Team: | Fenerbahçe Esports |
Nicknames: | Vadinin Boğaları (Bulls of the Rift) Sarı Lacivertliler (Yellow-Navy Blues) |
Founded: | 14 October 2016 (old) |
Parent Group: | Fenerbahçe S.K. |
Partners: | Maximum, Opet, NiMO TV, Axe, Omen, Fen Bilimleri Yayınları, Migros |
City: | Istanbul, Turkey |
Colours: | Yellow Navy |
President: | Ali Koç |
Coach: | Emre "Arkhe" Akpınarlı |
Manager: | Emre "nialya" Aksoy |
Fenerbahçe Esports (Turkish: Fenerbahçe Espor) is the esports department of Turkish sports club Fenerbahçe S.K.. It was established in 2016.[1] The department currently has teams competing in , League of Legends, Valorant, FIFA, PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, Dota 2 and Apex Legends.
It was founded 14 October 2016, when the 1907 Fenerbahçe Association, chaired by Ali Koç, took over all the rights of the SuperMassive TNG team in the Champions League.[2]
After sweeping SuperMassive 3–0 in the 2019 TCL Winter finals, Fenerbahçe qualified for the 2019 Mid-Season Invitational as Turkey's representative in the play-in stage.[3] The team was placed in Group A of the first round of the 2019 Mid-Season Invitational play-in stage, along with Vietnamese team Phong Vũ Buffalo, Australian team Bombers, and Argentine team Isurus Gaming.[4] [5] Fenerbahçe ended the group round robin with a 4–2 record, tying Phong Vũ Buffalo for 1st and forcing a tiebreaker match, which Fenerbahçe lost.[6]