Sakaryaspor

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Sakaryaspor
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Full nameSakaryaspor Kulübü Derneği
Founded17 June 1965
Ground New Sakarya Stadium, Adapazarı [1]
Capacity28,154 [1]
PresidentGökhan İn [1]
Head coach Mesut Bakkal
League TFF First League
2023–24 TFF First League, 3rd of 19
Website https://www.sakaryaspor.com.tr/
Soccerball current event.svg Current season

Sakaryaspor Kulübü Derneği is a Turkish professional football club playing in the TFF First League, which is the second level of Turkish football.

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History

The club was formed in 1965 after the merger of Adapazarı Gençlerbirliği, Adapazarı İdman Yurdu, Güneşspor and Ada Gençlik. The club is better known as Sakaryaspor.

The football club is nicknamed the "Football Factory" by Turkish football scene because of the many national footballers born and raised in the city. Sakarya Province has also five national top scorers (Hakan Şükür, Aykut Kocaman, Bülent Uygun, Aykut Yiğit, Ogün Altıparmak) of all time and three of them did carry the Sakaryaspor shirt. Sakaryaspor became TFF First League champions in 1980–81 and 1986–87. They accomplished this feat again at the end of the 2005–06 season. Sakaryaspor subsequently won a place in the play–off matches. After eliminating İstanbulspor in the first play–off match, Sakaryaspor went on to defeat Altay 4–1 in the finals and were promoted to the Süper Lig. They were relegated from the Süper Lig the following season.

In 1988 the team won the Turkish Cup, with some of the Turkish football legends like Oğuz Çetin, Hakan Şükür, Engin İpekoğlu and Aykut Kocaman in the squad.

In 2022, it became the champion of Turkey's third professional league, the 2st league, and was promoted to the 1st league. In the 2023-2024 season, it played the play-off final match with Bodrum Football Club.

Supporters and rivalries

Sakaryaspor fans call themselves "Tatangalar", which was founded in 1990 and means "Bisons". The name Tatanga (Tatanka) comes from the movie Dances with Wolves. The word Tatanga (plural Tatangalar) became the nickname of the club over time. Kocaelispor is considered as the archrival and the supporters have friendly ties with Göztepe.

League participations

Achievements

European participations

As of 9 November 1988
CompetitionPldWDLGFGAGD
UEFA Cup Winners' Cup 410337–4

European Cup Winners' Cup :

SeasonRoundClubHomeAwayAggregate
1988–89 1R Flag of Hungary.svg Békéscsabai 2–00–12–1
2R Flag of Germany.svg Eintracht Frankfurt 0–31–31–6

UEFA Ranking history

As of 1993
SeasonRankPointsRef.
1989204 Increase2.svg0.500 [2]
1990201 Increase2.svg0.500 [3]
1991206 Decrease2.svg0.500 [4]
1992216 Decrease2.svg0.500 [5]
1993178 Increase2.svg0.500 [6]

Current squad

As of 9 October 2024

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No.Pos.NationPlayer
1 GK Flag of Turkey.svg  TUR İsmail Çipe
3 DF Flag of Turkey.svg  TUR Erdi Dikmen
4 DF Flag of Turkey.svg  TUR Kahraman Demirtaş
5 DF Flag of Turkey.svg  TUR Bülent Uzun
7 FW Flag of Turkey.svg  TUR Emircan Altıntaş
8 MF Flag of Turkey.svg  TUR Murat Akpınar
9 FW Flag of Brazil.svg  BRA Fernando Andrade
10 MF Flag of France.svg  FRA Rayane Aabid
11 FW Flag of Turkey.svg  TUR Mustafa Pektemek
12 DF Flag of Turkey.svg  TUR Oğuzhan Çapar
14 MF Flag of Turkey.svg  TUR Emre Demir (on loan from Fenerbahçe )
17 DF Flag of Turkey.svg  TUR Engin Can Aksoy (on loan from Hatayspor )
19 DF Flag of Turkey.svg  TUR Cebrail Karayel
20 MF Flag of North Macedonia.svg  MKD Ennur Totre
21 FW Flag of Turkey.svg  TUR Miraç Asıltekin
No.Pos.NationPlayer
22 FW Flag of Turkey.svg  TUR Muhammed Ertürk
24 DF Flag of Turkey.svg  TUR Ali Uğurlu
26 FW Flag of the Republic of the Congo.svg  CGO Dylan Saint-Louis
27 FW Flag of Burkina Faso.svg  BFA Abdel Zagré
29 GK Flag of Poland.svg  POL Jakub Szumski
30 FW Flag of Turkey.svg  TUR Volkan Eğri
39 FW Flag of Germany.svg  GER Serkan Dursun
47 GK Flag of Turkey.svg  TUR Yusuf Aklan
53 FW Flag of Turkey.svg  TUR Ali Emir Kılıç
54 DF Flag of Turkey.svg  TUR Salih Dursun
61 MF Flag of Turkey.svg  TUR Temel Çakmak
66 FW Flag of Senegal.svg  SEN Mendy Mamadou (on loan from İstanbulspor )
95 MF Flag of the Republic of the Congo.svg  CGO Nsana Simon
DF Flag of Turkey.svg  TUR Arda Türken

Out on loan

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No.Pos.NationPlayer
DF Flag of Turkey.svg  TUR Umut Uzun(at Elazığspor until 30 June 2025)

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References

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