The Baskent Knights is an american football

American football

American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...

 team based in Ankara

Ankara

Ankara is the capital of Turkey and the country's second largest city after Istanbul. The city has a mean elevation of , and as of 2010 the metropolitan area in the entire Ankara Province had a population of 4.4 million....

, Turkey

Turkey

Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...

. It was established under the name of Başkent University

Baskent University

Başkent University was founded on January 13, 1994 by Prof. Dr. Mehmet Haberal. The University center is located in Ankara and also has Medical and Research Centers and Dialysis Centers all around Turkey.-History:...

 on 1998. Baskent Knights is a university team, which is not under a management of any private sports club facility.

History

Baskent Knights was founded on 1998 with the efforts of Gokhan Bilgesu. Gokhan Bilgesu, who played college football for Gazi University

Gazi University

Gazi University is a public university primarily located in Ankara, Turkey.It was established in 1926 by Kemal Atatürk as Gazi Teacher Training Institute...

 football team for two years, decided to establish a new college football team to generalize football in Turkey

Turkey

Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...

. He established the football team under the control of the Athletics department of Baskent University and named this team as "Knights". Then, he started his coaching career in Baskent Knights on 1998. After the foundation of Baskent Knights, this team played football without protective equipments for three years and after 2001 with the efforts of all new players they brought football equipments to their team and by these efforts they were being the second fully equipped football team of their country. After the reaction of Baskent Knights the other 15 college teams also started to bring those protective equipments to their teams. On the year of 2002, the first standard college football season was played with the contribution of five teams including Baskent Knights.

Colors

Baskent Knights used Navy Blue-Grey-White colors until 2004. In 2004, players changed its color to Navy Blue-White-Orange and at the same year, the team changed their old logo to the current logo.

Location

Baskent Knights is a standard college football

College football

College football refers to American football played by teams of student athletes fielded by American universities, colleges, and military academies, or Canadian football played by teams of student athletes fielded by Canadian universities...

 team, which resumes their athletics facilities under the name of Baskent University

Baskent University

Başkent University was founded on January 13, 1994 by Prof. Dr. Mehmet Haberal. The University center is located in Ankara and also has Medical and Research Centers and Dialysis Centers all around Turkey.-History:...

and plays in the 1st college league conference in Turkey.