1. Previous names

2. History

3. Honours
    Worldwide competitions  European competitions  National competitions  Regional competitions 

4. Team Roster

5. Season by season

6. Home halls

7. Notable players

8. Sponsorship and kit manufacturers

9. See also

10. References

11. External links

Fenerbahçe Women's Volleyball is the women's volleyball department of Fenerbahçe SK, a major Turkish multi-sport club based in Istanbul, Turkey. They play their matches at the 7.000-seated Burhan Felek Sport Hall. Fenerbahçe compete in the Turkish Women's Volleyball League, which is considered to be one of the best and most competitive leagues in the world.

Founded in 1928, Fenerbahçe are one of the best volleyball teams in Turkey and in the world. They were crowned World Champions by winning the FIVB Volleyball Women's Club World Championship undefeated in 2010, thus achieving the first Intercontinental Quadruple ever in Turkish volleyball history, after having won the Turkish League, Turkish Cup, and the Turkish Super Cup in 2010.^[1] Fenerbahçe became the first Turkish team to claim a World Championship title. After being runners-up in the CEV Champions League in 2010, Fenerbahçe finally were crowned European Champions in the 2011–12 season after defeating French powerhouse RC Cannes in three straight sets (25–14, 25–22, and 25–20) in the final game.^[2] The club also reached the third place of the Champions League twice, in the 2010–11 and 2015–16 seasons.

Fenerbahçe also won the CEV Cup by defeating Russia's Uralochka-NTMK Ekaterinburg 3–0 (25-11, 28-26, 25-22) in the 2014 finals in front of their passionate home crowd, thus writing volleyball history as the men's team won another continental title, the CEV Challenge Cup, the very same day.^[3][4] 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.

In Turkey the club have won 13 Turkish Championship titles (5 in the current Turkish Women's Volleyball League and 8 in the former Turkish Women's Volleyball Championship), 3 Turkish Cups, and a record 3 Turkish Super Cups, among others.

Previous names

• Fenerbahçe (1928, 1954–2007)
• Fenerbahçe Acıbadem (2007–2011)
• Fenerbahçe Universal (2011–2012)
• Fenerbahçe (2012–2014)
• Fenerbahçe Grundig (2014–2016)
• Fenerbahçe (2016–present)

History

The women's volleyball department 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 section was closed due to a lack of opponents. In 1954, a new era started with assistance from Çamlıca Girls' High School (tr). 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.{{Citation needed|date=August 2011}}

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 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 archrivals 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.{{Citation needed|date=August 2011}}

Fenerbahçe's women's team shone in the 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 2009–10 CEV Women's Champions League undefeated. They then beat the host team RC Cannes in a thrilling five-setter, but eventually 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 chosen the best server of the tournament.^[5]

The star-studded team of Fenerbahçe 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^[6] where Katarzyna Skowrońska was named the MVP and Best Scorer, while Eda Erdem Dündar was the Best Server.

In 2011, Fenerbahçe SK organized the Champions League Final Four in the Burhan Felek Sports Hall in Istanbul, however, in the semi-final the Yellow Angels lost to Turkish rivals Vakıfbank 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 national heroines Seda Tokatlıoğlu, Naz Aydemir and Eda Erdem Dündar.

In 2012 the club won the CEV Volleyball Champions League, which was organized in Baku on 24–25 March 2012, having defeated French powerhouse 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, while Naz Aydemir was named the Best Setter.^[7]

Honours

Worldwide competitions

• FIVB Volleyball Women's Club World Championship
  • Winners (1): 2010
  • Third place (1): 2012
• Intercontinental Quadruple
  • Winners (1): 2010

European competitions

• CEV Champions League
  • Winners (1): 2011–12
  • Runners-up (1): 2009–10
  • Third place (2): 2010–11, 2015–16
• CEV Cup
  • Winners (1): 2013–14
  • Runners-up (1): 2012–13

National competitions

• Turkish Women's Volleyball League
  • Winners (5): 2008–09, 2009–10, 2010–11, 2014–15, 2016–17
  • Runners-up (4): 2006–07, 2007–08, 2013–14, 2015–16
  • Third place (2): 2011–12, 2012–13
• Turkish Women's Volleyball Championship (defunct)
  • Winners (8): 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1968, 1969, 1972
  • Runners-up (3): 1961, 1973, 1975
  • Third place (3): 1962, 1974, 1977
• Turkish Cup
  • Winners (3): 2009–10, 2014–15, 2016–17
  • Runners-up (2): 2008–09, 2013–14
• Turkish Super Cup
  • Winners (3) (shared-record): 2009, 2010, 2015
  • Runners-up (3): 2011, 2014, 2017
• Turkish Federation Cup (defunct)
  • Winners (2): 1959–60, 1976–77
  • Runners-up (1): 1965–66

Regional competitions

• Istanbul League (defunct)
  • Winners (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 place (7): 1954–55, 1961–62, 1963–64, 1964–65, 1965–66, 1966–67, 1976–77

Team Roster

Season by season

Home halls

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

Notable players

• Played at least one season for the club.
• Set a club record or won an individual award while at the club.
• Played at least one official international match for their national team at any time.
• To perform very successfully during period in the club or at later/previous stages of his career.

{{TUR}}

• 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
• Melis Yılmaz

{{AZE}}

• Valeriya Korotenko
• Oksana Parkhomenko
• Polina Rahimova

{{BLR}}

• Marina Tumas

{{BEL}}

• Frauke Dirickx

{{BUL}}

• Dobriana Rabadžieva

{{CZE}}

• Aneta Havlíčková

{{HRV}}

• Nataša Osmokrović
• Mia Jerkov

{{DEU}}

• Christiane Fürst

{{FRA}}

• Christina Bauer

{{NLD}}

• Alice Blom
• Maret Balkestein-Grothues

{{ITA}}

• Lucia Bosetti
• Eleonora Lo Bianco

{{POL}}

• Berenika Okuniewska
• Katarzyna Skowrońska
• Katarzyna Skorupa

{{RUS}}

• Yekaterina Gamova
• Lioubov Sokolova

{{SRB}}

• Anja Spasojević
• Brankica Mihajlović

{{BRA}}

• Ana Biatriz Chagas
• Fabiana Claudino
• Fofão Souza
• Fernanda Garay
• Marianne Steinbrecher
• Paula Pequeno
• Tatiana Santos
• Natália Pereira

{{COL}}

• Madelaynne Montaño

{{KOR}}

• Kim Yeon-koung

{{THA}}

• Nootsara Tomkom

{{USA}}

• Lindsey Berg
• Therese Crawford
• Nicole Davis
• Alisha Glass
• Kim Glass
• Kristin Hildebrand
• Logan Tom
• Christa Harmotto

{{MEX}}

• Samantha Bricio

{{CUB}}

• Melissa Vargas

Sponsorship and kit manufacturers

¹ Main sponsorship

² Back sponsorship

³ Lateral sponsorship

⁴ Short sponsorship

See also

• Fenerbahçe SK
• Fenerbahçe Men's Volleyball

References

External links

• Official Website of Fenerbahçe SK {{tr icon}} {{en icon}}

• [https://twitter.com/fbvoleybol Official Twitter Account of Fenerbahçe Volleyball]

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