Gaziantepspor

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Gaziantepspor
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Full name Gaziantepsor
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Founded 1969
Ground Antep Kamil Ocak
Gaziantep, Turkey
Capacity 17,000
Chairman Flag of Turkey İbrahim Halil Kızıl
Manager Flag of Turkey Erdoğan Arıca
League Turkcell Süper Lig
2005-06 Turkcell Süper Lig, 11th
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Gaziantepspor is a Turkish sports club based in Gaziantep in southern Turkey. Gaziantepspor currently plays in the Turkish Premier Super League. After a turbulent season, in which survival in the top flight was not assured until the last day with a victory over Malatyaspor, Gaziantepspor have recruited the ex-Italian goalkeeper Walter 'Spiderman' Zenga as their new manager. He has a two year deal and it is hoped that he can bring some much needed stability to the club. Antep are currently embarking on a pre-season tour to the Netherlands. One of Gaziantepsor's finest moments came when they reached the third round of the UEFA Cup and got knocked out 2-1 on aggregate by AS Roma in 2003-04 but arguably their finest was in 2000/01 when they were in contention to win the league until the final day of the season but a 4-3 loss away to Fenerbahçe despite leading 3-0 at half time cost them any realistic chance. This meant that the first realistic chance that an Anatolian side had of breaking the domination of the big four was lost. Now due to the relegation of Malatyaspor and Diyarbakırspor Antep is the only side from the south east in the Super League. She was became third in 2000-2001 and 2001-2002 seasons.

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[edit] League Attendances

Super League (1st League): 1979-1983, 1990-

League A (Second League): 1972-1979, 1983-1990

Third League: 1970-1972

[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 Bosnia and Herzegovina GK Kenan Hasagić
3 Flag of Romania MF Giani Stelian Kirita
4 Flag of Turkey MF Bekir İrtegün
5 Flag of Turkey DF Uğur Demirok
6 Flag of Turkey DF Mehmet Çoğum
7 Flag of Turkey MF Önder Çengel
9 Flag of Turkey MF Ali Bayraktar
10 Flag of Mexico FW Antonio de Nigris
15 Flag of Turkey FW Erdal Güneş
17 Flag of Turkey GK Oğuz Dağlaroğlu
19 Flag of Guinea FW Kaba Diawara
No. Position Player
21 Flag of Turkey MF Erdal Kılıçarslan
22 Flag of Argentina MF Christian Rodrigo Zurita
23 Flag of Turkey MF Ekrem Dağ
26 Flag of Turkey DF Faruk Bayar
27 Flag of Turkey DF Orhan Taşdelen
34 Flag of Turkey MF Aytek Aşıkoğlu
36 Flag of Turkey MF Özgür Yıldırım
41 Flag of Turkey DF Engin Öztonga
50 Flag of Turkey FW Veysel Cihan
54 Flag of Turkey DF Mahmut Hanefi Erdoğdu (on loan from Fenerbahçe)
77 Flag of Turkey MF Göksel Akıncı

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