Çaykur Rizespor
Çaykur Rizespor Kulübü is a Turkish professional football club based in Rize. The club play in the Turkish Süper Lig, which is the top tier of football in the country. 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 Yeni Rize Şehir Stadium.[2]
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| Full name | Çaykur Rize Gençlik ve Spor Kulübü Derneği[1] | |||
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| Nickname(s) | Karadeniz Atmacası (The Black Sea Sparrowhawk) | |||
| Short name | Rizespor | |||
| Founded | 19 May 1953 | |||
| Ground | Yeni Rize Şehir Stadium | |||
| Capacity | 15,558 | |||
| Owner | Çaykur | |||
| Chairman | Tahir Kıran | |||
| Manager | Bülent Korkmaz | |||
| League | Süper Lig | |||
| 2020–21 | Süper Lig, 13th of 21 | |||
| Website | Club website | |||
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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.[3] The intention was to enhance the physical and cultural talents of the youth as well as to contribute to the developments of Rize.[3] 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.[3] 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.[3]
With the regulation changes in 1968, the club formed a professional club structure by the association of two clubs, "Rize Güneşspor" and "Fenergençlik".[3] 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.[3]
Stadium
The club hosts their home games at Yeni Rize Şehir Stadium since 2009–10 season.[4] The opening game of the stadium was held on 12 August 2009, when Çaykur Rizespor hosted Fenerbahçe for an exhibition game.[4]
Honours
- TFF First League:
- Winner (3): 1978–79 (Group White), 1984–85 (Group A), 2017–18
- Runners-up (2): 2002–2003, 2012–2013
- Play-off winners (1): 1999–2000
- TFF Third League:
- Winner (1): 1993–1994 (Group 2)
- Runners-up (2): 1973–1974 (Group Red)
League participation
- 1979–81, 1985–89, 2000–02, 2003–08, 2013–17, 2018–
- 1974–79, 1981–85, 1989–93, 1994–00, 2002–03, 2008–13, 2017–18
- 1968–74, 1993–94
Players
Current squad
- As of 4 February, 2022[5]
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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Out on loan
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Coaching history
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Presidential history
- As of 4 November 2021[6]
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References
- "Tüzük". Caykurrizespor.org.tr. Çaykur Rize Gençlik ve Spor Kulübü Derneği. Retrieved 26 February 2016.
- "Tarihçe". Çaykur Rizespor Official Website. Retrieved 7 May 2015.
- "Tarihçe" [History] (in Turkish). Çaykur Rizespor. Archived from the original on 3 November 2021. Retrieved 25 June 2021.
- "Çaykur Didi Stadyumu" [Çaykur Didi Stadiun] (in Turkish). Çaykur Rizespor. Archived from the original on 3 November 2021. Retrieved 3 November 2021.
- "A Takımımız" [Our Team-A] (in Turkish). Çaykur Rizespor. 11 November 2021.
- "Başkanlarımız" [Our Presidents] (in Turkish). Çaykur Rizespor. Archived from the original on 4 November 2021. Retrieved 4 November 2021.