Melih Mahmutoğlu

Melih Mahmutoğlu — Biography

Melih Mahmutoğlu is a shooting guard and the captain of Fenerbahçe, a role he has held since the 2015-16 season. With twenty club trophies he is described as the most decorated Turkish basketball player, and in July 2026 he extended his contract with Fenerbahçe for another year.

He moved from the Genç Boğaziçi youth system to Efes Pilsen's junior teams in 1999 and made his professional start with Efes's second-division side Pertevniyal; on loan at Darüşşafaka in 2008-09 he averaged 7.3 points per game. Released by Efes in 2010, he signed a two-year deal with Galatasaray and broke out on loan at Antalya in 2011-12 with 11.8 points per game. His 2012-13 season at Erdemirspor, at 12.1 points per game, drew the attention of the bigger clubs.

In 2013 he became the first Turkish player Željko Obradović brought to Fenerbahçe, and he won the league and the Presidential Cup in his first season. With the team he reached the club's first EuroLeague Final Four in 2014-15 and won the EuroLeague title in 2016-17. He won the TBL All-Star three-point contest in 2016, 2017 and 2020. On 31 January 2025 he passed 1,000 EuroLeague points against Virtus Bologna, and that season he won a second EuroLeague title together with the league and Turkish Cup for a Triple Crown. With the national team he took gold at the 2013 Mediterranean Games.