Sakaryaspor

Sakaryaspor

Full name	Sakaryaspor Kulübü Derneği
Founded	17 June 1965
Ground	New Sakarya Stadium, Adapazarı[1]
Capacity	28,113[1]
President	Cumhur Genç[1]
Head coach	Mesut Bakkal
League	TFF First League
2023–24	TFF First League, 3rd of 18
Website	https://www.sakaryaspor.com.tr/
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.

In 2022, it became the champion of Turkey's third professional league, the 2st league, and was promoted to the 1st league. In the 2023-2024 season, it played the play-off final match with Bodrum Football Club.

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 9 October 2024

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. 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  TUR Emircan Altıntaş 9 FW  BRA Fernando Andrade 10 MF  FRA Rayane Aabid 12 DF  TUR Oğuzhan Çapar 14 MF  TUR Emre Demir (on loan from Fenerbahçe) 17 DF  TUR Engin Can Aksoy (on loan from Hatayspor) 20 MF  MKD Ennur Totre

No. Pos. Nation Player 22 FW  TUR Muhammed Ertürk 24 DF  TUR Uğurhan Uğurlu 26 FW  CGO Dylan Saint-Louis 29 GK  POL Jakub Szumski 30 FW  TUR Volkan Eğri 53 FW  TUR Ali Emir Kılıç 54 DF  TUR Salih Dursun 61 MF  TUR Temel Çakmak 66 FW  SEN Mendy Mamadou (on loan from İstanbulspor) 95 MF  CGO Nsana Simon 99 MF  TUR Alparslan Demir

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

No. Pos. Nation Player — DF  TUR Umut Uzun (at Elazığspor until 30 June 2025)

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Sakaryaspor.

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• Sakaryaspor on TFF.org