Samsunspor

Football club infobox
clubname = Samsunspor
fullname = Samsunspor


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founded = 1965
ground = Samsun 19 Mayis Samsun, Turkey
capacity = 21:000New Capacity| chairman = Flagicon|Turkey Fuat Köktaş
manager = Flagicon|Turkey Hayrettin Gümüşdağ
league = Bank Asya 1. Lig
season = 2008-09
position = Bank Asya 1. Lig, 10th

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Samsunspor is a Turkish sports club based in Samsun. Samsunspor is currently playing in the Bank Asya 1. Lig.

Their originally colors is Red and White. The team's third official color 'black' is added to the uniform after tragic accident in 1989, that cost to four lives of squad members.

The Club shines late in 1980's on the Top Division of the Turkish Soccer and produced three back-to-back top 4 finish. But a tragic bus accident at 20 January 1989, cancelled their most successful era of the league history. Two main players (Mete Adanır and Muzaffer Badaloğlu) and coach Nuri Asan was dead at accident place, also several players seriously injured. Also Emin Kar, who was Samsunspor's defender and captain, became paralyzed and Erol Dinler, who was Samsunspor's midfielder, couldn't use one of his arms so that Emin Kar and Erol Dinler retired with a physical disability. Zoran Tomic, who was Samsunspor's second goalkeeper, died after a coma, which lasted 6 months at a hospital in Yugoslavia. Fatih Uraz's ventebra was broken at it. He was Samsunspor's and Turkish National Team's first goalkeeper before the accident and didn't gain former effort. He left goalkeeper position of Turkish National Team to Engin İpekoğlu and played a few matches in Beşiktaş between 1989-1991.

Samsunspor also played in Turkish Cup final in 1988 and lost title to Sakaryaspor by 3-1 aggregate.

The Club have been in a deep and growing financial crisis since 2004 and have lost their prime time.

League participations

First Level: 1969-1975, 1976-1979, 1982-1983, 1985-1990, 1991-1992, 1993-2006

Second Level: 1965-1969, 1975-1976, 1979-1982, 1983-1985, 1990-1991, 1992-1993, 2006-

Current squad

Notable players

1960s
*flagicon|Turkey Nuri Asan
*flagicon|Turkey Yılmaz Yurttaş
*flagicon|Turkey Coşkun Sapmaz

1970s
*flagicon|Turkey Temel Keskindemir
*flagicon|Turkey Adem Kurukaya
*flagicon|Turkey Abidin Akmanol
*flagicon|Turkey Hayri Koloğlu

1980s
*flagicon|Turkey Hasan Şengün
*flagicon|Turkey Tanju Çolak
*flagicon|Turkey Orhan Kapucu
*flagicon|Turkey Mete Adanır
*flagicon|Bosnia and Herzegovina Zoran Tomić
*flagicon|Turkey Muzaffer Badaloğlu
*flagicon|Turkey Emin Kar
*flagicon|Turkey Fatih Uraz
*flagicon|Turkey Rıfat Benli
*flagicon|Turkey Savaş Demiral
*flagicon|Turkey Kasım Çıkla

1990s
*flagicon|Turkey Ertuğrul Sağlam
*flagicon|Serbia Duško Milinković
*flagicon|Turkey Müjdat Gürsu
*flagicon|Turkey Osman Aksoy
*flagicon|Turkey Celil Sağır
*flagicon|Turkey Ercan Koloğlu
*flagicon|Turkey Serkan Aykut
*flagicon|Turkey Cenk İşler
*flagicon|Turkey Sinan Yeşil
*flagicon|Romania Daniel Timofte
*flagicon|Romania Bogdan Stelea
*flagicon|Nigeria Wilson Oruma
*flagicon|Cameroon Alioum Boukar
*flagicon|Turkey Vural Korkmaz

2000s
*flagicon|Turkey Tümer Metin
*flagicon|Turkey İlhan Mansız
*flagicon|Nigeria Ike Shorunmu
*flagicon|Tunisia Kaies Ghodhbane
*flagicon|Romania Giani Stelian Kiriţă
*flagicon|Turkey Adnan Güngör
*flagicon|Turkey Caner Altın
*flagicon|Turkey Kenan Yelek

External links

* [http://www.samsunspor.org.tr Samsunspor's official web site]
* [http://www.samsunspor.biz Samsunspor's supporters web site]

European matches