Altınordu F.K.

Altınordu F.K.
Full name Altınordu Futbol Kulübü
Founded 1923
Ground İzmir Atatürk Stadium
Ground Capacity 51,295
Chairman Seyit Mehmet Özkan
Manager Hüseyin Eroğlu
League TFF First League

Altınordu Futbol Kulübü (formerly known as Altınordu Spor Kulübü) is a football club based in İzmir, Turkey. It was founded in 1923 as a breakaway from Altay SK. Team colours are red and navy. They club also had a basketball team and played in Turkish Basketball League. They won the league in the 1966–67 season.

Another club founded out of Altay SK is Göztepe S.K. in 1925. Altınordu merged with Altay SK and Bucaspor between 1937–1939 and renamed as Üçokspor. Altınordu played in the First League between 1959–1965 and 1966–1970. The team declined slowly after 1968 and relegated to the third league in 1978. It returned to the second league the next year and remained 13 seasons in it. It declined again since 1991 and lost her professional status in 1995–96 season. It regained one league after matches of Amateur Football Championship in Trabzon in 2003. The team's performance improved season by season and it missed directly promotion by goal difference only against Konya Şekerspor in the third group of the third league in 2007–2008 season. It participated in extra play-off matches in Trabzon and was promoted to the second league (which is the third tier of the Turkish League) after beating both Bingöl Belediyespor and Keçiörengücü by 1:0. However, the spell in the second league was not successful and the team was again relegated to the third league after drawing with Fethiyespor 2–2 at an away match on May 9.

League Participations

Current squad

Updated 5 January 2016 Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player
1 Turkey GK Ramazan Üstündağ
2 Turkey DF Uğur Arslan Kuru
4 Turkey DF Çağlar Söyüncü
5 Turkey DF Sinan Osmanoğlu
6 Azerbaijan MF Timur Temeltaş
8 Turkey MF Serkan Göksu
9 Turkey MF Yener Arıca
10 Turkey FW Göksu Türkdoğan
11 Turkey MF Erdoğan Yeşilyurt
12 Turkey FW Fatih Aktay
14 Turkey DF Alican Özfesli
No. Position Player
15 Turkey GK Tolgahan Acar
17 Turkey FW Cengiz Ünder
19 Turkey MF Arif Morkaya
20 Turkey MF Berk Erel
22 Turkey GK Erce Kardeşler
27 Turkey DF Kerim Alıcı
41 Turkey MF Berkay Samancı
48 Turkey MF Alim Harlak
55 Turkey DF Yusuf Abdioğlu
61 Turkey DF Emre Kara
72 Turkey FW Ahmet Ari
99 Turkey FW Murat Yılmaz

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