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Trabzonspor
Full name	Trabzonspor Kulübü
Nickname(s)	Bordo-Mavililer; (Maroon-Blues); Karadeniz Firtinasi; (The Black Sea Storm)
Founded	1967
Ground	Huseyin Avni Aker Stadium,; Trabzon; (Capacity: 32.895)
Chairman	Sadri Şener
Manager	Vacant (Şenol Güneş possibility)
League	Süper Lig
2008-09	Süper Lig, 3rd

Trabzonspor is a Turkish football club, from the Black Sea port city of Trabzon playing in the Süper Lig.

Trabzonspor was formed in 1967 by a merger of four local clubs. Many of the players from these constituent teams became part of the Trabzonspor side that succeeded in winning promotion to the top division. Trabzonspor is the only club outside Istanbul to have won the Turkish title, earning a name as one of the "Big Four" alongside Beşiktaş, Fenerbahce, Galatasaray. Trabzonspor's nicknames are the "Burgundy Blues" and the "Black Sea storm".

[edit] Supporters

Although a large part of Trabzonspor's support is drawn from the local Trabzon population, they remain immensely well supported in the rest of Turkey. This is mainly due to their being the only team to break the Istanbul teams domination of the league.

They have supporting groups such as Gubertci Gencler, Cilginlar, Trabzonlu Gençler, Farozlular, Vakfikebirliler, 1461 Meydan. These groups often receive free tickets to Trabzonspor's games and they also have many people involved in the group, which helps Trabzonspor to have more suppourt from true fanatic supporters.

[edit] Current squad

Template:As of August 2009 Soner Ozturk

[edit] Out on loan

No.		Position	Player
		DF	Abdullah Karmil (to Trabzon Karadenizspor until June 2010)
		DF	Ahmet Buğra Erdoğan (to Giresunspor until June 2010)
		FW	Eren Görür (to Giresunspor until June 2010)
		MF	Faty Papy (to MVV Maastricht until june 2010)
		MF	Soner Ozturk (to Trabzon Karadenizspor until June 2010)
		DF	İsmail Özeren (to Çanakkale Dardanelspor until June 2010)

No.		Position	Player
		MF	Kadir Keleş (to Trabzon Karadenizspor until June 2010)
		DF	Mustafa Yumlu (to Trabzon Karadeniz S.K. until june 2010)
		MF	Sami Büyüktopaç (to Trabzon Karadenizspor until June 2010)
		FW	]] (to Manisaspor until june 2010)
		MF	Selçuk Yıldırım (to Trabzon Karadenizspor until June 2010)
		GK	Yakup ugün (to Alanyaspor until June 2010)
		GK	Zeki Ayvaz (to Trabzon Karadenizspor until June 2010)

[edit] Women's team

Main article: Trabzonspor (women)

Trobzonspor women's team was formed in 2007 and was qualified to participate in the 2007-08 Turkish Women's League. The team gained the champion's title already in the second season of the national league, in the 2008-09 Turkish Women's Premier League. Trabzonspor women's team was entitled to compete in the 2009-10 UEFA Champions League, however it lost in the preliminary qualifying round.

[edit] Youth academy

Trabzonspor is especially renowned for the quality of players produced through its youth ranks. In the 2004/05 season Trabzonspor featured no less than four Turkey internationals who had been raised through the youth teams. These were Gökdeniz Karadeniz, Fatih Tekke, Hüseyin Çimşir, Mehmet Yilmaz, Barış Memiş and Göksu Alhas.

[edit] External links