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Çaykur Rizespor
Full name	Çaykur Rizespor Kulubu
Nickname(s)	Karadeniz Atmacası; (The Black Sea sparrow hawk)
Founded	1953
Ground	Rize Atatürk Stadı; Rize, Turkey; (Capacity: 10,459)
Chairman	Abdulkadir Çakır
Manager	Raşit Çetiner
League	Bank Asya 1. League
2008-09	Bank Asya 1. League, 9th
Home colours	Away colours

Çaykur Rizespor is a Turkish sports club based in Rize. Çaykur Rizespor is currently playing in the Bank Asya 1. League. The club was founded in 1953 in green-yellow colours and had professionalship status in 1968 as Rizespor and changed her names 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's the best season was 1979-80, when was first season of her and she finished 5th the league. Çaykur Rizepor finished 11th first half-time of 2007-2008 season and semifinalist of Fortis Turkey Cup but took one win second half-time and relegated to Bank Asya 1. League as 17th.

[edit] Current squad

The squad list includes only the principal nationality of each player.

As of June, 2008^[1]:

No.		Position	Player
		GK	Emrullah Şalk
		GK	Serkan Şen
		DF	Bahadır Sekizkardeş
		DF	Ömer Ateş
		DF	Uğur Akdemir
		DF	Murat Uluç
		DF	Gökhan Kök
		DF	Ahmet Görkem Görk
		DF	Turgay Gölbaşı
		DF	Volkan Koçaloğlu
		DF	Mertgül Çapoğlu
		DF	Kürşat Duymuş
		MF	Yavuz Onuk
		MF	Oktay Gümüş
		MF	Özgür Yıldırım
		MF	Sezer Akbulut
		MF	Sedat Yeşilkaya

No.		Position	Player
		MF	Hüseyin Bak
		MF	Erman Ergin
		MF	Oktay Gümüş
		MF	Mustafa Çiçek
		MF	Ali Sakal
		MF	Dennis de Crues
		MF	Reha Çanakçı
		MF	Kemal Aslan
		FW	Okan Öztürk
		FW	Carlos Rodriguez
		FW	Mehmet Şen
		FW	Serdar Samatyalı
		FW	Çağrı Yarkın
		FW	Emrah Kol
		FW	Murat Uluç
		FW	Aydın Kuzu