Vakıfbank Spor Kulübü

VakıfBank
Full name	VakıfBank Spor Kulübü
Founded	1986
Ground	Burhan Felek Sport Hall[citation needed], Istanbul; (Capacity: 7,000)
Chairman	Osman Demren
Manager	Giovanni Guidetti
Captain	Gözde Kırdar
League	Turkish Women's Volleyball League CEV Champions League
2012/13	FIVB Club World Championship Champion; CEV Champions League Champion
Website	Club home page
Uniforms
Home	Away

Vakıfbank İstanbul, winner of the 2013 FIVB Women's Club World Championship and the 2012–13 CEV Women's Champions League, is a Turkish volleyball club.

As of January 23, 2014, the team holds a 73-game winning streak record in domestic and international official competitions.^[1]

Vakıfbank İstanbul won all 52 official games played during 2012-13 season ^[2] and all 51 official games played in year 2013.^[3]

The team collected five championship trophies in 2013. (Perfect season#Volleyball)

History

The team was established following a merge between two separate teams: Vakıfbank and Güneş Sigorta.^{[citation needed]} Vakıfbank was originally an Ankara-based team but moved to İstanbul after the merge. Their name changed to Vakıfbank Güneş Sigorta, Vakıfbank Güneş Sigorta Türk Telekom (VGSTT), Vakıfbank Türk Telekom and Vakıfbank respectively.^[4]

Vakıfbank won two unbeaten^{[citation needed]} CEV Champions League championships in 2011 and 2013, and is the only unbeaten champions of the Champions League history. They also placed second in 1998 and 1999 in this competition. They won 2013 Club World Championship, CEV Top Teams Cup in 2004 and CEV Challenge Cup in 2008 while finishing 2nd in the FIVB Club World Championship in 2011 and 3rd in the European Confederation Cup of 2000.^[5]

The team is coached by Italian Giovanni Guidetti. They have won 47 games of 47 in 2012–2013 season^{[citation needed]} in all competitions including Champions League (12 games), Turkish League (29 games) and Turkish Cup (6 games). After this season, they kept most of the team roster^{[citation needed]} and coaching staff for 2013–2014 season with little changes: Jelena Nikolic, who took a break volleyball for one year, came back to the team^{[citation needed]} and Italian international Carolina Costagrande transfers from Chinese club Guangdong Evergrande V.C. instead of Polish spiker Malgorzata Glinka and Japanese Saori Kimura.^{[citation needed]} Glinka left the team after three great seasons and moved to her home country for familial reasons.^{[citation needed]}

2015–2016 roster

As of December 2015.^[6]^[7]

Jersey No.	Name	Date of Birth	Height (m)	Position	Country
1	Gizem Örge (L)	26 April 1993	1.68	Libero	Turkey
2	Gözde Kırdar Sonsırma (C)	25 November 1985	1.83	Outside hitter	Turkey
5	Robin de Kruijf	5 May 1991	1.92	Middle Blocker	Netherlands
6	Kübra Akman	13 October 1994	1.97	Middle Blocker	Turkey
7	Çağla Akın	19 January 1995	1.78	Setter	Turkey
8	Ayşe Melis Gürkaynak	20 April 1990	1.84	Middle Blocker	Turkey
9	Seda Tokatlıoğlu	25 June 1986	1.92	Outside Hitter	Turkey
10	Lonneke Slöetjes	15 November 1990	1.92	Opposite Hitter	Netherlands
11	Naz Aydemir	14 August 1990	1.86	Setter	Turkey
12	Anne Buijs	2 December 1991	1.91	Outside Hitter	Netherlands
13	Sheilla Castro	1 July 1983	1.87	Opposite Hitter	Brazil
15	Kimberly Hill	30 November 1989	1.93	Outside Hitter	United States
16	Milena Rašić	25 October 1990	1.93	Middle Blocker	Serbia
17	Cansu Çetin	26 May 1993	1.83	Outside Hitter	Turkey
18	Ayça Aykaç	27 February 1996	1.75	Libero	Turkey