Sanica Boru Elazığspor

Sanica Boru Elazığspor is a Turkish football club based in the provincial capital of Elazig in the east of the country. Currently the club plays in the Süper Lig The club colors are Bordeaux and white. The team is called in accordance with the nickname of the inhabitants of the province of Elazig as Gakgoşlar.

History

Elazığspor was created in 1967 when the three local clubs Merkez Gençlik, Güvenspor and Harputspor banded together to form a powerful team. By the year 2002, the club commuted regularly 2 to 3 Turkish League before the promotion to the first Turkish league. There, the club was able to hold for two years, before the descent had to be accepted as a Table. In the season 2010/11 Elazigspor is sovereign ascended as a master in the TFF 1 Lig. In the first season in the second highest Turkish league Elazigspor has managed the direct promotion to the Turkish league.

For the 2012/13 season Elazığspor awarded the naming rights for the duration of one season to the company Sanica Boru A.Ş. and took in the season with the name Sanica Boru Elazığspor the competition. In return, the association received 3,000,000 Turkish liras (equivalent to the then exchange rate € 1.37 million ).

Achievements

• Rise in the Turkcell Süperlig (2001/ 02)
• Rise in the Bank Asya Lig (2010 /11)
• Rise in the Turkcell Süperlig (2011 /12)

Stadium

The club plays its home matches at the 14,467 -seat Elazig Atatürk Stadium.

League membership

Current squad 2013/14

• Last update: February 13, 2014

Transfers of the season 2013/14

Summer 2013

• Oktay Pop1 ( Tavşanlı Linyitspor )
• Özgür Özkaya (Beşiktaş Istanbul)
• Serdar Özkan ( Şanlıurfaspor )
• Deniz Yılmaz ( 1 FSV Mainz 05)
• Gökhan Korkmaz ( Tekirova Belediyespor )
• Çağlar Birinci ( Galatasaray )
• Ibrahim Kas ( Bursaspor )
• Mehmet Nas ( Sivasspor )
• Zülküf Özer ( Adanaspor )
• Ibrahim Eren Akduman ( İskenderun DÇ )
• Luke Moore ( Swansea City )
• Youssef Hadji ( al -Arabi )
• Noyan Öz (Eintracht Frankfurt II )
• Onur Ayik (FC Oberneuland )
• Deniz Aslan ( Antalyaspor )
• Alper Kalemci1 ( Şanlıurfaspor )
• Hakan Söyler ( Kardemir Karabükspor )
• Muhammed Ali Doğan (SG Wattenscheid 09)
• Caner Bulut1 ( Karşıyaka SK)

Winter 2013/14

• Tanju Kayhan2 (Beşiktaş Istanbul)
• Erol Alkan (own reserve team )
• Franco Cángele2 (CA Boca Juniors)
• Ognjen Vranješ2 ( Alania Vladikavkaz )
• Batuhan Karadeniz2 (Trabzonspor )

Summer 2013

• Orhan Ak (Istanbul BB)
• Sinan Kaloğlu (Kayseri Erciyesspor )
• Eren Aydın ( Sivasspor )
• Sedat Bayrak ( Gençlerbirliği Ankara)
• Tolga Ozgen (Gaziantep BB)
• Ivan Sesar1 ( FK Sarajevo)
• Bülent Ertuğrul ( Denizlispor )
• Pascal Feindouno ( career ended)
• Ibrahim Eren Akduman ( Kahramanmarasspor )
• Akın Köroğlu ( Istanbulspor )
• Murat Akyuz ( Samsunspor )
• Enis Kahraman (Batman Petrolspor )
• Murat Kayalı ( Şanlıurfaspor )
• Sezer Badoer ( Şanlıurfaspor )
• Mustafa Sarp (Istanbul BB)
• Mehmet Cakir (-)
• Roland Alberg ( ADO Den Haag )
• Aydın Karabulut ( Sivasspor )
• Jake Jervis (-)
• Gökhan Korkmaz2 ( Darıca Gençlerbirliği )
• Emir Kujovic ( IFK Norrköping)
• Marvin Zeegelaar2 ( Blackpool FC )

Winter 2013/14

• Luke Moore (-)
• Adem Alkaşi (-)
• Alper Kalemci (-)
• Caner Bulut ( Hatayspor )
• Volkan Yılmaz ( MKE Ankaragucu )
• Oktay Pop ( Denizlispor )
• Koksal Yedek ( Medical Park Antalyaspor )