Çaykur Rizespor

Çaykur Rizespor

Full name	Çaykur Rizespor Kulübü
Nickname(s)	Karadeniz Atmacası (The Black Sea Sparrowhawk)
Founded	1953
Ground	Yeni Rize Şehir Stadı Rize, Turkey (Capacity: 15,485)
Chairman	Metin Kalkavan
Manager	Hüseyin Kalpar
League	TFF First League
2010–11	TFF First League, 4th
Home colours Away colours

Çaykur Rizespor is a Turkish sports club based in Rize. Çaykur Rizespor is currently playing in the TFF First League. The club was founded in 1953 in green-yellow colours and had professionalship status in 1968 as Rizespor and changed its colours 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.

Current squad

As of 5 February, 2012. Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player 1 GK Ramazan Kurşunlu 4 DF Aytek Aşıkoğlu 5 DF Sezer Özmen (on loan from Beşiktaş) 6 DF Mesut Yılmaz 7 FW Mehmet Al 8 MF Cumhur Yılmaztürk 10 MF Gökhan Öztürk (on loan from Gaziantepspor) 11 MF Caner Öztel 14 DF Engin Aktürk 18 MF Fahri Tatan 19 MF Hair Zeqiri 20 FW Çağrı Yarkın 21 MF Cumali Bişi (on loan from Beşiktaş)

No. Position Player 22 FW Ousman Jallow 24 FW Brice Bikoko 29 DF Sahinali Terzi 34 MF Cenk Ahmet Alkılıç 35 DF Murat Sözgelmez 38 MF Ramazan Durdu 39 MF Erkan Kaş (on loan from Beşiktaş) 44 DF Osman Fırat 53 FW Murat Hacıoğlu 55 GK Mahmut Öksüz 88 GK Selçuk Görmüş 93 MF Hasan Köse 99 GK Mehmet Tunc

Club logo

Rizespor becoming Çaykur Rizespor, ahead of the 1990–91 season.

Notable players

Albania

• Klodian Duro

Bulgaria

• Zdravko Zdravkov

Cameroon

• Nicolas Alnoudji

France

• Ibrahim Ba

Egypt

• Besheer El-Tabei
• Ayman Abdelaziz

Germany

• Erhan Albayrak
• Jürgen Pahl

Netherlands

• Suat Usta

United States

• Freddy Adu

Turkey

• Altan Aksoy
• Ünal Alpuğan
• Koray Avcı
• Devran Ayhan
• Yasin Çakmak
• Murat Ceylan
• Ali Kemal Denizci
• Osman Denizci
• Arif Kocabıyık
• Kemalettin Şentürk
• Fahri Tatan
• Hakan Tecimer
• Hasan Vezir

Local participitations

Turkcell Super League

1979-81, 1985-89, 2000-02, 2003-08

Turkey 2.League

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

Turkey 3.League

1968-74, 1993-94

European history

Intertoto Cup:

Season	Round	Country	Club	Home	Away	Aggregate
2001	2R		FK Pobeda	0–2	1–2	1–4

Presidents

• Metin Kalkavan ( )
• Halim Mete ( )
• Abdülkadir Çakır (08.07.2007 - .......)
• Ekrem Cengiz (14.06.2002 - 08.07.2007)
• Mehmet Cengiz (20.06.1998 - 14.06.2002)
• Mehmet Hikmet Aslankaya (07.06.1997 - 20.06.1998)
• Mehmet Cengiz (26.04.1996 - 07.06.1997)
• Cemal Aydoğdu (10.03.1996 - 26.04.1996)
• Ali Baba Çillioğlu (13.01.1996 - 10.03.1996)
• İsmail Topçu (04.11.1995 - 12.01.1996)
• Tuncer Ergüven (06.05.1995 - 04.11.1995)

• Ruşen Kukul (01.04.1995 - 05.05.1995)
• Tuncer Ergüven (19.04.1992 - 30.03.1995)
• Süreyya Turgut (19.01.1992 - 14.04.1992)
• Nejat Ural (30.03.1991 - 19.01.1992)
• Hasan Basri Çillioğlu (23.06.1990 - 30.03.1991)
• Hamit Oral (21.05.1990 - 23.06.1990)
• Muharrem Kürkçü (10.01.1990 - 21.05.1990)
• Ahmet AkyıldIz (02.07.1989 - 10.01.1990)
• Şeref Keçeli (07.01.1989 - 02.07.1989)
• Şadan Tuzcu (05.06.1988 - 07.01.1989)
• M. Turgut Yılmaz (01.01.1987 - 05.06.1988)

• Servet Takış (01.01.1986 - 31.12.1986)
• Fehmi Ekşi (01.01.1985 - 31.12.1985)
• Hasan Kemal Yardımcı (01.01.1984 - 31.12.1984)
• Ali Rıza Feyiz (02.08.1981 - 31.12.1983)
• Nuri Akbulut (23.06.1981 - 02.08.1981)
• Paşa Ali Alaman (30.06.1980 - 23.06.1981)
• Nuri Akbulut (03.07.1978 - 30.06.1980)
• Köksal Mataracı (02.06.1978 - 03.07.1978)
• Mustafa Zeki Rakıcıoğlu (07.06.1975 - 02.06.1978)
• Reşat Uçak (03.04.1973 - 07.06.1975)
• Bahattin Coşkun (21.04.1968 - 03.04.1973)

External links

• Official Website
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