Kocaelispor

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Kocaelispor

Full name

Kocaelispor Kulübü

Nickname(s)

Yeşil Şimşekler
(Green Lightnings)

Founded

1966

Ground

Ismet Paşa Stadium,
İzmit, Turkey

Capacity

16,500

Chairman

Orhan Görsen^[1]

Manager

Bülent Baturman^[2]

League

TFF Third League,

2011–12

TFF Second League White Group, 17th

Home colours

Away colours

Kocaelispor, is the football team of İzmit, Turkey. They were founded in 1966 and played in the Turkish football league between 1980–1988 and 1992–2003. The best result for them was the 4th position in 1992–93 season. They won Turkish Cup twice in 1997 and 2002.

History

Foundation

Prior to establishment of Kocaelispor, the Executive board representatives of Baçspor, a local football club, had demanded a new plat from İzmit Municipality to assure a place for training the sports in 1957. Osman Gencal, city mayor at the time, had been interested in finding a place for training due to his sportive background as a former sportsman and a member of Baçspor.^[3] Therefore, the municipality had given a 28-acre (110,000 m²) wide plat to Baçspor, as the plat had been sold for a symbolic cost of 1 Lira.

Baçspor had sold the plat for 283,000 Liras and had a new place in Baç district of İzmit; and begun to a new construction. In 1964, Baçspor club board planned to found a new team at professional level and compete in 2nd Division.^[3] However, federation regulation of that time was stating that it was required to compound at least 3 teams and have appropriate facilities. Then, in 1966, three teams which are Baçspor, İzmit Gençlik and Doğanspor had come together, combined and founded Kocaelispor. Three club boards had consensus on every subject and embraced the green and black as the club colours. Then, it had been held a club congress in common and the new club board had been elected. Kocaelispor had spent 175,000 Liras to gather their first squad ever to compete in 2nd Division in 1966.^[3]

Kocaelispor was promoted to the 1st Division for the first time in 1980. They competed 8 seasons consecutively until their relegation in 1988. However, during this phase, the club has relegated once in 1986–87 season and come back after a Turkish Council of State verdict.^[4]

1992–93 season: Legendary Roster

After the relegation in 1988, they escaped from relegation to third level in 1990 and Bartınspor relegated. They were back in top level football campaign of Turkey, 1st Division, in 1992. Following this comeback, Kocaelispor had obtained their best league position performance. The team had a sensational start for the season. Beating Kayserispor with a 7–2 final score in 1st match day, collecting 31 points in first 10 weeks, Kocaelispor ended the first half of the fixture as the league leader. However, team had consecutive defeats and finished the season as the 4th of the ladder of 1992–93 season. The team represented Turkey at UEFA Cup next season.

The manager of team was Güvenç Kurtar and the roster was including respectable players. Fahrudin Omerović was the substitute keeper of Yugoslavia squad. Stevica Kuzmanovski and Mirko Mirković (latterly gained Turkish citizenship with name Mert Meriç) are other Yugoslav players in defence position. Bülent Uygun had played at forward position alongside national striker Saffet Sancaklı. Both players then joined Istanbul clubs. Uygun achieved league top scorer honour while playing for Fenerbahçe and Sancaklı first joined Galatasaray but returned the club in 1995 and at the end of season, he joined Fenerbahçe. Bülent Baturman, Halil İbrahim Kara, Melih Erdem, Ergun Kula are some of other notable players at that squad.

Recent history

Kocaelispor had achieved another successful league position in 1995–96 season as the 5th best team on the table and competed at Intertoto Cup on following season.

Kocaelispor had the Turkish Cup title twice, in 1997 and 2002 against Trabzonspor and Beşiktaş, respectively. On following season of 2002–03, the team has been relegated again as finishing last. After total of 5 seasons competition at TFF First League, Kocaelispor had the championship in 2007–08 season and returned Süper Lig. However, this return lasted one season due to money shortage and relegated again to First League after lost 3–1 home match against Trabzonspor on May 9, 2009 at Round 31 as finishing 17th. Kocaelispor relegated to TFF Second League, third tier of Turkish football once after 2–1 losing away match against Kartalspor on April 4, 2010.

Kocaelispor were managed by 3 managers during 2007–2008 season: Fuat Yaman (from 1st–10th weeks), Kayhan Çubuklu (11th–31st) and Engin İpekoğlu (32nd–34th). They returned to Turkcell Super League as the title holders of last TFF First League season. However, this promotion was followed by successive two relegations and they played TFF Second League once in 2010–11 season.

Supporters

Kocaelispor boasts a large support base throughout Turkey, particularly in Marmara Region and Black Sea Region. The club's main fan base known as Hodri Meydan.^[5]

Former sponsors

Bank Asya (2009-2010)
Hyundai^[6]^[7] (2008-2009)

Achievements

Turkish Cup
- Winners (2): 1997, 2002

TFF First League
- Winners (3): 1980, 1992, 2008

Kocaelispor in Europe

UEFA Cup Winners' Cup:

Season	Round	Country	Club	Home	Away	Aggregate
1997-98	1R		FC Naţional Bucureşti	2-0	1–0	3-0
1997-98	2R		Lokomotiv Moscow	0-0	1–2	0-0

UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League:

Season	Round	Country	Club	Home	Away	Aggregate
1993-94	1R		Sporting CP	0-0	0–2	0-2
2002-03	1R		Ferencváros	0-1	0–4	0-5

UEFA Intertoto Cup:

Season	Round	Club	Home	Away	Aggregate
1996	GS	CSKA Sofia	1-3		4th place
	GS	Strasbourg		1–1
	GS	Hibernians	5-3
	GS	Uralmash		0–2
1999	2R	Ventspils	2-0	1–1	3-1
1999	3R	MSV Duisburg	0-3	0–0	0-3
2000	1R	FK Atlantas	0-1	1–0	1-1 (4-5 p.)

Current squad

According to official club web site, as of 30 September 2011^[8]

Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No.	Position	Player
33	GK	Muhammed Rıza Altıntaş
1	GK	Samet Han
26	GK	Emirhan Kılınç
4	DF	Koray Göksu
5	DF	Taha Bartu Bulut
6	DF	Sercan Uslu
53	DF	Osman Kandemir
11	DF	Korhan İşeri
34	DF	Ebubekir Şentürk
14	DF	Metehan Gündoğdu
63	MF	Sergen Yıldırım

No.	Position	Player
	MF	Mert Yavuz
8	MF	Ozan Güneş
23	MF	Melih Ahmet Kaçar
41	MF	Emre Kurtoğlu
	MF	Mustafa Ertuğ
	MF	Aliberk Tetik
	MF	Yasin Çağan
	MF	Kerem Çalıloğlu
91	MF	Serhat Öztürk
99	MF	Emre Akgün

No.	Position	Player
10	MF	Berkay Arslan
77	MF	Sefa Narin
29	MF	Yolcu Mansız
	FW	Burak Özgür Subaşı
18	FW	Barış Civelek

Notable players

Former managers

References

↑ "İsmetpaşa - Kocaelispor - Kulüp Bilgiler- - TFF". tff.org. Retrieved 2011-09-30. (Turkish)
↑ "Kocaelispor Futbol Takımı 2011/2012 @Mackolik.com". mackolk.com. Retrieved 2011-09-30. (Turkish)
↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Kocaelispor Official Website (Turkish)
↑ Kocaelispor Supporters Group (Turkish)
↑ Başkan Serhan Gürkan’dan, muhalefete ‘Hodri meydan (Turkish)
↑ "Hyundai ile Sponsorluk Anlaşması". kocaelispor.org. 2008-09-25. Retrieved 2011-10-21. (Turkish)
↑ "Hyundai Kocaelispor'a sponsor oldu!". ajansspor.com. 2008-09-26. Retrieved 2011-10-21. (Turkish)
↑ "Kocaelispor Kulübü Resmi İnternet Sitesi - Futbolcular". kocaelispor.org.tr. Retrieved 2011-09-30. (Turkish)

"Kocaelispor Kulübü | Resmi İnternet Sitesi". Kocaelispor.com.tr. Retrieved 2012-10-19.

External links

(Turkish) official website
(Turkish) Fans videos website
(Turkish) and (English)Official website of Kocaelisor

v t e Turkish Cup

Seasons	1962–63 1963–64 1964–65 1965–66 1966–67 1967–68 1968–69 1969–70 1970–71 1971–72 1972–73 1973–74 1974–75 1975–76 1976–77 1977–78 1978–79 1979–80 1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87 1987–88 1988–89 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95 1995–96 1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–00 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14

Finals	1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014

Winners	Galatasaray (14) Beşiktaş (9) Trabzonspor (8) Fenerbahçe (6) Altay (2) Ankaragücü (2) Gençlerbirliği (2) Göztepe (2) Kocaelispor (2) Bursaspor (1) Eskişehirspor (1) Kayserispor (1) Sakaryaspor (1)

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