Türkiyemspor Berlin

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Türkiyemspor Berlin
Club logo
Basic data
Surname Türkiyemspor Berlin 1978 e. V.
Seat Berlin
founding April 1978
Colours blue White Red
president Ali Durmuş Matura
Website www.tuerkiyemspor.info
First soccer team
Head coach Wolfgang Sandhowe
Venue Willy Kressmann Stadium
Places 5000
league Berlin League
2018/19 10th place
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Away
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Türkiyemspor Berlin is a Berlin football club founded in 1978 as BFC İzmirspor , which is one of the best-known migrant clubs in Germany and is considered a figurehead of the Turkish community in Berlin, but also outside of it.

history

1978–1986: founding, advancement and name change

The forerunner of today's club was founded in 1978 in what was then West Berlin's Kreuzberg district and emerged from the loose players' association "Kreuzberg Gençler Birliği" ( Turkish : "Kreuzberger Junge Union"), which had previously played hobby football . Mainly migrants of Turkish origin played football together here. Since there was no experience of running such a club, the game was first started in the less bureaucratic leisure league. In the 1983/84 season this changed and you stepped as BFC İzmirspor in the C-class of the Berlin amateur league. İzmirspor was chosen as a reference to the Turkish Aegean city İzmir , from which many players came.

Logo until the beginning of the 1990s
Logo until 2010

At the end of the season, İzmirspor was instant champion. This was repeated in the following two years in the B and A class, so that in 1986 they started in the Berlin State League . In the course of the sporting advancement, the club gained a large following. Even in the lower leagues, there were often more than 1000 spectators at games of the migrant club. In January 1987 the association was transformed into “Türkiyemspor Berlin e. V. “was renamed, the association wanted to take into account the fact that not only migrants from İzmir and the surrounding area belonged to the association for a long time, but that it had long since developed into an association of all Turkish migrants. Thus a new name was born for the fans, from now on the club was called “Türkiyem” (Turkish: “My Turkey”) for short .

1986–1991: Successful in the cup

At the end of the 1986/87 season, Türkiyem finally made the fourth consecutive promotion and qualified for the then third-class Oberliga Berlin , the highest amateur league. Here Türkiyem mostly played in front of several thousand spectators against opponents such as Hertha BSC II or Tennis Borussia Berlin . The top game against Hertha in the 1987/88 season attracted over 12,000 spectators to the stadium. In the following years, the club was able to place itself regularly in the top half of the league table. In addition, they celebrated great successes in the Paul Rusch Cup (the Berlin State Cup), made it to the finals four times in a row between 1988 and 1991 and won the title there three times. So Türkiyemspor qualified for the DFB Cup , where they lost twice in the first and once in the second round.

After German reunification , East and West German football were reunited for the 1991/92 season. Türkiyem qualified for the newly created Oberliga Nordost with a second place in the Oberliga behind Tennis Borussia . They also took part in the German amateur championship , where they finished second in the group behind the amateurs from Werder Bremen and ahead of ASC Schöppingen and Alemannia Aachen , thus qualifying again for the first main round of the DFB Cup.

1991 until today: Between the state and regional leagues

In the Oberliga Nordost, the team occupied a place in the top third of the table for three years and qualified in 1994 for the newly introduced Regionalliga Nordost . The team did not manage to keep the class and in 1995 rose again to the top division. Three years later, the club was even relegated to the Berlin Association League . It was not until the 1999/2000 season that Türkiyemspor became the Berlin champions (144: 31 goals, 97 points) and returned to the Oberliga Nordost.

In the 2007/08 season, the club made it into the newly organized Regionalliga Nord as third in the table. There they fought against relegation until the last matchday. Although Türkiyem ended the season on a relegation zone despite 42 points from 34 games, the class could be held thanks to the withdrawal of Kickers Emden from the 3rd division based on a decision by the German Football Association. The club reached 13th place in the 2009/10 season and secured relegation.

In the following 2010/11 season, the club made a complete false start and only took one point out of the first nine matches. The club also ran into problems financially; at the beginning of October 2010, bankruptcy could only be averted because club members waived money and coach Taşkın Aksoy was fired. The previous assistant coach Kenan Arayıcı took over the training. In November 2010 the DFB imposed a penalty in the form of a deduction of three points for violating Türkiyemspor's licensing regulations. At the end of the season Türkiyemspor finished last with two points and zero victories.

The league season 2011/12 was just as unsuccessful. The new coach Marco Gebhardt was released after just three months . At the same time, there were again financial problems, which in December led the association to file an application for bankruptcy proceedings. As a result of this application, Türkiyemspor withdrew on December 23, 2011 from the league. However, the game operation could at least partially be maintained for the youth and women's teams. The club had been in insolvency proceedings since the summer of 2012 , but was able to resume the first men's team for the 2012/13 season in the Berlin League . There the team experienced their third relegation in a row and appeared in the national league for the first time in 26 years for the 2013/14 season.

On June 17, 2018, coach Lars Mrosko's team secured their second promotion spot with a 5-0 away win at Adlershofer BC and will be back in Berlin's top division, the Berlin League, for the 2018/19 season.

After the financial insolvency in 2012, the club was able to leave the sporting insolvency behind with this rise in the 40th anniversary year.

League affiliation since 1987 at a glance

(in brackets the level of the division)

Perception of the association

Türkiyemspor is the best-known migrant association in the Federal Republic of Germany and, due to its sporting success, has become the flagship of the Turkish community in Berlin and the multicultural district of Kreuzberg. FC Bayern Munich , Trabzonspor and Fenerbahçe Istanbul are just a few of the clubs that accepted the club's invitation to Berlin to play friendly matches. Today there are clubs that have Türkiyemspor in their name in various cities and countries such as Mönchengladbach , Wuppertal , Breuberg , Ransbach-Baumbach, Amsterdam , London , Australia and the USA . Especially in the phase of sporting success, Türkiyemspor was not only a positive figure of identification for migrants of Turkish origin. Because Türkiyemspor proved to the migrant workers that they can celebrate success under the same conditions and do not need to hide behind the majority society. The success was also reflected in media coverage. Journalists and researchers from all over the world dealt with the Türkiyemspor phenomenon . But the success and public awareness of a migrants' association didn't just bring friends. Thus, players, officials and fans of Türkiyemspor were often exposed to massive right-wing extremist hostility and attacks. Some of these attacks have been documented in the “Tatort Stadium” exhibition .

The association does not see itself as a Turkish association, but rather calls itself a cosmopolitan Berlin association with a Turkish history.

Famous pepole

Trainer

The most famous coaches of the club were:

player

In the history of the club, several Türkiyemspors players made it into a professional team. Over forty players found their way to clubs in the 1st and 2nd Turkish soccer league ( Süper Lig ). Including: Bego Catic (later coach at Anker Wismar), Mehmet Öztürk (currently Hilalspor Berlin, previously BFC Preussen), Vedat Beyazıt, Ergün Pınarbaşı (Oberliga Kader Türkiyemspor 2005/06) and Hüseyin Gül (again Türkiyemspor).

The most famous ex-player of the club is Ümit Karan , who made his way via Türkiyemspor to Galatasaray Istanbul and was also nominated for the Turkish national soccer team . With the goalgetter Michael Fuß , who took the Turkish name Mert , Türkiyemspor was the top scorer in the 1999/2000 association league season - with 66 goals in 34 games, Fuß broke the association league record.

Fatih Aslan, who only moved to Türkiyemspor in the A-youth division (2001/02 season), received the captain's armband after about two seasons at the age of 21. Two years later, he expressed his strong identification with the club when he stood for election to the supervisory board. In the 2010/11 season he was manager of the club before he was appointed president of the club.

Samer Awad (born February 9, 1982 in Damascus) last played in midfield for Al-Majd. In 2016 he had to flee his homeland Syria and joined Türkiyemspor Berlin for the 2017/18 season. The 19-time national player from Syria was immediately involved in promotion to the Berlin League thanks to his outstanding performance.

Others

Fans

The club's fans consisted of football supporters of Turkish origin and residents of the multicultural districts of Kreuzberg and Neukölln . While Türkiyemspor was regularly accompanied by several thousand spectators in the eighties and early nineties, since the missed promotion in 1991 there are rarely more than a thousand spectators in the club's home stadium. The fans of the club were regularly actively involved in the club, for example the fan newspaper “ Victory ” was published for years , and some fans were also responsible for the publication of the stadium newspaper . The organization of festivals, balls and celebrations is another field of activity for Türkiyem fans.

Youth and social engagement

Türkiyemspor today offers children and young people from A to F youth many opportunities to play football and has also had a girls' department since 2004. For the good youth work Türkiyemspor regular awards from various locations in 2007 alone was awarded by the Foundation for Democracy, the project Avitall Cup, honored by the district office Kreuzberg the girl team with the 2nd prize of the Innovation Award and Türkiyemspor by the DFB as the winner of the first integration competition with awarded the Integration Prize 2007. This award is recognition for the cooperation with various institutions and the promotion of girls' football. In addition to the youth teams and the regional league team, the club maintains a second men's and two senior teams. The association regularly participates in social projects beyond sport, such as For example, the peaceful celebrations on May 1st in Kreuzberg in cooperation with various independent organizations or the “SOJA” project, in which young people are to be encouraged to exercise without having to join clubs. Türkiyemspor maintains collaborations to day care centers and schools in Kreuzberg. Türkiyemspor supports the “No to violence against women” campaign on the occasion of the international day of action of the same name on November 25th every year. Türkiyemspor is a cooperation partner of Respect Gaymes , a sports festival for tolerance organized by the lesbian and gay association in Germany . The chairman of the support association of Türkiyemspor, Çetin Özaydın , told the Berlin daily Der Tagesspiegel that the fight against exclusion is a common goal: The mechanisms are the same, whether it is Turks, gays, Jews or politically dissenters . Türkiyemspor is co-organizer of the interfaith tournament Avitall-Cup.

Women's soccer

Türkiyemspor women
Surname Türkiyemspor women
Venue Willi Kressmann Stadium
Places 5000
Head coach Murat Dogan
league Regionalliga Northeast
2019/20 1st place (Association League Berlin)  

In the late summer of 2004, Türkiyemspor began installing a girls' department and started with a D youth team. According to the educational concept for the "installation of a women's and girls' department at Türkiyemspor", teams were opened year after year in the next higher age groups in order to ensure sustainable development. Türkiyemspor is represented in all age groups in women's and girls' football. Since 2018, the club has had one of the largest women's and girls' departments in football clubs in Berlin and the largest of its kind in migrant clubs nationwide. The promotion of girls' football at Türkiyemspor Berlin brought the club several prizes, including a. 2nd place in the innovation prize 2008 of the Kreuzberg-Friedrichshain district, 3rd prize in the innovation competition of the state sports association in 2009 and was also a decisive factor in winning the integration prize of the DFB 2007.

With the B youth player Hülya Kaya , a player from Türkiyemspors was appointed to both the U17 and U19 teams in Turkey in 2008/09. For the 2018/19 season, the club took on two former selection players in its women's team for the first time, Aylin Yaren and Erika Szuh . At the end of the season, the team was promoted to the Regionalliga Nordost .

successes

  • Berlin Cup winners: 1988, 1990, 1991
  • Berlin A-Youth Cup Winner: 2008
  • Berlin B-Junior Champion Cup Winner: 2010
  • Participation in the DFB-Pokal: 1988/89 (1st round, 0-2 against FC Emmendingen ), 1990/91 (1st round, 2: 6 against 1.FC Saarbrücken ), 1991/92 (2nd round, 0: 4 vs. Stuttgarter Kickers )
  • Berlin Masters: 2000
  • Association league record 2000: Türkiyemspor set the association league record that is still valid today in the Berlin Association League season 1999/2000 with 97 points and 144 to 31 goals.
  • Promotion to the Berlin League 2017/18

literature

Web links

Media coverage

Individual evidence

  1. ^ News item on the Türkiyemspor homepage from June 12, 2009; http://www.turkiyemspor.net/0202a.asp?haberid=283  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.turkiyemspor.net  
  2. ↑ http://www.kicker.de/news/fussball/regionalliga/startseite/543473/artikel_Aksoy-und-Tuerkiyem-iegen-getrennte-Wege.html Aksoy and Türkiyem go their separate ways
  3. ↑ http://www.kicker.de/news/fussball/regionalliga/startseite/545008/artikel_Punktabzug-fuer-Tuerkiyemspor.html
  4. ^ News item on the Türkiyemspor homepage from December 23, 2011; http://www.tuerkiyemspor.info/magazin/artikel.php?artikel=1517&type=&menuid=128&topmenu=45  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.tuerkiyemspor.info  
  5. ^ Weekly magazine Die Zeit , No. 26, June 21, 2007, p. 18
  6. ↑ Türkiyemspor starts the new season with 2 ex-national players