Karşıyaka Basket

Karşıyaka Basket, mostly known as Pınar Karşıyaka for sponsorship reasons, 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 is sponsored by Pınar since 1998. It is the product of Yaşar Holding's Food and Beverage Group. Their home arena is the Karşıyaka Arena with a capacity of 6,500 seats, which was opened in 2005.

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. 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. In its second appearance ever in the top tier of European basketball, the team won 3 games and lost 7.

National competitions
Turkish Super League Turkish Cup President's Cup
 * Winners (2): 1986–87, 2014–15
 * Runner-up (2): 1983–84, 2022–23
 * Winner (1): 2013–14
 * Runner-up (1): 2004–05
 * 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)

Notable players

 * 🇹🇷 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
 * 🇹🇷- Kenan Sipahi
 * 🇹🇷 Berk Uğurlu
 * 🇹🇷 Metin Türen
 * 🇹🇷- Metecan Birsen
 * 🇹🇷 Semih Erden
 * 🇹🇷 Berkan Durmaz
 * 🇹🇷 Burak Can Yıldızlı
 * 🇹🇷 Furkan Haltalı
 * 🇨🇴 Braian Angola
 * 🇨🇴 Juan Palacios
 * 🇩🇴 Ángel Delgado
 * 🇪🇬 Assem Marei
 * 🇫🇷 Amath M'Baye
 * 🇮🇱 Alex Tyus
 * 🇱🇹 Mindaugas Kuzminskas
 * 🇱🇻 Roberts Štelmahers
 * 🇲🇰 Vrbica Stefanov
 * 🇳🇿 Thomas Abercrombie
 * 🇳🇬 Alade Aminu
 * 🇵🇦 Jaime Lloreda
 * 🇵🇱 Mateusz Ponitka
 * 🇷🇺 Zakhar Pashutin
 * 🇷🇸 Jovo Stanojević
 * 🇹🇳 Michael Roll
 * Esteban Batista
 * 🇺🇸 Jim Rowinski
 * 🇺🇸 Dallas Comegys
 * 🇺🇸-🇧🇦 Henry Domercant
 * 🇺🇸 Marcus Slaughter
 * 🇺🇸 Gary Neal
 * 🇺🇸- Quinton Hosley
 * 🇺🇸- Will Thomas
 * 🇺🇸-🇨🇲 D. J. Strawberry
 * 🇺🇸-🇹🇷 Ali Muhammed
 * 🇺🇸 DaJuan Summers
 * 🇺🇸- Jordan Morgan
 * 🇺🇸 Bonzie Colson
 * 🇺🇸 Vernon Carey Jr.
 * 🇺🇸 Kelan Martin
 * 🇺🇸 Darrun Hilliard

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–present)

Season by season

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