Serkan Erdoğan

Serkan Erdoğan — Biography

Serkan Erdoğan is a former Turkish international basketball player who played for established clubs in Turkey and in Spain from the 1990s until the end of 2013, and then moved into coaching. He played shooting guard and point guard and stands 1.90 meters tall. In December 2025 he was appointed head coach of Kipaş İstiklal Basket.

He came up in the TED Ankara Kolejliler academy and began his professional career with that team, then played for Tuborg Pilsener and Tofaş. When Tofaş broke up after winning the 1999-2000 title, he moved to Ülkerspor. After a knee injury in training in April 2001 he was out of action for a season, but he came back to Ülkerspor and had his most productive spell in 2004-05, averaging 16.6 points a game in the EuroLeague. He then spent two seasons with Tau Ceramica in Spain, followed by Efes Pilsen, Türk Telekom, Meridiano Alicante, Beşiktaş, Banvit and Gaziantep; his match with Gaziantep in December 2013 was his last in professional club basketball. With the national team he was in the squad that reached the quarter-finals of the 2006 World Championship.

After playing he worked as an assistant coach in Pınar Karşıyaka's youth setup, taking a special interest in the players' shooting, then ran player-development work at Tofaş and took a role at Beşiktaş. In 2017 he took charge of the Turkey U18 national team, and he had his first head-coaching job at Bursaspor in 2019-20. He is married with two daughters.