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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; 65 years ago (1953-05-19)
Ground	Yeni Rize Şehir Stadium
Capacity	15,558
Owner	Çaykur
Chairman	Hasan Kartal
Coach	Okan Buruk
League	Süper Lig
2017–18	TFF First League, 1st
Website	Club website
Home colours Away colours Third colours

Çaykur Rizespor Kulübü is a professional football club based in Rize, Turkey. 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]

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. The intention was to enhance the physical and cultural talents of the youth as well as to contribute to the developments of Rize.^[2]
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.^[2] One of the founding members, Yaşar Dömlekçioğlu was chosen the first president of the club.

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.
With the regulation changes in 1968, the club formed a professional club structure by the association of two clubs, Rize Güneşspor and Fenergençlik.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.^[2]

Firsts in the history of Rizespor

First transfers

Rizespor spent 367 thousand liras to transfer Mehdi Taremi9 and Ramin Rezaeian Alves in Persepolis Iran Salim, Rasim, Mustafa, Sabahattin (Erzincan Şekerspor), Ahmet, Atilla (Giresunspor), Hakkı, Yücel (Rizegücü), Ahmet (Petrol Ofisi Spor), Salih (Kastamonuspor), Mustafa (Samsunspor), İbrahim (Trabzonspor), Tuncay, Yüksel (Sarıyer), Şenol (Beşiktaş), Cevat, Kadir, B.Cevat, Enver, Lokman (Rize Çayspor). Rizespor paid a monthly wage of 10 thousand liras.^[2]

First manager

Şenol Birol got hired as the first manager of the club. He was in manager/player status.

Facilities

Since 2008 Mehmet Cengiz Sosyal Tesisleri are the facilities of Rizespor. The facilities function as accommodation and sports centre within European standards.^[3]

Competitions

• Süper Lig

1979–81, 1985–89, 2000–02, 2003–08, 2013–

• TFF First League

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

• 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

^[4]Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player 1 GK Samir Ujkani 2 DF Armand Traoré 3 DF Montassar Talbi 5 MF Abdullah Durak 6 MF Robin Yalçın 7 DF Jarosław Jach (on loan from Crystal Palace) 8 MF Davide Petrucci 9 FW Oleksandr Hladkyy 10 MF Fernando Boldrin (on loan from Kayserispor) 11 MF Mustafa Saymak 12 GK Gürkan Hervenik 14 DF Jakub Brabec (on loan from Genk) 17 MF Marwane Saâdane 18 FW Braian Samudio

No. Position Player 20 MF Süleyman Koç 21 MF Ali Çamdalı (captain) 22 DF Emir Han Topçu 23 GK Gökhan Akkan 25 GK Cihan Topaloğlu 27 DF Matic Fink 34 MF Çınar Tarhan 35 MF Musa Çağıran (on loan from Osmanlıspor) 44 DF Koray Altınay 50 MF Aminu Umar (on loan from Osmanlıspor) 54 DF Mehmet Uslu 77 DF Orhan Ovacıklı 94 FW Vedat Muriqi

Managers

Manager Years Şenol Birol 1968–69 Ahmet Şamlıoğlu 1969–70 Minacettin Barut 1970–72 Gazanfer Olcayto 1972–74 Turgut Kafkas 1974–75 Suat Mamat 1975–76 Tekin Yolaç 1976–77 İlhan Uralgil 1977 Erdoğan Gürhan 1977–78 Gürsel Aksel 1978–79 Zeynel Soyuer 1979–80 Cevdet Soyluoğlu 1980–81 Halil Güngördü 1981 Turgut Kafkas 1981–82 Tezcan Uzcan 1982–83 Suphi Varol 1983–84 Cesarettin Alptekin 1984–85 Enver Katip 1985–86 Nedim Günar 1986–87 Fethi Demican 1987–88 Davut Şahin 1988 Adolf Remy 1988–89 Cesarettin Alptekin 1989–90 Enver Katip 1990–92 Numan Zafer Kanburoğlu 1992–93 Giray Bulak 1993–95 Ömer Kadri Özcan 1995–96 Ömer Kaner 1996 Ali Kemal Denizci 1996–97 Yaşar Elmas 1997–98 Celal Kıbrızlı 1998–99 Hikmet Karaman 1999

Manager Years Cem Pamiroğlu 1999–00 Rasim Kara 29 Feb 2000 – 30 April 2000 Karol Pecze 30 June 2000 – 30 April 2002 Fuat Yaman 2002–03 Hikmet Karaman 1 July 2003 – 30 June 2004 Yılmaz Vural 5 Feb 2004 – 31 March 2004 Rıza Çalımbay 1 June 2004 – 31 Jan 2005 Erdoğan Arıca 1 Feb 2005 – 30 June 2005 Metin Yıldız 31 July 2005 – 30 Sept 2005 Sakıp Özberk 7 Oct 2005 – 12 Dec 2005 Güvenç Kurtar 12 Dec 2005 – 11 Sept 2006 Safet Sušić 15 Sept 2006 – 18 Dec 2006 Rıza Çalımbay 26 Dec 2006 – 19 June 2007 Samet Aybaba 20 June 2007 – 20 Aug 2007 Safet Sušić 30 Aug 2007 – 31 Jan 2008 Erdoğan Arıca 1 Feb 2008 – 28 April 2008 Metin Diyadin 2 June 2008 – 26 Dec 2008 Suat Kaya 5 Jan 2009 – 7 Feb 2009 Raşit Çetiner 12 Feb 2009 – 11 June 2009 Hasan Vezir 29 June 2009 – 29 Nov 2009 Oktay Çevik 29 June 2009 – 29 Nov 2009 Mehmet Şansal 3 Dec 2009 – 1 Feb 2010 Ümit Kayıhan 2 Feb 2010 – 24 May 2011 Hüseyin Kalpar 31 May 2011 – 12 Feb 2012 Giray Bulak 17 Feb 2012 – 10 June 2012 Engin Korukır 16 June 2012 – 9 Dec 2012 Mustafa Denizli 21 Dec 2012 – 24 May 2013 Rıza Çalımbay 31 May 2013 – 9 Feb 2014 Uğur Tütüneker 14 Feb 2014 – 17 May 2014 Mehmet Özdilek 20 June 2014 – 7 Dec 2014 Hikmet Karaman 14 Dec 2014 – 5 Oct 2017 İbrahim Üzülmez 6 Oct 2017 – 21 Sept 2018 Okan Buruk 24 Sept 2018 –

Presidents

References

External links

• Official website


• Rizesporlular.com