
• Furkan Aldemir
• Birkan Batuk
• İlkan Karaman
• Erkan Veyseloğlu
• Barış Hersek
• Kerem Gönlüm
• İnanç Koç
• Berk Uğurlu
• Metin Türen
• - Metecan Birsen
• Onuralp Bitim
• Semih Erden
• Berkan Durmaz
• - Kenan Sipahi
• Braian Angola
• Juan Palacios
• Siniša Kelečević
• Ángel Delgado
• Assem Marei
• Roberts Štelmahers
• Mindaugas Kuzminskas
• Vrbica Stefanov
• Thomas Abercrombie
• Alade Aminu
• Jaime Lloreda
• Mateusz Ponitka
• 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
• Vernon Carey Jr.
• Kelan Martin
• Vitto Brown
• James Webb
• Errick McCollum
• Daron Russell

Award winners

BSL Finals MVP – Bobby Dixon: 2015
Turkish Cup Final MVP – Bobby Dixon: 2014

Head coaches

• Aydan Siyavuş (1973–1975)
• Nadir Vekiloğlu
• Aydan Siyavuş (1990–1991)
• Murat Didin (1998–1999)
• Ergin Ataman (1999)
• Ahmet Kandemir (2003–2006)
• Levent Topsakal (2006)
• Okan Çevik (2006–2007)
• Ahmet Kandemir (2007–2008)
• Ayhan Kalyoncu (2008–2009)
• Hakan Demir (2009–2012)
• Ufuk Sarıca (2012–2016)
• Nenad Marković (2016–2017)
• Aleksandar Trifunović (2017–2018)
• Özhan Çıvgın (2018–2019)
• Dirk Bauermann (2019)
• Ufuk Sarıca (2019–2025)
• Rüçhan Tamsöz (2025)

Season by season

Season	Tier	Division	Pos.	Playoffs	Cup Competitions	European Competitions
1966–67	1	TBL	12th	–
1967–68	1	TBL	15th	–
1968–74	Lower divisions
1974–75	1	TBL	3rd	–
1975–76	1	TBL	3rd	–		Korać Cup
1976–77	1	TBL	6th	–		Korać Cup
1977–78	1	TBL	5th	–
1978–79	1	TBL	3rd	–		Korać Cup
1979–80	1	TBL	5th	–		Korać Cup
1980–81	1	TBL	3rd	4th		Korać Cup
1981–82	1	TBL	7th	6th		Korać Cup
1982–83	1	TBL	6th			Korać Cup
1983–84	1	TBL	4th	RU
1984–85	1	TBL	6th	QF		Saporta Cup
1985–86	1	TBL	7th	QF
1986–87	1	TBL	2nd	Champions		Korać Cup
1987–88	1	TBL	9th			European Champions Cup
1988–89	1	TBL	10th
1989–90	1	TBL	9th
1990–91	1	TBL	7th	QF
1991–92	1	TBL	11th
1992–93	1	TBL	14th
1993–94	1	TBL	9th	1R
1994–95	1	TBL	10th	1R
1995–96	1	TBL	12th	1R
1996–97	1	TBL	10th	1R
1997–98	1	TBL	12th	1R
1998–99	1	TBL	9th	1R
1999–00	1	TBL	4th	QF	Quarterfinalist	Korać Cup	3R
2000–01	1	TBL	10th	1R		Saporta Cup	RS
2001–02	1	TBL	6th	QF
2002–03	1	TBL	5th	QF		FIBA Europe Champions Cup	RS
2003–04	1	TBL	4th	SF	Group Stage
2004–05	1	TBL	5th	QF	Runner-up
2005–06	1	TBL	10th		Group Stage
2006–07	1	TBL	12th		Semifinalist
2007–08	1	TBL	7th	QF	Quarterfinalist
2008–09	1	TBL	9th		Group Stage
2009–10	1	TBL	6th	QF	Quarterfinalist
2010–11	1	TBL	5th	QF	Group Stage	EuroChallenge	QF
2011–12	1	TBL	6th	QF	Group Stage	EuroChallenge	T16
2012–13	1	TBL	5th	SF	Quarterfinalist	EuroChallenge	RU
2013–14	1	TBL	6th	SF	Champion	Eurocup	L32
2014–15	1	TBL	4th	Champions	Semifinalist	Eurocup	QF
2015–16	1	BSL	6th	QF	Semifinalist	Euroleague Eurocup	RS L16
2016–17	1	BSL	9th		Semifinalist	Champions League	QF
2017–18	1	BSL	10th			Champions League	QF
2018–19	1	BSL	11th			FIBA Europa Cup	QF
2019–20	1	BSL	2nd1	–1		FIBA Europa Cup	SF1
2020–21	1	BSL	3rd	SF		Champions League	RU
2021–22	1	BSL	7th	QF	Quarterfinalist	Champions League	PI
2022–23	1	BSL	4th	RU		Champions League	PI
2023–24	1	BSL	4th	SF	Semifinalist	Champions League	R16
2024–25	1	BSL			Quarterfinalist	Champions League	PI

^1 Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe.

See also

• Karşıyaka S.K.
• Karşıyaka Women's Volleyball Team