Haldun Alagaş Sports Hall is an indoor arena located in Istanbul

Istanbul

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, Turkey

Turkey

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. Opened in December 2000, the arena mostly hosts basketball

Basketball

Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...

 and volleyball

Volleyball

Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules.The complete rules are extensive...

 games. It has a seating capacity for 3,500 spectators.

Named after the three-times World and four-times European karate

Karate

is a martial art developed in the Ryukyu Islands in what is now Okinawa, Japan. It was developed from indigenous fighting methods called and Chinese kenpō. Karate is a striking art using punching, kicking, knee and elbow strikes, and open-handed techniques such as knife-hands. Grappling, locks,...

 champion Haldun Alagaş, the sports complex is located in Ümraniye

Ümraniye

Ümraniye is a very large working class district of Istanbul, Turkey with a population of over 250,000. It became district in 1987 by secession from Üsküdar. Also; Ömerli, Koçullu, Sırapınar and Hüseyinli villages were separated from Beykoz district in same year. Finally, Nişantepe quarter passed...

 district of Istanbul, east side of Bosporus

Bosporus

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Features

The arena covers an area of approximately 10000 m² (107,639.1 sq ft) and is one of major arenas of the city on three floors and including entire units, sum of 32000 m² (344,445.1 sq ft).

The center serves various sport branches for over 2,000 sports people and inhabitants daily with its training facilities. Beside, it includes a library and conference hall and the car park creates a solid source of income to get by.

It is in usage of sport teams such as Istanbul Büyükşehir Belediyesi Men's Volleyball and Men's Handball Teams and Tekelspor

Tekelspor

Tekelspor is a basketball club based in İstanbul, Turkey that plays in the Turkish Basketball League. Their home arena is the Haldun Alagaş Sports Hall.The club sponsored by Tekel Company....

basketball team.