Sakaryaspor

Sakaryaspor
Full name	Sakaryaspor Kulübü Derneği
Founded	17 June 1965
Ground	New Sakarya Stadium, Adapazarı
Capacity	28,113
Owner	Sakaryaspor Club Association
President	Cumhur Genç
Manager	Serkan Özbalta
League	TFF First League
2021–22	TFF Second League, Red, 1st (promoted)
Website	Club website

Sakaryaspor Kulübü Derneği is a Turkish professional football club, 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. Currently the team is playing in the TFF Second League, which is the third level of Turkish football. 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.

Supporters

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.

League participations

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

Achievements

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

European participations

European Cup Winners' Cup:

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

Current squad

As of 16 January 2023

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	Furkan Köse
3	DF	TUR	Çağlayan Menderes
4	FW	COD	Kabongo Kasongo
5	MF	TUR	Serkan Odabaşoğlu
8	MF	TUR	Oğuz Kocabal
10	FW	TUR	Burak Süleyman
12	DF	GHA	Isaac Donkor
13	MF	BUL	Zdravko Dimitrov (on loan from Levski Sofia)
14	MF	POL	Michał Nalepa
17	DF	TUR	Hüsamettin Tut
18	MF	TUR	Hakan Yavuz
20	DF	TUR	İsmail Erdoğan
21	MF	ALB	Odise Roshi


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
22	MF	BIH	Deni Milošević (on loan from Antalyaspor)
28	FW	TUR	Kaan Çalık
30	GK	TUR	Yuşa Tığrak
35	GK	TUR	Cihan Topaloğlu
45	DF	TUR	Ruhi Yıldız
53	DF	TUR	Bülent Uzun
54	FW	TUR	Mehmet Akyüz
70	DF	TUR	Oğuz Yıldırım
75	DF	TUR	Berkay Kurubacak
77	FW	TUR	Hurşit Taşcı
80	DF	TUR	Ümit Kurt
91	FW	TUR	Alihan Gümüş

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Turkish Cup
Seasons	1962–63 1963–64 1964–65 1965–66 1966–67 1967–68 1968–69 1969–70 1970–71 1971–72 1972–73 1973–74 1974–75 1975–76 1976–77 1977–78 1978–79 1979–80 1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87 1987–88 1988–89 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95 1995–96 1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–2000 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16 2016–17 2017–18 2018–19 2019–20 2020–21 2021–22 2022–23
Finals	1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023
Winners	Galatasaray (18) Beşiktaş (10) Trabzonspor (9) Fenerbahçe (6) Altay (2) Ankaragücü (2) Gençlerbirliği (2) Göztepe (2) Kocaelispor (2) Akhisarspor (1) Bursaspor (1) Eskişehirspor (1) Kayserispor (1) Konyaspor (1) Sakaryaspor (1) Sivasspor (1)