Konyaspor

Torku Konyaspor

Full name	Torku Konyaspor Kulübü
Nickname(s)	Anadolu Kartalı (Anatolian Eagle) Yeşil Beyaz (The Green & Whites)
Founded	1922 (reformed 1981)
Ground	Torku Arena Konya, Turkey
Capacity	42,276
Chairman	Ahmet Şan
Manager	Aykut Kocaman
League	Süper Lig
2014–15	Süper Lig, 8th
Website	Club home page
Home colours Away colours Third colours

Konyaspor is a professional Turkish football club based in Konya. Konyaspor currently play in the Turkish Süper Lig. The club was founded in 1922 but then reformed in 1981. The club colours are green and white and they play their home games at New Konya Stadium.

History

Konyaspor was founded officially in 1922 with the name Konya Gençlerbirliği. In 1965 the club combined with Meramspor, Selçukspor ve Çimentospor and took the name Konyaspor with black and white as the team colors, and started their first season in the Turkish 2nd League. Konyaspor then changed to green and white as the team colours after its merger in 1981 with the cross-town rival Konya İdmanyurdu. The new team adopted the name of Konyaspor and colors of Konya İdmanyurdu.

In 1987–1988 Konyaspor became the champions of the second league and were promoted to the first league for the first time in history. Konyaspor lasted 5 seasons in the first league. They played 160 official matches. They ended up with 47 wins, 33 draws and 80 losses. During the same season Konyaspor made it to the semi-finals of the Turkish Cup losing to eventual champions Beşiktaş J.K. In 1992–1993, the club was relegated back to the second league. After spending 10 seasons in the second division, Konyaspor returned to Turkcell Super League as the title holders of the Second Division with 68 points in 2003. During the 2003/04 season Konyaspor made it to the quarter finals of the Turkish Cup, but then lost to eventual champions Trabzonspor 2–1 during extra time.

In 2004/05 Konyaspor advanced to the quarter finals beating Beşiktaş 3–1, but then lost to Denizlispor 5–4 on penalty shoot-outs.

Despite the 3–0 home win against Ankaraspor, Konyaspor couldn't avoid relegation as they remained 16th in the table with 38 points which meant their relegation from the Turkish Super League in 2009. Konyaspor was in the Super League since 2003.

However, Konyaspor completed the TFF First League 6th and secured a position in the Promotion Play-Offs in 2010. Konyaspor then won the Promotion Play-Offs and made an immadiate return to the Super League after 1 year. They finished the Play-Offs 1st with 7 points beating Adanaspor 3–1 in the first game, Karsiyaka S.K. 1–0 in the second and drawing with Altay S.K. 2–2 in the final match.^[1]

League Participations

• Süper Lig : 1988–93, 2003–09, 2010–11, 2013–
• TFF First League: 1965–69, 1971–79, 1980–88, 1993–03, 2009–10, 2011–2013
• TFF Second League: 1969–71, 1979–80

Honours

• TFF First League:
  • Winners (3): 1988, 2003, 2010
• TSYD Cup:
  • Winners (4):

Stadium

New Konya Stadium

New Konya Stadium is a multi-use stadium in Konya, Turkey. It replaced the ageing Konya Atatürk Stadium at the end of 2013, which has been in use since the early 1950s. The stadium has a capacity of nearly 38.656 people (all-seated) and is totally covered.

Players

Current squad

As of 17 February 2016^[2]

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 Kaya Tarakçı 2 DF Volkan Fındıklı 4 DF Ali Turan 5 DF Selim Ay 6 MF Samuel Holmén (on loan from Fenerbahçe) 7 MF Ömer Ali Şahiner 8 MF Ali Çamdalı 9 FW Dimitar Rangelov 12 MF Abdou Razack Traoré (on loan from Karabükspor) 14 MF Marc Kibong Mbamba 15 MF Emre Can Atila 17 MF Alban Meha 18 MF Amir Hadžiahmetović

No. Position Player 21 DF Barry Douglas 23 MF Selçuk Alibaz 25 FW Riad Bajić 26 DF Jagoš Vuković 30 GK Serkan Kırıntılı 32 MF Tomáš Borek 33 MF Ibrahim Sissoko 42 DF Abdülkerim Bardakçı 50 GK Emre Selen (on loan from Yeni Malatyaspor) 54 DF Mehmet Uslu 61 FW Halil Ibrahim Sonmez 89 DF Nejc Skubic 99 GK Ataberk Gürgen

Coaching staff

Position	Name
Manager	Aykut Kocaman
Sporting Director	Murat Erdoğan
Coach	Fahrudin Omerovic
Coach	Turgay Altay
Coach	Arda Keskin
Coach	Barış Karakoç
Coach	Hakan Baygın
Coach	Alper Aşçı
Coach	Cihan Önal
Coach	Atilla Gerin

Managerial history

From-to	Names
2004–2005	Safet Sušić
2005–2006	Aykut Kocaman
2006–2007	Nurullah Sağlam
2007–2008	Raşit Çetiner / Giray Bulak
2009–2010	Hüsnü Özkara / Fuat Yaman
2010–2011	Ziya Doğan
2011–2012	Osman Özdemir
2012–2013	Hüsnü Özkara / Uğur Tütüneker
2013–2014	Mesut Bakkal
2014–	Aykut Kocaman

Recent seasons

Season	Div.	Pos.	Pl.	W	D	L	GS	GA	P	Cup	Manager
2005/06	TSL	7	34	12	10	12	39	43	46	QF	Aykut Kocaman
2006/07	TSL	9	34	12	9	13	42	44	45		Nurullah Sağlam
2007/08	TSL	14	34	10	6	18	37	64	36		Ünal Karaman / Raşit Çetiner
2008/09	TSL	16	34	10	8	16	35	46	38		Raşit Çetiner / Giray Bulak
2009/10	1.Lig	3	34	15	10	9	42	37	55		Hüsnü Özkara / Ziya Doğan
2010/11	TSL	17	34	4	12	18	28	49	24		Ziya Doğan / Yılmaz Vural
2011/12	1.Lig	5	34	16	11	7	35	25	59		Osman Özdemir

Presidents

According to official web site.^[3]

Name	From–to
Mehmet Köseoğlu	2002–2004
Ahmet Șan	2004–2007
Mustafa Yayla	2007–08
Mehmet Ali Kuntoğlu	2008–09
Bahattin Karapınar	2009–11
Ahmet Şan	2011–

References

1. Tarihçe konyaspor.org.tr (Turkish), accessed 23 May 2010
2. "Konyaspor". FootballSquads. Retrieved 17 February 2016.
3. "Baskanlarimiz". konyaspor.org.tr (in Turkish) (Konyaspor). 23 July 2012. Retrieved 23 July 2012.

External links

• Official website (Turkish)

See also