Petkim Spor

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.

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.

Notable former players

 * 🇹🇷 Ege Arar
 * 🇹🇷 İlkan Karaman
 * 🇹🇷 Cemal Nalga
 * 🇹🇷 Bora Hun Paçun
 * 🇹🇷 Ümit Sonkol
 * 🇹🇷 Okben Ulubay
 * 🇧🇦 Kenan Bajramović
 * 🇧🇬 Kaloyan Ivanov
 * Darko Planinić
 * 🇱🇹 Šarūnas Vasiliauskas
 * Gary Browne
 * 🇺🇸 Daniel Hamilton
 * 🇺🇸 Josh Selby
 * 🇺🇸 Justin Wright-Foreman