| Anadolu Efes | |
| Leagues: | BSL EuroLeague |
| History: | Efes Pilsen (1976–2011) Anadolu Efes (2011–present) |
| Capacity: | 10,000 |
| Location: | Istanbul, Turkey |
| Colors: | Navy, white, red, light blue |
| President: | Tuncay Özilhan |
| Gm: | Alper Yılmaz |
| Coach: | Tomislav Mijatović |
| Sponsor: | Efes Beverage Group |
| Retired Numbers: | 2 (7, 44) |
| Championships: | 2 EuroLeague 1 FIBA Korać Cup 16 Turkish Championships 12 Turkish Cups 13 Turkish President's Cups |
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| Current: | 2023–24 Anadolu Efes S.K. season |
Anadolu Efes Spor Kulübü, commonly referred to as Anadolu Efes or simply Efes, is a professional basketball team based in Istanbul, Turkey. Founded in 1976, the club was formerly known as Efes Pilsen until 2011. Efes is the 2021–22 Euroleague champion and on the first place of European Club Ranking after the Final Four 2020–21. Efes is also the most successful club in the history of the Turkish Super League (BSL), having won the league's championship 16 times. Efes has won a total of 41 domestic trophies, more than any other Turkish basketball club.
The home arena of Anadolu Efes S.K. is the Sinan Erdem Dome in Istanbul, which has a seating capacity of 16,000 for basketball games. The club has its own practice facility in the district of Bahçelievler, which was built in 1982. The team competes in the Turkish Super League and the EuroLeague. The team is owned by the Efes Beverage Group.
Anadolu Efes has developed a fierce rivalry with Fenerbahçe in recent years. The two clubs often meet in playoff series and cup finals.
See also: Efes Pilsen SK in European club competitions.
The club was established in 1976 as Efes Pilsen S.K., by taking over the Turkish second-division club Kadıköyspor, which had failed due to financial problems.[1] Its initial sponsor was its former longtime namesake, Efes Pilsen, a subsidiary of the Anadolu Group. It won the 1978 Turkish second division national championship undefeated, earning promotion to the Turkish first division, where it has continuously competed ever since. In its first top-flight season (1978–79), Efes Pilsen S.K. won the Turkish national league title, immediately establishing itself as one of the country's top clubs.
After finishing 2nd in the 1992–93 FIBA European Cup, Efes Pilsen S.K. won the 1995–96 FIBA Korać Cup, which marked the first-ever European-wide title won by a Turkish club in any team sport. Efes Pilsen S.K. (later renamed Anadolu Efes S.K.) has also become a fixture in the European-wide top-tier level EuroLeague, making it to the competition's EuroLeague Final Four in 2000, and also to the FIBA SuproLeague's 2001 Final Four, and finishing 3rd on both occasions.[2]
In 2011, the club changed its name to Anadolu Efes S.K., after the TAPDK (Tobacco and Alcohol Market Regulatory Authority) in Turkey prohibited the advertisement of tobacco and alcohol products in sports organizations.[3]
In the 2017–18 season, Efes finished in the 16th and last place in the EuroLeague.
In the 2018–19 season, Efes had success in the EuroLeague as it managed to clinch the fourth-seed in the regular season. In the play-offs, the team beat FC Barcelona to advance to its first EuroLeague Final Four in 19 years.[4] In the semi-final, Efes beat Fenerbahçe 92–73 to reach its first EuroLeague Final in history.[5] In the championship game, Efes was defeated by CSKA Moscow, eventually finishing as the runner-up. In the same season, Efes won its first BSL championship since 2009. In Game 7 of the Finals against Fenerbahçe, Efes won 89–74 after Shane Larkin scored 38 points. Larkin was later named BSL Finals MVP.[6]
In the 2020-2021 and 2021-2022 seasons Anadolu Efes won back-to-back EuroLeague Championships.
1986–2010, 2012–2017
2010–2012, 2017–present
For many years, Efes has used the Abdi İpekçi Arena, with a seating capacity of 12,270, to host its home games. Currently, Efes uses the 16,000 seat Sinan Erdem Dome for its home games.[7]
| Anadolu Efes retired numbers | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No | Player | Position | Tenure | Ceremony date | ||
| 7 |  | 1992–1994, 1995–1999 | 9 February 2017[8] | |||
| 44 | 2017–2022 | 1 December 2022[9] |
Winners (16) (record): 1978–79, 1982–83, 1983–84, 1991–92, 1992–93, 1993–94, 1995–96, 1996–97, 2001–02, 2002–03, 2003–04, 2004–05, 2008–09, 2018–19, 2020–21, 2022–23
Runners-up (13): 1985–86, 1997–98, 1998–99, 1999–00, 2000–01, 2005–06, 2006–07, 2009–10, 2011–12, 2014–15, 2015–16, 2021–22, 2023–24
Winners (12) (record): 1993–94, 1995–96, 1996–97, 1997–98, 2000–01, 2001–02, 2005–06, 2006–07, 2008–09, 2014–15, 2018, 2022
Runners-up (5): 2003–04, 2013–14, 2017, 2019, 2024
Winners (13) (record): 1986, 1992, 1993, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2006, 2009, 2010, 2015, 2018, 2019, 2022
Runners-up (11): 1994, 1997, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2012, 2016
Runners-up (1): 2018–19
3rd place (2): 1999–00, 2000–01
Final Four (5): 2000, 2001, 2019, 2021, 2022
Runners-up (1): 1992–93
Winners (1): 1995–96
3rd place (1): 1996
Winners (1): 2008
Winners (1): 2008
Winners (1): 2010
Winners (1): 2014
Winners (1): 2016
Winners (1): 2018
Winners: 2019
Winners (2): 2020, 2021
Cedi Osman Furkan Korkmaz Volkan Aydın Tamer Oyguç Murat Evliyaoğlu Hüseyin Beşok Ufuk Sarıca Mehmet Okur Hidayet Türkoğlu İbrahim Kutluay Serkan Erdoğan Alper Yılmaz Erdal Bibo Ömer Onan Mustafa Abi Kaya Peker Ender Arslan Ersan İlyasova Sinan Güler Kerem Tunçeri Semih Erden Kerem Gönlüm Cenk Akyol Birkan Batuk
Bryant Dunston
Thomas Heurtel
Stéphane Lasme
Saulius Štombergas Petar Naumoski
Predrag Drobnjak Vlado Šćepanović Goran Nikolić Slavko Vraneš Milko Bjelica Daniel Santiago
Vasili Karasev
Vasilije Micić Igor Rakočević Zoran Savić
Dušan Kecman Conrad McRae Larry Richard Marcus Brown Trajan Langdon Willie Solomon Drew Nicholas Scott Roth Anthony Mason
Henry Domercant Marcus Haislip Chris Corchiani Brian Howard Andrew Wisniewski Derrick Alston Rickie Winslow
Derrick Brown Ricky Ledo
Errick McCollum Mark Pope Scoonie Penn Deshaun Thomas Bootsy Thornton
Kenny Gregory Charles Smith
Erwin Dudley
Jordan Farmar
Matt Janning| Position | Player | Year | Round | Pick | Drafted by | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PF | Mirsad Türkcan | 1998 | 1st round | 18th | Houston Rockets | |
| SF | Hedo Türkoğlu | 2000 | 1st round | 16th | Sacramento Kings | |
| C/PF | Mehmet Okur+ | 2001 | 2nd round | 38th | Detroit Pistons | |
| SG/SF | Cenk Akyol# | 2005 | 2nd round | 59th | Atlanta Hawks | |
| SF | Cedi Osman | 2015 | 2nd round | 31st | Minnesota Timberwolves | |
| SG/SF | Furkan Korkmaz | 2016 | 1st round | 26th | Philadelphia 76ers |
| Season | Tier | Division | Pos. | Cup competitions | European Competitions | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1976–77 | 2 | TB2L | |||||
| 1977–78 | 2 | TB2L | 1st | ||||
| 1978–79 | 1 | TBL | 1st | ||||
| 1979–80 | 1 | TBL | 2nd | EuroLeague | |||
| 1980–81 | 1 | TBL | 3rd | Cup Winners' Cup | |||
| 1981–82 | 1 | TBL | 3rd | Korać Cup | |||
| 1982–83 | 1 | TBL | 1st | Korać Cup | |||
| 1983–84 | 1 | TBL | 1st | EuroLeague | |||
| 1984–85 | 1 | TBL | 5th | EuroLeague | |||
| 1985–86 | 1 | TBL | 2nd | ||||
| 1986–87 | 1 | TBL | 3rd | Cup Winners' Cup | |||
| 1987–88 | 1 | TBL | 5th | Korać Cup | |||
| 1988–89 | 1 | TBL | 3rd | Korać Cup | |||
| 1989–90 | 1 | TBL | 4th | ||||
| 1990–91 | 1 | TBL | 5th | Korać Cup | |||
| 1991–92 | 1 | TBL | 1st | Played Korać Cup | |||
| 1992–93 | 1 | TBL | 1st | bgcolor=silver align=center | |||
| 1993–94 | 1 | TBL | 1st | Champion | |||
| 1994–95 | 1 | TBL | 3rd | EuroLeague | |||
| 1995–96 | 1 | TBL | 1st | Champion | bgcolor=gold align=center | ||
| 1996–97 | 1 | TBL | 1st | Champion | |||
| 1997–98 | 1 | TBL | 2nd | Champion | |||
| 1998–99 | 1 | TBL | 2nd | ||||
| 1999–00 | 1 | TBL | 2nd | Semifinalist | 3rd | ||
| 2000–01 | 1 | TBL | 2nd | Champion | 3rd | ||
| 2001–02 | 1 | TBL | 1st | Champion | |||
| 2002–03 | 1 | TBL | 1st | Semifinalist | |||
| 2003–04 | 1 | TBL | 1st | Runner-up | |||
| 2004–05 | 1 | TBL | 1st | Quarterfinalist | |||
| 2005–06 | 1 | TBL | 2nd | Champion | |||
| 2006–07 | 1 | TBL | 2nd | Champion | |||
| 2007–08 | 1 | TBL | 4th | Semifinalist | |||
| 2008–09 | 1 | TBL | 1st | Champion | |||
| 2009–10 | 1 | TBL | 2nd | Semifinalist | |||
| 2010–11 | 1 | TBL | 4th | Quarterfinalist | |||
| 2011–12 | 1 | TBL | 2nd | Semifinalist | |||
| 2012–13 | 1 | TBL | 3rd | Quarterfinalist | |||
| 2013–14 | 1 | TBL | 5th | Runner-up | |||
| 2014–15 | 1 | TBL | 2nd | Champion | |||
| 2015–16 | 1 | BSL | 2nd | Quarterfinalist | |||
| 2016–17 | 1 | BSL | 3rd | Runner-up | |||
| 2017–18 | 1 | BSL | 3rd | Champion | |||
| 2018–19 | 1 | BSL | 1st | Runner-up | bgcolor=silver align=center | ||
| 2019–20 | 1 | BSL | – | Quarterfinalist | |||
| 2020–21 | 1 | BSL | 1st | – | bgcolor=gold align=center | ||
| 2021–22 | 1 | BSL | 2nd | bgcolor=gold align=center | |||
| 2022–23 | 1 | BSL | 1st | – | |||
| 2023–24 | 1 | BSL | 2nd | Runner-up | |||
Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe.
| Season | Achievement | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|
| EuroLeague | |||
| 1993–94 | Quarter-finals | eliminated 2–1 by FC Barcelona, 50–54 (L) in Barcelona, 73–64 (W) and 62–76 (L) in Istanbul | |
| 1996–97 | Quarter-finals | eliminated 2–1 by ASVEL, 81–71 (W) in Istanbul, 70–80 (L) in Villeurbanne and 57–62 (L) in Istanbul | |
| 1997–98 | Quarter-finals | eliminated 2–1 by Benetton Treviso, 57–67 (L) in Treviso, 59–58 (W) in Istanbul and 68–76 (L) in Treviso | |
| 1998–99 | Quarter-finals | eliminated 2–0 by Žalgiris, 68–69 (L) in Kaunas and 70–84 (L) in Istanbul | |
| 1999–00 | Final four | 3rd place in Thessaloniki, lost to Panathinaikos 71–81 in the semi-final, defeated FC Barcelona 75–69 in the 3rd place game | |
| 2000–01 | Final four | 3rd place in Paris, lost to Panathinaikos 66–74 in the semi-final, defeated CSKA Moscow 91–85 in the 3rd place game | |
| 2004–05 | Quarter-finals | eliminated 2–1 by Panathinaikos, 96–102 (L) in Athens, 75–63 (W) in Istanbul and 76–84 (L) in Athens | |
| 2005–06 | Quarter-finals | eliminated 2–0 by CSKA Moscow, 57–66 (L) in Moscow and 71–75 (L) in Istanbul | |
| 2012–13 | Quarter-finals | eliminated 3–2 by Olympiacos, 62–67 (L) and 53-71 (L) in Piraeus, 83–72 (W) and 74–73 (W) in Istanbul, 72–82 (L) in Piraeus | |
| 2014–15 | Quarter-finals | eliminated 3–1 by Real Madrid, 71–80 (L) and 85–90 (L) in Madrid, 75–72 (W) and 63–76 (L) in Istanbul | |
| 2016–17 | Quarter-finals | eliminated 3–2 by Olympiacos, 87–72 (L) and 73–71 (W) in Piraeus, 64–60 (W) and 62–74 (L) in Istanbul, 78–87 (L) in Piraeus | |
| 2018–19 | Final | lost to CSKA Moscow 83–91 in the Final (Vitoria-Gasteiz) | |
| 2020–21 | Champions | defeated FC Barcelona 86–81 in the Final (Cologne) | |
| 2021–22 | Champions | defeated Real Madrid 58–57 in the Final (Belgrade) | |
| FIBA Saporta Cup | |||
| 1980–81 | Quarter-finals | 4th place in a group with FC Barcelona, Turisanda Varese and Parker Leiden | |
| 1986–87 | Quarter-finals | 3rd place in a group with Cibona, Scavolini Pesaro and Maes Pils | |
| 1992–93 | Final | lost to Sato Aris 48–50 in the Final (Turin) | |
| FIBA Korać Cup | |||
| 1989–90 | Quarter-finals | eliminated by Bosna, 91–107 (L) in Istanbul and 78–117 (L) in Sarajevo | |
| 1995–96 | Champions | defeated Stefanel Milano, 76–68 (W) in Istanbul and 70–77 (L) in Milan in the double finals of Korać Cup | |
In 2006, Efes Pilsen became the first Turkish basketball club to be invited to play with NBA teams. They competed against the Denver Nuggets in Denver, Colorado on October 11, and against the Golden State Warriors in Oakland, California on October 12.[10] In 2007, Efes Pilsen hosted the Minnesota Timberwolves at the Abdi İpekçi Arena.[11]
Rıza Erverdi (1983–1984) Aydan Siyavuş (1984–1986) Rusmir Halilovic (1986–1987) Aydan Siyavuş (1987–1990) Halil Üner (1990–1992) Aydın Örs (1992–1999) Ergin Ataman (1999–2001) Oktay Mahmuti (2001–2007) David Blatt (2007–2008) Ekrem Memnun (2008) Ergin Ataman (2008–2010) Ufuk Sarıca (2011–2012) Oktay Mahmuti (2012–2013) Dušan Ivković (2014–2016) Ahmet Çakı (2016) Ergin Ataman (2017–2023) Erdem Can (2023–2024)
