Trabzonspor (women's football)

Trabzonspor Club Women's Football Team (Turkish: Trabzonspor Kulübü Kadın Futbol Takımı) is the women's football team of Trabzonspor in Trabzon, Turkey. It was established on 16 October 2007.^[1]

Trabzonspor

Full name	Trabzonspor Kulübü Kadın Futbol Takımı
Nickname(s)	Bordo-Mavililer (Maroon-Blues) Karadeniz Firtinasi (The Black Sea Storm)
Founded	16 October 2007; 15 years ago (2007-10-16) 20 September 2021; 17 months ago (2021-09-20)
Ground	Ahmet Suat Özyazıcı Stadium
Capacity	1,188
President	Ahmet Ağaoğlu
Head coach	Özlem Önder
League	Turkish Women's Football Super League
2021–22	Turkish Women's Football Super League, 8th of 24
Website	Club website
Home colours

Right after its foundation, the team was invited to join the Turkish Women's Football Super League. However, the league was cancelled in 2003 but re-established for the 2007–08 season.^[2][3] Trabzonspor were the champions in the 2008–09 season, which was the second year of the league.^[4]

History

Foundation

The first women's football team in Trabzon was of the Karadeniz Teknik Üniversitesi (KTÜ) formed in 2001. Following this initiative, another football club in Trabzon, İdmanocağı founded its women's team basing it on the squad of Trabzon High School.^[5] However, due to inadequate interest, women's football in Trabzon did not improve.

In 2007, former KTÜ player Zeliha Şimşek and Trabzonspor's coordinator Özkan Sümer formed the team. Using their previous experiences where they had played a leading role in the foundation of a women's team within Trabzonspor, they formed the team in six weeks before the beginning of the league season.^[6] The Trabzonspor women's team competed in the first year of the women's league along with the other women's team in Trabzon, İdmanocağı.^[7]

Later years

The team played its first league match against İdmanocağı on November 18, 2007 at its home stadium Mehmet Ali Yılmaz Stadium and won by 2–0.^[1][8] However, Trabzonspor was not so successful in later matches to get out of Group C. Gazi Üniversitesispor from Ankara, which played in the same group, became champion in the 2007–08 season.^[9] With the 2008–09 season, the structure of the women's league was modified and it gained national status. Trabzonspor competed in the restructured league of ten teams^[10] and gained the champion's title with 45 points in 18 games defeating Cengiz Topelspor of Mersin by 2–0 in the last match played away.^[11]

With this achievement, Trabzonspor became the only Turkish club which was champion of both the men's and women's premier leagues.^[12]

Re-establishment

The women's football team of the club was re-established after the Turkish Football Federation formed the Turkish Women's Football Super League replacing Turkish Women's First Football League in 2021, and appealed to the major men's football clubs in the Süper Lig to participate in the women's football. The team is one of the eight new formed teams, which joined the 2021–22 Turkish Women's Football Super League for the first time.^[13][14][15]

Statistics

As of 17 December 2022^[update]

Season	League	Pos.	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
2007–08	Women's League – Div. 2 Gr. C	3	12	7	2	3	44	14	+30	23
2008–09	First League	1	18	15	0	3	41	14	+27	45
2009–10	First League	2	18	15	0	3	63	14	+49	45
2010–11	First League	5	22	13	4	5	81	32	+49	32
2021–22	Super League Gr. B	8	22	7	3	12	28	33	-5	24
2021–23	Super League Gr. B	8 (^1)	9	2	1	6	7	12	-5	7
Green marks a season followed by promotion, red a season followed by relegation.

• (¹): Season in progress

International competitions

Trabzonspor was entitled to participate in the qualifying round of the 2009–10 UEFA Women's Champions League.^[16] This was the first time a Turkish women's football team had participated in the qualifying round of the UEFA league since it was established in 2001.^[17]

The team won its first match in the Group D against ŽNK Krka from Slovenia by 2–0,^[18] however lost the following matches to Italy's Torres Calcio Femminile by 0–9^[19] and to Slovan Duslo Šaľa from Slovakia by 1–2.^[10] Trabzonspor women's team failed to participate in the 2009–2010 UEFA Champions League.^[20]

Event	Stage	Date	Venue	Opponent	Result	Scorers
2009–10 UEFA Champions League	Group D	Jul 30, 2009	Slovenia, Krško	ŽNK Krka	W 2–0	Tchkonia, Önder^[21]
		Aug 1, 2009		ASD Torres Calcio	L 0–9
		Aug 4, 2010		FK Slovan Duslo Šaľa	L 1–2	Kalyoncu^[22]

Achievements

• Turkish Women's Football Premier League:
  • Winners (1): 2008–09
  • Runners-up (1): 2009–10

Current squad

As of 17 December 2022^[update][23]

• Head coach:   Mehmet Birinci

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 27 GK   TUR Emine Gül Yılmaz 97 GK   AZE Aytaj Sharifova 3 DF   TUR Feyza Akdağ 4 DF   TUR Sedanur İnce 5 DF   KAZ Shokhista Khojasheva 12 DF   GEO Tamari Tatuashvili 13 DF   TUR Ayşe Taslak 22 DF   NGA Ijeoma Queenth Daniels 10 MF   TUR İrem Yılmaz

No. Pos. Nation Player 17 MF   TUR Arife Şentürk 23 MF   AZE Nargiz Hajiyeva 54 MF   TUR Pelin Nur Çelebi 77 MF   TUR Damla Çoban 11 FW   CGO Grâce Mfwamba 7   TUR Meryem Küçğkbirinci 9   TUR Rabia Demir 20   TUR Gizem Yazıcı 94   TUR Emine İsen

Notable former players

•   Nagehan Akşan (2008–2010)
•   Aybüke Arslan (2008–2011)
•   Çiğdem Belci (2009–2010)
•   Rose Bella( 2021–2022)
•   Gamze Bezan (2009–2011)
•   Eylül Elgalp (2010–2011)
•   Fatma Kara (2010–2011)
•   Tatiana Matveeva (2008–2011)
•   Kristina Shadoba (2008–2011)
•   Zeliha Şimşek (2007–2011)
•   Setora Takaboeva (2021–2022)
•   Khatia Tchkonia (2009–2010)
•   Cansu Yağ (2010–2011)
•   Kamila Zaripova (2021–2022)

Kit history

2009–10 home

2009–10 away

2021–22 home

2021–22 away

2021–22 alt

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