Sakaryaspor

Sakaryaspor

Full name	Sakaryaspor Kulübü Derneği
Founded	17 June 1965
Ground	New Sakarya Stadium, Adapazarı[1]
Capacity	28,154[1]
President	Cumhur Genç[1]
Head coach	Coşkun Demirbakan
League	TFF First League
2022–23	TFF First League, 5th of 19
Website	Club website
Home colours Away colours Third colours
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.

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.

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.

• Turkish Super League: 1981–86, 1987–90, 1998–99, 2004–05, 2006–07
• TFF First League: 1965–81, 1986–87, 1990–98, 1999–04, 2005–06, 2007–09, 2011–12, 2022–
• TFF Second League: 2009–11, 2012–13, 2017–2022
• TFF Third League: 2013–17

• Second League Category A:
  • Winners (2): 2004, 2006
• Second League:
  • Winners (2): 1998, 2011
• Third League:
  • Winners (1): 2017
• Turkish Cup:
  • Winners (1): 1988

As of 9 November 1988

European Cup Winners' Cup:

Season	Round	Club	Home	Away	Aggregate
1988–89	1R	Békéscsabai	2–0	0–1	2–1
	2R	Eintracht Frankfurt	0–3	1–3	1–6

As of 1993

Season	Rank	Points	Ref.
1989	204	0.500	[2]
1990	201	0.500	[3]
1991	206	0.500	[4]
1992	216	0.500	[5]
1993	178	0.500	[6]

As of 10 August, 2024

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  TUR İsmail Çipe 3 DF  TUR Erdi Dikmen 4 DF  TUR Kahraman Demirtaş 5 DF  TUR Bülent Uzun 7 FW  CIV Max Gradel 8 MF  TUR Murat Cem Akpınar 9 FW  BRA Fernando Andrade 10 MF  FRA Rayane Aabid 11 FW  TUR Mustafa Pektemek 14 MF  TUR Emre Demir (on loan from Fenerbahçe) 17 DF  TUR Engin Can Aksoy (on loan from Hatayspor) 19 DF  TUR Cebrail Karayel 21 FW  TUR Miraç Asıltekin

No. Pos. Nation Player 22 FW  TUR Muhammed Ertürk 27 FW  BFA Abdel Zagré 29 GK  POL Jakub Szumski 30 FW  TUR Volkan Eğri 54 DF  TUR Salih Dursun 61 MF  TUR Temel Çakmak — DF  TUR Alper Uludağ — FW  CMR Didier Lamkel Zé — GK  TUR Yusuf Aklan — MF  TUR Serdar Arslan — DF  TUR Arda Türken — DF  TUR Rıdvan Emanetoğlu — MF  CGO Nsana Simon

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

• Official website
• Sakaryaspor on TFF.org