Fenerbahçe S.K. A2

Fenerbahçe S.K. A2

Full name	Fenerbahçe S.K. A2
Nickname(s)	Sarı Kanaryalar (The yellow canaries)
Founded	1907
Ground	Lefter Küçükandonyadis Facilities (Capacity: 2.000)
Chairman	Aziz Yıldırım
Manager	Şenol Çorlu
League	A2 League
Home colours Away colours Third colours

Active departments of Fenerbahçe
The Club	Athletics	Basketball (Men's)
Basketball (Women's)	Boxing	Football
Rowing	Sailing	Swimming
Table Tennis	Volleyball (Men's)	Volleyball (Women's)

Fenerbahçe S.K. A2 is the under-20 squad of Fenerbahçe S.K. They play in the Turkish A2 league, along with fellow A2 teams from other clubs. The team consists mainly of players between ages of eighteen and twenty. Players over the age of twenty are ineligible to play for the team. This means in practice, a player in the A2 team who is twenty-one is removed from the A2 squad and promoted to the senior squad. The head coach of the A2 team is Şenol Çorlu. Fenerbahçe is the first and only Turkish football team in Turkey to win a championship with 11 players promoted from A2 to the senior squad, this happened in the early 1920s.

Fenerbahçe S.K. youth sections also runs numerous other youth teams, including:

• A2 (Super Youth Team), ages 18 to 21.
• Süper Genç (Super Youth Team), ages 16 to 18.
• B Genç Takımı (B Youth Team), ages 14 to 16.
• Yıldız Takım (Star Team), ages 12 to 14.
• Minik Takım (Junior Team), ages 10 to 12.

A2 squad

Current squad

According to the public data; correct as of January 2011; U17/U18 players sometimes appear in A2 squad are described in brackets; (*):Current player in senior [A] team squad

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 DF Erten Ersu * GK Aykut Kıratlı GK Hüseyin Günnü GK İsmet Yumakoğulları (U18) GK Emre Özkaya (U18) GK Murat Hocaoğlu (U17) DF Ömer Kandemir DF Bilal Niyaz DF Hakan Cinemre (U18) DF Berkaycan Değirmencioğlu DF Zeki Yıldıray Çınar DF Furkan Taşdemir (U17) DF Devrimcan Beyaz DF Oğuz Çetinkaya

No. Position Player MF Gökay Iravul * MF Mazlum Aslan MF Uygar Mert Zeybek (U17/U18) MF Ömür Günaydın (U17/U18) MF Kerem Çağatay (U18) MF Oğuz Mataracı (U18) MF Samet Pişkin MF Alicivan Düzova MF Görkem Kulbay MF Mehmet Topçu MF İlyas Yılmazer MF Emrah Akar (U18) MF Muhammed Akarslan (U17) FW Recep Niyaz * FW Emre Kara FW Beykan Şimşek FW Ünal Noyan MF M. Eren Yeniçeri (U18)

compiled and edited by Levent Özgül

Notable players

Active players

• Current Fenerbahçe S.K. A team players:
  • Erten Ersu – currently plays for Fenerbahçe SK
  • Mert Günok – currently plays for Fenerbahçe SK
  • Gökay Iravul – currently plays for Fenerbahçe SK
  • Semih Şentürk – currently plays for Fenerbahçe SK
  • Recep Niyaz – currently plays for Fenerbahçe SK
  • Özgür Çek – currently plays for Fenerbahçe SK

• Current Fenerbahçe S.K. players who plays out on loan:
  • Berk Elitez – currently plays for Kayseri Erciyesspor on loan from Fenerbahçe SK
  • Hasan Erbey – currently plays for Konya Torku Şekerspor on loan from Fenerbahçe SK
  • Ertuğrul Taşkıran – currently plays for Samsunspor on loan from Fenerbahçe SK
  • Okan Alkan – currently plays for Kayserispor on loan from Fenerbahçe SK
  • Furkan Aydın – currently plays for Bozüyükspor on loan from Fenerbahçe SK
  • Volkan Babacan – currently plays for Manisaspor on loan from Fenerbahçe SK
  • Onur Karakabak – currently plays for Manisaspor on loan from Fenerbahçe SK
  • İsmail Aslan - currently plays for Giresunspor on loan from Fenerbahçe SK
  • Berkay Öztuvan - currently plays for Giresunspor on loan from Fenerbahçe SK

• Current active players who plays for another teams:
  • Can Arat – currently plays for İstanbul Büyükşehir Belediyespor
  • Ilgar Gurbanov – currently plays for Mersin İdmanyurdu
  • Gürhan Gürsoy – currently plays for Bugsaş Spor
  • Umut Güzelses – currently plays for Hacettepe Spor Kulübü
  • Efe İnanç – currently plays and captain for İstanbul Büyükşehir Belediyespor
  • İskender Alan – currently plays and captain for İstanbul Büyükşehir Belediyespor
  • Bilal Kısa – currently plays for Karşıyaka S.K.
  • Serkan Özsoy – currently plays for Kartalspor
  • Fahri Tatan – currently plays for Eskişehirspor
  • Onur Tuncer – currently plays for Orduspor
  • Olcan Adın – currently plays for Trabzonspor
  • Abdülkadir Kayalı – currently plays for Orduspor

Retired players

• Can Bartu – played for Fenerbahçe SK as basketballer and footballer
• Cem Pamiroğlu – 4th most appearanced player for Fenerbahçe SK
• Ertuğrul Sağlam – former player and current manager of Bursaspor
• Müjdat Yetkiner – most appearanced player for Fenerbahçe SK
• Zeki Rıza Sporel – most goals scored for Fenerbahçe SK

See also

• Fenerbahçe S.K.
• Fenerbahçe S.K. Academy

External links

• Fenerbahçe S.K. Youth Teams Homepage (Turkish)