Trabzonspor B.K.

Trabzonspor Basketbol Kulübü, also known as Trabzonspor Basket or Trabzonspor, was a professional basketball club based in the city of Trabzon, Turkey. It was a department of the multi-sport club of Trabzonspor. Trabzonspor played seven seasons in the Basketbol Süper Ligi, the highest tier in Turkey. The club withdrew in 2018 due to financial problems.

Their home arena was the Hayri Gür Arena, which has a capacity of 7,500 seats, and was opened in 2011.

History
Trabzonspor's football club was founded in 1967, and it opened its basketball section in 2008. After Alpella's relegation in the 2007–08 season, Trabzonspor's board purchased all of the rights related to the team from the Ülker Group, and took their place in the Turkish Second Division for the 2008–09 season.

Trabzonspor promoted to the top-tier TBL (now called BSL), after they won the championship of the Turkish Division in the 2009–10 season.

In the 2014–15 season, Trabzonspor made its European debut in the EuroChallenge. The club managed to reach the Final Four which was played in its home arena Hayri Gür Arena. In the semi-final, Trabzonspor beat Romanian side Energia by a wide margin, 63–83. In the final, the team narrowly lost to JSF Nanterre from France with a score of 63–64. Nanterre scored a buzzer-beater which costed Trabzon its first European title.

In 2015, Trabzonspor played in the EuroCup Basketball competition, Europe's second tier. Here, it was eliminated in the Round of 32.

On 2 October 2018, Trabzonspor announced its withdrawal from the BSL due to financial problems. Eventually, the club ceased its basketball activities.

Sponsporship names

 * Trabzonspor : 2008–2010
 * Medical Park Trabzonspor : 2010–2011
 * Trabzonspor : 2011–2013
 * Trabzonspor Medical Park : 2013–2017
 * Trabzonspor : 2017–2018

Achievements

 * Turkish Basketball League
 * Fourth: (1) 2015


 * Turkish Second League
 * Winners (2): 2010, 2013


 * EuroChallenge
 * Runners-up: (1) 2015

Notable players

 * 🇹🇷 Birkan Batuk
 * 🇹🇷 Kerem Özkan
 * 🇹🇷 Polat Kaya
 * 🇹🇷 Kaya Peker
 * 🇹🇷 Tutku Açık
 * 🇹🇷 Can Maxim Mutaf
 * 🇹🇷 Nusret Yıldırım
 * 🇹🇷 Berkay Candan
 * 🇹🇷 Sertaç Şanlı
 * 🇹🇷 Can Korkmaz
 * 🇹🇷 Can Altıntığ
 * 🇹🇷 Alper Saruhan
 * 🇹🇷 Erolcan Çinko
 * 🇹🇷 Deniz Kılıçlı
 * 🇷🇸 Aleksandar Rašić
 * 🇷🇸- Igor Milošević
 * Jurica Žuža
 * 🇳🇿 Kirk Penney
 * 🇧🇦 Andrija Stipanović
 * 🇷🇸 Novica Veličković
 * 🇧🇬 Kaloyan Ivanov
 * 🇵🇱 Damian Kulig
 * 🇺🇸-🇹🇷 Michael Wright
 * 🇺🇸-🇳🇬 Derrick Obasohan
 * 🇺🇸 Mike Scott
 * 🇺🇸 Harold Jamison
 * 🇺🇸 Elton Brown
 * 🇺🇸 Jonathan Gibson
 * 🇺🇸 Russell Robinson
 * 🇺🇸 Marc Salyers
 * 🇺🇸 Kevinn Pinkney
 * 🇺🇸 Khalid El-Amin
 * 🇺🇸 Jack Cooley
 * 🇺🇸-🇲🇽 Paul Stoll
 * 🇺🇸 Jerome Randle
 * 🇺🇸-🇳🇬 Gani Lawal
 * 🇺🇸 Dee Bost
 * 🇺🇸 Sean Marshall
 * 🇺🇸 Tarence Kinsey
 * 🇺🇸 Darius Johnson-Odom
 * 🇺🇸 Derwin Kitchen
 * 🇺🇸 J.P. Prince
 * 🇺🇸 Julian Wright
 * 🇲🇽 Jorge Gutierrez
 * 🇺🇸 Dwight Hardy
 * 🇱🇹 Šarūnas Vasiliauskas

Head coaches

 * 🇹🇷 Alaeddin Yakan (2008–09, 2009–10, 2010–11)
 * 🇷🇸 Dragan Sakota (2010–11)
 * 🇹🇷 Tolga Öngören (2011–12)
 * 🇹🇷 Halil Üner (2011–12, 2012–13)
 * 🇹🇷 Hasan Özmeriç (2012–13, 2013–14)
 * 🇹🇷 Hakan Demir (2013–14, 2014–15)
 * 🇧🇦 Nenad Markovic (2014–15, 2015–16)
 * 🇹🇷 Ahmet Kandemir (2015–16)
 * 🇷🇺 Sergey Bazarevich (2016–17)
 * 🇲🇰 Zare Markovski (2017–18)