Kocaelispor
Full name | Kocaelispor Kulübü | |||
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Founded | 1966 | |||
Ground | Kocaeli Stadium, İzmit, Turkey | |||
Capacity | 34,712 | |||
Chairman | Recep Durul (caretaker) | |||
Head coach | Mustafa Gürsel | |||
League | TFF First League | |||
2022–23 | TFF Second League, Red, 1st of 20 (promoted) | |||
Website | Club website | |||
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Kocaelispor is a Turkish
History
Foundation
Prior to establishment of Kocaelispor, the Executive board representatives of Baçspor, a local football club, had demanded a new plat from İzmit Municipality to assure a place for training the sports in 1957. Osman Gencal, city mayor at the time, had been interested in finding a place for training due to his sportive background as a former sportsman and a member of Baçspor.[2] Therefore, the municipality had given a 28-acre (110,000 m2) wide plat to Baçspor, as the plat had been sold for a symbolic cost of 1 Lira.
Baçspor had sold the plat for 283,000 Liras and had a new place in Baç district of İzmit; and begun to a new construction. In 1964, Baçspor club board planned to found a new team at professional level and compete in 2nd Division.[2] However, federation regulation of that time was stating that it was required to compound at least 3 teams and have appropriate facilities. Then, in 1966, three teams which are Baçspor, İzmit Gençlik and Doğanspor had come together, combined and founded Kocaelispor. Three club boards had consensus on every subject and embraced the green and black as the club colours. Then, it had been held a club congress in common and the new club board had been elected. Kocaelispor had spent 175,000 Liras to gather their first squad ever to compete in 2nd Division in 1966.[2]
Kocaelispor was promoted to the
1992–93 season: Legendary roster
After the relegation in 1988, they escaped from relegation to third level in 1990 and Bartınspor relegated. They were back in top-level football campaign of Turkey, 1st Division, in 1992. Following this comeback, Kocaelispor had obtained their best league position performance. The team had a sensational start for the season. Beating
The manager of team was
Recent history
Kocaelispor had achieved another successful league position in
Kocaelispor had the
Kocaelispor were managed by 3 managers during 2007–2008 season: Fuat Yaman (from 1st–10th weeks), Kayhan Çubuklu (11th–31st) and Engin İpekoğlu (32nd–34th). They returned to Turkcell Super League as the title holders of last TFF First League season. However, this promotion was followed by successive two relegations and they played TFF Second League once in 2010–11 season. Kocaelispor relegated to fourth level in 2011–12 after finishing last in White Group of Second League. Finally they were relegated to Regional Amateur League after losing 1–0 away match against İstanbulspor 4 rounds before finishing the league on 6 April 2014.
Kocaelispor rivalled with Tekirdağspor, Çengelköyspor and Arnavutköy Belediyespor for promoting to Third League in 2014–15 season. They were leader for some weeks but finished as 4th in 11th group and Tekirdağspor returned professional level after 11 years.[4] Kocaelispor finished 12th Group as champions and faced with Sultangazispor, champions of 11th Group at promotion play-offs.[5] They defeated them as 2–0 with Sinan Pektemek and Hamza Mutlu's goals on 24 April 2016 in Eskişehir and returned professional level after 2 years.[6]
Supporters and rivalries
Kocaelispor boasts a large support base throughout Turkey, particularly in Marmara Region and Black Sea Region. The club's main fan base known as Hodri Meydan.[7] The main rival is Sakaryaspor.
Stadium
In 2017,
Former sponsors
League participations
- Süper Lig: 1980–88, 1992–2003, 2008–09
- TFF First League: 1966–1980, 1988–92, 2003–08, 2009–10, 2021–22, 2023-
- TFF Second League: 2010–12, 2020–21, 2022-23
- TFF Third League: 2012–14, 2016–20
- Turkish Regional Amateur League: 2014–16
Honours
- Turkish Cup
- TFF First League
- Winners (3): 1979–80, 1991–92, 2007–08
- TFF Second League
- Winners (1): 2022–23
- Promotion (1): 2020–21
- TFF Third League
- Winners (1): 2019–20
- Turkish Regional Amateur League
- Winners (1): 2015–16
Kocaelispor in Europe
- As of 3 October 2002
Competition | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD |
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UEFA Cup Winners' Cup | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 | +2 |
UEFA Cup | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 7 | –7 |
UEFA Intertoto Cup | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 11 | 14 | –3 |
Total | 18 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 15 | 23 | –8 |
Season | Round | Club | Home | Away | Aggregate |
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1997–98
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1R | Naţional București | 2–0 | 1–0 | 3–0 |
2R | Lokomotiv Moscow | 0–0 | 1–2 | 1–2 |
Season | Round | Club | Home | Away | Aggregate |
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1993–94 | 1R | Sporting CP | 0–0 | 0–2 | 0–2 |
2002–03 | 1R | Ferencváros | 0–1 | 0–4 | 0–5 |
Season | Round | Club | Home | Away | Aggregate |
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1996 | GS | Uralmash | — | 0–2 | 4th |
CSKA Sofia | 1–3 | — | |||
Strasbourg
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— | 1–1 | |||
Hibernians | 5–3 | — | |||
1999 | 2R | Ventspils | 2–0 | 1–1 | 3–1 |
3R | MSV Duisburg | 0–3 | 0–0 | 0–3 | |
2000 | 1R | FK Atlantas | 0–1 | 1–0 | 1–1, 4–5 (p) |
UEFA Ranking history:
- As of 2002
Season | Rank | Points | Ref. |
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1994 | 168 | 0.500 | [10] |
1995 | 177 | 0.500 | [11] |
1996 | 193 | 0.500 | [12] |
1997 | 188 | 0.500 | [13] |
1998 | 104 | 1.750 | [14] |
1999 | 142 | 15.175 | [15] |
2000 | 127 | 16.925 | [16] |
2001 | 117 | 19.987 | [17] |
2002 | 126 | 19.362 | [18] |
Players
Current squad
- As of 9 February 2024[19]
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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Other players under contract
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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Out on loan
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Former players
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Former managers
References
- ^ "Bölgesel Amatör Lig'de "seyirci" rekoru!" (in Turkish). Sözcü. 8 February 2015. Retrieved 8 February 2015.
- ^ a b c Kocaelispor Official Website Archived 2009-02-11 at the Wayback Machine (in Turkish)
- ^ Kocaelispor Supporters Group (in Turkish)
- ^ "Bölgesel Amatör Lig 11.Grup".
- ^ "Bölgesel Amatör Lig 12.Grup".
- ^ "Efsane Kocaelispor geri döndü!".
- ^ Başkan Serhan Gürkan'dan, muhalefete 'Hodri meydan Archived 2012-07-24 at archive.today (in Turkish)
- ^ "Hyundai ile Sponsorluk Anlaşması" (in Turkish). kocaelispor.org. 2008-09-25. Archived from the original on 2012-04-25. Retrieved 2011-10-21.
- ^ "Hyundai Kocaelispor'a sponsor oldu!" (in Turkish). ajansspor.com. 2008-09-26. Archived from the original on 2012-03-31. Retrieved 2011-10-21.
- ^ Bert Kassies. "UEFA Team Ranking 1994". Xs4all.nl. Retrieved 2022-09-09.
- ^ Bert Kassies. "UEFA Team Ranking 1995". Xs4all.nl. Retrieved 2022-09-09.
- ^ Bert Kassies. "UEFA Team Ranking 1996". Xs4all.nl. Retrieved 2022-09-09.
- ^ Bert Kassies. "UEFA Team Ranking 1997". Xs4all.nl. Retrieved 2022-09-09.
- ^ Bert Kassies. "UEFA Team Ranking 1998". Xs4all.nl. Retrieved 2022-09-09.
- ^ Bert Kassies. "UEFA Team Ranking 1999". Xs4all.nl. Retrieved 2022-09-09.
- ^ Bert Kassies. "UEFA Team Ranking 2000". Xs4all.nl. Retrieved 2022-09-09.
- ^ Bert Kassies. "UEFA Team Ranking 2001". Xs4all.nl. Retrieved 2022-09-09.
- ^ Bert Kassies. "UEFA Team Ranking 2002". Xs4all.nl. Retrieved 2022-09-09.
- ^ "Kocaelispor squad". Soccerway. Retrieved 10 November 2022.
- "Kocaelispor Kulübü | Resmi İnternet Sitesi". Kocaelispor.com.tr. Retrieved 2012-10-19.
External links
- Official website
- Kocaelispor on Twitter
- Kocaelispor on TFF.org