Galatasaray S.K. (men's basketball)

Galatasaray S.K., is a professional basketball team based in the city of Istanbul in Turkey. It is a part of the Galatasaray Sports Club. The team competes in the Turkish Basketball Super League and Basketball Champions League. The team has won 16 Turkish championships (5 titles in the Turkish Super League and 11 in the former Turkish Basketball Championship). The team furthermore won 3 Turkish Cups, 2 Turkish Super Cups, and 1 EuroCup.

History
According to the official records, in Turkey, basketball was first played in 1904 at Robert College. An American physical education teacher laid the foundations of this sport in Turkey. 7 years later, Ahmet Robenson, a physical education teacher in Galatasaray High School decided to introduce a new game to students in 1911. Robenson, who also became a Galatasaray S.K. president later, popularized this sport in Turkey.

Basketball had always been very important for the club. The team has won 16 national championship titles and 15 İstanbul League titles. Former president of the club, Özhan Canaydın was a former player of the basketball team. The team dominated Turkish basketball in the 1940s, and won titles in the 1950s and 1960s, while remaining a competitive team in the 1970s. In the 1980s, Galatasaray won two more championships, in 1985 and 1986, and won the 1990 title. For much of the 1990s and 2000s, Galatasaray struggled. In 2013, Galatasaray won back the Turkish championship. On 24 June 2011, Galatasaray announced that Cafe Crown's sponsorship was over.

Galatasaray qualified for the EuroLeague for the first time in history after winning the qualification knockout round that gained them a place in the EuroLeague season.

On April 27, 2016, Galatasaray defeated SIG Strasbourg with the score of 78–67 at Abdi Ipekci Arena in the second leg of the 2016 EuroCup Finals. With this result Galatasaray won the EuroCup championship for the first time.

Sponsorship naming
Due to sponsorship deals, Galatasaray have been also known as:


 * Galatasaray Cafe Crown: (2005–2011)
 * Galatasaray Medical Park: (2011–2013)
 * Galatasaray Liv Hospital: (2013–2015)
 * Galatasaray Odeabank: (2015–2018)
 * Galatasaray Doğa Sigorta: (2019–2020)
 * Galatasaray: (2020–2021)
 * Galatasaray Nef: (2021–2023)
 * Galatasaray Ekmas: (2023–present)

Domestic competitions
Turkish League Turkish Cup President's Cup Istanbul Basketball League (defunct)
 * Winners (16) (joint record): 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1953, 1955, 1956, 1960, 1963, 1964, 1966, 1968–69, 1984–85, 1985–86, 1989–90, 2012–13
 * Runners-up (9): 1946, 1951, 1952, 1961, 1984–85, 1985–86, 1986–87, 2010–11, 2013–14
 * Winners (3): 1969–70, 1971–72, 1994–95
 * Runners-up (2): 1968–69, 2012–13
 * Winners (2): 1985, 2011
 * Winners (15) (record) : 1933–34, 1941–42, 1942–43, 1944–45, 1945–46, 1946–47, 1947–48, 1948–49, 1949–50, 1950–51, 1951–52, 1952–53, 1953–54, 1957–58, 1960–61

European competitions
EuroLeague EuroCup
 * Quarter Final (1): 2013-14
 * Winners (1): 2015–16
 * Semi Final (1): 2007-08

Season by season

 * Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe.

Notable players
• 🇹🇷 Arda Vekiloğlu

• 🇹🇷🇧🇦 Asım Pars

• 🇹🇷 Cüneyt Erden

• 🇹🇷 Cemal Nalga

• 🇹🇷 Can Akın

• 🇹🇷 Caner Erdeniz

• 🇹🇷 Cevher Özer

• 🇹🇷 Caner Topaloğlu

• 🇹🇷 Cenk Akyol

• 🇹🇷 Evren Büker

• 🇹🇷 Erdem Türetken

• 🇹🇷 Ender Arslan

• 🇹🇷 Erolcan Çinko

• 🇹🇷 Engin Atsür

• 🇹🇷 Ege Arar

• 🇹🇷 Furkan Aldemir

• 🇹🇷 Fatih Solak

• 🇹🇷 Göksenin Köksal

• 🇹🇷 Haluk Yıldırım

• 🇹🇷 Hüseyin Beşok

• 🇹🇷 Kerem Tunçeri

• 🇹🇷 Kerem Gönlüm

• 🇹🇷 Levent Topsakal

• 🇹🇷 Muratcan Güler

• 🇹🇷 Murat Kaya

• 🇹🇷🇩🇪 Mithat Demirel

• 🇹🇷 Nedim Dal

• 🇹🇷 Orhun Ene

• 🇹🇷 Ömer Büyükaycan

• 🇹🇷 Özhan Canaydın

• 🇹🇷 Sinan Güler

• 🇹🇷 Serhat Çetin

• 🇹🇷 Serkan Aydın

• 🇹🇷 Tufan Ersöz

• 🇹🇷 Tolga Tekinalp

• 🇹🇷 Tutku Açık

• 🇹🇷 Tamer Oyguç

• 🇹🇷 Yalçın Granit

• 🇺🇸🇮🇱 Alex Tyus

• 🇺🇸 Antonio Graves

• 🇺🇸 Aaron Harrison

• 🇺🇸 Anthony Tolliver

• 🇺🇸🇧🇦 Alex Renfroe

• 🇺🇸🇨🇮 Alex Poythress

• 🇺🇸 Austin Daye

• 🇺🇸 Britton Johnsen

• 🇺🇸 Ben Handlogten

• 🇺🇸 Ben Moore

• 🇺🇸🇨🇿 Blake Schilb

• 🇺🇸 Chris Owens

• 🇺🇸 Corey Gaines

• 🇺🇸 David Hawkins

• 🇺🇸 David Henderson

• 🇺🇸🇨🇮 Deon Thompson

• 🇺🇸 Dee Brown

• 🇺🇸🇧🇬 Dee Bost

• 🇺🇸🇲🇰 Darius Washington, Jr.

• 🇺🇸 Dell Demps

• 🇺🇸 Darius Washington Jr.

• 🇺🇸 DaJuan Summers

• 🇺🇸 Dwight Hardy

• 🇺🇸🇹🇷 Erwin Dudley

• 🇺🇸 Errick McCollum

• 🇺🇸 Frankie King

• 🇺🇸 Gerald Fitch

• 🇺🇸 Greg Whittington

• 🇺🇸 Henry Walker

• 🇺🇸🇧🇦 Henry Domercant

• 🇺🇸 Jamon Gordon

• 🇺🇸 Jaquay Walls

• 🇺🇸 Joey Dorsey

• 🇺🇸 Josh Shipp

• 🇺🇸 Jon Diebler

• 🇺🇸 Jamont Gordon

• 🇺🇸 Jordan Taylor

• 🇺🇸 John Roberson

• 🇺🇸 Justin Dentmon

• 🇺🇸 Justin Carter

• 🇺🇸 Lloyd Daniels

• 🇺🇸 Lazeric Jones

• 🇺🇸 Malik Hairston

• 🇺🇸 Marshall Strickland

• 🇺🇸 Marlon Maxey

• 🇺🇸 Maurice Baker

• 🇺🇸🇹🇷 Paul Dawkins

• 🇺🇸 Russ Smith

• 🇺🇸 Richard Hendrix

• 🇺🇸 Rakeem Christmas

• 🇺🇸 Scotty Hopson

• 🇺🇸🇮🇱 T. J. Cline

• 🇺🇸 Zach Auguste

• 🇱🇹 Adas Juškevičius

• 🇱🇹 Darius Songaila

• 🇱🇹 Martynas Pocius

• 🇱🇹 Simas Jasaitis

• 🇸🇳 Maurice Ndour

• 🇷🇸 Boris Savović

• 🇷🇸 Dejan Milojević

• 🇷🇸 Milan Gurović

• 🇷🇸 Milan Mačvan

• 🇷🇸 Vladimir Micov

• 🇷🇸 Zoran Erceg

• 🇸🇰 Radoslav Rančík

• 🇸🇰 Richard Petruška

• Andrija Žižić

• Lukša Andrić

• 🇲🇰 Mike Wilkinson

• 🇲🇰🇹🇷 Kristijan Nikolov

• 🇦🇱🇹🇷 Ermal Kuqo

• 🇧🇦 Nihad Đedović

• 🇨🇴 Braian Angola

• Manuchar Markoishvili

• Gundars Vētra

• 🇱🇧🇺🇸 Joe Vogel

• Jaka Lakovič

• Pops Mensah-Bonsu

• 🇦🇺 Nathan Jawai

• 🇨🇦 Denham Brown

• Julius Nwosu

• 🇹🇷 Zaza Pachulia

• 🇵🇦 Kevin Daley

• 🇸🇳 Boniface N'Dong