Çaykur Rizespor

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Çaykur Rizespor
Full name Çaykur Rizespor Kulubu
Nickname(s) Karadeniz Atmacası
(The Black Sea sparrow hawk)
Founded 1968
Ground Rize Atatürk Stadı
Rize, Turkey
Capacity 10,500
Chairman Flag of Turkey Ekrem Cengiz
Manager Flag of Turkey Rıza Çalımbay
League Turkcell Süper Lig
2005-06 Turkcell Süper Lig, 9th
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Çaykur Rizespor is a Turkish sports club based in Rize. Çaykur Rizespor is currently playing in the Turkish Super Lig. The club was founded in 1953 and had professionalship status in 1968 as Rizespor. Since 1990, the team has been sponsored by the Turkish tea company Çaykur, hence the name and the image of a tea leaf on the club's logo.

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[edit] League Attendances

Super League (1st League): 1979-1981, 1985-1989, 2000-2002, 2003-

League A (Second League): 1974-1979, 1981-1985, 1989-1993, 1994-2000, 2002-2003

Third League: 1968-1974, 1993-1994

[edit] Current Squad

Turkish clubs are limited to six players without Turkish citizenship. The squad list includes only the principal nationality of each player.

As of 7 December 2006:

No. Position Player
1 Flag of Bulgaria GK Zdravko Zdravkov
2 Flag of Turkey DF Tolga Doğantez
3 Flag of Turkey DF Fatih Gültekin
5 Flag of Turkey DF Yasin Çakmak
6 Flag of Turkey MF Ergin Yücetaş
7 Flag of Turkey MF Hasan Uğur
8 Flag of Namibia DF Razundara Tjikuzu
9 Flag of Slovenia FW Dragan Jelič
10 Flag of Turkey MF Altan Aksoy
11 Flag of Turkey MF Erhan Albayrak
14 Flag of Turkey DF Serhat Akyüz
15 Flag of Egypt DF Bashir El Tabei
17 Flag of Colombia DF Gustavo Andres Victoria Rave
No. Position Player
18 Flag of Senegal FW Dia Cire
19 Flag of Turkey GK Mehmet Bölükbaşı
22 Flag of Turkey MF Cem Baki
25 Flag of Turkey MF Murat Uluç
26 Flag of Turkey FW Aydın Kuzu
28 Flag of Turkey MF Enis Ulusan
33 Flag of Turkey MF Yavuz Onuk
34 Flag of Turkey MF Emrah Eren
35 Flag of Turkey MF Hüseyin Bak
36 Flag of Turkey FW Cemil Mengi
44 Flag of Egypt DF Ibrahim Said
53 Flag of Turkey FW Ferdi Elmas
75 Flag of Turkey MF Serkan Şen

[edit] Notable Former Players

  • Hasan Vezir
  • Hakan Tecimer
  • Jürgen Pahl
  • Fahri Tatan
  • Koray Avcı
  • Devran Ayhan
  • Ümit Ozan Kazmaz
  • Şener Aşkaroğlu
  • Ünal Alpagun
  • Zafer Demiray

[edit] Achievements

  • Second League:
    • Winners (2): 1979, 1985
    • Third (1): 2000

[edit] External links

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