TED Ankara Kolejliler Spor Kulübü, more commonly known as TED Ankara Kolejliler is a professional basketball team from the city of Ankara in Turkey. Their home arena is the Ankara Arena with a capacity of 10,400 seats, which was opened in April 2010. The team currently competes in the Turkish Basketball First League (TBL), the second tier league of basketball in Turkey.
History
The team played in Turkish Basketball League (now called BSL) between 1966-1977, 1979-1981, 1982-1983, 1984-1985, 1990-1995, 1996-1997, 1998-2003 and 2006-2009. The team promoted the Turkish Basketball League (now called BSL) from the TB2L in May 2012.
The team made its European club competitions debut at the Cup Winners' Cup in the 1973-74 season due to winning Turkish Basketball Cup in 1972-73. In the early nineties, it reached the Korac Cup qualifying rounds three times, from 1991-92 to 1993-94. Most recently, it reached the 2014 Eurocup quarterfinals.
Sponsorship names
TED Ankara Kolejliler has had several denominations through the years due to its sponsorship; Kolej: 1966-1993 Tiffany Tomato Kolejliler: 1993-1994 Kolejliler: 1994-1996 TED Kolej: 1996-1998 Maydonoz Kolejliler: 1998-2001 TED Kolej: 2001-2006 CASA TED Kolejliler: 2006-2009 Optimum TED Ankara Kolejliler: 2009-2012 TED Ankara Kolejliler : 2012-13 Aykon TED Ankara Kolejliler : 2013-2014 Rönesans TED Ankara Kolejliler : 2014–2015 Halk Enerji TED Ankara Kolejliler : 2018-present
Players
Current roster
Notable players
Rüştü Yüce
Erdal Poyrazoğlu
Barış Küce
Aytek Gürkan
Ömer Bozer
Rahmi Özyar
Murat Evliyaoğlu
Victor Brejnoi
Bekir Yarangüme
Haluk Yıldırım
Kerem Gönlüm
Murat Evliyaoğlu
Nedim Yücel
Ömer Ünver
Polat Kocaoğlu
Serkan Erdoğan
Tolga Tekinalp
Tutku Açık
Vladimir Golubović
Kirk Penney
Orlando Vega
Elshad Gadashev
Goran Jagodnik
Jovo Stanojević
Vanja Plisnić
Martynas Gecevičius
Ashraf Amaya
Ben Woodside
Chuck Davis
Clay Tucker
Donald Little
Erek Hansen
Ivan McFarlin
Marques Green
Matt Hill
Melvin Robinson
Michael Maddox
Ronald Coleman
Sylvester Gray
Shannon Shorter
Season by season
Honours
International
Eurocup: Quarter-final (1): 2013–2014
Domestic
Turkish Basketball Cup: Winners (1): 1972-73