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Darüşşafaka Basketbol (Darüşşafaka Basketball), commonly also known as Daçka Basketbol or simply Daçka, also known as Darüşşafaka Lassa for sponsorship reasons, is a professional basketball club that is based in Istanbul, Turkey. Darüşşafaka's basketball section, which was founded in 1914, is a part of Darüşşafaka Spor Kulübü (Darüşşafaka Sports Club) multi-sport club, which was founded in 1914. The club's basketball department is their most successful section. The club plays in the Turkish Basketball Super League. Its home arena for national domestic Turkish Super League games is the Darüşşafaka Ayhan Şahenk Sports Hall, with a seating capacity of 3,500, while its home arena for European-wide games is the Volkswagen Arena Istanbul, with a seating capacity of 5,240.

Daçka have won two Turkish Basketball Championships (in 1961 and 1962) over the course of their history. In European-wide competitions they have won the second tier level EuroCup, in the 2017–18 season, by defeating the Russian club Lokomotiv Kuban in the finals.

History

From 1993 until 2010, Darüşşafaka was a stable TBL (now called BSL) competitor. In the 2000–01 and 2001–02 seasons, the team took the third place in the regular season. In the 2009–10 season, the club ended up in 16th place in the TBL, and was relegated. The team was then a middle-tier team in the TB2L, from 2010 until 2013.

In 2013, Doğuş Holding became the main sponsor of the team, which instantly turned Darüşşafaka into a wealthy and ambitious club. In the 2013–14 season, they won the TB2L title, and were promoted to the TBL (now called BSL).

In the 2014–15 season, Darüşşafaka took the third place in the regular season, after some big names like Renaldas Seibutis and Jamon Gordon were signed for the season. Despite the huge expectations, the team lost in the quarterfinals of the league playoffs to Trabzonspor.

The team received a wild card for the 2015–16 EuroLeague season. Darüşşafaka started playing its EuroLeague home games at the Volkswagen Arena Istanbul, starting from November 2015. In September 2018, the club announced a new multi-year sponsorship deal with Tekfen, which changed the team's name sponsorship name to Darüşşafaka Tekfen.

Darüşşafaka Basketbol Kulübü är en basketklubb från Istanbul, Turkiet. Klubben grundades 1951 och spelar sina hemmamatcher i Sinan Erdem Spor Salonu.

Darüşşafaka har vunnit tre turkiska mästerskap, 1961, 1964 och 2016. Klubben har också vunnit två turkiska cuper, 1962 och 2018.

I europeiska tävlingar har Darüşşafaka spelat i Euroleague, EuroCup och FIBA Champions League. Klubbens bästa resultat i Euroleague är en fjärdeplats 1961-62.

Några av klubbens mest kända spelare genom tiderna är:

* Hüseyin Alp
* Rıza Erverdi
* Halil Dağlı
* Hüseyin Özbaş
* Kerem Tunçeri
* Semih Erden
* Cedi Osman
* Furkan Aldemir
* Sinan Güler
* Kartal Özmizrak