Galatasaray S.K. Volleyball

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**Galatasaray S.K. Volleyball**
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Arena	Burhan Felek Sports Complex İstanbul, Turkey Capacity: 1,460
Manager	Ali Ümit Hızal (Men's Team) Reşat Arığ (Women's Team)
Team Colors	Red-Yellow
Website	galatasaray.org/voleybol

Active departments of Galatasaray
Football	Basketball	Volleyball
Athletics	Water Polo	Swimming
Rowing	Sailing	Judo

Galatasaray S.K. Voleybol is a volleyball club, part of Galatasaray Sports Club, based in Istanbul, Turkey. Both Men's and Women's team play at Burhan Felek Sports Complex with capacity of 1,460 spectators.

First priority of Galatasaray S.K. is football, therefore volleyball branch is separated from the club and has semi-autonomous management by professionals. Since the branch had separated from the club, financial problems occurred and club tried to come over with sponsorship deals. Women branch team relegated to 2nd League in 2005-2006 season.

1 Current squad
2 Honours
- 2.1 Men's team
- 2.2 Women's team
3 Notes

[edit] Current squad

Men's Team ^[1]

Kemal Kıvanç Elgaz
Gustavo Scholtis
Ahmet Pezük
Can Ayvazoğlu (C)
Milan Markovic
Caner Dengin
Çağlar Özel
Caner Pekşen
Yasin Sancak
Halil İbrahim Akşeker
Inoslav Krnic
Ali Alp Çayır

Women's Team ^[2]

Neslihan Keskin (C)
Heval Aydın
Aslıhan Köyel
Brittany Joy Hochevar
Tuğçe Çekiç
Bahar Ekinci
Dilara Bilge
Gülen Erman
Youlia Kovtun
Serap Çalıkuşu
Elena Lik
Büşra İzal
Hatice Sungur

[edit] Honours

Men's team on a league match.

[edit] Men's team

İstanbul Volleyball League Championship: 16
- 1931-1932, 1934-1935, 1943-1944, 1944-1945, 1949-1950, 1953-1954, 1954-1955, 1955-1956, 1956-1957, 1959-1960, 1960-1961, 1961-1962, 1962-1963, 1963-1964, 1964-1965, 1965-1966