Büyükşehir Belediye Ankaraspor

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Ankaraspor

Full name

Nickname(s)

Leoparlar (The Leopards)

Founded

1978

Ground

Ankara 19 Mayıs
Ankara, Turkey
(Capacity 19,125)

Chairman

İ. Hilmi Gökçınar

Manager

Aykut Kocaman

League

Turkcell Super League

2007-08

Turkcell Super League, 10th





Home colours





Away colours

Ankaraspor or Büyükşehir Belediye Ankaraspor (often abbreviated B.B. Ankaraspor) is a Turkish football club based in the Turkish capital Ankara. Ankaraspor is currently playing in Turkish Premier Super League. The club has many sub-divisions branching from its main football division. They include badminton, basketball, boxing, handball, ice hockey, judo, oil wrestling, table tennis, wrestling.

[edit] Name changes

Ankaraspor has gone throughout several name changes throughout its history. The first name, starting from the club's foundation in 1978, was Ankara Belediyespor. In 1994, it was changed to Ankara Büyükşehir Belediyespor. The name was simply switched around to Büyükşehir Belediye Ankaraspor in 1998. Finally, in 2005, they changed to their current name, Ankaraspor.

[edit] Current squad

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

As of June 6, 2008:

No.	Position	Player
2	DF	Fredrik Risp
4	DF	Muhammet Hanifi Yoldaş
7	MF	Anıl Taşdemir
8	FW	Tita
9	FW	Murat Tosun
10	FW	Mehmet Yılmaz
12	GK	Erhan Kuşkapan
16	DF	Ediz Bahtiyaroğlu
17	MF	Serol Demirhan
18	FW	Tevfik Köse
19	FW	Bilal Kisa
20	MF	Özer Hurmacı
	DF	Erhan Güven

No.	Position	Player
22	GK	Haluk Tanrıseven
23	FW	Antonio de Nigris
30	DF	Radoslav Batak
34	GK	Štefan Senecký
36	MF	Serdar Güneş
37	DF	Uğur Demirkol
50	MF	Hürriyet Güçer
53	FW	Ferdi Elmas
55	GK	Gökhan Tokgöz
61	DF	Eren Aydın
66	MF	Adem Koçak
79	MF	Neca
99	MF	Umut Sözen