Sivasspor

Sivasspor is a football club from Sivas. Sivasspor is currently playing in the Turkish Süper Lig professional league, the Turkish name of the association is Sivasspor Kulübü. The club was founded in 1967. The club colors are red and white.

• 5.1 Current squad
• 5.2 Transfers of the 2013/14 season
• 5.3 Coaches and team staff

History

Foundation

The first and not registered by the Turkish Football Federation club foundation dates back to the year 1951. In April 1967 the club merged with the two smaller local organizations Sivas Sivas Yolspor and Kızılırmakspor to today's club Sivasspor Kulübü or in the short form to Sivasspor. As a symbol of these three clubs, the club logo includes three stars. Background of this club was founded following:

In the season 1963/64, the second highest in the Turkish league professional football was founded as a single-track league with 13 teams. This league was followed by the founding Erstligagründung the summer of 1959, the. Was the first nationwide discharged professional league in Turkish football, the Milli Lig was with its present name the Süper Lig, introduced In the first five seasons of the league, the first image that only participating teams from the three major cities of Istanbul, Ankara and Izmir at the game and the remaining provinces of Turkey stayed away from the League revealed. Only Adana Demirspor from the fourth largest city of Adana made ​​it in the summer of 1960 in the Milli Lig, but already rose after a season again. Following these developments, the Turkish Football Federation decided to start early 1960s a project, which could participate in the professional football happening all provinces of Turkey under the leadership of the Association President Orhan Şeref Apak. To this end, all the provinces were informed nation's governors, mayors and notables that, if not present, could, by the creation of a competitive soccer club, their province in this league. Thus within a few years new clubs were founded and requested to participate in this league. So was the second- highest division, the second Türkiye Futbol Ligi, started with the season 1963/64, the first time. Since the founding provinces of the club, the fulfillment of the requirements or participation at different rates applied, the league was played with teams mainly from the four largest cities of Istanbul, Ankara, Izmir and Adana again in their first seasons. Only with Çukurova İdman Yurdu and Bursaspor participated two teams from other provinces in the game.

In Sivas, the foundation of the association came about through the efforts of the Governor and the Mayor Ahmet Vefik Kitapçıgil Durakoğlu. The latter was elected the first club president. After meeting all requirements the newly established Sivasspor took the second division 1967/68 season in part for the first time in the Turkish professional football. As the first coach, imagine the former Turkish national team Hilmi Kiremitçi in the function of a player-coach, which was to lead the team both as a head coach, as well as an experienced player on the field. His first season saw the team in 16th place in the table and so reached the relegation.

Promotion to the Süper Lig

Sivasspor was in the second division season 2004/ 05 champions of the 2nd Lig A Kategorisi and rose for the first time in their history in the highest Turkish league, in the Süper Lig on. The club was only at the end of third league season 1998/99 went up as champions in the second Lig A Kategorisi, the then second highest league. In the following years, the rise was just missed getting back into the top flight. In the first year in the highest Turkish Football League Sivasspor finished in eighth place after the end of the 2005/06 season. In the second year they improved by one place and were seventh. In the 2007/ 08 season Sivasspor started very well and was at the end of the first round with 37 points autumn champions. Thus caught after 14 years of interruption Anatolian club this unofficial title. At the end of the season they finished fourth. The following year, they were also winter champions, this time with 37 points. At the end of the 2008/09 season, it was enough for the runner-up title, which Sivasspor was admitted to qualifying for the UEFA Champions League.

Achievements

• Turkish runners-up: 2008/ 09
• Table fourth in the Süper Lig: 2007/ 08
• Master of TFF 1 Lig: 2004/ 05
• Master of TFF Lig 2: 1998/99
• Semifinalist Turkish Football Cup: 2008/ 09, 2012/13

League membership

Stadium

Sivasspor plays its home games at the Sivas 4 Eylül from Stadı. Due to the rise in the Turkcell Süper Lig, the club was forced to modernize the stadium. Since the restoration it has a capacity of 18,700. The qualification for the UEFA Champions League required a further reorganization, the enlargement of the VIP areas, press office and roofing of the main grandstands included. Since early 2012, there are plans for a new stadium. Together with the State Housing Company TOKI, the Türk Telekom Arena, Galatasaray co-financed, among other things, to a modern, energy efficient stadium to be built with a capacity of 33,000 seats. This includes the use of solar energy on the roof of the stadium as well as the use of wind in the air conditioning of the interior region. Construction is scheduled to take place shortly after the end of the tender.

2013/14 season

Current squad

• Last updated: March 23, 2014

Transfers of the season 2013/14

Summer 2013

• Tomáš Rada1 (FC Highlands Jihlava )
• Burhan Eşer ( Mersin İdman Yurdu )
• Abdulkadir Özgen1 ( Samsunspor )
• Abdurrahman Dereli ( Kasımpaşa Istanbul)
• Eren Aydın ( Sanica Boru Elazığspor )
• Ahmet Aras ( Anadolu Üsküdar 1908 SK)
• Alican Karadağ1 ( Fethiyespor )
• Manuel da Costa ( Lokomotiv Moscow )
• John Utaka ( Montpellier )
• Timur Özgöz ( MKE Ankaragucu )
• Mehdi Taouil ( Heart of Midlothian )
• Cicinho ( Sport Recife )
• Hernán Rengifo (Sporting Cristal)
• Aydın Karabulut ( Sanica Boru Elazığspor )
• Rafik Djebbour2 ( Olympiakos Piraeus)
• İbrahim Sürgülü ( home-grown )
• Batuhan Salman ( home-grown )

Winter 2013/14

• Ahmet Şahbaz ( Silivrispor )
• Uğur Akdemir1 ( Kartalspor )
• Pedro Oldoni ( EC Vitória )
• Fatih Kiran (FC Ismaning )
• Aykut Öztürk ( FC Rot -Weiß Erfurt )
• Mahmut Bezgin ( Mersin İdman Yurdu )
• İbrahim Sürgülü1 ( Fethiyespor )

Summer 2013

• Štefan Senecký (-)
• Tomáš Rada (1st FC Slovácka )
• Michael Eneramo (Beşiktaş Istanbul)
• Ricardo Pedriel Suárez (-)
• January Rajnoch (Adana Demirspor )
• Erman Kılıç ( Galatasaray )
• Alican Karadağ2 ( Boluspor )
• Mehmet Nas ( Sanica Boru Elazığspor )
• Erhan Güven (Kayseri Erciyesspor )
• Uğur Kavuk ( Gaziantepspor )
• Kaan Kılcı2 (Sivas 4 Eylül Belediyespor )
• Uğur Akdemir2 ( Kartalspor )
• Ahmet Aras2 ( Fethiyespor )
• Arkadiusz Piech ( Zagłębie Lubin)
• Hayrettin Yerlikaya ( out of contract )
• Milan Černý ( FK Dukla Prague)

Winter 2013/14

• Murat Akça ( Kardemir Karabükspor )
• İbrahim Sürgülü2 ( Fethiyespor )
• Uğur Akdemir2 ( Balikesirspor )
• Hernán Rengifo ( Juan Aurich )
• Abdulkadir Özgen2 ( Manisaspor )
• Kamil Grosicki ( Stade Rennes)
• Timur Özgöz2 (Adana Demirspor )
• Rafik Djebbour1 ( Olympiakos Piraeus)
• Milan Borjan (-)

Coach and coaching staff

Fanfreundschaft

The club is distinguished by its loyal following in the Anatolian Sivas. There is recently a Fanfreundschaft with Kayserispor, which is characterized in that it has the dark past (1967, there were under two Fanlagern 40 dead during an argument at one point play) between the two cities forgotten and has realized that violence is not a solution. Since then, both look Fanlager when Sivasspor and Kayserispor playing against each other, their games always in brotherhood.

Coach

2005/ 06 coached the German coach Werner Lorant the team. After this, however, resigned from his post prematurely, to switch to Saipa Tehran, Slovak Karol Pecze took over as coach. However, he was replaced by former Turkish national team Bülent Uygun in November. Under the direction of Uygun Sivasspor was in the 2008 /09 season for the first time in club history runners-up. 4 October 2009 Bülent Uygun announced because of the poor start to the season his work as head coach. His successor was Muhsin Ertugral, the office also resigned on March 22, 2010. His successor was Mesut Bakkal. After this coaching change 27 on game day there was for the team Sivasspor to the end of the season in the league neither victory nor defeat. However, with the eight earned draw the descent into the second league could be prevented.

Well-known former players

• Turkey Burak Akdis
• Turkey Ertuğrul Arslan
• Turkey Ufuk Ates
• Turkey İbrahim Germany Aydemir
• Israel Pini Felix Balili
• Czech Republic Roman Bednar
• Turkey Ali Eren Beserler
• Turkey Germany Ferhat Bıkmaz
• Brazil Fábio Bilica

• Algeria Hameur Bouazza
• Turkey Yasin Cakmak
• Czech Republic Milan Černý
• Turkey Servet Çetin
• Australia Simon Colosimo
• Turkey Oğuz Dağlaroğlu
• Germany Turkey Ünal Demirkiran
• Turkey Tolga Doğantez
• Nigeria Michael Eneramo
• Turkey United Kingdom Murat Erdoğan
• Turkey Ceyhun Eriş
• Jacques Faty Senegal
• Poland Kamil Grosicki
• Turkey Gürhan Gursoy

• Turkey Erhan Güven
• France Yannick Kamanan
• Turkey Kıvanç Karakaş
• Turkey Doğa Kaya
• Turkey Erman Kılıç
• Turkey Hilmi Kiremitçi
• Turkey Muhammet Belgium Kurtuluş
• Latvia Deniss Ivanov
• Turkey Netherlands Helmi Mihci
• Czech Republic Tomáš Rada
• Czech Republic Jan Rajnoch

• Bosnia and Herzegovina Germany Sead Ramović
• Australia Croatia Michael Petkovic
• Tunisia Karim Saidi
• Cameroon Alioum Saidou
• Brazil Sandro
• Slovakia Štefan Senecký
• Germany Turkey Rahman Soyudogru
• Turkey Murat Sözgelmez
• Bolivia Ricardo Suárez Pedriel
• Turkey Ufuk Süer
• Cameroon Hervé Tum
• Turkey Volkan Ünlü Germany
• Turkey Bülent Uygun

• Turkey Yılmaz Vural Germany
• Sercan Yıldırım Turkey
• Netherlands Turkey Uğur Yıldırım
• Turkey Mehmet Yıldız
• Turkey Cihan Yılmaz Germany

Former coach (selection)

• Turkey Hilmi Kiremitçi ( April 1967 - MAY 1968)
• Turkey Naci Özkaya ( August 1969 - November 1970 )
• Turkey Lefter Küçükandonyadis ( November 1970 - MAY 1971)
• Turkey Bülent Eken (June 1972 - May 1973)
• Turkey Hilmi Kiremitçi ( November 1973 - MAY 1974)
• Turkey İsmail Kurt ( September 1976 - MAY 1977)
• Turkey Koksal MESCI ( August 1978 - MAY 1979)
• Turkey Nazim Kona ( August 1979 - May 1980)
• Turkey Kamuran Soykıray ( August 1980 - May 1981)
• Turkey Germany Ilyas Tüfekçi ( October 2001 - May 2002)
• Turkey Mehmet Şahan ( August 2002 - May 2003)
• Turkey Muharrem Uğur ( August 2003 - November 2003)
• Turkey Kemal Kılıç (November 2003 - May 2004 )
• Turkey İsmail Kartal ( August 2004 - May 2005)
• Germany Werner Lorant ( August 2005 - July 2006)
• Slovenia Karol Pecze (July 2006 - November 2006)
• Turkey Bülent Uygun (November 2006 - October 2009)
• Turkey Germany Muhsin Ertugral (October 2009 - March 2010)
• Turkey Mesut Bakkal (March 2010 - October 2010)
• Turkey Riza Çalımbay (October 2010 - May 2013)