İzmir Atatürk Volleyball Hall ( tr, İzmir Atatürk Voleybol Salonu) is a volleyball venue located in the district of

Alsancak Alsancak is a centrally situated large quarter (or a zone; ''semt'' in Turkish) in İzmir, Turkey, within the boundaries of the metropolitan district of Konak, the historic center of the city. Overview As a notional zone, Alsancak extends fro ...

İzmir İzmir ( , ; ), also spelled Izmir, is a metropolitan city in the western extremity of Anatolia, capital of the province of the same name. It is the third most populous city in Turkey, after Istanbul and Ankara and the second largest urban aggl ...

Turkey Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a list of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolia, Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with ...

. After serving as the indoor sport hall for competitions of

basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular court, compete with the primary objective of shooting a basketball (approximately in diameter) through the defender's h ...

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. It has been a part of the official program of the Summ ...

and handball for 40 years, it has been rebuilt to serve as the volleyball hall of the city and has a capacity of 6,000 people. Along with other local teams, İzmir's volleyball powerhouse Arkas plays its matches in this hall.

International events hosted

İzmir Atatürk Volleyball Hall hosted basketball games of the Universiade 2005, which was held between August 11 and 21 2005 in İzmir. It also hosted 15 games of the Group B in the preliminary round of the

Eurobasket 2005 Women The 2005 European Women Basketball Championship, commonly called Eurobasket 2005 Women, was held in Turkey between 2 September and 11 September 2005. Czech Republic won the gold medal and Russia the silver medal while Spain won the bronze. Maria ...

from September 2 to 7 2005. *

2013 FIVB Men's Junior World Championship The 2013 FIVB Volleyball Men's U21 World Championship was held in Turkey for ten days, from 22 August to 1 September 2013. This was the first edition of the tournament that features 20 teams. Competition formula The 20 teams will be divided int ...

22 August-1 September * 2015 Women's European Volleyball League - Leg 4 and 5 21-30 August 2015

References

Ministry of Youth and Sports-İzmir Region, Volleyball Section

Karşıyaka Sports Club
* Bornova Anadolu Lisesi Atatürk Volleyball Hall Indoor arenas in Turkey Volleyball venues in Turkey Sports venues completed in 1971 1971 establishments in Turkey {{Turkey-sports-venue-stub