Turkish Basketball League

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Turkish Basketball League
Turkish Basketball League 2006-2007

Sport	Basketball
Founded	1966
No. of teams	16
Country	Turkey
Current champions	Ülkerspor
Official website	TBF.org.tr

The Turkish Basketball League (TBL) is the top men’s professional basketball league in Turkey, which is also called Turkish Premier Basketball League (Turkish: "Türkiye 1. Basketbol Ligi"). There is also a Turkish Second Basketball League (TB2L) consisting of 4 divisions (A, B, C and D).

1 History
2 The competition
3 Clubs
4 Past winners
5 External link

The first basketball game played in Turkey was at the Robert College in Istanbul in 1904. Galatasaray Lisesi formed the first basketball team in 1911. The next basketball team founded was of Fenerbahçe SK in 1913. An unofficial league was founded in 1927 in Istanbul, which lasted until the establishment of a regional official league in 1933. From 1946 on, basketball championships were organized between the leading clubs of Istanbul, Ankara and İzmir.

The Turkish Basketball League, in the recent form, was founded on December 13, 1969 by the Turkish Basketball Federation. With the season 1968-1969, the Turkish Second Basketball League took its start.

There are 16 teams in the league and they play against each other twice in the league manner, once at their home and the other away. At the end of the season, the top 8 teams are entitled to participate at the play-off games. The two top teams of the Second League are promoted to the Premier League. The two lowest placed teams of the Premier League play with the third and fourth ranking teams of the Second League in a special league with one game only. The winning top two teams are entitled to play in the Premier League, and the losing two others are relegated into the Second League.

The league currently consists of the following member clubs (number of championship titles won):

Club	City	Venue	Established	Championship
Alpella	Istanbul	Caferağa Spor Salonu	2006
Banvitspor	Balıkesir	Kara Ali Acar Spor Salonu	1994
Beşiktaş Cola Turka	Istanbul	BJK Akatlar Arena	1903
Beykoz 1908	Istanbul	R. Şahin Köktürk Spor Salonu	1908
CASA TED Kolejililer	Ankara	Ankara Atatürk Sport Hall	1994
Darüşşafaka S.K.	Istanbul	Ayhan Sahenk Sport Hall	1914
Efes Pilsen S.K.	Istanbul	Abdi Ipekci Sport Center	1976	12
Fenerbahçe Ülkerspor †	Istanbul	Abdi İpekçi Arena	2006	5
Galatasaray Cafe Crown	Istanbul	Ahmet Cömert Spor Salonu	2006	4
Mersin Büyükşehir Belediye	Mersin	Edip Buran
Mutlu Aku Selcuk University	Konya	Selcuk University 19 Mayıs	1987
Oyak Renault	Bursa	Veledrom İç Saha	1974
Pınar Karşıyaka	Izmir	Karşıyaka Pınar Arena	1912
Tekelspor	Istanbul	Haldun Alagas Sport Hall	1941
Tofas Bursa	Bursa	Bursa Atatürk Sport Hall	1974	2
Türk Telekom B.K.	Ankara	Ankara Atatürk Sport Hall	1980

† : This club is the product of the 2006 merger of Fenerbahçe SK with Gençlik Ve SK, better known by its sponsorship name of Ülkerspor (Ülker). Of the 5 titles won by the club in the era of the modern Turkish League, 4 were won by Ülker and the other by pre-merger Fenerbahçe.

Year	Club	Record	Quarter finals	Semi finals	Finals	Coach	Top Scorer †
1966	Altindoru
1967	ITU
1968	Galatasaray
1969	ITU
1970	ITU
1971	ITU
1972	ITU
1973	Muhafizgucu
1974	Beşiktaş
1975	Eczacıbaşı
1976	Eczacıbaşı
1977	Eczacıbaşı
1978	Efes Pilsen S.K.
1979	Eczacıbaşı
1980	Eczacıbaşı
1981	Eczacıbaşı
1982	Efes Pilsen S.K.
1983	Efes Pilsen S.K.
1984	Galatasaray
1985	Galatasaray
1986	Karşiyaka
1987	Eczacıbaşı
1988	Eczacıbaşı
1989	Galatasaray
1990	Fenerbahçe
1991	Efes Pilsen
1992	Efes Pilsen
1993	Efes Pilsen
1994	Ülkerspor	27-3	Galatasaray (3-2)	Tofaş S.K. (3-1)	Fenerbahçe (4-2)	Cetin Yılmaz
1995	Efes Pilsen S.K.	28-2	Netas (3-0)	Tofaş S.K. (3-0)	Ülkerspor (4-0)	Aydın Örs
1996	Efes Pilsen S.K.	27-3	Galatasaray (3-0)	Tofaş S.K. (3-1)	Türk Telekomspor (4-1)	Aydın Örs
1997	Ülkerspor	24-6	Darüşşafaka S.K. (3-1)	Fenerbahçe (3-2)	Efes Pilsen S.K. (4-2)	Cetin Yılmaz	Michael Anderson/ Harun Erdenay (21.1 ppg)
1998	Tofaş S.K.	23-5	Beşiktaş (3-2)	Fenerbahçe (3-1)	Efes Pilsen S.K. (4-2)	Jasmin Repesa	Rashard Griffith (14.9 ppg)
1999	Tofaş S.K.	19-7	Troy Pilsner (3-0)	Ülkerspor (3-1)	Efes Pilsen S.K. (4-1)	Tolga Ongoren	David Rivers (15.3 ppg)
2000	Ülkerspor	22-4	Galatasaray (3-2)	Turk Telekomspor (3-0)	Efes Pilsen (4-2)	Murat Didin	Miljan Goljovic (15.9 ppg)
2001	Efes Pilsen S.K.	20-2	Fenerbahçe (3-0)	Oyak Renault (3-0)	Ülkerspor (4-2)	Oktay Mahmuti	Marcus Brown (18.2 ppg)
2002	Efes Pilsen S.K.	24-2	Beşiktaş (3-0)	Galatasaray (3-0)	Ülkerspor (4-3)	Oktay Mahmuti	Antonio Granger/ Kaspars Kambala (17.8 ppg)
2003	Efes Pilsen S.K.	22-4	Tekelspor (3-0)	Pinar Karşiyaka (3-1)	Ülkerspor (4-2)	Oktay Mahmuti	Antonio Granger (16.8 ppg)
2004	Efes Pilsen S.K.	24-2	Tekelspor (3-0)	Fenerbahçe (3-1)	Beşiktaş (4-1)	Oktay Mahmuti	Henry Domercant (16.2 ppg)
2005	Ülkerspor	25-5	Galatasaray (3-0)	Banvitspor (3-1)	Efes Pilsen S.K. (4-0)	Murat Ozyer	Ibrahim Kutluay (16.6 ppg)

† Top scorer of the playoffs from the winning team.

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