Fenerbahçe S.K.

Fenerbahçe is parent to a number of different competitive departments including football, basketball, volleyball, table tennis, athletics, swimming, sailing, boxing, rowing, and eSports, which have won European and domestic titles over the club's history.

So strict that the Sultan, Abdul Hamid II, forbade the Turkish youth to set up a club or engage in the game of football played by the English families that was watched in envy.

The founding line-up included Ziya Songülen, Ayetullah Bey, Necip Okaner, Galip Kulaksızoğlu, Hassan Sami Kocamemi, Asaf Beşpınar, Enver Yetiker, Şevkati Hulusi Bey, Fuat Hüsnü Kayacan, Hamit Hüsnü Kayacan, and Nasuhi Baydar.

Some British soldiers formed football teams that were named after the players' speciality, for example Essex Engineers, Irish Guards, Grenadiers, and Artillery.

General Sir Charles Harrington, who gave his name to the cup, was the commander of the British occupation forces in Istanbul at that time.

By achieving this feat, Fener became the first and only sports club in history to be crowned European champions in both men's and women's basketball.

[18][19][20] By achieving this unparalleled feat, Fenerbahçe became the only sports club in Turkey and one of few in Europe with European titles won in both the men's and women's volleyball departments.

The table tennis department of Fenerbahçe is the best in Turkey and one of the best in Europe, with the women's team having won the ETTU Cup two times in a row, in the 2011–12 and 2012–13 seasons, which is a Turkish record.

Then drew a heart shape over the red and gave it a yellow and navy colour, adding an acorn leaf that represents resistance, power and strength.

[30] By achieving this feat, Fener became the first sports club in history to be crowned European champions in both men's and women's basketball.

[32] in 2024 Fenerbahçe successfully defended their crown by defeating first-time finalists Villeneuve d'Ascq LM to become back-to-back champions in EuroLeague.

[18][19] By achieving this unparalleled feat, Fenerbahçe became the first and only sports club in Turkey and one of a few in Europe with European titles won in both the men's and women's volleyball departments.

Fenerbahçe has been the club that has provided the most athletes to the national team since Tonguç Türsan, who achieved Turkey's first official success in the international arena by winning the silver medal in single sculls at the 1955 Mediterranean Games.

The activities were led by İlhami Polater, air pilot (later Lieutenant General) Asım Uçar, General Nuri Bey and Colonel Kadri Bey, and the activities were increased by the fact that famous physical education experts of the period Faik Üstünidman and Mazhar Kazancıoğlu occasionally gave lessons to young Fenerbahçe fans.

[56] The tennis team, founded in 1914 with the efforts of former president Sabri Toprak, won its first İstanbul, Turkey and Challenge Cup championships in 1922, also defeating the British.

[57] 3 The national team, consisting of Fenerbahçe tennis players Suat Subay, Sedat Erkoğlu and Vahram Şirinyan, became champions in the 1930 Balkan Championship in Athens by defeating their Greek, Bulgarian and Romanian opponents, and in 1931 they won third place in Istanbul.

The tennis branch, which gained momentum with the reopening of the Fernerbahçe courts to sports in 1942, performed its last important activity in 1949 with matches against the visiting Cercle de la Jeunesse team from Syria; although it was invited to Lebanon in 1950, it became history in the 1950s.

[66] Former presidents first practiced it in a 16x30 meter concrete skating rink built next to the club's premises, which was moved to Kuşdili in 1914, and these activities formed the basis for the establishment of the roller hockey team in 1923.

In accordance with this understanding, Fenerbahçe Club first established the Keşşaflık Ocağı team in 1913 to train scouts consisting of youth players in all branches of sports.

During the National Struggle years, the branch, which was content with camping and travel activities due to the seizure of equipment by the occupying forces, was reorganized in 1923 with the efforts of football player Alaattin Baydar.

The activities that were performed in Bursa and Istanbul, which had just been liberated from enemy occupation, and were appreciated at the highest level, were eliminated in 1932 when the scouting equipment was completely reduced to ashes in the fire of Fenerbahçe Museum.

The idea and stage branch, founded in the spring of 1919 by the then president (also a playwright and former wrestler) Refik Ahmet Nuri Sekizinci in accordance with the 4th article of the ruling that "Each branch has separate statutes", carried out efforts to raise awareness among the public and members during the National Struggle years through conferences, theater plays and concerts led by Muhittin Sadak and Münir Nurettin Selçuk, and the Fenerbahçe magazine was published every 15 days.

[72] The activities of the team, which was formed in July 1919 under the supervision of an American coach and consisting of leading Fenerbahçe football players of the period, primarily Galip Kulaksızoğlu, Zeki Rıza Sporel, İsmet Uluğ, Alaattin Baydar and Sabih Arca, were limited to competitions with American teams when other Turkish clubs did not show interest in this sport, and it ended in a short time.

[78] The successes of the first generation Fenerbahçe racers were also left in history as this sport was neglected from the World War II years to the 1970s.

[83] While Fenerbahçe athletes Fahri Ayad and Kemal Bey stand out as pioneers in both the tower and trampoline diving categories, Mısırlı Şefik, Mahir Canbakan and Suat Erler became the first champions, especially after 1925.

[84] Fenerbahçe was represented in this sport by Kiryako Şakir in the 1930s, Mustafa Keskin in the 1940s and Muammer Çolpan after 1950, and all three athletes held the Istanbul and Turkish championships for a long time.

[89] This sport, which was first practiced in the US in 1922, was pioneered in Turkey in 1937 by Fenerbahçe's all-around athlete Galip Kulaksızoğlu and sailors Faruk Hızer and Semih Arıcan.

[90] On July 25, 1937, on the Maritime Day of Modaspor The cup that Faruk Hızer won and received from Prime Minister İsmet İnönü is one of the most interesting awards exhibited in the Fenerbahçe Museum even in 2024.

46 are based in Istanbul, 8 in Ankara, 4 in İzmir, 3 in Antalya, 2 in Adana, Aydın, Gaziantep, Hatay, Konya, Muğla, Sakarya, and Samsun.

The other stores are located in Bursa, Çanakkale, Denizli, Diyarbakır, Düzce, Elazığ, Kahramanmaraş, Kayseri, Kocaeli, Malatya, Manisa, Mersin, Şanlıurfa, and Tekirdağ.