Kardemir Karabükspor

Kardemir Karabükspor

Full name	Kardemir Demir Çelik Karabükspor
Nickname(s)	Mavi Ateş (Blue Flame)
Founded	1969
Ground	Dr. Necmettin Şeyhoğlu Stadium
Ground Capacity	12,400
Chairman	Hikmet Ferudun Tankut
Manager	Zoran Barišić
League	Süper Lig
2016–17	Süper Lig, 11th
Website	Club website
Home colours Away colours Third colours

Kardemir Demir Çelik Karabükspor or simply known as Kardemir Karabükspor or Karabükspor is a Turkish sports club based in Karabük, Turkey. The team was founded in 1969 after a merger between "Karabük Gençlikspor" and "Demir Çelik Spor". The club has in branches in football, wheelchair basketball and volleyball. The nickname of the club is Mavi Ateş; Blue Flame. The nickname comes from unfading blue flame coming out of one of the chimneys of Kardemir iron-steel works which is located in the entrance of the city. As the factory gives its name to the club, the team is cited as a worker's team.^[1]

History

Foundation and early history

In the year 1938, Azmi Tılabar, the head manager of the Turkish iron-steel industry, founded DÇ Gençlik Kulübü; DÇ Youth Club with grey-blue colours. In these times, the trainer of the football team was an English engineer Mr. Lain. The trainer of atlhletism was Turkish athlete Faik Önen. Moreover, Mersinli Ahmet and Yaşar Doğu were trainers of wrestling. During the 1940s, Karabükspor became a symbol in cycling, tennis and wrestling around Turkey. Starting in the 1950s, the "Karabük Gençlikspor" joined "DÇ Gençlik Kulübü" and finally, the club got its colours as red-blue.

The 1990s

In the last game of the 1993–94 season against Zeytinburnuspor, Karabükspor relegated from the Süper Lig. Karabükspor promoted to the top tier after winning the promotion play-off in the 1996–97 season. Karabükspor finished 8th in 1997–98. The next season, however, was disastrous for them as they again relegated to the second level. Karabükspor relocated to the Second League B Category in the 2001–02 season.

The 2000s

The team was promoted to the TFF First League in the 2007–08 season after a 7–0 win against Erzurumspor in the promotion group. On their 30th game of the 2009–10 season, they won 3–0 against Çaykur Rizespor which meant they were promoted to the Süper Lig after 11 years.

Past seasons

Domestic results

League participations

• Süper Lig: 1993–94, 1997–99, 2010–15, 2016–
• TFF First League: 1972–73, 1974–83, 1984–93, 1994–97, 1999–01, 2008–10, 2015–16
• TFF Second League: 1969–72, 1973–74, 1983–84, 2001–08
• Amateur Level: 1983–84

European record

Season	Competition	Round	Club	Home	Away	Aggregate
2014–15	UEFA Europa League	3Q	Rosenborg	0–0	1–1	1–1 (a)
		PO	Saint-Étienne	1–0	0–1	1–1 3–4 (pen.)

Notes

• 3Q: Third qualifying round
• PO: Play-off round

Supporters

The club are sponsored by the Kardemir company and the Iron workers unions from whom they draw a lot of their support, making it a club with true working class identity.^[2] Their ultra group is called Mavi Ateş (Blue Flame) and their motto is, Dumanlı kentin puslu çocukları (Sons of the smoky city).^[3]

Current sponsors

• Kardemir
• Çelik-iş Sendikası (Labor union of the workers in Kardemir Iron & Steel Works)

Players

Current squad

As of 12 July 2017 ^[4]

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

No. Position Player 4 DF Paul Papp 5 DF Valerică Găman 6 MF Ceyhun Gülselam 7 MF İlhan Depe 8 MF Osman Çelik (on loan from Antalyaspor) 9 FW Mustapha Yatabaré 11 DF Kerim Zengin 13 DF Dany Nounkeu (Vice-captain) 14 DF Iasmin Latovlevici 16 MF Ólafur Ingi Skúlason 17 MF André Biyogo Poko 20 MF Vladimir Rodić 22 DF Barış Başdaş 23 FW Serdar Deliktaş 24 DF Mahmut Akan 25 DF Tayyib Talha Sanuç

No. Position Player 29 FW Yevhen Seleznyov 30 MF Cristian Tănase 42 DF Hakan Aslantaş 68 MF İshak Doğan 78 GK Ahmet Şahin (Captain) 87 GK Oleksandr Rybka 97 MF Andriy Bliznichenko 99 MF Fatih Atik — FW Marius Alexe — MF Yolcu Mansız — GK Çağlar Şahin Akbaba — MF Ionuț Neagu — DF Ferhat Görgülü — MF Hamidou Traore — MF Gabriel Torje (on loan from Akhmat) — MF Gheorghe Grozav

Out on loan

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

References

1. ↑ "Soccer Vs. the State: Tackling Football and Radical Politics", PM Press, 2011, Gabriel Kuhn, p.172
2. ↑ "Soccer Vs. the State: Tackling Football and Radical Politics", PM Press, 2011, Gabriel Kuhn, p.172
3. ↑ "Karabükspor Profile". turkish-football.com. 2011. Retrieved September 1, 2011. 
4. ↑ http://www.kardemirkarabukspor.org.tr/t/a-takim

External links

• (in Turkish) Official website
• (in Turkish) Karabükspor on Turkish Football Federation website