Trabzonspor B.K. Turkish Second Division for the 2008–09 season. Trabzonspor promoted to the top-tier TBL (now called BSL), after they won the championship of the Turkish Division in the 2009–10 season. Trabzonspor B.K. Trabzonspor Basketbol Kulübü (), also known as Trabzonspor Basket or Trabzonspor, is a professional basketball club that is based in the city of Trabzon, Turkey. It is a department of the multi-sport club of Trabzonspor. Their home arena is the Hayri Gür Arena, which has a capacity of 7,500 seats, and was opened in 2011. Trabzonspor's football club was founded in 1967, and it opened its basketball section in
Galatasaray S.K. (football) Turkish football history. While football in Turkey began to fully develop, Galatasaray won ten more "Istanbul League" titles, six "Sunday League" titles and three "Friday League" titles until 1952. Upon the initiation of professional football in 1952, the first professional but non-national league of Turkey, "Istanbul Professional League", was played between 1952 and 1959. Galatasaray won three of these seven titles. "Türkiye Profesyonel 1. Ligi" (Turkish Super League today) formed in 1959. This is the top-flight professional league in Turkish nationwide football, and the most popular sporting competition in the country. Galatasaray joined all seasons and won 21 league titles