Investing in future generations
Protecting the cultural heritage
TOFAŞ SPORTS CLUB

Founded in 1974, Tofaş Sports Club wins new sportspeople for Bursa and Turkish basketball thanks to the systematic importance it attaches to grassroots, provides equal opportunities to young people, thus helping raise healthy generations. The Club’s work spans three focus areas: youth development, A team performance, and social responsibility projects.

More than 5,300 athletes and 420 coaches have participated in Tofaş Sports Club’s youth program to date, with 800 athletes with origins in the youth program qualifying to represent Türkiye at the national level. In 2025, the U18 team competing under the name Gemlik Basketball Pilot Team became the National Champion and was placed third in the Youth Basketball Champions League organized in Manisa. Tofaş Men’s Basketball A Team has won two Turkish Basketball Super League titles, three Turkish Cups, and one Presidential Cup. Nearly 800 athletes have played for Tofaş A Team until 2023. The team is competing in the Turkish Basketball Super League and the Basketball Champions League.

A Team matches are played at the Nilüfer Tofaş Sports Hall that promotes social interaction. The 5,800 m2 Mustafa V. Koç Sports Hall featuring three basketball courts, a fitness center, and a rehabilitation center serves both Tofaş employees and amateur sports clubs.

Equal Opportunity and Extended Reach in Sports

Driven by the vision of making “Bursa the city of basketball,” Tofaş Sports Club facilitates access to sports across the country, and works with civil society organizationlocal governments and various organizations to implement sustainable projects.

  • In 2025, 4,000 children received training at 22 Tofaş Basketball Schools in 11 cities.
  • Under the Neighborhood Courts Project launched in 2019, Tofaş has built 46 basketball courts across Bursa.
  • At the “Hope Cities” established under the coordination of Koç Holding, the children affected by the devastating earthquakes of 6 February 2023 are supported through Tofaş Basketball Schools, and basketball training is provided to over 200 children affected by the earthquakes in Hatay, Adıyaman, and Malatya in partnership with TÜBAD, the Association of Turkish Basketball Coaches.
  • Launched in 2016, the “New Generation Tofaş” project aims to create equal opportunities for children in their access to sports, and to equip them with life skills beyond sports, and spreads sports culture across wider audiences. On the e-learning platform established under the project, training videos reached over 250,000 viewings and reached 11,000 children and 6,000 parents.

Tofaş Photography Club Tofaş Next Generation Project Album: https://www.tofas.com.tr/pdf/Yeni-Nesil-Tofas.html

TOFAŞ SCIENCE HIGH SCHOOL

Located in the Demirtaş Organized Industrial Zone in Bursa’s Nilüfer township, instruction at Tofaş Science High School began in the 2014-2015 academic year. Tofaş provides the school with material support for the development of its instructors, students, and physical facilities. It also provides scholarship support for successful graduates who go on to university.

Initiated with Tofaş support at Tofaş Science High School, the “Innovation Workshop” aims to support the instruction of well-educated young people who will shape the future of automotive and engineering field in Türkiye and serve as its leaders. Having identified it as a “Project That Inspires”, the Ministry of Education has decided to expand the Innovation Workshop program to embrace all science high schools. This support is being provided with the goal of making the Tofaş Innovation Workshop one of the top three STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics) workshops in Europe by 2030.

Tofaş Science High School’s curriculum gives attention to gender-equality and to career-choice awareness as a way of encouraging female students to go into engineering and thereby increasing the breadth and depth of its recruitment pool.

TOFAŞ MUSEUM OF CARS AND ANATOLIAN CARRIAGES AND TOFAŞ ART GALLERY

Located in Bursa’s Umurbey district, the Tofaş Museum of Cars and Anatolian Carriages is a private museum focusing on the Anatolian transport heritage. A former silk-weaving mill that used to be here was restored and converted for use as a museum by Tofaş. On display at the museum is a historical panorama of the history of human transport in Anatolia beginning with a wheel that is 2,600 years old and extending to the present day with examples of Tofaş-built motor vehicles.

The museum opened its doors in 2002 and has received about two million visitors since then.

Located within the same grounds as the museum is the Tofaş Art Gallery housed in the Umurbey Hammam, the original construction of which dates to 1430. To date the gallery has hosted six exhibitions, the most recent of which is “The Poise Of The Steelyard: Scales, Weights & Measuring Instruments”, a show with past and present-day examples of such equipment. The museum’s cafeteria, Fayton Cafe, is open to museum visitors as well as to the public. The museum’s gardens are planted with more than 50 different species and serve as a venue for concerts and culture & art events throughout the year.

Museum website: http://www.tofasanadoluarabalarimuzesi.com/Home/IndexEn

PAMUKKALE HIERAPOLIS ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXCAVATIONS

Since 2005 Tofaş has been supporting archaeological excavations at Hierapolis, the extensive ruins of one of the five biggest ancient cities in Türkiye. Coterminous with the Pamukkale thermal zone, both Hierapolis and Pamukkale were declared UNESCO World Heritage sites in 1988. Excavation work, which is being overseen by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism and the Denizli governor’s office, is being carried out by an international team of about seventy archaeologists, architects, restorers, conservators, and other experts mainly from Italy and Türkiye.

Among the other significant unearthed in Hierapolis remains that have been unearthed are two necropolises, baths, a basilica, a martyrium, the Frontinus Gate, a gymnasium, an Apollo temple, and the so-called Pluto’s Gate (Plutonium), a shrine sacred to the ancient god of the underworld, Pluto.

Tofaş Photography Club Hierapolis Album: https://www.tofas.com.tr/pdf/Hierapolis.html

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