The Eczacıbaşı Sports Club was founded by Dr. Nejat F. Eczacıbaşı and Şakir Eczacıbaşı with the aim of promoting and popularizing sports among the wider public and training professional athletes for the country.
After training athletes in a variety of fields, the Club focused its resources exclusively on women’s volleyball in the 1990’s and , contributed to women’s volleyball becoming the most thriving branch of team sports in Turkey.
Since its establishment in 1966, the Eczacıbaşı Sports Club has won 13 National Championships in table tennis, eight National Championships in men’s basketball, three National Championships in chess, and 40 National Championships in men’s and women’s volleyball. Its three junior volleyball teams have also won over 40 National Championships
Since its establishment, Eczacıbaşı Sports Club has played a crucial role in training thousands of athletes and in helping our country reach world standards in sports. Today, the club focuses entirely on women's volleyball and is a leading representative of women's volleyball in Türkiye, which today ranks among the best worldwide.
Turkey’s first winner of the European Championship title, and a record-breaker with 17 consecutive National Championship titles, the Women’s Volleyball A-Team rose to second place in the European League on the 100th anniversary of the birth of Atatürk in 1980 and gained international recognition for Turkey’s sport accomplishments. Upon this triumph, Eczacıbaşı’s women volleyball players earned themselves the epithet “Atatürk’s Daughters” in the national press.
