Trabzonspor
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| Full name | Trabzonspor Kulübü | |||
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| Nickname(s) | Bordo-Mavililer (Maroon-Blues) Karadeniz Firtinasi (The Black Sea Storm) |
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| Founded | 1967 | |||
| Ground | Huseyin Avni Aker Stadium, Trabzon (Capacity: 31,000) |
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| Chairman |  Sadri Şener |
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| Manager |  Hugo Broos |
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| League | Süper Lig | |||
| 2008-09 | Süper Lig, 3rd | |||
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Trabzonspor is a Turkish football club, from the Black Sea port city of Trabzon playing in the Süper Lig.
Trabzonspor was formed in 1967 in a merger of two local clubs. Many of the players from these teams became part of the team to win promotion to the top division, and helped Trabzonspor in their early years in the top flight. Trabzonspor is the only club outside Istanbul to have won the Turkish title, earning a name as one of the "Big Four" alongside Fenerbahce, Galatasaray, Beşiktaş. Trabzonspor's nicknames are the "Burgundy Blues" and the "Black Sea storm".
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[edit] History
[edit] Formation
At this time the Turkish Football Federation (TFF) is encouraging local teams in the same city to merge into one, in order to ensure competitiveness in Turkish football. Trabzon had an extremely competitive league dating back to the 1920s, and there was little love between intense rivals who had been vying for the title for so long. The most intense rivalry was between the two most successful sides, Idmangücü and Idmanocaĝi. Ultimately it was these two teams which were responsible for the many delays during Trabzonspors formation. When the TFF saw that they had no intention of joining together with the others, they were threatened with punishment. The last big hurdle was choosing the colors of the new club. After many disagreements, the colors of burgundy and blue were chosen and Trabzonspor was formed.
There was a great rivalry between Idmangucu and Idmanyurdu. which divided the city into two groups, the supporters of Idmangucu and the supporters of Idmanocagi. This charged atmosphere lead the to the rise of many new local players with each team trying to top the other.
The foundation of the Trabzon Training Society Alliance (Trabzon Idman Cemiyetleri Ittifaki) greatly affected Trabzon. In the coming years many new clubs like Idmanocagi, Idman gucu, and Necmiati, Trabzon Lisesi were founded, raising the number of clubs operating in the city to 4.The first organized game took place in 1923 with Idmanocagi taking the championship. They were champions again in 23-24, 24-25 seasons. By the end of 1929 other teams such as Lise, Muallim Mektebi and Ticaret Lisesi had grabbed a championship title.
The 1940s signaled the rise of High School Clubs.During these years 6 respective championships were taken by the High school Teams. Many of the new players took their start in High school clubs. After 1947-48 season championship was changing hands between Idmanocagi and Idmangucu. Within Necmiati also recovering two championships. Several new clubs were also established Dogan Genclik (est 1938) Akcaabat Genclik (est. 1941) Surmene Genclik (est 1950) Zafer Genclik (est. 1952) Yolspor (1953) Yalispor (est. 1955).
The rivalry was so deep that Ocak fans were supporting Galatasaray because of its Yellow-Red colors, and Idmangucu fans were supporting Fenerbahce, despite the fact that their colors were Green-White. Necmiati was out of this rivalry even though they had Yellow-Dark Blue colors, which resemble the colors of Fenerbahçe. Actually Trabzon football was the winner of this rivalry. First of all the passion for football was strong in the city. This rivalry lead great football stars to rise in Trabzon. Immigration, which was the destiny of Trabzon people has also effected the Trabzon football. Most of the stars left the city for receiving a higher education. They were really great stars in Istanbul and Ankara where they were going to school. Hasan Polat and his brother Ali Polat in Ankara Genclerbirligi, Selim Satiroglu, Ahmet Karlikli in Galatasaray, Taka Naci, Zekeriya Bali in Fenerbahce, Nazim Bilge in Besiktas were the football stars.
It was being planned to found a “City Team” in all the cities of the country. Football Federation Manager Orhan Seref Apak has begun on a project to make the football league more powerful and spreading the football to whole nation. Trabzon was also included in this project, however it was very hard to set a football club in Trabzon. The rivalry between Idmangucu and Idmanocagi was so strong that convincing these clubs to unify as a single city club was impossible. The efforts of a few idealists trying to accomplish this goal was fruitless.
The people of Trabzon wanted to set the team name as Trabzonspor but they were also felt the insecurity for not being able to succeed this. The officers were also not be able to end this. Ocak and Guclu fans wanted their names and their colors in this newly founded club. The meetings took days and nights, but even minor details caused huge problems. Gun shots were common in the meetings, therefore few meetings ended at the police department. On the other hand, Football Federation's deadline for “setting a city team” was approaching.
On 21 June 1966 Idmanocagi, Martispor, and Yildizspor have attended under the name of Idmanocagi and with the yellow-red colors to the second league. But the official attendance letter was not sent in the time, so Idmanocagi couldn’t play in second league. On 20 July 1966 Idmangucu, Karadenizgucu, Martispor and Yolspor unified under the name of Trabzonspor with the color of red-white to attend to the second league. But Idmanocagi gave this decision to the higher court of ‘Danistay’ and Danistay stopped the ability of trabzonspor to attend to the second league. After this stressful situation Ulvi Yenal (The body training general manager of that time) declared that these two clubs wouldn’t be taken to the second league if they didn’t got unified. This was a shock in Trabzon and in these clubs. Trabzon would not be able to be represented in Turkish National Leagues if these teams couldn’t manage to unify. After the intense meetings and debates in Trabzon, on 2 August 1967 unification was successful. Trabzonspor was founded with the attendance of Idmanocagi, Idmangucu, Karadenizgucu and Martospor.
After the official declaration it was time to determine the colors of Trabzonspor. It was not easy to find colors. Yellow-red and Green-white were the dominant colors in Trabzon football. So the colors could not be one of those. The search began to find colors which would represent Trabzon and Karadeniz. It was planned to open a contest for the colors but then it was cancelled. Four meetings to determine the colours were out of result and the pressure was high for the fifth meeting, local people were also impatient about result. Finally Hamsi Anchovy was the focus. The silvery blue of Hamsi and the ruby red of its eyes were taken central. Because Idmanocagi has a color of red, to be fair The ruby red was consciously held darker.So the color debate for a week has finalized into the color for trabzonspor as Ruby red and Blue.
[edit] Early years
Featuring many of the players that played for the local teams and joined together to form Trabzonspor, the early years were particularly successful. In the season 1973/74, Trabzonspor were promoted to the Turkish Premier Super League.
In a nine year period from the season 1975/76, Trabzonspor managed to win the league six times, and the Turkish Cup three times. In the seasons they didn't finish first, they came second. Some of the most successful names in Turkish football history can be found in the Trabzonspor team of the late 1970s and early 1980s. Şenol Güneş, Aydin Karbuz, Turgay Semercioğlu, Necmi Perekli, and Ali Kemal Denizci are some of the best remembered names from this period. Many of the Trabzonspor players at the time also represented the national team.
[edit] Later years
After the successful period of the late 70's and early 80's Trabzonspor became decidedly less successful. Some trace this back to the selling off of key players to the bigger Istanbul clubs and the poor record on transfers. The closest Trabzonspor came to winning the championship was in 1995-96, when they were on course to win the championship, until a home defeat by Fenerbahçe ruined the dream of reclaiming the title. The increasing reliance of the bigger teams on money from satellite coverage and income from fans and European games meant that Trabzonspor was falling behind the bigger Istanbul teams in terms of its ability to buy better players and attract bigger crowds. However, the concentration on local players and carefully scouted foreign players has started to show a marked improvement over the days of the late 1990s, when the club was known for an extremely high turnover of players that contributed to its lack of success. In 2003-04 the club finished second, pushing Fenerbahçe until the penultimate week, when a home defeat to Galatasaray ended their challenge. However, they have still managed to win the Turkish Cup on several occasions. The recent triumphs in 2003 and 2004 show that Trabzonspor still has the talent to win trophies. The recent improvement of the team shows that Trabzonspor now has several members of the national team in its playing squad, as well as at least four international footballers who represent their respective countries.
[edit] Trabzonspor in Europe
Trabzonspor saw some European success with coaches like Ozkan Sumer and Ahmet Suat Ozyazici beating the teams likes of Internazionale, Liverpool, and FC Barcelona. In the 2004-05 season they were robbed of a place in the Champions League by Dinamo Kiev after a 2-0 loss while they won before 2-1 in Kiev. In the 2005-06 they again failed to reach the Champions League after it lost out to Anorthosis Famagusta, in a heated 2nd Round qualifying match. This was a significant moment for Cypriot football due to the difference in size and wealth of the clubs.
[edit] Achievements
- Turkish Super League:
- Winners (6): 1975-76, 1976-77, 1978-79, 1979-80, 1980-81, 1983-84
- Runners-up (7): 1977-78, 1981-82, 1982-83, 1994-95, 1995-96, 2003-04, 2004-2005
- Turkish Cup:
- Winners (7): 1976-77, 1977-78, 1983-84, 1991-92, 1994-95, 2002-2003, 2003-04
- Runners-up (3): 1984-85, 1989-90, 1996-97
- President Cup:
- Winners (7): 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1983, 1995
- Runners-up (3): 1981, 1984, 1992
- Chancellor Cup:
- Winners (5): 1975-76, 1977-78, 1984-85, 1993-94, 1995-96
- Runners-up (6): 1974-75, 1989-90, 1990-91, 1992-93, 1996-97, 1997-98
[edit] Supporters
Although a large part of Trabzonspor's support is drawn from the local Trabzon population, they remain immensely well supported in the rest of Turkey. This is mainly due to their being the only team to break the Istanbul teams domination of the league.
They have supporting groups such as Gubertci Gencler, Cilginlar, Affetmezler, Farozlular. These groups often receive free tickets to Trabzonspor's games and they also have many people involved in the group, which helps Trabzonspor to have more suppourt from true fanatic supporters.
[edit] Current squad
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(*) Starred players have dual citizenship.
For recent transfers, see List of Turkish football transfers 2008-09.
[edit] Out on loan
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[edit] Current Ladies' squad
Trabzonspor B.S.K. is founded on 2008 and champions it's first season.The team goes the UEFA Women's Champions League.
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[edit] Youth academy
Trabzonspor is especially renowned for the quality of players produced through its youth ranks. In the season 2004/05 Trabzonspor featured no less than four Turkey internationals who had been raised through the youth teams. These were Gökdeniz Karadeniz, Fatih Tekke, Hüseyin Çimşir, Mehmet Yilmaz, Barış Memiş and Göksu Alhas.
