Fenerbahçe Women's Volleyball

Fenerbahçe S.K.

Full name	Fenerbahçe Sports Club Women's Volleyball Department
Short name	Fenerbahçe Women's Volleyball
Nickname	Sarı Melekler (The Yellow Angels)
Founded	1928(closed due to lack of opponent) 1954
Ground	Burhan Felek Sport Hall, Istanbul (Capacity: 7,000)
Chairman	Aziz Yıldırım
Manager	Marcello Abbondanza
Captain	Eda Erdem
League	Turkish Women's Volleyball League
2014-15	Regular: 2nd Play-off: Winners
Website	Club home page
Uniforms
Home Away

Active departments of Fenerbahçe
Football	Basketball (Men's)	Basketball (Women's)
Volleyball (Men's)	Volleyball (Women's)	Table Tennis
Swimming	Rowing	Sailing
Athletics	Boxing

Fenerbahçe Women's Volleyball is the women's volleyball department of Fenerbahçe S.K., a major sports club based in Istanbul, Turkey. They play their matches at the 7000-seated Burhan Felek Sport Hall. Fenerbahçe won the 2010 FIVB Club World Championship and also won the CEV Champions League in 2012.

Previous names

• Fenerbahçe (1928, 1954–2007)
• Fenerbahçe Acıbadem (2007–2011)
• Fenerbahçe Universal (2011–2012)
• Fenerbahçe (2012–2014)
• Fenerbahçe Grundig (2014–present)

History

The women's volleyball branch was founded in 1928 by Sabiha Rıfat Gürayman who, as a young woman, played for the club's men's volleyball team, and was the first woman architect in Turkey. However, the branch was closed due to the lack of an opponent. In 1954, a new era started with assistance from Girls' High School at Çamlıca. Starting in 1958, the girls won eight Turkish Championships among many other titles. In 1977, the branch was closed again until 1989, this time due to insufficient funds. In 1993, the team was promoted from the Istanbul First League to the Turkish Second League. The following year, they played in the Turkish First League. However, they were relegated to the Turkish Second League in the 1995-96 season.

Fenerbahçe returned to the Turkish First League in the 2002-03 season, and were runners-up in the 2006-07 season. The senior team was renamed as Fenerbahçe Acıbadem due to a sponsorship agreement with the Acıbadem Healthcare Group from 2007 to 2011. The Yellow Angels were the runners-up after Eczacıbaşı SK in the 2007-08 season, too. They gained the ninth Turkish title in their history in the 2008-09 season, after defeating their archrival Eczacıbaşı SK in the finals (3-2, 0-3, 3-1, 3-1), which was their first ever title in the league's current format that had started with the 1984-85 season.

Fenerbahçe Women's Volleyball team shone in 2009-10 season as the Yellow Angels finished the first round of the 2009-10 Turkish League undefeated in 22 matches (setting a 66:2 set ratio record), and reached the Final Four of 2010 Women's CEV Champions League undefeated. They then beat the host team RC Cannes in a thrilling five-setter, but then lost to Volley Bergamo in five sets in the final, even though they came back after falling two sets down: 22-25, 21-25, 25-22, 25-20, 9-15. Yekaterina Gamova was named the best scorer, and Nataša Osmokrović was the best server of the tournament.

The star-studded Fenerbahçe Women's Volleyball team were on top of the world on 21 December 2010 in Doha-Qatar after beating South American titleholders Sollys Osasco 3-0 (25-23, 25-22, 25-17) to become the first team in 16 years to claim the 2010 FIVB Women's Club World Championship^[1] where Katarzyna Skowrońska was named the MVP and the Best Scorer, and Eda Erdem was the Best Server.

In 2011, Fenerbahçe SK organized the Champions League Final Four in Istanbul Burhan Felek Sports Hall; however, in the semi-final the Yellow Angels lost to the Turkish team Vakifbank Gunes Sigorta Turk Telekom in a heart-breaking five setter (25-19, 21-25, 25-21, 19-25, 11-15), and lost the chance to be the very first team in Turkish volleyball history to win the Champions League title. The Yellow Angels settled for the third place after beating Scavolini Pesaro in four sets (14-25, 25-21, 25-21, 25-21), thanks to the local heroines Seda Tokatlıoğlu, Naz Aydemir, and Eda Erdem.

In 2012 the club won the CEV Volleyball Champions League, which was organized in Baku in 24–25 March 2012, having defeated France’s RC Cannes in the final in three straight sets (25-14, 25-22, and 25-20). Kim won the MVP award and the Best Scorer award and Naz Aydemir was named the Best Setter.^[2]

Current squad

Squad as of June 4th, 2015 Team 2015/2016

Number	Player	Position	Height (m)
2	Merve Dalbeler	Libero	1.80
3	Gizem Karadayı	Libero	1.78
5	Ergül Avcı	Middle Blocker	1.90
6	Polen Uslupehlivan	Opposite Hitter	1.90
8	Dicle Nur Babat	Middle Blocker	1.91
9	Meliha İsmailoğlu	Wing-spiker	1.89
10	Kim Yeon-Koung	Wing-spiker	1.92
11	Ezgi Dilik	Setter	1.78
12	Brankica Mihajlović	Wing-spiker	1.89
13	Christa Harmotto	Middle Blocker	1.87
14	Eda Erdem (C)	Middle Blocker	1.88
15	Şeyma Ercan	Wing-spiker	1.87
16	Lucia Bosetti	Wing-spiker	1.76
18	Katarzyna Skorupa	Setter	1.83

Honours

International success

• FIVB Volleyball Club World Championship:
  • Champions (1): 2010
  • Third (1): 2012
• Women's CEV Champions League:
  • Champions (1): 2011–12
  • Runners-up (1): 2009–10
  • Third (2): 2010–11, 2015–16
• Women's CEV Cup:
  • Champions (1): 2013–14
  • Runners-up (1): 2012–13

Domestic success

Turkish championships

• Turkish Women's Volleyball League:
  • Champions (4): 2008–09, 2009–10, 2010–11, 2014–15
  • Runners-up (4): 2006–07, 2007–08, 2013–14, 2015–16
  • Third (2): 2011–12, 2012–13
• Turkish Women's Volleyball Championship:
  • Champions (8): 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1968, 1969, 1972
  • Runners-up (3): 1961, 1973, 1975
  • Third (3): 1962, 1974, 1977
• Turkish Cup:
  • Champions (2): 2009–10, 2014–15
  • Runners-up (2): 2008–09, 2013–14
• Turkish Super Cup:
  • Champions (3): 2009, 2010, 2015
  • Runners-up (2): 2011, 2014

Other competitions

• Istanbul League:
  • Champions (10): 1955–56, 1956–57, 1957–58, 1958–59, 1960–61, 1967–68, 1968–69, 1970–71, 1971–72, 1972–73
  • Runners-up (5): 1959–60, 1962–63, 1969–70, 1973–74, 1974–75
  • Third (7): 1954–55, 1961–62, 1963–64, 1964–65, 1965–66, 1966–67, 1976–77

Team captains

This is a list of the senior team's captains in the recent years.

Dates	Name
2005–2006	Seda Tokatlıoğlu
2006–2008	Özlem Özçelik
2008–2011	Çiğdem Can Rasna
2011–2014	Seda Tokatlıoğlu
2014-	Eda Erdem

As of May 2014

Head coaches

This is a list of the senior team's head coaches in the recent years.

Dates	Name
2005–2008	Adnan Kıstak
2008–2009	Üzeyir Özdurak
2009–2010	Jan De Brandt
2010–2012	José Roberto Guimarães
2012–2013	Kamil Söz
2013–	Marcello Abbondanza

As of September 9, 2012

Home halls

This is a list of the home halls senior team have played in the recent years.

• Burhan Felek Sport Hall (2004–2007)
• Caferağa Sport Hall – Haldun Alagaş Sports Hall¹ (2007–2008)
• 50th Anniversary Sport Hall (2008–2010)
• Burhan Felek Sports Hall (2010–)
• Fenerbahçe International Sports Complex Ülker Sports Arena (2015–)

¹ CEV Champions League games only.

Notable players

Domestic Players  Turkey Elif Ağca Öner Ergül Avcı Naz Aydemir Duygu Bal Meryem Boz Çiğdem Can Rasna Pelin Çelik Merve Dalbeler Gökçen Denkel Songül Dikmen Eda Erdem Seda Eryüz Nihan Güneyligil Özge Kırdar Yağmur Koçyiğit Aysun Özbek Özlem Özçelik Nilay Özdemir İpek Soroğlu Seda Tokatlıoğlu Polen Uslupehlivan Dicle Nur Babat Meliha İsmailoğlu Ezgi Dilik Gizem Güreşen Karadayı Şeyma Ercan

European Players  Azerbaijan Valeriya Korotenko Oksana Parkhomenko  Belarus Marina Tumas  Belgium Frauke Dirickx  Czech Republic Aneta Havlíčková  Croatia Nataša Osmokrović  Germany Christiane Fürst  France Christina Bauer  Netherlands Alice Blom  Italy Lucia Bosetti Eleonora Lo Bianco  Poland Berenika Okuniewska Katarzyna Skowrońska Katarzyna Skorupa  Russia Yekaterina Gamova Lioubov Sokolova  Serbia Anja Spasojević Brankica Mihajlović

Non-European Players  Brazil Bia Fabiana Fofão Fe Garay Mari Paula Pequeno Tati  Colombia Madelaynne Montaño  South Korea Yeon-Koung Kim  United States Lindsey Berg Therese Crawford Nicole Davis Alisha Glass Kim Glass Kristin Hildebrand Logan Tom Christa Harmotto

Italic written players still plays for the team

Sponsporship and Kit Manufacture

Years Kit sponsors 2005–2006 Century 21^1 – Merit Life ^2 – Adahan Logistics^4 2006–2007 Acıbadem^1 ^2 ^4 2007–2011 Acıbadem^1 ^2 ^3 ^4 2011–2012 Universal^1 ^3 ^4 – Bonus^2 2012–2013 none 2013 Fenercell^1 – Bonus^2 2013 Grundig^1 ^3 – Bonus^2 2013– Grundig^1 – Bonus^2 – Fenercell^3 ^1 Main sponsorship ^2 Back sponsorship ^3 Lateral sponsorship ^4 Short sponsorship

Years Kit manufacturers 2000– Fenerium

See also

• Fenerbahçe Men's Volleyball team
• Turkey women's national volleyball team
• Turkish women in sports

References

1. Fenerbahce crowned Women's Club World champions
2. CEV (2012-03-25). "Fenerbahce and a Korean star named Kim shine in Baku". Retrieved 2012-03-25.

External links

• Official Fenerbahçe Volleyball Branch Website (Turkish) (English)
• (English)
• (English)
• Blog of Fenerbahce Universal (Turkish)
• Turkish Volleyball Federation Official Website (Turkish)