Kocaelispor

Kocaelispor
	File:Kocaelispor.svg
Full name	Kocaelispor Kulübü
Nickname(s)	Yeşil Şimşekler; (Green Lightnings)
Founded	1966
Ground	Ismet Paşa Stadium,; İzmit, Turkey
Capacity	16,500
Chairman	Bahri Kubilay Yavuz
Manager	Ergun Ortakçı
League	TFF Third League
2015–16	Turkish Regional Amateur League 12th Group, 1st (Play-off winner)
Home colours	Away colours

Kocaelispor, is the football team of İzmit, Turkey. They were founded in 1966 and played in the top level between 1980–1988 and 1992–2003. The best result for them was the 4th position in 1992–93 season. They won Turkish Cup twice in 1997 and 2002. Gathering 20,152 spectators, Kocaelispor set a record of highest attendance at a Turkish Regional Amateur League encounter, on 8 January 2015.^[2]

History

Foundation

Prior to establishment of Kocaelispor, the Executive board representatives of Baçspor, a local football club, had demanded a new plat from İzmit Municipality to assure a place for training the sports in 1957. Osman Gencal, city mayor at the time, had been interested in finding a place for training due to his sportive background as a former sportsman and a member of Baçspor.^[3] Therefore, the municipality had given a 28-acre (110,000 m²) wide plat to Baçspor, as the plat had been sold for a symbolic cost of 1 Lira.

Baçspor had sold the plat for 283,000 Liras and had a new place in Baç district of İzmit; and begun to a new construction. In 1964, Baçspor club board planned to found a new team at professional level and compete in 2nd Division.^[3] However, federation regulation of that time was stating that it was required to compound at least 3 teams and have appropriate facilities. Then, in 1966, three teams which are Baçspor, İzmit Gençlik and Doğanspor had come together, combined and founded Kocaelispor. Three club boards had consensus on every subject and embraced the green and black as the club colours. Then, it had been held a club congress in common and the new club board had been elected. Kocaelispor had spent 175,000 Liras to gather their first squad ever to compete in 2nd Division in 1966.^[3]

Kocaelispor was promoted to the 1st Division for the first time in 1980. They competed 8 seasons consecutively until their relegation in 1988. However, during this phase, the club has relegated once in 1986–87 season and come back after a Turkish Council of State verdict.^[4]

1992–93 season: Legendary Roster

After the relegation in 1988, they escaped from relegation to third level in 1990 and Bartınspor relegated. They were back in top level football campaign of Turkey, 1st Division, in 1992. Following this comeback, Kocaelispor had obtained their best league position performance. The team had a sensational start for the season. Beating Kayserispor with a 7–2 final score in 1st match day, collecting 25 points in first 10 weeks, Kocaelispor ended the first half of the fixture as the league leader. However, team had consecutive defeats and finished the season as the 4th of the ladder of 1992–93 season. The team represented Turkey at UEFA Cup next season.

The manager of team was Güvenç Kurtar and the roster was including respectable players. Fahrudin Omerović was the substitute keeper of Yugoslavia squad. Stevica Kuzmanovski and Mirko Mirković (latterly gained Turkish citizenship with name Mert Meriç) are other Yugoslav players in defence position. Bülent Uygun had played at forward position alongside national striker Saffet Sancaklı. Both players then joined Istanbul clubs. Uygun achieved league top scorer honour while playing for Fenerbahçe and Sancaklı first joined Galatasaray but returned the club in 1995 and at the end of season, he joined Fenerbahçe. Bülent Baturman, Halil İbrahim Kara, Melih Erdem, Ergun Kula are some of other notable players at that squad.

Recent history

Kocaelispor had achieved another successful league position in 1995–96 season as the 5th best team on the table and competed at Intertoto Cup on following season.

Kocaelispor had the Turkish Cup title twice, in 1997 and 2002 against Trabzonspor and Beşiktaş, respectively. On following season of 2002–03, the team has been relegated again as finishing last. After total of 5 seasons competition at TFF First League, Kocaelispor had the championship in 2007–08 season and returned Süper Lig. However, this return lasted one season due to money shortage and relegated again to First League after lost 3–1 home match against Trabzonspor on May 9, 2009 at Round 31 as finishing 17th. Kocaelispor relegated to TFF Second League, third tier of Turkish football once after 2–1 losing away match against Kartalspor on April 4, 2010.

Kocaelispor were managed by 3 managers during 2007–2008 season: Fuat Yaman (from 1st–10th weeks), Kayhan Çubuklu (11th–31st) and Engin İpekoğlu (32nd–34th). They returned to Turkcell Super League as the title holders of last TFF First League season. However, this promotion was followed by successive two relegations and they played TFF Second League once in 2010–11 season. Kocaelispor relegated to fourth level in 2011–12 after finishing last in White Group of Second League. Finally they were relegated to Regional Amateur League after losing 1–0 away match against İstanbulspor 4 rounds before finishing the league on 6 April 2014.

Kocaelispor rivalled with Tekirdağspor, Çengelköyspor and Arnavutköy Belediyespor for promoting to Third League in 2014–15 season. They were leader for some weeks but finished as 4th in 11th group and Tekirdağspor returned professional level after 11 years.^[5] Kocaelispor finished 12th Group as champions and faced with Sultangazispor, champions of 11th Group at promotion play-offs.^[6] They defeated them as 2-0 with Sinan Pektemek and Hamza Mutlu's goals in 24 April 2016 in Eskişehir and returned professional level after 2 years.^[7]

Supporters and Rivalries

Kocaelispor boasts a large support base throughout Turkey, particularly in Marmara Region and Black Sea Region. The club's main fan base known as Hodri Meydan.^[8]

Former sponsors

Bank Asya (2009–2010)
Hyundai^[9]^[10] (2008–2009)

League participations

Süper Lig: 1980–88, 1992–2003, 2008–09
TFF First League: 1966–1980, 1988–92, 2003–08, 2009–10
TFF Second League: 2010–12
TFF Third League: 2012–14, 2016-
Turkish Regional Amateur League: 2014–16

Achievements

Turkish Cup
- Winners (2): 1997, 2002
TFF First League
- Winners (3): 1980, 1992, 2008
BAL
- Winners (1): 2016

Kocaelispor in Europe

UEFA Cup Winners' Cup:

Season	Round	Country	Club	Home	Away	Aggregate
1997–98	1R		FC Naţional Bucureşti	2–0	1–0	3–0
1997–98	2R		Lokomotiv Moscow	0–0	1–2	0–0

UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League:

Season	Round	Country	Club	Home	Away	Aggregate
1993–94	1R		Sporting CP	0–0	0–2	0–2
2002–03	1R		Ferencváros	0–1	0–4	0–5

UEFA Intertoto Cup:

Season	Round	Club	Home	Away	Aggregate
1996	GS	CSKA Sofia	1–3		4th place
	GS	Strasbourg		1–1
	GS	Hibernians	5–3
	GS	Uralmash		0–2
1999	2R	Ventspils	2–0	1–1	3–1
1999	3R	MSV Duisburg	0–3	0–0	0–3
2000	1R	FK Atlantas	0–1	1–0	1–1 (4–5 p.)

Current squad

According to official club web site, as of 30 September 2011^[11]

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


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
33	GK	TUR	Muhammed Rıza Altıntaş
1	GK	TUR	Samet Han
26	GK	TUR	Emirhan Kılınç
4	DF	TUR	Koray Göksu
5	DF	TUR	Taha Bartu Bulut
6	DF	TUR	Sercan Uslu
53	DF	TUR	Osman Kandemir
11	DF	TUR	Korhan İşeri
34	DF	TUR	Ebubekir Şentürk
14	DF	TUR	Metehan Gündoğdu
63	MF	TUR	Sergen Yıldırım
—	MF	TUR	Mert Yavuz
8	MF	TUR	Ozan Güneş


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
23	MF	TUR	Melih Ahmet Kaçar
41	MF	TUR	Emre Kurtoğlu
—	MF	TUR	Mustafa Ertuğ
—	MF	TUR	Aliberk Tetik
—	MF	TUR	Yasin Çağan
—	MF	TUR	Kerem Çalıloğlu
91	MF	TUR	Serhat Öztürk
99	MF	TUR	Emre Akgün
10	MF	TUR	Berkay Arslan
77	MF	TUR	Sefa Narin
29	MF	TUR	Yolcu Mansız
—	FW	TUR	Burak Özgür Subaşı
18	FW	TUR	Barış Civelek

Former managers

References

^ http://www.kocaelispor.com.tr/sayfa/yonetim.html
^ "Bölgesel Amatör Lig'de "seyirci" rekoru!" (in Turkish). Sözcü. 8 February 2015. Retrieved 8 February 2015.
^ ^a ^b ^c Kocaelispor Official Website Template:Tr icon
^ Kocaelispor Supporters Group Template:Tr icon
^ http://www.amatorfutbol.org/tff/bolgesel-amator-lig/puandurumu-2695.html
^ http://www.amatorfutbol.org/tff/bolgesel-amator-lig/puandurumu-3558.html
^ http://www.hurriyet.com.tr/efsane-kocaelispor-geri-dondu-40093866
^ Başkan Serhan Gürkan’dan, muhalefete ‘Hodri meydan Template:Tr icon
^ "Hyundai ile Sponsorluk Anlaşması" (in Turkish). kocaelispor.org. 2008-09-25. Retrieved 2011-10-21.
^ "Hyundai Kocaelispor'a sponsor oldu!" (in Turkish). ajansspor.com. 2008-09-26. Retrieved 2011-10-21.
^ "Kocaelispor Kulübü Resmi İnternet Sitesi – Futbolcular" (in Turkish). kocaelispor.org.tr. Retrieved 2011-09-30.

"Kocaelispor Kulübü | Resmi İnternet Sitesi". Kocaelispor.com.tr. Retrieved 2012-10-19.

External links

[1] ttp://www.kocaelispor.com.tr/sayfa/yonetim.html

[2] "Bölgesel Amatör Lig'de "seyirci" rekoru!" (in Turkish). Sözcü. 8 February 2015. Retrieved 8 February 2015.

[koc-3] Kocaelispor Official Website Template:Tr icon

[4] Kocaelispor Supporters Group Template:Tr icon

[5] ttp://www.amatorfutbol.org/tff/bolgesel-amator-lig/puandurumu-2695.html

[6] ttp://www.amatorfutbol.org/tff/bolgesel-amator-lig/puandurumu-3558.html

[7] ttp://www.hurriyet.com.tr/efsane-kocaelispor-geri-dondu-40093866

[8] Başkan Serhan Gürkan’dan, muhalefete ‘Hodri meydan Template:Tr icon

[9] "Hyundai ile Sponsorluk Anlaşması" (in Turkish). kocaelispor.org. 2008-09-25. Retrieved 2011-10-21.

[10] "Hyundai Kocaelispor'a sponsor oldu!" (in Turkish). ajansspor.com. 2008-09-26. Retrieved 2011-10-21.

[11] "Kocaelispor Kulübü Resmi İnternet Sitesi – Futbolcular" (in Turkish). kocaelispor.org.tr. Retrieved 2011-09-30.

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