Turkish Basketball League
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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).
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[edit] History
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 Izmir.
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.
[edit] The competition
There are 14 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.
[edit] Clubs
The Premier League crrently consists of the following member clubs (number of championship titles won):
- Efes Pilsen SK (12)
- Fenerbahçe Ülker (5)†
- İTÜ (5)
- Galatasaray SK (4)
- Beşiktaş JK (1)
- Banvitspor
- Büyük Kolej
- Darüşşafaka (Turkish)
- Erdemirspor
- Pınar Karşıyaka
- Tekelspor
- Tuborg Pilsener
- Türk Telekom
- † 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.
[edit] Defunct clubs
(number of championship titles won)
- Aras İTÜ
- Altınordu (1)
- Antalyaspor
- Antbirlik
- Eczacıbaşı (8)
- Egepen Altay
- Emlakbank Ortaköy
- Göztepe
- Karşıyaka (1)
- Kayseri Meysu
- Kombasan Konya
- Kuşadası
- Mavi Jeans Ortaköy
- Muhafızgücü (1)
- Muratpaşa Municipality
- Mydonose Kolejliler
- Netaş, Oyak Renault
- PTT
- Raks İTÜ
- Taçspor
- TED Kolejliler
- Tofaş (1)
- Tofaş SAS (1)
- Troy Pilsener
[edit] External links
- (English) tblstat.net
