Galatasaray S.K. (women's volleyball)

Galatasaray SK

Full name	Galatasaray
Short name	Galatasaray
Founded	1922
Ground	TVF Burhan Felek Sport Hall (Capacity: 7,000)
Chairman	Dursun Özbek
Manager	Alberto Bigarelli
Captain	İlkin Aydın
League	Sultanlar Ligi
2022–23	Regular season: 5th Play-offs: 6th
Championships
5 Turkish Championships
2024–25 season

Active departments of Galatasaray S.K.
Athletics Basketball (Men's) Basketball (Women's) Chess Bridge Equestrian e-Sports Football (Men's) Football (Women's) Judo Rowing Sailing Swimming Tennis Volleyball (Men's) Volleyball(Women's) Water Polo (Men's) Water Polo (Women's) Wheelchair Basketball

Closed departments of Galatasaray S.K.
Handball Superleague Formula

Galatasaray Daikin is the professional women's volleyball section of Galatasaray SK, a major sports club in Istanbul, Turkey. Galatasaray play their matches in the 7000-seat arena TVF Burhan Felek Sport Hall.

Due to sponsorship, the club have competed under the following names:

• Galatasaray (1922–2010)
• Galatasaray Medical Park (2010–2011)
• Galatasaray (2011–2012)
• Galatasaray Daikin (2012–2016)
• Galatasaray (2016–2019)
• Galatasaray HDI Sigorta (2019–2023)
• Galatasaray Daikin (2023–present)

Galatasaray Women's Volleyball Branch was established in 1922. The team won the Istanbul Women's Volleyball League 7 times and the Turkish Women's Volleyball Championship 5 times. However, the team does not have a Sultans League championship.

As a result of Galatasaray (men's volleyball team) becoming the champion in the league in the 1986-1987 season, the volleyball branch managers of the period formed an ambitious team for the women's volleyball team and entered the 1987-1988 season. They finished second.

In the following years, with the establishment of more establishment clubs, it could not be as successful in volleyball as before, and as a result of these processes, once due to the economic crisis, the team was closed for a year while it was in the Sultans League in the 2003-2004 season. What has risen. However, after 4 seasons, this time 3 weeks before the end of the league, they were defeated by TED Ankara College 3-0 and relegated to the 1st league in the 2006-2007 season for the first time in its history and was promoted to the Sultans League again the following season. The women's volleyball team, which has had to compete in the 1st league twice in its history, has become a team that plays for the championship in the league again and consistently participates in the European cups every year, as a result of the efforts of the administrations coming after this process to raise the branch.

The team, which came in 3rd place in the CEV Women's Challenge Cup in the 2009-2010 season, changed its name to Galatasaray Medical Park Women's Volleyball Team as a result of the name sponsorship made with Medical Park in the 2010-2011 season and continued its struggle in the league. However, the paths parted with Medical Park after one season and the next season, the team that competed as the Galatasaray Women's Volleyball Team played in the final with Italy's Unendo Yamamay Busto Arsizio team in the Women's CEV Cup for the first time in its history and won the second place in the final by losing in the gold set. has done. At the end of the same season, the team that participated in the CEV Women's Champions League by receiving a wild cart, advanced to the next round as a result of the group matches it played and was entitled to organize the final four in the CEV Women's Champions League.

Having signed a name sponsorship agreement with Daikin at the beginning of the 2012-2013 season, the team hosted the final four of the CEV Women's Champions League as Galatasaray Daikin Women's Volleyball Team and finished the tournament 4th.

In the 2014-2015 season, Galatasaray Daikin Women's Volleyball Team said goodbye to Europe by losing to its rival in the semi-finals of the Women's CEV Cup, and then lost to VakıfBank 3-2 in the Turkish Super Cup and said goodbye to the cup in the semi-finals. In the league, the team finished the regular season in the 4th place and matched with its rival Nilüfer Belediyespor in the quarter finals. By defeating their opponent 2-0 in the quarter-finals and finishing in the 4th place in the play-off final stage, the team qualified to compete in the Women's CEV Cup next season.

Contrary to previous seasons, the team started the 2015-2016 season with an infrastructure-weighted squad, surprising all authorities, and continued on its way in the league and Europe with full reins, winning all 10 matches until the final match in the Women's CEV Cup and matched with the Russian representative Dinamo Krasnodar in the final. . Having won the first match of the series 3-2 at home, the team lost the second match in Russia 3-0 and had to say goodbye for the second time in the last match of a final leg in this cup. In the league, the team that was among the top 4 teams completed the group in the last place and won the right to compete in the Women's CEV Cup for the next season.

Starting from the 2016-2017 season, the team parted ways with its sponsor Daikin and decided to continue its struggle as the Galatasaray Women's Volleyball Team.

Completing the league in the 4th place in the 2016-2017 season, the team lost to its arch-rival Fenerbahçe in the play-off series and completed the play-offs in the 2nd place and earned the right to compete in the CEV Women's Champions League for the next season. He said goodbye to the cup after losing 3-2 to Bursa Büyükşehir Belediyesi in Turkish Women's Volleyball Cup. In the Women's CEV Cup, she lost to Dynamo Kazan in the semi-finals by 3-0 in both matches and said goodbye to the tournament.

Finishing the league in the 3rd place in the regular season in the 2017-2018 season, the team finished the play-offs in the 4th place. In the Cup, he lost 3-1 to Eczacıbaşı VitrA in the semi-finals and said goodbye to the organization. In the CEV Women's Champions League, the team reached the final four and finished the season in the last place in the finals of four.

In the 2018-2019 season, the team, which finished the league and play-offs in the 4th place, said goodbye to the cup and also to the semi-finals. In Europe, she finished the season by saying goodbye to the Women's CEV Cup with the golden set in the quarter-finals.

Before the 2019-2020 season, the team agreed with HDI Sigorta to be the name sponsor and started the season as Galatasaray HDI Sigorta Women's Volleyball Team. Galatasaray HDI Sigorta Women's Volleyball Team finished the league in the 4th place in the regular season in the 2019-2020 season. However, after the decision taken by Turkish Volleyball Federation on May 11, 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the league, whose play-off stage was not played, was registered with this ranking, and the champion or the relegated team was not determined in the season. Cup Volley to be played due to the pandemic has also been canceled for the 2019-2020 season. In Europe, the team that competed in the Women's CEV Cup said goodbye to the cup in the last 16 rounds before the pandemic.

In the 2020-2021 season, he completed the Sultans League in the 6th place at the end of the regular season matches, and as a result of the 5th & 8th play-off matches he played, he completed the season in the 7th place and could not participate in the European Cups after many years. As a result of the Cup Volley matches she played, she lost to her opponent VakıfBank 3-0 in the semi-finals and said goodbye to the cup. She achieved her greatest success in the season by playing the final of the Women's CEV Cup for the 3rd time in its history, however, as in the previous finals, she lost to her rival Saugella Monza and lost the cup as a result of a final and came 2nd.

• CEV Cup
  • Runners-up (3): 2011–12, 2015–16, 2020–21

• CEV Challenge Cup
  • Third place (2): 1996–97, 2009–10

• Turkish Women's Volleyball League
  • Runners-up (1): 2016–17
  • Third place (4): 2014–15, 2015–16, 2017–18, 2018–19

• Turkish Women's Volleyball Championship (defunct)
  • Winners (5): 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1966
  • Runners-up (7): 1959, 1960, 1967, 1974, 1976, 1977, 1978
  • Third place (5): 1958, 1965, 1969, 1975, 1979

• Turkish Cup
  • Runners-up (1): 2011–12
  • Third place (1): 2012–13

• Turkish Super Cup
  • Runners-up (1): 2011–12

• Istanbul League (defunct)
  • Winners (7): 1959–60, 1961–62, 1962–63, 1963–64, 1964–65, 1965–66, 1977–78
  • Runners-up (9): 1956–57, 1957–58, 1958–59, 1960–61, 1966–67, 1967–68, 1968–69, 1975–76, 1976–77
  • Third place (9): 1969–70, 1970–71, 1971–72, 1972–73, 1973–74, 1974–75, 1978–79, 1979–80, 1980–81

As of 1 January 2025^[1]

Name	Job
Neslihan Turan	Administrative Manager
Neşve Büyükbayram	Team Manager
Alberto Bigarelli	Head Coach
Adnan Mert Paşaoğlu	Assistant Coach
Emre Türkileri	Assistant Coach
Ioannis Paraschidis	Conditioner
Uğur Şimşek	Statistics Coach
Dinçer Kaya	Physiotherapist
Murat Beder	Masseur

As of 15 August 2024^[2]

No.	Player	Position	Date of Birth	Height (m)	Country
2	İlkin Aydın (c)	Outside Hitter	(2000-01-05) 5 January 2000 (age 25)	1.83	Turkey
4	Britt Bongaerts	Setter	(1996-11-03) 3 November 1996 (age 28)	1.85	Netherlands
6	Sude Hacımustafaoğlu	Outside Hitter	(2002-03-25) 25 March 2002 (age 22)	1.80	Turkey
8	Yasemin Güveli	Middle-blocker	(1999-01-05) 5 January 1999 (age 26)	1.88	Turkey
9	Aslıhan Kılıç	Setter	(1998-04-21) 21 April 1998 (age 26)	1.80	Turkey
10	Ayçin Akyol	Middle-blocker	(1999-06-15) 15 June 1999 (age 25)	1.88	Turkey
12	Bihter Dumanoğlu	Libero	(1995-02-03) 3 February 1995 (age 29)	1.75	Turkey
14	Alexia Căruțașu	Opposite	(2003-06-10) 10 June 2003 (age 21)	1.88	Romania /  Turkey
16	Yasemin Özel	Opposite	(1998-05-13) 13 May 1998 (age 26)	1.85	Turkey
22	Eylül Akarçeşme	Libero	(1999-10-01) 1 October 1999 (age 25)	1.70	Turkey
23	Eline Timmerman	Middle-blocker	(1998-12-30) 30 December 1998 (age 26)	1.92	Netherlands
24	Katarina Lazović	Outside Hitter	(1999-09-12) 12 September 1999 (age 25)	1.82	Serbia
26	Ceylan Arısan	Middle-blocker	(1994-01-01) 1 January 1994 (age 31)	1.90	Turkey
27	Ana Kalandadze	Outside Hitter	(1998-12-10) 10 December 1998 (age 26)	1.86	Georgia

Players written in italic still play for the club.

Dates	Name
1989–1993	Mehmet Bedestenlioğlu
1993–1997	Cengiz Göllü
1997–1999	Mehmet Bedestenlioğlu
1999–2000	Eugenio George Lafita
2000–2002	Gökhan Edman
2004–2007	Gökhan Rahman Çokşen
2007–2008	Ahmet Reşat Arığ
2008	Mehmet Bedestenlioğlu
2008–2011	Gökhan Edman
2011–2012	Dragan Nešić
2012–2015	Massimo Barbolini
2015–2023	Ataman Güneyligil
2023–2024	Guillermo Naranjo Hernández
2024–present	Alberto Bigarelli

Dates	Name
2020–2023	Gizem Güreşen
2023	Gamze Alikaya
2023–2024	Bihter Dumanoğlu
2024–present	İlkin Aydın

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

• Galatasaray S.K. (men's volleyball)
• Turkey women's national volleyball team

• Official Galatasaray Volleyball Branch Website (in Turkish and English)
• Galatasaray HDI Sigorta » players __ Women Volleybox.net (in English)
• Turkish Volleyball Federastion official website (in Turkish)