Göztepe S.K.

Göztepe SK

Full name

Göztepe Spor Kulübü

Nickname(s)

Göz Göz
Tam 35

Founded

14 June 1925
as Göztepe Gençlik Kulübü

Ground

İzmir Atatürk Stadium

Capacity

51,295^[1]

Chairman

Mehmet Sepil

Manager

Önder Özen

League

TFF First League

2014–15

TFF Second League, 1st

Website

Club home page

Home colours

Away colours

Third colours

Göztepe SK are a Turkish sports club in Güzelyalı, İzmir.

History

The club was founded in 1925 as a breakaway club from Altay. Their colours are red and yellow. They merged with İzmirspor and were renamed as Doğanspor in 1937. Some supporters of İzmirspor opposed the merger and founded Ateşspor in 1938. Doğanspor was renamed again as Göztepe in 1939. Ateşspor was also renamed as İzmirspor the same year.

The club enjoyed their best success between the years 1963 and 1971 under the supervision of the coach Adnan Suvari. Their '11' during that period of success is still remembered today: Ali Artuner, Mehmet "Junior" Işıkal, Çağlayan Derebaşı, Hüseyin Yazıcı, Mehmet "Senior" Aydın, Nevzat "English" Guzelırmak, Nihat Yayöz, Ertan Öznur, Fevzi Zemzem, Gürsel Aksel, Halil Kiraz.

Since 2002, Göztepe has lived through financial problems and difficulties. Due to the inability to reduce their outstanding debt, the football club has been banned from signing new players, which resulted in a free-fall with the team being relegated four times in the last 5 seasons. On April 21, 2007, they lost their last home game 2–0 against Aliağa Belediyespor in Turkish 3rd Division and were relegated to the Izmir Super Amateur Division.

On August 20, 2007, the club was sold in an auction to an Istanbul-based business conglomerate Altınbaş Group. The new owner, businessman İmam Altınbaş, has vowed to take Göztepe SK back to the Turkish Super League, making them one of the top five clubs in Turkish football. The new owners of the club have been met by the local fan base with some suspicion, although there have been recent calls for solidarity and cooperation under the new ownership.

Göztepe SK are one of the last examples of an authentic neighborhood club, located in the Güzelyalı neighborhood of İzmir. They have one of the most devoted and die-hard fan bases in Turkey, despite their recent downfall. In terms of their fan base and attendance figures for their games, they are only behind the three Istanbul teams (Fenerbahçe, Galatasaray and Beşiktaş). Their games in the Amateur Division attract more fans than most clubs in the Turkish Super League.

The team competed in the Turkish Amateur Championship for the 2007–08 season but were eliminated by Ayazağaspor after a 6–5 penalty kick shootout in Eskişehir. However, Aliağa Belediyespor merged with Göztepe, so that they took place of Aliağa Belediyespor in the Third League on June 18, 2008. They played in TFF Third League – Group 2 in 2008–09 season and finished 1st in group as qualified to Promotion Group. Göztepe made successful matches in Promotion Group and guaranteed promotion to Second League after beating Lüleburgazspor 2–0 at away before remaining 3 weeks to finishing normal season. Göztepe beat 2–0 Tepecik Belediyespor at home match on May 19, 2009 and crowned as Third League champions.

After finishing TFF Second League as 8th-placed in 2009–10, Göztepe SK won the Second League White Group trophy and were promoted to TFF First League at the end of 2010–11 season.

Rivalries

The main rivals of Göztepe are another Izmir club, Karşıyaka S.K.. When the two teams played on May 16, 1981 while pursuing the Turkish Second Division title, the game attracted an audience of 80,000 people. The Guinness Book of World Records recognizes this milestone as a world record for a Second Division football game and The Guardian published an article named "The biggest non-top-flight attendance ever"^[2] including this match. It is one of the most fiercely contested derbies in the world.

They also have a rivalry with the other large clubs in Izmir, Altay SK and Bucaspor.

League participations

Göztepe SK's classic home kit

First Level (Now Spor Toto Super League): 1959–77, 1978–80, 1981–82, 1999–00, 2001–03
Second Level (Now Bank Asya First League): 1977–78, 1980–81, 1982–99, 2000–01, 2003–04, 2011–
Third Level (Now TFF Second League): 2004–05, 2009–11
Fourth Level (Now TFF Third League): 2005–07, 2008–09
Turkish Regional Amateur League:' 2007–08

Participations in Super League and Cups

Season	Pos.	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	Pts	Cup	Europe
1958–1959	4	14	5	5	4	23	21	15
1959–60	14	38	9	14	15	35	41	32
1960–61	13	38	12	10	16	40	53	34
1961–62	7	38	12	17	9	46	42	41
1962–63	7	20	8	3	9	27	25	19
1963–64	5	34	14	12	8	39	31	40
1964–65	4	30	11	9	10	31	33	31		UCUP	1st round
1965–66	5	30	12	8	10	33	27	32		UCUP	2nd round
1966–67	4	32	14	10	8	47	31	38	runner-up	UCUP	1st round
1967–68	4	32	13	9	10	46	34	35		UCUP	3rd round
1968–69	7	30	9	12	9	30	26	30	winner	UCUP	semi-final
1969–70	5	30	12	11	7	33	29	35	winner	UCWC	quarter-final
1970–71	3	30	14	9	7	38	21	37		UCWC	2nd round
1971–72	9	30	10	9	11	32	32	29
1972–73	8	30	11	8	11	33	31	30
1973–74	13	30	8	10	12	24	28	26
1974–75	14	30	4	17	9	23	37	25
1975–76	14	30	7	12	11	31	32	26
1976–77	15	30	8	9	13	21	31	25
1978–79	10	30	9	10	11	30	31	28
1979–80	1	30	8	11	11	27	33	27
1981–82	1	32	4	8	20	17	53	16
1999-00	1	34	7	5	22	26	54	26
2001–02	1	34	12	9	13	38	56	45
2002–03	1	34	5	11	18	32	57	26

Pos. = Position; Pld = Matches played; W = Won; D = Drawn; L = Lost; GF = Goals For; GA = Goals Against; Pts = Points
UCUP = UEFA Cup; UCWC = UEFA Cup Winners' Cup; Cup = Fortis Turkey Cup

European Matches

Season	Home		Away	1st Leg	2nd Leg	Tournament
1964–65	Göztepe	-	Petrolul Ploieşti	0–1	1–2	UEFA Cup	1st round
1965–66	Göztepe	-	TSV 1860 München	2–1	1–9	UEFA Cup	2nd round
1966–67	Göztepe	-	Bologna FC	1–2	1–3	UEFA Cup	1st round
1967–68	R. Antwerp FC	-	Göztepe	1–2	0–0	UEFA Cup	1st round
	Atlético Madrid	-	Göztepe	2–0	0–3	UEFA Cup	2nd round
	FK Vojvodina	-	Göztepe	1–0	1–0	UEFA Cup	3rd round
1968–69	Göztepe	-	Olympique de Marseille	2–0	0–2 (aet) (c)	UEFA Cup	1st round
	Göztepe	-	FC Argeş Piteşti	3–0	2–3	UEFA Cup	2nd round
	OFK Beograd	-	Göztepe	3–1	0–2	UEFA Cup	3rd round
	Göztepe	-	Hamburger SV	w/o	w/o	UEFA Cup	Quarter-final
	Göztepe	-	Újpest FC	1–4	0–4	UEFA Cup	Semi-final
1969–70	Göztepe	-	US Luxembourg	3–0	3–2	UEFA Cup Winners' Cup	1st round
	Göztepe	-	Cardiff City	3–0	0–1	UEFA Cup Winners' Cup	2nd round
	A.S. Roma	-	Göztepe	2–0	0–0	UEFA Cup Winners' Cup	Quarter-final
1970–71	Göztepe	-	US Luxembourg	5–0	0–1	UEFA Cup Winners' Cup	1st round
1970–71	Göztepe	-	Górnik Zabrze	0–1	0–3	UEFA Cup Winners' Cup	2nd round

Football honours

International

Inter-Cities Fairs Cup
- Semi-Finalist: 1968–69
UEFA Cup Winners' Cup
- Quarter-Finalist: 1969–70

Domestic

Turkish Football Championship
- Winners (1): 1949–50
Turkish Cup
- Winners (2): 1968–69, 1969–70
- Runners-up (1): 1966–67
President Cup
- Winners (1): 1969–70
- Runners-up (1): 1968–69
Chancellor Cup
- Runners-up (1): 1949–50
Turkish Federation Cup
- Winners (1): 1962–63
TSYD Cup (Izmir)
- Winners (9): 1965, 1967, 1969, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1990, 1995, 2002
Izmir Football League
- Winners (6): 1938–39 (as Doğanspor), 1941–42, 1942–43, 1943–44, 1949–50, 1952–53
First Level
- Third (1): 1970–71
- Fourth (4): 1959, 1964–65, 1966–67, 1967–68
Second Level
- Winners (4): 1977–78, 1980–81, 1998–99, 2000–01
Fourth Level
- Winners (1): 2008–2009

Current squad

Ali

B. Mehmet

K. Mehmet

Çağlayan

Gürsel (C)

Nevzat

Ertan

Nihat

Ceyhan

Fevzi

Halil

The "Legend" Squad^[3]
Reserves: Güngör, Ali İhsan, Cenap, Mehmet, K. Ali Coach: Adnan Süvari

As of 16 February, 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	GK	Gökhan Değirmenci
2	DF	Serkan Kurtulus
3	DF	Isa Akgöl
4	DF	Cemil Vatansever
5	MF	Kerem Seras
7	FW	Emre Aygün
8	MF	Hakan Baris
9	FW	Mirkan Aydin
10	FW	Björn Vleminckx
11	FW	Robert Maah
12	MF	Cleyton
14	MF	Nahir Besara
17	MF	Gökhan Karadeniz
19	MF	Jean-Jacques Gosso

No.	Position	Player
20	MF	Mehmet Ugurlu
22	DF	Fatih Kurucuk
23	DF	Giray Kaçar
24	DF	Hakan Arslan
26	MF	Özgür İleri
29	GK	Göktug Bakirbas
33	GK	Atacan Öztürk
41	FW	Leroy George
66	DF	Gencer Cansev
69	MF	Tuncay Kilic
77	FW	Lamine Diarra
88	FW	Serdar Özbayraktar
98	MF	Salim Iyik

Coaching staff

Name	Position
Önder Özen	Manager
Nasuf Aköz	Assistant Manager
Nihat Tümkaya	Goalkeeping Coach
Hasan Yüksel	Youth Academy Manager
Polat Sezersan	Youth Academy Coach
Melih Sapmaz	Youth Academy Coach
Tuğrul Yücel	Youth Academy Coach
Ali Sütçü	Youth Academy Coach
Nedim Akgül	Youth Academy Coach
Yasin Tunçer	Youth Academy Coach
Suat Arıcan	Youth Academy Coach

Presidents

Rahmi Filibeli (1925)
Fehmi Simsaroğlu (1925–50)
Şevket Filibeli (1950–62)
Şerif Tikveşli (1962–63)
Sebahattin Süvari (1962–63)
Saffet Kuyaş (1963–65)
Macit Birsel (1965–67)
Süleyman Filibeli (1967–68)
Sebahattin Süvari (1968–70)
Nuri Öz (1970–73)
Rüştü Ünsal (1973)

İsmail Tiryakiler (1973)
Mekin Kutucular (1973)
Nuri Öz (1974)
Mekin Kutucular (1975)
Özdemir Arnas (1976)
Orhan Daut (1976–78)
Selamet Batur (1979)
Tacettin Hiçyılmaz (1980)
Özdemir Arnas (1981)
Muzaffer Atılgan (1982–83)
Şerif Tikveşli (1984)

Özdemir Arnas (1985)
Çoşkun Gencerler (1986–87)
Halit Horozoğlu (1987)
Ömer Köymen (1988)
İbrahim Şavkar (1988)
Cemal Gözümoğulları (1989)
Özdemir Arnas (1989–92)
Kenan Bilgiç (1993)
Atilla Türkkal (1993–94)
Taşdan Erdan (1994)
Mustafa Cücen (1995)
Bülen Özkul (1996)

Levent Ürkmez (1997)
Kamil Uçar (1997)
Aydın Bilgin (1998-00)
Hamdi Türkmen (2000–02)
Feyyaz Gülmen (2002–03)
İskender Tuğsuz (2003–05)
Uğur Bostancıoğlu (2005–06)
Levent Ürkmez (2006–07)
Gündüz Balkan (2007–08)
İsmail Hakkı Gül (2008)
İmam Altınbaş (2008–2013)
Hüseyin Altınbaş (2013–2015)
Mehmet Sepil (2015-ongoing)

References

↑ "Turkish Football Federation Information Pages". Retrieved 2008-07-12.
↑ Smyth, Rob (December 6, 2006). "The biggest non-top-flight attendance ever". London: The Guardian. Retrieved May 4, 2010.
↑ "The Legend Squad" (in Turkish). Retrieved 2008-07-21.

External links

(Turkish) Official website
(Turkish) Yalı website
(Turkish) Göztepelist website
(Turkish) Uniforce website

Göztepe seasons

2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11

Turkish Super Cup

Presidential Cup	1966: Galatasaray 1967: Beşiktaş ~~1968~~: Fenerbahçe 1969: Galatasaray 1970: Göztepe 1971: Eskişehirspor 1972: Galatasaray 1973: Fenerbahçe 1974: Beşiktaş 1975: Fenerbahçe 1976: Trabzonspor 1977: Trabzonspor 1978: Trabzonspor 1979: Trabzonspor 1980: Trabzonspor 1981: Ankaragücü 1982: Galatasaray 1983: Trabzonspor 1984: Fenerbahçe 1985: Fenerbahçe 1986: Beşiktaş 1987: Galatasaray 1988: Galatasaray 1989: Beşiktaş 1990: Fenerbahçe 1991: Galatasaray 1992: Beşiktaş 1993: Galatasaray 1994: Beşiktaş 1995: Trabzonspor 1996: Galatasaray 1997: Galatasaray 1998: Beşiktaş

Super Cup	2006: Beşiktaş 2007: Fenerbahçe 2008: Galatasaray 2009: Fenerbahçe 2010: Trabzonspor ~~2011~~ 2012: Galatasaray 2013: Galatasaray 2014: Fenerbahçe 2015: Galatasaray

Winners	Galatasaray (14) Fenerbahçe (9) Beşiktaş (8) Trabzonspor (8) Ankaragücü (1) Göztepe (1) Eskişehirspor (1)

TFF First League 2015–16

Göztepe Adana Demirspor Kayseri Erciyesspor Karabükspor Balikesirspor Şanlıurfaspor Samsunspor Boluspor Altınordu Karşıyaka Elazığspor 1461 Trabzon Alanyaspor Gaziantep BB Adanaspor Denizlispor Giresunspor Malatyaspor

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 2014–15 2015–16

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 2015 2016

Winners	Galatasaray (16) 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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