Darüşşafaka Basketbol

Darüşşafaka Lassa
Darüşşafaka Lassa
Nickname	Daçka Basketbol; Daçka
Leagues	Basketbol Süper Ligi
Founded	1914; 110 years ago
History	List Darüşşafaka Basketbol; (1914–2008); Darüşşafaka Cooper Tires Basketbol; (2008–2010); Darüşşafaka Basketbol; (2010–2013); Darüşşafaka Doğuş Basketbol; (2013–2017); Darüşşafaka Basketbol; (2017–2018); Darüşşafaka Tekfen Basketbol; (2018–2021); Darüşşafaka Basketbol; (2021–2023); Darüşşafaka Lassa; (2023–present) ;
Arena	Darüşşafaka Ayhan Şahenk (BSL); Volkswagen Arena (Basketball Champions League)
Capacity	Darüşşafaka Ayhan Şahenk - 3,500; Volkswagen Arena - 5,240
Location	Istanbul, Turkey
Team colours	Green, black;
President	Abdurrahman Saruhan
Team manager	Ahmet Eran
Head coach	Carles Durán
Team captain	Berkay Taşkıran
Championships	1 EuroCup; 2 Turkish Championships; 1 Turkish Second Division
Website	darussafakabasketbol.com

Darüşşafaka Basketbol (Darüşşafaka Basketball), commonly also known as Daçka Basketbol or simply Daçka, also known as Darüşşafaka Lassa for sponsorship reasons, is a professional basketball club that is based in Istanbul, Turkey. Darüşşafaka's basketball section, which was founded in 1914, is a part of Darüşşafaka Spor Kulübü (Darüşşafaka Sports Club) multi-sport club, which was founded in 1914. The club's basketball department is their most successful section. The club plays in the Turkish Basketball Super League. Its home arena for national domestic Turkish Super League games is the Darüşşafaka Ayhan Şahenk Sports Hall, with a seating capacity of 3,500, while its home arena for European-wide games is the Volkswagen Arena Istanbul, with a seating capacity of 5,240.

Daçka have won two Turkish Basketball Championships (in 1961 and 1962) over the course of their history. In European-wide competitions they have won the second tier level EuroCup, in the 2017–18 season, by defeating the Russian club Lokomotiv Kuban in the finals.

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.^[1] The team was then a middle-tier team in the TB2L, from 2010 until 2013.

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.^[2]

The team received a wild card for the 2015–16 EuroLeague season.^[3] Darüşşafaka started playing its EuroLeague home games at the Volkswagen Arena Istanbul, starting from November 2015. In September 2018, the club announced a new multi-year sponsorship deal with Tekfen, which changed the team's name sponsorship name to Darüşşafaka Tekfen.^[4]

Sponsorship naming

Due to sponsorship deals, Darüşşafaka have been also known as:

Darüşşafaka (1992–2008)
Darüşşafaka Cooper Tires (2008–2010)
Darüşşafaka (2010–2013)
Darüşşafaka Doğuş (2013–2017)
Darüşşafaka (2017–2018)
Darüşşafaka Tekfen (2018–2021) ^[5]
Darüşşafaka (2021–2023)
Darüşşafaka Lassa (2023–present)^[6]

Arenas

Darüşşafaka plays its national domestic Turkish Basketball Super League home games at the 3,500 seat Darüşşafaka Ayhan Şahenk Sports Hall.^[7] In November 2015, the 5,240 seat Volkswagen Arena Istanbul was officially inaugurated as the home arena of Darüşşafaka for EuroLeague home games.^[8]^[9]

Season by season

Markel Brown playing for the team in 2018.

Season	Tier	League	Pos.	Turkish Cup	European competitions
2000–01	1	TBL	3rd		3 Korać Cup	EF
2001–02	1	TBL	3rd	Runner-up	2 Saporta Cup	RS
2002–03	1	TBL	9th		2 ULEB Cup	RS
2003–04	1	TBL	6th
2004–05	1	TBL	10th		2 ULEB Cup	RS
2005–06	1	TBL	9th
2006–07	1	TBL	8th
2007–08	1	TBL	14th
2008–09	1	TBL	8th
2009–10	1	TBL	16th
2010–11	2	TB2L	8th
2011–12	2	TB2L	11th
2012–13	2	TB2L	7th
2013–14	2	TB2L	1st
2014–15	1	TBL	5th	Semifinalist
2015–16	1	BSL	4th	Runner-up	1 Euroleague	T16
2016–17	1	BSL	4th	Quarterfinalist	1 EuroLeague	QF
2017–18	1	BSL	6th	Semifinals	2 EuroCup	C
2018–19	1	BSL	10th		1 EuroLeague	RS
2019–20	1	BSL	6th¹		2 EuroCup	–¹
2020–21	1	BSL	7th		2 Champions League	RS
2021–22	1	BSL	4th	Semifinalist	2 Champions League	R16
2022–23	1	BSL	6th		2 Champions League	R16
2023–24	1	BSL	14th		2 Champions League	PI

Source: Eurobasket.com

^1 Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe.

Honours

European competitions

EuroCup

Winners (1): 2017–18

Domestic competitions

Turkish Basketball Championship

Winners (2): 1961, 1962

Runners-up (1): 1960

Turkish Cup

Runners-up (3): 2002, 2016, 2020

Turkish Basketball Second Division

Winners (1): 2014

Istanbul Basketball League (defunct)

Winners (1): 1960

Third place (3): 1961, 1962, 1963

Other competitions

Sibenik, Croatia Invitational Game

Winners (1): 2015

Antalya, Turkey Invitational Game

Winners (1): 2016

Heimspiel Kranz Parkhotel Cup

Winners (1): 2016

Zadar Dogus Basketball Tournament

Winners (1): 2016

Casale Monferrat, Italy Invitational Game

Winners (1): 2018

Lumezzane, Italy Invitational Game

Winners (1): 2018

Players

Current roster

Note: Flags indicate national team eligibility at FIBA-sanctioned events. Players may hold other non-FIBA nationalities not displayed.

Darüşşafaka Lassa roster

Players

Coaches

Pos.	No.	Name	Ht.	Wt.	Age
F/C	0	Sezgün, Tarık	2.11 m (6 ft 11 in)		23 – (2001-04-17)17 April 2001
G	1	Kay, Tolga	1.96 m (6 ft 5 in)		20 – (2004-04-01)1 April 2004
PG	3	Appleby, Tyree	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)	79 kg (174 lb)	26 – (1998-09-30)30 September 1998
SG	4	Gach, Both	1.98 m (6 ft 6 in)	82 kg (181 lb)	25 – (1999-02-04)4 February 1999
SG	7	Taşkıran, Berkay (C)	1.93 m (6 ft 4 in)	86 kg (190 lb)	27 – (1997-01-17)17 January 1997
G/F	8	Mustafa, Muhaymin	2.01 m (6 ft 7 in)	91 kg (201 lb)	25 – (1999-10-10)10 October 1999
G	10	Moore, Omari	1.98 m (6 ft 6 in)	88 kg (194 lb)	24 – (2000-09-18)18 September 2000
F	13	Tinkle, Tres	2.03 m (6 ft 8 in)		28 – (1996-06-03)3 June 1996
PF	16	Demir, Ege	2.07 m (6 ft 9 in)		20 – (2004-08-15)15 August 2004
G/F	17	Onan, Yiğit	2.08 m (6 ft 10 in)	98 kg (216 lb)	22 – (2002-07-12)12 July 2002
F/C	23	Brajkovic, Luka	2.08 m (6 ft 10 in)	113 kg (249 lb)	25 – (1999-06-26)26 June 1999

Head coach

Carles Durán

Assistant coach(es)

Aybars Aksu
Gökhan Turan

Strength & conditioning coach(es)

Ertan Bedir

Team manager

Orkun Demir

Legend

(C) Team captain
Injured

Roster

Updated: November 21, 2024

Depth chart

Pos.	Starting 5	Bench
C	Ege Demir	Tarık Sezgün
PF	Tres Tinkle	Yiğit Onan
SF	Both Gach	Muhaymin Mustafa
SG	Omari Moore	Berkay Taşkıran
PG	Tyree Appleby	Tolga Kay

Notable players

Note: Flags indicate national team eligibility at FIBA-sanctioned events. Players may hold other non-FIBA nationalities not displayed.

Criteria
To appear in this section a player must have either: Set a club record or won an individual award while at the club Played at least one official international match for their national team at any time Played at least one official NBA match at any time.

Head coaches

Head Coach	Years
Yalçın Granit	1957–1960
Erman Kunter	1994–1996
Ahmet Çakı	2004–2006, 2018
Orhun Ene	2013–2014
Oktay Mahmuti	2014–2016
David Blatt	2016–2018
Selçuk Ernak	2018–2023
Yakup Sekizkök	2023–2024
Rüçhan Tamsöz	2024
Josh King	2024
Carles Durán	2024–present

References

^ "Darussafaka Tekfen Istanbul basketball, News, Roster, Rumors, Stats, Awards, Transactions, Details-eurobasket". Eurobasket LLC.
^ Trabzonspor Medical Park 78-71 Darüşşafaka (in Turkish).
^ "Proposed team list for the 2015-16 Turkish Airlines Euroleague and Eurocup". Welcome to EUROLEAGUE BASKETBALL.
^ "Tekfen, Darüşşafaka ile sahaya indi". Cumhuriyet Basketbol Haberleri (in Turkish). 4 September 2018. Retrieved 12 September 2018.
^ "Darüşşafaka'nın isim sponsoru Tekfen oldu" (in Turkish). Hürriyet. September 4, 2018. Retrieved May 20, 2019.
^ "Yeni İsim Sponsorumuz Lassa!" (in Turkish). Darüşşafaka. January 27, 2023. Retrieved January 27, 2023.
^ Darüşşafaka Ayhan Şahenk Sports Hall.
^ "Euroleague round 4 starts with an inauguration!". Eurohoops. November 4, 2015.
^ "华体会体育". www.darussafakadogusbasketbol.com.

External links

Official website (in Turkish)
Darüşşafaka S.K. at bsl.org.tr (in Turkish)
Darüşşafaka S.K. at eurobasket.com
Darüşşafaka S.K. at euroleague.net
Darüşşafaka S.K. at tblstat.net

[1] "Darussafaka Tekfen Istanbul basketball, News, Roster, Rumors, Stats, Awards, Transactions, Details-eurobasket". Eurobasket LLC.

[2] Trabzonspor Medical Park 78-71 Darüşşafaka (in Turkish).

[3] "Proposed team list for the 2015-16 Turkish Airlines Euroleague and Eurocup". Welcome to EUROLEAGUE BASKETBALL.

[Cumhuriyet_Basketbol_Haberleri_2018-4] "Tekfen, Darüşşafaka ile sahaya indi". Cumhuriyet Basketbol Haberleri (in Turkish). 4 September 2018. Retrieved 12 September 2018.

[5] "Darüşşafaka'nın isim sponsoru Tekfen oldu" (in Turkish). Hürriyet. September 4, 2018. Retrieved May 20, 2019.

[6] "Yeni İsim Sponsorumuz Lassa!" (in Turkish). Darüşşafaka. January 27, 2023. Retrieved January 27, 2023.

[7] Darüşşafaka Ayhan Şahenk Sports Hall.

[8] "Euroleague round 4 starts with an inauguration!". Eurohoops. November 4, 2015.

[9] "华体会体育". www.darussafakadogusbasketbol.com.

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