Ankara Demirspor

Ankara Demirspor
Basic data
Surname	Ankara Demir Spor Kulübü
Seat	Ankara
founding	March 16, 1932
Colours	blue White
president	Nuğman Yavuz
Website	demirspor.org.tr
First soccer team
Head coach	Bahaddin Güneş
Venue	Cebeci İnönü Stadı
Places	37,000
league	TFF 2nd Lig
2018/19	14th place
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Ankara Demirspor is a Turkish football club from Ankara . The club was a founding member of the top Turkish league and played a total of 13 seasons in the Süper Lig in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s . In the all-time table of the Süper Lig , the club is 31st. With this placement, the club is after MKE Ankaragücü and Gençlerbirliği Ankara the third most successful club in the capital Ankara, which were active in the highest Turkish league.

history

Foundation and the first three decants

Ankara Demirspor was founded on March 16, 1932 as a company sports club of the state railway company of Turkey (TCDD for short; Turkish Türkiye Cumhuriyeti Devlet Demiryolları ). The Ankara Club became champions in 1938, 1943, 1947 and 1948.

Founding member of the Süper Lig and first relegation to the TFF 1st Lig

In the summer of 1959, Ankara Demirspor was one of the founding members of the then newly created, for the first time supraregional top Turkish league, today's Süper Lig . In the first three seasons of this league, the club always occupied a place in the table in the upper half of the table. Then you always occupied a middle table position in the league. In the 1961/62 season , the club provided Fikri Elma, the top scorer of the Süper Lig, and attracted attention. So far only players from the Istanbul clubs have managed to win this trophy.

At the beginning of the 1960s, the Turkish Football Association, with the support of the Turkish government at the time, launched a project aimed at involving all of Turkey's provinces in professional football. So far, with Istanbul , Izmir and the capital Ankara, only the three largest cities in Turkey have provided all teams in the top division. In order to counteract this situation, all governors and notables of all provinces were encouraged to found football clubs and to submit an application to participate in the second highest division, today's TFF 1. Lig , introduced in the summer of 1963 . After the establishment of the second highest league, the first provincial clubs managed to move up to the 1st Lig (today's name Süper Lig) and establish themselves here. After this power shift, some teams from the cities of Istanbul, Izmir and Ankara could no longer keep up and lost their former strength. Ankara Demirspor was among these clubs. After playing against relegation again and again towards the end of the 1960s, relegation failed in the summer of 1971 and for the first time in the club's history they rose to the 2nd Lig (today's name TFF 1st Lig). The club never managed to return to the first division.

The second division and relegation to the amateur league

Even in the second highest division, Ankara Demirspor failed to establish itself in the upper half of the table. Although they occupied top positions in the table in the 1972/73 and 1973/74 seasons, and even third in the 1974/75 season , the following years were more likely to be played against relegation. After the third highest division was abolished in the summer of 1980 and combined with the second highest division, Ankara Demirspor was able to extend its participation in the 2nd league. In the summer of 1983, relegation failed here too and they were relegated to the regional amateur league.

Participation in the TFF 3rd Lig and promotion to the 2nd Lig

In the summer of 1984, the 3rd Lig, which was abolished four years ago, was reintroduced. Ankara Demirspor took part in professional football again after a year in the amateur league. Here the club established itself in the upper quarter of the table and missed promotion to the 2nd league several times. The 1995/96 season ended as champions of the 3rd league and rose again to the second highest division after fourteen years of abstinence.

Relegation from the 2nd to the 4th league

After the promotion to today's TFF 1. Lig, the club always played against relegation. The game mode of the league at the time was also decisive for this situation. It was held in five groups in two stages. In the last stage the groups consisted of eight teams, of which the last two were relegated. After the club managed to stay out of the league twice, it failed in the 1998/99 season .

For the next seven seasons, the club played in the third highest division of the TFF 2nd Lig . In the summer of 2006/07, the club finished the league as seventh in the group 4. and thus rose to the TFF 3. Lig . Since then, the club has played in this fourth-highest Turkish league.

Modern times

In the fourth division season 2014/15 Demirspor played from the beginning of the season to lead the table and ended the first half of the season as autumn champions . On matchday 31, the club awarded the lead to Üsküdar Anadolu 1908 SK . finished the season behind this as runner-up and qualified for the play-off phase. In the play-offs the team reached the final, defeated Sakaryaspor 2-0 and returned to the TFF 2nd Lig after nine years of abstinence . After failing to stay in the 3rd Turkish league in summer 2016, the club returned to the TFF 3rd Lig for the 2016/17 season.

successes

Before the first division was founded

• Winner Türkiye Futbol Şampiyonası : 1947

• Runner-up in the Millî Küme : 1938/39

• Master of the Ankara Futbol Ligi : 1938/39, 1942/43, 1946/47, 1947/48, 1958/59
• Runner-up in Ankara Futbol Ligi : 1948/49, 1956/57, 1957/58

League affiliation

After the first division was founded

• 1st division : 1959–1971
• 2nd division : 1971-1983, 1996-1999
• 3rd division : 1984–1996, 1999–2006, 2015–2016, since 2018
• 4th division : 2006–2015, 2016–2018
• Regional Amateur League: 1983–1984

Record player

Most top division games rank Surname Calls Period 01.  Fikri Elma 283 1959-1969 02.  Birol Aşar 208 1961-1970 03.  Hüsnü Aytekin 178 1959-1966 04th  Hakkı Ataeri 176 1961-1968 05.  Timuçin Berker 164 1960-1970 04th  Altay Yavuzarslan 159 1963-1971 05.  Muzaffer Sipahi 150 1961-1968 06th  Yalçın Özkan 119 1963-1969 07th  Kadir Uçal 116 1966-1971 08th.  İsmet Erkmen 114 1961-1970 09.  Hayrettin Karaman 113 1962-1967 10.  Timuçin Çuğ 109 1967-1971 As of March 5, 2016

Most first division goals rank Surname goal Calls Goal / game 01.  Fikri Elma 122 283 0.43 02.  Birol Aşar 43 208 0.21 03.  Abdülrezzak Tığ 21st 104 0.2 04th  Timuçin Berker 19th 164 0.12  Emrah Ergür 19th 69 0.28 05.  Celal Torkal 17th 101 0.17 06th  Ahmet Demirkale 16 55 0.29 07th  Sedat Boğaz 14th 102 0.14 08th.  Cahit Eruz 12 91 0.13  Muzaffer Sipahi 12 150 0.08 09.  Teoman Yamanlar 10 82 0.12 10.  Vural Yılmaz 7th 37 0.19  Şevki Şenlen 7th 51 0.14  Aydoğan Aygan 7th 54 0.13 As of March 5, 2016

Well-known former players

Altay Yavuzaslan Emrah Bozkurt Cem Can Fikri Elma Erkan Kural Mustafa Kaplan Gündüz Kılıç Muzaffer Sipahi

Erhan Namlı İsmail Özeren Naci Özkaya Şevki Şenlen Suat Mamat Özgür Yıldırım Yılmaz Vural

Trainer (selection)

• Erkan Kural
• Oscar Hold (December 1965 - May 1966)
• Yusuf Tepekule
• İsmet Arıkan
• Mehmet Ak (March 2012 - November 2011)
• Serdar Bozkurt (August 2014 - May 2015)
• Mehmet Akbulut (August 2015 - February 2016)
• Muharrem Uğur (February 2016 - May 2016)
• Bahaddin Güneş (September -)

Presidents (selection)

• Nuğman Yavuz
• İbrahim Çelik

Web links

• demirspor.org.tr - official website of Ankara Demirspor (Turkish)
• Club profile on tff.org (Turkish)
• Club profile on mackolik.com (Turkish)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Status: start of the season 2016/17
2. ↑ tff.org: "Ankara Demirspor Spor Toto 2. Lig'de" (accessed on May 28, 2015)