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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: 32.895) |
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| Chairman |  Sadri Şener |
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| Manager | Şenol Güneş |
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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 by a merger of four local clubs. Many of the players from these constituent teams became part of the Trabzonspor side that succeeded in winning promotion to the top division. Trabzonspor is the only club outside Istanbul to have won the Turkish title, earning a name as one of the "Big Four" alongside Beşiktaş, Fenerbahce, Galatasaray.
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Trabzonspor's establishment and claiming their "Big Four"[1] status was not easily achieved. The club was founded in two stages. In the first part, three amateur clubs İdmangücü, Karadenizgücü and Martıspor merged with extensive efforts from the İdmangücü staff. The merger was finished on June 21, 1966 and the three formed Trabzonspor. The initial kit colours of the club were red and white.
However, the merger didn't include Trabzon city's most deep-rooted sports club İdmanocağı who didn't want to join in because of several reasons. Therefore, Trabzonspor couldn't be completely incorporated with the city.
Having competed in the second division for the first time in the 1966-67 season. Trabzonspor were abolished after İdmanocağı filed a law suit to Council of State. Finally, following a lot of discussions and disputes Trabzonspor founded once again with the addition of İdmanocağı to the previous merger in August 2, 1967, this time with their famous claret red and blue colours.
Newly-formed Trabzonspor played in Turkish Second Division until 1973/74 season when they lifted the title and clinched promotion to the first division. After finishing the league ninth the following season, the club won their first major trophy, the Cyprus Peace Cup the same year.
At the end of 1975-76 season, Trabzonspor recorded a historic success by winning the first division title which was never won besides the "Üç Büyükler" clubs of İstanbul, namely Galatasaray, Fenerbahçe and Beşiktaş.
Buoyed by their outstanding achievement and new found success, Trabzonspor went on to lift the President's Cup and Prime Minister's Cup that season. This unexpected success created a big reaction throughout Turkey. Everybody was surprised and columnists even regarded Trabzonspor's success as 'just a coincidence'. Unfortunately, those comments were made without realizing the ambition, determination self-confidence and faith of the small-town club and the people of Trabzon.
Trabzonspor claimed the league title for the second consecutive time, thus forcing a change in recognition by columnists in Turkey and around the world, making more title dreams more realistic.
In the 1977-78 season Trabzonspor underachieved an finished the league second but won all the three national cups. Between 1979-1981 the club sensationally won three successive league titles and this put the Black Sea club among the top teams of the country.
Trabzonspor's last title joy dates back to 1983-84 season when they also won the Turkish Cup. Since that year, Trabzonspor have had less success winning the league title and instead have brought more glory to the club by winning the Turkish Cup in back-to-back seasons in 2003 and 2004.
Trabzonspor are not only proud of domestic successes but with some major achievements in European Cups.
Giant teams of Europe, likes of Liverpool F.C., Internazionale and FC Barcelona were beaten at Trabzonspor's spiritual home ground Hüseyin Avni Aker Stadium, without even being able to score a single goal.
Knocking Olympique Lyonnais and Aston Villa out of the UEFA Cup in the 1991-92 and 1994-95 campaigns respectively, are still considered as some of the biggest successes of the club.[2]
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, Trabzonlu Gençler, Farozlular, Vakfikebirliler, 1461 Meydan. 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 support from true fanatic supporters.
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Current Squad Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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Trobzonspor women's team was formed in 2007 and was qualified to participate in the 2007-08 Turkish Women's League. The team gained the champion's title already in the second season of the national league, in the 2008-09 Turkish Women's Premier League. Trabzonspor women's team was entitled to compete in the 2009-10 UEFA Champions League, however it lost in the preliminary qualifying round.
Trabzonspor is especially renowned for the quality of players produced through its youth ranks. In the 2004/05 season 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.
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