The systematic, infrastructure-focused efforts of the Tofaş Sports Club have nurtured many new basketball players both for Bursa and for the country as a whole ever since the club was founded in 1974. The club supports both rearing healthy new generations and improving the quality of people’s lives in general by giving all youngsters an equal opportunity to take part in sports activities.
Players and coaches who had their start at the Tofaş Sports Club have gone on to achieve success in sport both nationally and internationally. The club continues to pursue its goals both of making Bursa a city renowned for basketball and of being a model sports club in which its members and supporters can take pride. The Tofaş Sports Club’s priorities are to deploy its infrastructure assets to rear athletes, to manage its Basketball A Team, and to carry out social responsibility projects.
To date, more than 5,200 athletes and 420 coaches (770 of them national-team qualifiers) have been members of the Tofaş Sports Club.
Over the years since its formation, the Tofaş Sports Club’s men’s basketball team has won 1 President’s, 2 Basketball Super League, and 3 Turkish League cups. As of 2023, about 800 athletes have played on the Tofaş Men’s Basketball A Team. During the 2023-2024 season, the team is competing in Basketball Super League and Basketball Champions League games.
As summed up in its “Basketball City Bursa” motto, the aims of the Tofaş Sports Club are to provide all youngsters with the opportunities they need to take part in sport and also to promote equality of opportunity in sport and sport culture not just in its home province of Bursa but throughout the entire country. To leverage its effectiveness, the club cooperates with NGOs, local governments, and national and international organizations and also carries out projects capable of benefitting society as a whole.
As of end-2023, 15 Tofaş Basketball Schools based in 10 cities were providing basketball skills training resources and playing opportunities to 3,500 children.
As of 2023, e-learning system training videos had been viewed a total of 250 thousand times and 10,500 children and 5,000 parents had been reached through 15 basketball schools located in Bursa province townships.
In 2019 the Tofaş Sports Club began establishing basketball courts in different parts of Bursa city as part of Tofaş’s Neighborhood Pitches Project. As of 2023, 46 of these pitches had been created in the city and are being provided with seasonal upkeep and maintenance services.
Launched in 2016, the goals of the Tofaş Next Generation Project are to provide all children with an equal opportunity to take part in sports and to foster attitudes and points of view among children that will help them be successful in all aspects of life. The Tofaş Next Generation Project is based on a training and implementation model that focuses on the trainer-family-child triangle in order to foster a generation whose members truly believe that every child should have an equal chance to play basketball.
Tofaş Photography Club Tofaş Next Generation Project Album: https://www.tofas.com.tr/pdf/Yeni-Nesil-Tofas.html