Çaykur Rizespor

Çaykur Rizespor Kulübü is a Turkish professional football club based in Rize. The club play in the TFF First League. 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]

Çaykur Rizespor

Full name	Çaykur Rize Gençlik ve Spor Kulübü Derneği^[1]
Nickname(s)	Karadeniz Atmacası (The Black Sea Sparrowhawk)
Short name	Rizespor
Founded	19 May 1953; 69 years ago (1953-05-19)
Ground	Yeni Rize Şehir Stadium
Capacity	15,558
Owner	Çaykur
Chairman	İbrahim Turgut
Manager	Bülent Korkmaz
League	TFF First League
2021–22	Süper Lig, 17th of 20 (relegated)
Website	Club website
Home colours Away colours Third colours
Current season

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 TFF First League
  • 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

• Süper Lig

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

• TFF First League

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

• 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

Players

Current squad

As of 8 September 2022

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 Tarık Çetin 3 DF   TUR Oğuz Ceylan 4 DF   TUR Koray Altınay 6 DF   TUR Eren Albayrak 7 FW   COD Yannick Bolasie 8 MF   BIH Srđan Grahovac 9 FW   CUW Anthony van den Hurk 10 FW   TUR Sefa Yılmaz 11 MF   BRA Ronaldo Mendes 13 FW   TUR Kubilay Kanatsızkuş 14 MF   NGA Azubuike Okechukwu 15 MF   TUR Eren Emre Aydın 16 DF   TUR Seyfettin Anıl Yaşar 17 FW   TUR Benhur Keser 18 DF   TUR Sinan Osmanoğlu

No. Pos. Nation Player 19 FW   TUR Deniz Hümmet 20 MF   TUR Alper Potuk 21 DF   TUR Bahadır Öztürk (on loan from Antalyaspor) 22 DF   TUR Kerem Kalafat (on loan from Beşiktaş) 25 FW   NGA Ibrahim Olawoyin 26 MF   UGA Farouk Miya 30 GK   TUR Zafer Görgen 34 MF   TUR Efe Tecimer 35 DF   TUR Alberk Koç 53 DF   TUR Emirhan Topçu (captain) 54 MF   TUR Mithat Pala 55 DF   TUR Ercan Coşkun 67 MF   ALB Enriko Papa 70 FW   TUR Emircan Altıntaş (on loan from Alanyaspor) 77 DF   TUR Gökhan Gönül

Out on loan

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

No. Pos. Nation Player — GK   TUR Gökhan Akkan (at Ankaragücü until 30 June 2023) — GK   TUR Zeki Furkan Kayalı (at Fatsa Belediyespor until 30 June 2023) — DF   TUR Aziz Aksoy (at Yeni Mersin İdmanyurdu until 30 June 2023) — DF   TUR Burak Albayrak (at Kırklarelispor until 30 June 2023) — DF   TUR Selim Ay (at Altınordu until 30 June 2023) — MF   RSA Lebogang Phiri (at Paris FC until 30 June 2023) — FW   TUR Celal Emir Dede (at Sivas Belediyespor until 30 June 2023)

No. Pos. Nation Player — FW   TUR Eren Karadağ (at Düzcespor until 30 June 2023) — FW   TUR Uğur Can Semizoğlu (at Kırıkkale Büyük Anadoluspor until 30 June 2023) — FW   TUR Mahsun Çapkan (at Batman Petrolspor until 30 June 2023) — FW   TUR İlhan Topatar (at Pazarspor until 30 June 2023) — FW   TUR Güvenç Usta (at Pazarspor until 30 June 2023) — FW   TUR Özgür Kutlu (at Pazarspor until 30 June 2023)

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 –   Bülent Korkmaz

Presidential history

As of 4 November 2021^[5]

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

References

1. "Tüzük". Caykurrizespor.org.tr. Çaykur Rize Gençlik ve Spor Kulübü Derneği. Retrieved 26 February 2016.
2. "Çaykur Didi Stadyumu". Çaykur Rizespor Official Website. Retrieved 9 August 2022.
3. "Tarihçe" [History] (in Turkish). Çaykur Rizespor. Archived from the original on 3 November 2021. Retrieved 25 June 2021.
4. "Çaykur Didi Stadyumu" [Çaykur Didi Stadiun] (in Turkish). Çaykur Rizespor. Archived from the original on 3 November 2021. Retrieved 3 November 2021.
5. "Başkanlarımız" [Our Presidents] (in Turkish). Çaykur Rizespor. Archived from the original on 4 November 2021. Retrieved 4 November 2021.

External links

• Official website
• Rizespor on TFF.org
• Rizespor