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Fenerbahçe Beko is a basketball male team of Fenerbahçe Sports Club, according to Fenerbahçe Basketball or sponsorship agreement. Fenerbahçe plays its matches in the National Sports and Event Hall for 13.800 people. Fenerbahçe has been the first Turkish team that has achieved it by EuroLeague’s success in 2015-16 season and then being the champion in 2016-17 season. Five times the back is the only Turkish basketball team that performs participation in the Final Four (2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019).

In addition, the most champion of the NBA history is the first and only in Turkey, which defeats the Boston Celtics, is the fifth team Fenerbahçe in Europe. At the same time, Brooklyn Nets is the first and only Turkish team that beats a NBA team in the American continent, and only three teams that can succeed in the world basketball history.

During the date of Fenerbahçe, the 13 Turkish championship (3 times in the Turkish Basketball Championship and 10 times in the Basketball Super League), 7 Turkish Cup, 7 Presidential Cup and 1 EuroLeague champion showed success.

History

Organization (1913 / 1944-1953)
Basketball studies at Fenerbahçe Sports Club started in 1913, where the branches outside football began to be sprinkled. Thus, this branch was launched as the first basketball team, founded under a club roof in Turkey. Balkan War (1912-13) and I. While these activities that have been interrupted due to the World War (1914-18) were revitalized in the summer of 1919, the work on the cement field on the Bird Teak has stopped, since there is no indoor hall. Following the invasion of Istanbul on March 16, 1920, a British union in the summer of 1920 has never been able to restart the activities due to the invasion of Fenerbahçe Ash Bathtub. Robert College’s basketball players in close cooperation with Fenerbahçe in basketball and athletics branch, in 1925, as this sport was revived for the third time in the dalı yellow-lacivertli club, as the strongest team of the Fenerbahçe era was considered in basketball, the team of Istanbul inventors received the first victory in the first match in the history of defeating 32-4 in January 15, 1926. However, if the club does not have an indoor hall, this move was also sought to be re-dryed in 1932.

After the temporary attempts in 1913, 1919, 1925-26 and 1932, Muhtar Sencer and Cem Atabeyoğlu’s efforts back in 1944 and this time permanently established basketball team was former name Barkhoba, and then began to fight at the Istanbul Second Basketball League for the first time in 1944-45 season. In the 1945-46 season, the team in this league played the first four teams of this league in 22 December 1945, in the final of the Fours Cup in which the first four teams of the league played by Besiktas 41-27