Darüşşafaka S.K.

Darüşşafaka Doğuş
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Nickname	Daçka
Leagues	Turkish League Turkish Cup Euroleague
Founded	1951
History	Darüşşafaka (1951–2008) Darüşşafaka Cooper Tires (2008–2010) Darüşşafaka (2010–2013) Darüşşafaka Doğuş (2013–present)
Arena	Darüşşafaka Ayhan Şahenk Sports Hall (BSL), Volkswagen Arena (Euroleague)
Arena Capacity	3,500 5,240
Location	Istanbul, Turkey
Team colors	Black and Green
President	Ümit Başkırt
Head coach	David Blatt
Championships	2 Turkish Basketball Championship 1 Turkish Second Division
Website	darussafakadogusbasketbol.com
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Darüşşafaka Spor Kulübü, is a professional basketball club based in İstanbul, Turkey. The club plays in the Turkish Basketball Super League. Its home arena for domestic Turkish League games is Darüşşafaka Ayhan Şahenk Sports Hall, with a capacity of 3,500, while its home arena for Euroleague games is the Volkswagen Arena Istanbul, with a capacity of 5,240. As of the beginning of 2013–14 season, the club signed a long term agreement with Doğuş Holding, and changed its name to Darüşşafaka & Doğuş.

History

From 1993 until 2010, Darüşşafaka was a stable TBL (now called BSL) competitor. In the 2000–01 and 2001–02 seasons, the team took the third place in the regular season. In the 2009–10 season, the club ended up in 16th place in the TBL and was relegated. The team was then a middle-tier team in the TB2L from 2010 until 2013.

Darüşşafaka & Doğuş (2013–present)

In 2013, Doğuş Holding became the main sponsor of the team, which instantly turned Darüşşafaka into a wealthy and ambitious club. In the 2013–14 season, they won the TB2L title, and were promoted to the TBL (now called BSL).

In the 2014–15 season, Darüşşafaka took the third place in the regular season, after some big names like Renaldas Seibutis and Jamon Gordon were signed for the season. Despite the huge expectations, the team lost in the quarterfinals of the league playoffs to Trabzonspor.

The team received a wild card for the 2015–16 Euroleague season. Darüşşafaka started playing its Euroleague games at the Volkswagen Arena Istanbul from November 2015.

Arenas

Darüşşafaka plays its national domestic Turkish Basketball Super League home games at the 3,500 seat Darüşşafaka Ayhan Şahenk Sports Hall. In November 2015, the 5,240 seat Volkswagen Arena Istanbul was officially inaugurated as the home arena of Darüşşafaka for Euroleague home games.

Honors

• Turkish Basketball Championship
  • Champions (2): 1961, 1962
  • Runners-up (1): 1960
• Turkish Cup
  • Runners-up (2): 2002, 2016
• Turkish Basketball Second Division
  • Champions (1): 2014
• Istanbul Basketball League
  • Champions (1): 1960
  • Third place (3): 1961, 1962, 1963

Season by season

Season	Tier	League	Pos.	Postseason	Turkish Cup	European competitions			Head coach	Top scorer
2012–13	2	TB2L	6	Quarterfinalist	–	–			Aziz Bekir	Marcus Hall – 17.9
2013–14	2	TB2L	1	Promoted	–	–			Orhun Ene	Lynn Greer – 17.3
2014–15	1	TBL	3	Quarterfinalist	Semifinalist	–			Oktay Mahmuti	Jordan Farmar – 14.9
2015–16	1	BSL	4	Semifinalist	Runner-up	Euroleague	T16		Oktay Mahmuti

Players

Current roster

Darüşşafaka Doğuş roster
Players	Coaches
Pos. # Nat. Name Ht. Wt. Age PG 1 Wilbekin, Scottie 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) 80 kg (176 lb) – (1993-04-05)5 April 1993 PG 4 Yağmur, Mehmet  1.87 m (6 ft 2 in) 85 kg (187 lb) – (1987-07-01)1 July 1987 G/F 5 Redding, Reggie 1.96 m (6 ft 5 in) 95 kg (209 lb) – (1988-07-18)18 July 1988 PF 7 Türen, Metin 2.06 m (6 ft 9 in) – (1994-05-02)2 May 1994 PF 8 Geyik, Samet 2.06 m (6 ft 9 in) 98 kg (216 lb) – (1993-01-12)12 January 1993 C 9 Erden, Semih 2.13 m (7 ft 0 in) 109 kg (240 lb) – (1986-07-28)28 July 1986 PG 10 Özdemiroğlu, Doğuş 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in) – (1996-04-17)17 April 1996 G/F 11 Markoishvili, Manuchar 1.97 m (6 ft 6 in) 95 kg (209 lb) – (1986-11-17)17 November 1986 G/F 15 Çetin, Serhat 1.97 m (6 ft 6 in) 94 kg (207 lb) – (1986-02-23)23 February 1986 PF 19 Aldemir, Furkan 2.08 m (6 ft 10 in) 109 kg (240 lb) – (1991-08-09)9 August 1991 C 21 Savaş, Oğuz 2.13 m (7 ft 0 in) 132 kg (291 lb) – (1987-07-13)13 July 1987 G 22 Gordon, Jamon 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in) 98 kg (216 lb) – (1984-07-14)14 July 1984 PG 33 Arslan, Ender 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in) 82 kg (181 lb) – (1983-01-13)13 January 1983 F/C 35 Dudley, Erwin (DC) 2.04 m (6 ft 8 in) 111 kg (245 lb) – (1981-10-02)2 October 1981 F/C 42 Slaughter, Marcus 2.03 m (6 ft 8 in) 104 kg (229 lb) – (1985-03-18)18 March 1985 PF 44 Harangody, Luke 2.03 m (6 ft 8 in) 109 kg (240 lb) – (1988-01-02)2 January 1988 PF 51 Bjelica, Milko 2.07 m (6 ft 9 in) 102 kg (225 lb) – (1984-06-04)4 June 1984 G/F 55 Preldzic, Emir (DC) 2.06 m (6 ft 9 in) 100 kg (220 lb) – (1987-09-06)6 September 1987	Head coach Oktay Mahmuti Assistant coach(es) Recep Şen Ömer Uğurata Strength & conditioning coach(es) Yücel Aslan Murat Çağlar Team manager İbrahim Kutluay Ahmet Eran Legend (C) Team captain (DC) Dual citizenship Injured Roster Updated: December 30, 2015

Depth chart

Pos.	Starting 5	Bench 1	Bench 2	Bench 3
C	Semih Erden	Marcus Slaughter	Oğuz Savaş	Erwin Dudley
PF	Luke Harangody	Milko Bjelica	Furkan Aldemir	Samet Geyik
SF	Manuchar Markoishvili	Emir Preldzic	Serhat Çetin
SG	Reggie Redding	Jamon Gordon
PG	Scottie Wilbekin	Ender Arslan	Mehmet Yağmur

Notable players

Burak Sezgin Cevher Özer Cüneyt Erden Emre Ekim Erdem Türetken Faruk Beşok Hakan Köseoğlu Hicri Güneri Mehmet Kahyaoğlu Murat Kösedağ Orhan Güler Ömer Kahyaoğlu Recep Ertaş Semih Erden Serdar Tabay

Sinan Güler Tufan Ersöz Zaza Enden Vitali Nossov Leonid Yaylo Oleksandr Okunskiy Acie Earl Alexander Jensen Clarence Gilbert Dexter Lyons George Gilmore Henry Dobie John Whorton Kelvin Gibbs Renaldas Seibutis

Kevin Rice Lamont Strothers Marques Bragg Michael Ansley Michael Meeks Mike Jones Richie Frahm Ryan McDade Sean Green Steve Rogers Maarty Leunen Jermareo Davidson Quincy Douby Clifford Hammonds Jordan Farmar

Notable coaches

• Yalçın Granit
• Orhun Ene

External links

• Official Website (English)
• Official Website (Turkish)
• Eurobasket.com Profile (English)
• TBLStat.net Profile (English)
• Official Facebook Page
• Official Twitter Account
• Official Instagram Account