Çaykur Rizespor

Çaykur Rizespor

Full name	Çaykur Rizespor Kulübü
Nickname(s)	Karadeniz Atmacası (The Black Sea Sparrowhawk)
Founded	19 May 1953 (1953-05-19)
Ground	Çaykur Didi Stadyumu Rize, Turkey
Ground Capacity	15,558
Chairman	Metin Kalkavan
Manager	Hikmet Karaman
League	Süper Lig
2014–15	Süper Lig, 14th
Home colours Away colours Third colours

Çaykur Rizespor is a Turkish sports club based in Rize. Çaykur Rizespor is currently playing in the Turkish Süper Lig. The club was founded on May 19, 1953 in green-yellow colours and had professionalship status in 1968 as Rizespor and changed its colours to blue-green. 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. Rizespor changed their name to Çaykur Rizespor, ahead of the 1990–91 season. The club plays its home games in Yeni Rize Şehir Stadium.^[1]

Rize İdman Yurdu

In the first anniversary year of the salvation from Russian occupation, the young generation of Rize found the first sports club of Rize in 1953. At first, the club was named Rize Idman Yurdu. In 1953, Suphi Bey and İsmail Kentay, a senior security chief in Ankara, were both highly involved laying the foundations of the club. The other founders were listed as Kalamozlu Ali Bey, Ali Kemal Kavrakoğlu, Memiş Kanburoğlu, Hamdi Tuzcuoğlu, Sadettin Türüt, Sabri Kolçak, Acente İbrahim, Lazoğlu Ahmet Bey. These people arranged a local with two rooms right next to the municipality building of Rize, where the club operated it's bureaucratic accounts. Rize İdman Yurdu participated in two different sports branches which were football and gymnastic. Meanwhile, an institution of music was also found, leading the first band of Rize. The entire instruments were gifted by the deputy of Lazistan, Süleyman Sudi Sofuoğlu Bey.^[2]

Şark İdman Ocağı

On June 25, 1923, Şark İdman Ocağı started to function at the property of a hotel called Barış Hotel. It was another soccer club found in Rize. The members of the council of founding fathers were Ali Kemal Kavrakoğlu, Rıfkı Tuzcuoğlu, İshak Turnaoğlu, Hamdullah Şadoğlu, Hasan Biber, Riyazi Diren and Kamil Karadeniz. "Even though fanatical groups took place back in the days, the existence of two rival clubs, functioning in one city, have always attracted an increasing capacity of spectators." ^[2]

The First Domestic Rivals

On 7 November 1923, Şarkı İdman Ocağı won the rival match 1-0. The referee was İsmet Bey, the Lieutenant of the 7th Regiment Officer.^[2]

Foundation

A committee of 5 people, Yakup Temizel, Atıf Taviloğlu, İsmet Bilsel, Yaşar Tümbekçioğlu and Muharrem Kürkçü, founded the club on 19 May 1953 at the 34th anniversary year of the start of Independence War. The intention was to enhance the physical and cultural talents of the youth as well as to contribute to the developments of Rize.^[1] Domestic cultivation of lemon citruses and oranges labeled the club colour to be yellow and being Rize's symbol, tea gardens, represented the colour green.^[1]

One of the founding members, Yaşar Dömlekçioğlu, was chosen the first president of the club.

During the amateur league years through 1953 to 1968, local-born players such as Ahmet Durmuş, Kenan Tiryaki, Mustafa Erol, İrfan Akaslan, Mahmut Salih Yavuz, Salih Kazancı, Ahmet Kemal Yavuz, Hamil Kazancı, Mustafa Veziroğlu, Yılmaz Özkan, Yılmaz Balta, Ahmet Fenci, Ekif Fence, Oktay Arayıcı, Abdullah Kıtır, Mustafa Kazdal, Abdullah Şeker and Ömer Çakır played for Rizespor. With the regulation changes in 1968, the club formed a professional club structure by the association of two clubs, Rize Güneşspor and Fenergençlik.The club started from the third division with the colours blue and green. At the end of a competitive season, as a result of a fight inside the game the club got punished with a forfeit as well as a deduction of 2 points which bereaved Rizespor from promotion that season. The punishment was the first time in the Turkish football history. In the coming period, the club did not get relegated and in 1978-1979, Rizespor won the title and qualified to play in the Turkish Süper Lig for the first time in the club history.^[1]

Firsts in the History of Rizespor

First Transfers

Rizespor spent 367 thousand liras to transfer Salim, Rasim, Mustafa, Sabahattin (Erzincan Şekerspor), Ahmet, Atilla (Giresunspor), Hakkı, Yücel (Rizegücü), Ahmet (Petrol Ofisi Spor), Salih (Kastamonuspor), Mustafa (Samsunspor), İbrahim (Trabzonspor), Tuncay, Yüksel (Sarıyer), Şenol (Beşiktaş), Cevat, Kadir, B.Cevat, Enver, Lokman (Rize Çayspor). Rizespor paid a monthly wage of 10 thousand liras.^[1]

First Manager

Şenol Birol got hired as the first manager of the club. He was in manager/player status.

Facilities

Since 2008 Mehmet Cengiz Sosyal Tesisleri are the facilities of Rizespor. The facilities function as accommodation and sports centre within European standards. ^[3]

Local participitations

• Süper Lig

1979–81, 1985–89, 2000–02, 2003–08, 2013–

• TFF First League

1974–79, 1981–85, 1989–93, 1994–00, 2002–03, 2008–13

• TFF Second League

1968–74, 1993–94

European history

UEFA Intertoto Cup

Season	Round	Country	Club	Home	Away	Aggregate
2001	2R		FK Pobeda	0–2	1–2	1–4

Players

Current squad

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

No. Position Player 1 GK Charles Itandje 2 DF Godfrey Oboabona 3 DF Ousmane Viera 4 DF Koray Altınay 5 DF Ertuğrul Ersoy (on loan from Bursaspor) 6 MF Robin Yalçın 7 MF Sercan Kaya 8 FW Patryk Tuszyński 9 FW Léonard Kweuke 10 MF Nika Dzalamidze 11 DF Eren Albayrak 14 MF Ludovic Sylvestre

No. Position Player 16 MF Cédric Makiadi 17 FW Mehmet Akyüz 21 MF Murat Duruer 23 GK Gökhan Akkan 53 DF Dhurgham Ismail 55 MF Ümit Korkmaz 63 FW Deniz Kadah 77 DF Orhan Ovacıklı 78 MF Ahmet İlhan Özek 80 DF Ümit Kurt 98 GK Mert Kuleli 99 FW Teddy Chevalier

Out on loan

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

No. Position Player DF Oğuzhan Berber (at Samsunspor until 30 June 2016) FW Ozan Papaker (at Tuzlaspor until 30 June 2016)

Notable players

Managers

Manager	Years
Şenol Birol	1968–69
Ahmet Şamlıoğlu	1969–70
Minacettin Barut	1970–72
Gazanfer Olcayto	1972–74
Turgut Kafkas	1974–75
Suat Mamat	1975–76
Tekin Yolaç	1976–77
İlhan Uralgil	1977
Erdoğan Gürhan	1977–78
Gürsel Aksel	1978–79
Zeynel Soyuer	1979–80
Cevdet Soyluoğlu	1980–81
Halil Güngördü	1981
Turgut Kafkas	1981–82
Tezcan Uzcan	1982–83
Suphi Varol	1983–84
Cesarettin Alptekin	1984–85
Enver Katip	1985–86
Nedim Günar	1986–87
Fethi Demican	1987–88
Davut Şahin	1988

Manager	Years
Adolf Remy	1988–89
Cesarettin Alptekin	1989–90
Enver Katip	1990–92
Numan Zafer Kanburoğlu	1992–93
Giray Bulak	1993–95
Ömer Kadri Özcan	1995–96
Ömer Kaner	1996
Ali Kemal Denizci	1996–97
Yaşar Elmas	1997–98
Celal Kıbrızlı	1998–99
Hikmet Karaman	1999
Cem Pamiroğlu	1999–00
Rasim Kara	29 Feb 2000–30 April 00
Karol Pecze	30 June 2000–30 April 02
Fuat Yaman	2002–03
Hikmet Karaman	1 July 2003–30 June 04
Yılmaz Vural	5 Feb 2004–31 March 04
Rıza Çalımbay	1 June 2004–31 Jan 05
Erdoğan Arıca	1 Feb 2005–30 June 05
Metin Yıldız	31 July 2005–30 Sept 05
Sakıp Özberk	7 Oct 2005–12 Dec 05

Manager	Years
Güvenç Kurtar	12 Dec 2005–11 Sept 06
Safet Sušić	15 Sept 2006–18 Dec 06
Rıza Çalımbay	26 Dec 2006–19 June 07
Samet Aybaba	20 June 2007–20 Aug 07
Safet Sušić	30 Aug 2007–31 Jan 08
Erdoğan Arıca	1 Feb 2008–28 April 08
Metin Diyadin	2 June 2008–26 Dec 08
Suat Kaya	5 Jan 2009–7 Feb 09
Raşit Çetiner	12 Feb 2009–11 June 09
Hasan Vezir	29 June 2009–29 Nov 09
Oktay Çevik	29 June 2009–29 Nov 09
Mehmet Şansal	3 Dec 2009–1 Feb 10
Ümit Kayıhan	2 Feb 2010–24 May 11
Hüseyin Kalpar	31 May 2011–12 Feb 12
Giray Bulak	17 Feb 2012–10 June 12
Engin Korukır	16 June 2012–9 Dec 12
Mustafa Denizli	21 Dec 2012–24 May 13
Rıza Çalımbay	31 May 2013–9 Feb 14
Uğur Tütüneker	14 Feb 2014–17 May 14
Mehmet Özdilek	20 June 2014–7 Dec 14
Hikmet Karaman	14 Dec 2014–

Presidents

References

External links

• Official Website
• rizesporlular