Gaziantepspor

Gaziantepspor ( officially: Gaziantepspor Kulübü ) is a football club in the largest city in the Southeastern Anatolia, Gaziantep region, which is also the sixth largest city of Turkey. From the fans, the club also " Antep ", " Antepspor " is called " Şahinler " or " Gazikent ". The Kamil Ocak Stadium, is the home of Gaziantepspor and can accommodate 17,000 spectators.

Gaziantepspor playing in the 2012/13 season, the 27th year in the first Turkish league and is in the Eternal table 9th place.

History

The club was founded on February 7, 1969 under the leadership of Beşir Bayram. The club's colors, red and black, point to the defense of the city in the Turkish War of Liberation (1919-1922), with black mourning and red symbolizes the blood shed. In the 1970/71 season the team played in the Turkish league third their first game. The climb to the second division succeeded in the following season. After seven years in the second division Gaziantepspor rose to the first division. Great success but could not be recorded, and thus the team was relegated from the 1982/83 season. In the Turkish Süper Lig one is for the 1989/90 season and has won from the time when more and more in reputation and strength, not least because of the wise economic policies of long-time president of the association, Celal Doğan, who the club between 1994 and 2004 has passed. The team has been able to celebrate any significant success, but is still valid as the nemesis of Istanbul's major clubs. In addition promotes Gaziantepspor young players who earn their money in Istanbul United clubs such as Gökhan Gülec, Ibrahim Toraman, Ayhan Akman, İsmail Köybaşı and Ibrahim Üzülmez. Gaziantepspor maintains a Fanfreundschaft to MKE Ankaragucu and recently also to Bursaspor.

Coat of arms

In the coat of arms, which is the castle of Gaziantep, is a falcon, the symbol of the city, pictured. Among the founding year is to see. The background is a checkerboard pattern in the club colors.

European Competitions

Gaziantepspor took in 1996 the first part of the UI-Cup. In 2000, Gaziantepspor played for the first time in the UEFA Cup and was eliminated by eventual finalists Deportivo Alaves. In the 2003-04 season the club reached the 3rd round in the same competition and was eliminated until there almost against AS Roma.

Achievements

• 3rd place in the Süper Lig: 1999 /00, 2000/ 01
• 4th place in the Süper Lig: 1980/81, 2010/11
• Master of TFF 1 Lig: 1978/79, 1989/90
• Promotion to the Süper Lig: 1978/79, 1978/79
• Master of TFF Lig 2: 1971/72
• Promotion to the TFF1. Lig: 1971/72
• Spor Toto Cup: 2012

League membership

• 2 League: 1972-1979, 1983-1990

• 3 League: 1970-1972, 1993-1994

Squad of the 2013/14 season

• Last update: March 1, 2014

Transfers of the season 2013/14

Summer 2013

• Artem Milewskyj (Dynamo Kiev)
• Semir Štilić (Karpaty Lviv )
• Mustafa Avcı1 ( Isparta Emrespor )
• Mustafa Durak ( Chamois Niort )
• Berkan Karadeniz (1st FC Cologne)
• Uğur Kavuk ( Sivasspor )
• Erman Bulucu ( Sancaktepe Belediyespor )
• Kerem Eryılmaz ( Sakaryaspor )
• Koray Ozturk ( Bandirmaspor )
• Marius Stankevičius (Lazio Rome)
• Mehmet Fuat Gölbaşı1 ( Hatayspor )

Winter 2013/14

• Muhammed Ildiz ( 1.FC Nürnberg )
• Birol Hikmet (Adana Demirspor )
• Sercan Hacıoğlu ( Şanlıurfaspor )
• Bruma2 ( Galatasaray )
• Ogulcan Çağlayan ( Bursaspor A2)
• Mehmet Fuat Gölbaşı1 ( Tokatspor )

Summer 2013

• Serdar Kurtuluş (Beşiktaş Istanbul)
• Yasin Pehlivan ( Bursaspor )
• Mahmut Bezgin ( Mersin İdman Yurdu )
• Dorge Kouemaha1 ( Club Brugge )
• Ridvan Simsek ( Karşıyaka SK)
• Ahmet Türk Eyüp Aslan ( Polatlı Bugsasspor )
• Eray Birniçan ( Çaykur Rizespor )
• Oktay Delibalta1 ( Gençlerbirliği Ankara)
• Tufan Kelleci ( Altay Izmir)
• Mustafa Avcı2 ( Erzincan Refahiyespor )
• Wilton Figueiredo ( Viborg FF)
• Berkan Karadeniz (-)
• Mehmet Fuat Gölbaşı2 ( Tokatspor )

Winter 2013/14

• Taşkın Çalış ( Bursaspor )
• Ivan Kecojević (FC Zurich )
• Darvydas Šernas2 (Perth Glory )
• Koray Ozturk (-)
• Özden Öngün ( End of career )
• Semir Štilić (Wisła Kraków )
• Kerem Eryılmaz ( Menemen Belediyespor )
• Mehmet Fuat Gölbaşı2 ( Kahramanmaras BB)
• Süleyman Özdamar ( Bayrampaşaspor )
• Artem Milewskyj ( FK Aktobe )

Coaching staff

Well-known former players

• Turkey Olcan Adın
• Turkey Sedat Agcay
• Turkey Alper Akçam
• Turkey İbrahim Akın
• Turkey Göksel Akıncı
• Turkey Ahmet Arı
• Turkey Aytek Aşıkoğlu
• Turkey Yalçın Ayhan
• Turkey Özgür Bayer
• Turkey Volkan Bekiroğlu
• Bulgaria Dimtcho Beliakov
• Cameroon Gilles Binya
• Turkey Eray Birniçan
• Bosnia and Herzegovina Elvir Bolic
• Turkey Bülent Bölükbaşı
• Tunisia Riadh Bouazizi
• Turkey Taşkın Çalış
• Turkey Senol Can
• Turkey Ömer Çatkıç
• Turkey Hasan Çelik
• Turkey Önder Cengel
• Turkey Mehmet Cogum
• Turkey Nuri Çolak
• Turkey Ferit Cömert
• Turkey İbrahim Coşkun

• Austria Ekrem Dağ
• Turkey Oğuz Dağlaroğlu
• Antonio de Nigris Mexico
• Turkey Uğur Demirok
• Turkey Oktay Derelioğlu
• Cameroon Armand Deumi
• Montenegro Nikola Drinčić
• Turkey Barış Durmaz
• Libya Tarik El Taib
• Turkey Murat Erdoğan
• Turkey Mahmut Erdoğdu
• Turkey Hurriyet Gücer
• Turkey Gökhan Gülec
• Turkey Orhan manure
• Turkey Çetin Guner
• Turkey Çetin Güngör
• Turkey Emre Güngör
• Turkey Cenk Güvenç
• Bosnia and Herzegovina Kenan Hasagić
• Ghana Ali Ibrahim
• Bosnia and Herzegovina Senijad Ibričić
• Turkey Bekir İrtegün
• Brazil Ivan
• Bulgaria Gerogi Ivanov
• Ziad Jaziri Tunisia
• Brazil Júlio César
• Turkey Ilyas Kahraman
• Turkey Hüseyin Kalpar
• Ünal Karaman Turkey
• Lithuania Žydrūnas Karčemarskas
• Turkey Uğur Kavuk
• Montenegro Ivan Kecojević
• Turkey Erdal Kılıçaslan
• Turkey Savaş Koç
• Turkey Şevki Koç

• Turkey Resit Koşar
• Turkey Tevfik Köse
• Cameroon Dorge Kouemaha
• Turkey İsmail Köybaşı
• Turkey Serdar Kurtuluş
• Zdravko Lazarov Bulgaria
• Angola André Macanga
• Bosnia and Herzegovina Haris Medunjanin
• Tunisia Sofiène Melliti
• Cameroon Dany Nounkeu
• Turkey Özden Öngün
• Turkey Soner Örnek
• Turkey İlhan Özbay
• Turkey Serdar Özbayraktar
• Turkey Sakip Özberk
• Turkey Özgürcan Özcan
• Turkey Hasan Özer
• Turkey Erman Özgür
• Turkey Serkan Özsoy
• Turkey Gökhan Öztürk
• Turkey Ergun Penbe
• Bulgaria Ivelin Popov
• Ghana Yaw Preko
• Turkey Ertuğrul Sağlam
• Turkey Murat Şahin
• Turkey Turgut Sahin
• Turkey Fatih Şen
• Lithuania Darvydas Serna
• Turkey Ridvan Simsek
• Turkey Yusuf Şimşek

• Argentina Ismael Sosa
• Turkey Erkan Sözeri
• Germany Elyasa Süme
• Turkey Bünyamin Süral
• Brazil Rodrigo Tabata
• Turkey Ozan Tahtaişleyen
• Ufuk Talay Australia
• Turkey Kaya Tarakci
• Turkey Orhan Taşdelen
• Croatia Stjepan Tomas
• Turkey Kubilay Toptas
• Turkey İbrahim Toraman
• Burkina Faso Abdou Traoré
• Turkey Ramazan Tunç
• Turkey Umit Tütünci
• Turkey İbrahim Üzülmez
• Brazil Wagner
• Turkey İbrahim Halil Yaşar
• Turkey Mehmet Yiğit
• Turkey Uğur Yıldırım
• Turkey Murat Yılmaz
• Turkey Mehmet Yılmaz
• Turkey Musa Yılmazer
• Turkey Mehmet Yozgatlı
• Turkey Gökhan Zan
• Poland Adam Zejer
• Argentina Cristian Rodrigo Zurita

Former coach (selection)

• Serbia Yugoslavia Socialist Federal Republic Todor Veselinović (June 1990 - May 1991)
• Turkey Sakıp Özberk (July 1991 - April 1992)
• Turkey Vedat Özsoylu1 ( April 1992)
• Turkey Yılmaz Gökdel ( April 1992 - December 1992 )
• Turkey Raşit Çetiner ( January 1993 - MAY 1993)
• Turkey Vedat Özsoylu1 ( October 1993)
• Turkey Yılmaz Vural ( October 1993 - MAY 1994)
• Turkey Sakıp Özberk (July 1994 - May 1997)
• Belgium Georges Heylens ( August 1997 - November 1997)
• Serbia Yugoslavia Socialist Federal Republic Milorad Mitrovic ( November 1997 - May 1998)
• Turkey Hüseyin Kalpar (July 1998 - September 1999)
• Turkey Sakıp Özberk ( September 1999 - May 2001)
• Turkey Erdoğan Arıca ( August 2001 - December 2001)
• Turkey Sakıp Özberk (December 2000 - May 2001)

• Romania Gheorghe Mulţescu ( August 2002 - February 2003)
• Turkey Nurullah Sağlam ( February 2003 - May 2005)
• Bosnia and Herzegovina Faruk Hadžibegić (May 2005 - December 2005)
• Turkey Hüseyin Kalpar ( December 2005 - February 2006)
• Italy Walter Zenga ( August 2006 - December 2006)
• Turkey Erdoğan Arıca (January 2007 - May 2007)
• Turkey Bünyamin Süral1 (December 2007 - February 2008)
• Turkey Nurullah Sağlam (February 2008 - March 2009 )
• Turkey Seckin Göksel1 (March 2009 - April 2009 )
• Portugal José Couceiro (April 2009 - May 2010)

• Turkey Bülent Uygun ( February 2013 - November 2013 )
• Turkey Sergen Yalçın ( November 2013 - March 2014 )
• Turkey Tahsin Tam ( March 2014 - )

Walter Zenga

Tolunay Kafka

José Couceiro

Abdullah Ercan

Hikmet Karaman

Bülent Uygun

Yılmaz Vural

Sergen Yalçın

President

• Beşir Bayram
• Ömer Köylüoğlu
• Hasan Nehir
• Selahattin Öztahtacı
• Halit Gülec
• Muhittin Göymen
• Hayri Tütüncüler
• Mehmet Saip Konukoğlu
• Ata Aksu
• Halil Kırmızı
• Ali Ihsan Göğüs

• Mehmet Batallı
• Bektas Göçmen
• Sadettin Ergün
• Selahattin Demirat
• Ömer Arpacıoğlu
• Ali Sahindal
• Abdulkadir Konukoğlu
• Ahmet Yılmaz
• Celal Doğan
• İbrahim Kızıl

Industries

• Football
• Basketball
• Billiards

Fan

The fan club Gaziantepspor was founded in 1996. There are many fan clubs Gaziantepspor throughout Europe, eg in Cologne, Duisburg, Frankfurt, Rotterdam and Amsterdam.

Suppliers and sponsors

Current main sponsor is Türkoil. The equipment is taken over by adidas. In addition to sponsors: Solger, primer Hospital and Tunas