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Çaykur Rizespor

Full name	Çaykur Rize Gençlik ve Spor Kulübü Derneği
Nickname(s)	Karadeniz Atmacası (The Black Sea Sparrowhawk)
Short name	Rizespor
Founded	19 May 1953; 71 years ago (1953-05-19)
Ground	Rize City Stadium
Ground Capacity	15,558
Owner	Çaykur
Chairman	İbrahim Turgut
Manager	İlhan Palut
League	TFF First League
2021–22	Süper Lig, 17th of 20 (relegated)
Home colours Away colours Third colours

Çaykur Rizespor Kulübü is a Turkish professional football club based in Rize. The club plays in the Turkish Süper Lig. The club was founded on May 19, 1953, with green-yellow as club colours, but later changed to blue-green. Since 1990, the team has been sponsored by the Turkish tea company Çaykur, hence the name and the image of a tea leaf on the club's logo. The club plays its home games in Rize City Stadium.

History

A committee of five people—Yakup Temizel, Atıf Taviloğlu, İsmet Bilsel, Yaşar Tümbekçioğlu and Muharrem Kürkçü—founded the club on 19 May 1953 at the 34th anniversary year of the start of Independence War. The intention was to enhance the physical and cultural talents of the youth as well as to contribute to the developments of Rize. Domestic cultivation of lemon citruses and oranges labeled the club colour to be yellow and being Rize's symbol, tea gardens, represented the colour green. One of the founding members, Yaşar Dömlekçioğlu was chosen the first president of the club. During the amateur league years through 1953 to 1968, local-born players such as Ahmet Durmuş, Kenan Tiryaki, Mustafa Erol, İrfan Akaslan, Mahmut Salih Yavuz, Salih Kazancı, Ahmet Kemal Yavuz, Hamil Kazancı, Mustafa Veziroğlu, Yılmaz Özkan, Yılmaz Balta, Ahmet Fenci, Ekif Fence, Oktay Arayıcı, Abdullah Kıtır, Mustafa Kazdal, Abdullah Şeker and Ömer Çakır played for Rizespor.

With the regulation changes in 1968, the club formed a professional club structure by the association of two clubs, "Rize Güneşspor" and "Fenergençlik". The club started from the third division with the colours blue and green. At the end of a competitive season, as a result of a fight inside the game the club got punished with a forfeit as well as a deduction of 2 points which bereaved Rizespor from promotion that season. The punishment was the first time in the Turkish football history. In the coming period, the club did not get relegated and in 1978–1979, Rizespor won the title and qualified to play in the Turkish Süper Lig for the first time in the club history.

Rivalries

Çaykur Rizespor-Trabzonspor rivalry is also known as the Black Sea derby. They are considered rivals due to their geographical proximity and their shared history of competing against each other in local and regional tournaments.

Stadium

The club hosts their home games at Rize City Stadium since 2009–10 season. The opening game of the stadium was held on 12 August 2009, when Çaykur Rizespor hosted Fenerbahçe for an exhibition game.

Honours

• TFF First League:
  • Winners (3): 1978–79 (Group White), 1984–85 (Group A), 2017–18 TFF First League
  • Runners-up (3): 2002–03, 2012–13, 2022–23
  • Play-off winners (1): 1999–2000
• TFF Third League:
  • Winners (1): 1993–94 (Group 2)
  • Runners-up (2): 1973–74 (Group Red)

League participation

• Süper Lig

1979–81, 1985–89, 2000–02, 2003–08, 2013–17, 2018–22, 2023–

• TFF First League

1974–79, 1981–85, 1989–93, 1994–00, 2002–03, 2008–13, 2017–18, 2022–23

• TFF Second League

1968–74, 1993–94

European history

UEFA Intertoto Cup

Season	Round	Club	Home	Away	Aggregate
2001	2R	FK Pobeda	0–2	1–2	1–4

Kit manufacturers and shirt sponsors

Players

Current squad

No. Position Player 1 GK Tarık Çetin (3rd captain) 2 DF Husniddin Aliqulov 3 DF Halil İbrahim Pehlivan (vice-captain) 4 DF Attila Mocsi 5 DF Casper Højer (captain) 6 MF Giannis Papanikolaou 7 FW Benhur Keser 8 MF Dal Varešanović 9 FW Ali Sowe (on loan from Rostov) 10 FW Ibrahim Olawoyin 15 FW Václav Jurečka 16 DF Seyfettin Anıl Yaşar 17 FW Emrecan Bulut 18 MF Muhamed Buljubašić

No. Position Player 19 FW Rachid Ghezzal 20 MF Amir Hadžiahmetović (on loan from Beşiktaş) 27 DF Eray Korkmaz 28 FW Babajide David 30 GK Ivo Grbić (on loan from Sheffield United) 37 DF Muhammet Taha Şahin 40 GK Canberk Yurdakul 45 DF Ayberk Karapo (on loan from Manisa) 54 MF Mithat Pala 77 FW Altin Zeqiri 90 FW Martin Minchev 95 DF Habil Özbakır 97 FW Doğanay Avcı 98 DF Muhammet Mert Karaca

Out on loan

No. Position Player GK Zafer Görgen (to Bandırmaspor until 30 June 2025) DF Mustafa Şengül (to Erbaaspor until 30 June 2025) DF Aziz Aksoy (to Fethiyespor until 30 June 2025) DF Hüseyincan Kırıkcı (to Edirnespor until 30 June 2025) MF Ozan İsmail Koç (to Erbaaspor until 30 June 2025) MF Eren Emre Aydın (to 24 Erzincanspor until 30 June 2025)

No. Position Player MF Emirhan Yılmaz (to Düzcespor until 30 June 2025) MF Janne-Pekka Laine (to Esenler Erokspor until 30 June 2025) FW Mame Mor Faye (to Esenler Erokspor until 30 June 2025) FW Güvenç Usta (to Balıkesirspor until 30 June 2025) FW Efe Tecimer (to Zonguldak Kömürspor until 30 June 2025) FW Remzi Kolcuoğlu (to Kepez Spor Futbol until 30 June 2025)

Coaching history

Tenure Nationality Name 1968–69 Şenol Birol 1969–70 Ahmet Şamlıoğlu 1970–72 Minacettin Barut 1972–74 Gazanfer Olcayto 1974–75 Turgut Kafkas 1975–76 Suat Mamat 1976–77 Tekin Yolaç 1977 İlhan Uralgil 1977–78 Erdoğan Gürhan 1978–79 Gürsel Aksel 1979–80 Zeynel Soyuer 1980–81 Cevdet Soyluoğlu 1981 Halil Güngördü 1981–82 Turgut Kafkas 1982–83 Tezcan Uzcan 1983–84 Suphi Varol 1984–85 Cesarettin Alptekin 1985–86 Enver Katip 1986–87 Nedim Günar 1987–88 Fethi Demican 1988 Davut Şahin 1988–89 Adolf Remy 1989–90 Cesarettin Alptekin 1990–92 Enver Katip 1992–93 Numan Zafer Kanburoğlu 1993–95 Giray Bulak 1995–96 Kadir Özcan 1996 Ömer Kaner 1996–97 Ali Kemal Denizci 1997–98 Yaşar Elmas 1998–99 Celal Kıbrızlı 1999 Hikmet Karaman 1999–00 Cem Pamiroğlu 1 Mar 2000 – 30 Jun 2000 Rasim Kara 1 Jul 2000 – 30 Jun 2002 Karol Pecze 16 Aug 2002 – 10 Feb 2003 Fuat Yaman

Tenure Nationality Name 19 Feb 2003 – 6 Feb 2004 Hikmet Karaman 7 Feb 2004 – 24 Apr 2004 Yılmaz Vural 3 Aug 2004 – 28 Jan 2005 Rıza Çalımbay 4 Feb 2005 – 29 May 2005 Erdoğan Arıca 3 Jun 2005 – 4 Oct 2005 Metin Yıldız 7 Oct 2005 – 11 Dec 2005 Sakıp Özberk 12 Dec 2005 – 11 Sep 2006 Güvenç Kurtar 16 Sep 2006 – 18 Dec 2006 Safet Sušić 26 Dec 2006 – 19 Jun 2007 Rıza Çalımbay 20 Jun 2007 – 20 Aug 2007 Samet Aybaba 30 Aug 2007 – 31 Jan 2008 Safet Sušić 1 Feb 2008 – 28 Apr 2008 Erdoğan Arıca 2 Jun 2008 – 26 Dec 2008 Metin Diyadin 5 Jan 2009 – 7 Feb 2009 Suat Kaya 12 Feb 2009 – 11 Jun 2009 Raşit Çetiner 29 Jun 2009 – 29 Nov 2009 Oktay Çevik 3 Dec 2009 – 1 Feb 2010 Mehmet Şansal 2 Feb 2010 – 24 May 2011 Ümit Kayıhan 31 May 2011 – 12 Feb 2012 Hüseyin Kalpar 17 Feb 2012 – 10 Jun 2012 Giray Bulak 16 Jun 2012 – 9 Dec 2012 Engin Korukır 21 Dec 2012 – 24 May 2013 Mustafa Denizli 31 May 2013 – 9 Feb 2014 Rıza Çalımbay 14 Feb 2014 – 17 May 2014 Uğur Tütüneker 20 Jun 2014 – 7 Dec 2014 Mehmet Özdilek 14 Dec 2014 – 5 Oct 2017 Hikmet Karaman 6 Oct 2017 – 21 Sep 2018 İbrahim Üzülmez 24 Sep 2018 – 29 May 2019 Okan Buruk 6 Jun 2019 – 29 Feb 2020 İsmail Kartal 3 Mar 2020 – 14 Jul 2020 Ünal Karaman 7 Aug 2020 – 19 Jan 2021 Stjepan Tomas 25 Jan 2021 – 4 Mar 2021 Marius Șumudică 7 Mar 2021 – 22 Sep 2021 Bülent Uygun 24 Sep 2021 – 19 Feb 2022 Hamza Hamzaoğlu 20 Feb 2022 – 8 Jun 2023 Bülent Korkmaz 9 Jun 2023 – İlhan Palut

Presidential history

Tenure Nationality Name 21.04.1968–03.04.1973 Bahattin Coşkun 03.04.1973–07.06.1975 Reşat Uçak 07.06.1975–02.06.1978 Mustafa Zeki Rakıcıoğlu 02.06.1978–03.07.1978 Köksal Mataracı 03.07.1978–30.06.1980 Nuri Akbulut 30.06.1980–23.06.1981 Paşa Ali Alaman 23.06.1981–02.08.1981 Nuri Akbulut 02.08.1981–31.12.1983 Ali Rıza Feyiz 01.01.1984–31.12.1984 Hasan Kemal Yardımcı 01.01.1985–31.12.1985 Fehmi Ekşi 01.01.1986–31.12.1986 Servet Takış 01.01.1987–05.06.1988 Mehmet Turgut Yılmaz 05.06.1988–07.01.1989 Şadan Tuzcu 07.01.1989–02.07.1989 Şeref Keçeli 02.07.1989–10.01.1990 Ahmet Akyıldız 10.01.1990–21.05.1990 Muharrem Kürkçü 21.05.1990–23.06.1990 Hamit Oral 23.06.1990–30.03.1991 Hasan Basri Çillioğlu 30.03.1991–19.01.1992 Nejat Ural

Tenure Nationality Name 29.01.1992–14.04.1992 Süreyya Turgut 19.04.1992–30.03.1995 Tuncer Ergüven 01.04.1995–05.05.1995 Ruşen Kukul 06.05.1995–04.11.1995 Tuncer Ergüven 04.11.1995–12.01.1996 İsmail Topçu 13.01.1996–10.03.1996 Ali Baba Çillioğlu 10.03.1996–26.04.1996 Cemal Aydoğdu 26.04.1996–07.06.1997 Mehmet Cengiz 07.06.1997–20.06.1998 Mehmet Hikmet Aslankaya 20.06.1998–14.06.2002 Mehmet Cengiz 14.06.2002–08.07.2007 Ekrem Cengiz 08.07.2007–11.01.2009 Abdülkadir Çakır 11.01.2009–17.01.2010 Halim Mete 17.01.2010–08.08.2017 Metin Kalkavan 08.08.2017–24.09.2018 Hasan Kemal Yardımcı 24.09.2018–03.06.2021 Hasan Kartal 03.06.2021–20.06.2022 Tahir Kıran 20.06.2022– İbrahim Turgut

See also

In Spanish: Çaykur Rizespor Kulübü para niños