Serhat Çetin

Serhat Çetin — Biography

Serhat Çetin is remembered as a dependable wing player of Turkish basketball in the 2000s and 2010s, and the peak of his career came with Beşiktaş in the 2011-12 season. He played shooting guard and small forward and earned more than 100 national-team caps. After retiring as a player he moved into coaching and now works as an assistant coach.

He began in the Efes Pilsen youth system; after Tekelspor and Galatasaray he caught attention at Pınar Karşıyaka in 2006-07 with about 10 points a game and moved to Fenerbahçe. There he was loaned for a spell to Alpella and mostly served as a role player. At Beşiktaş, which he joined in 2010, he won the Turkish Cup, the FIBA EuroChallenge and the league under Ergin Ataman for a historic treble, and was named MVP of the cup final. When the squad broke up he stayed, and in 2012-13 he helped win the Super Cup. He then played for Tofaş, returned to Fenerbahçe on a three-year deal in 2014, and later wore the colors of Darüşşafaka, Türk Telekom and, in 2019, CSO Voluntari in Romania.

In the youth categories he reached Turkish championship titles and runner-up finishes, took European silver with the Turkish under-20 side in 2006, and won the 2013 Mediterranean Games. He began coaching as an assistant at Beşiktaş, joined the Poland national team under Igor Miličić in 2023, and worked at Aris Thessaloniki in Greece. He studied business administration at Yıldız Technical University.