Antalyaspor

Antalyaspor

Full name	Antalyaspor Kulübü A.Ş.
Nickname(s)	Akrepler (Scorpions)
Founded	2 July 1966; 58 years ago (1966-07-02)
Ground	Antalya Stadium
Capacity	29,307
President	Sinan Böztepe
Head coach	Alex de Souza
League	Süper Lig
2023–24	Süper Lig, 10th of 20
Website	https://www.antalyaspor.com.tr/tr
Home colours Away colours Third colours
Current season

Antalyaspor Kulübü is a Turkish professional multi-sport club based in Antalya, southern Turkey. The club's colours are red and white.

The football side play their home matches at the Antalya Stadium. In Turkey, the club won the First League twice in 1982 and 1986 and finished as runners-up for the Turkish Cup of 2000 and 2021.

Antalyaspor was established in 1966. The club competed in the lower divisions of the Turkish football league system before being promoted to the Süper Lig in 1982–83. Their first stint of top-flight football lasted for two years, and they were relegated to the TFF First League at the end of the 1984–85 season. Though promoted to the next season they were relegated again. They competed in the TFF First League until the end of the 1993–94 season when they beat İstanbulspor 3–2 in the final playoffs. Their longest stint of top-flight football lasted until 2001–02.

During that time span, the club competed in the UEFA Intertoto Cup twice and the UEFA Cup once. They reached the finals of the Turkish Cup in 2000 but lost 5–3 to Galatasaray. Antalyaspor competed in the UEFA Cup the following season, defeating Werder Bremen 2–0 before losing 6–0 in the second leg.^[1]

The club was relegated at the end of the 2001–02 season, finishing one point below the relegation zone. The club was promoted back to the Süper Lig after placing second in the 2005–06 1.Lig. On 3 December 2006, Pavol Straka scored the club's 500th goal in top-flight football. In the following year they were relegated back to the TFF First League, but were promoted again the next season. They finished ninth at the end of the 2009–10 season.^[2]

Finishing the regular fixtures of 2014–15 TFF First League season at 4th place, Antalyaspor beat Samsunspor at play-off finals with 6–3 after Penalty shoot-outs on 7 June 2015 and were promoted to Süper Lig once again, spending only one season at TFF First League.^[3]

The club emblem includes capital letters A and S which stands for Antalya and Spor (sport in Turkish) respectively. In the middle of these letters, there is the figure of Yivli Minare which is one of the several symbols of the city of Antalya. Three rectangular shapes on the Yivli Minare represent the unity of the three teams of Antalya.^[4]

Antalya's first stadium was Antalya Atatürk Stadium which fell into disrepair from 2009 onwards. That forced the team to relocate to Akdeniz University Stadium which holds 7,083 spectators. In 2013 Antalyaspor began construction of Antalya Stadium. This stadium, which opened in the summer of 2015, seating 29,307 spectators, is nicknamed 100. Yıl (Centenary), after the major boulevard of the same name, 100. Yıl Bulvarı", which is located directly south of the stadium. ^{[citation needed]}

• 1. Lig
  • Winners: 1981–82, 1985–86
  • Runners-up: 2005–06, 2007–08
• Turkish Cup
  • Runners-up: 1999–2000, 2020–21
• Turkish Super Cup
  • Runners-up: 2021

• Süper Lig: 1982–85, 1986–87, 1994–02, 2006–07, 2008–14, 2015–
• TFF First League: 1966–82, 1985–86, 1987–94, 2002–06, 2007–08, 2014–15

As of 28 September 2000

European participations

Season	Competition	Round	Club	Home	Away	Aggregate
1996	UEFA Intertoto Cup	GS Group 7	Rotor Volgograd	2–1	—	3rd
			Basel	2–5	—
			Shakhtar Donetsk	—	0–1
			Ataka-Aura Minsk	—	3–0
1997	UEFA Intertoto Cup	GS Group 11	Lokomotiv Nizhny Novgorod	—	0–1	4th
			Publikum	—	1–1
			Proleter Zrenjanin	1–0	—
			Maccabi Haifa	0–2	—
2000–01	UEFA Cup	QR	Kapaz	5–0	2–0	7–0
		1R	Werder Bremen	2–0	0–6	2–6

UEFA Ranking history:

As of 2005

Season	Rank	Points	Ref.
2001	133	16.987	[5]
2002	143	16.362	[6]
2003	152	16.495	[7]
2004	155	12.656	[8]
2005	164	11.872	[9]

As of 29 July 2024^[10]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  TUR Ataberk Dadakdeniz 2 DF  BRA Thalisson 3 DF  TUR Bahadır Öztürk 4 DF  KOS Amar Gërxhaliu 5 MF  TUR Soner Dikmen 6 MF  MKD Erdal Rakip 7 DF  TUR Bünyamin Balcı 8 MF  ISR Ramzi Safouri 9 FW  ARG Adolfo Gaich (on loan from CSKA Moscow) 10 MF  SWE Sam Larsson 11 DF  TUR Güray Vural 12 MF  MLI Moussa Djenepo (on loan from Standard Liège) 13 GK  BIH Kenan Pirić 14 DF  TUR Emrecan Uzunhan (on loan from Beşiktaş) 16 MF  UKR Oleksandr Petrusenko

No. Pos. Nation Player 17 MF  TUR Erdoğan Yeşilyurt 18 MF  POL Jakub Kałuziński 20 MF  TUR Emre Uzun 21 GK  TUR Abdullah Yiğiter 22 MF  NED Sander van de Streek 25 MF  ENG Andros Townsend 27 DF  TUR Mert Yılmaz 34 GK  TUR Doğukan Özkan 44 DF  TUR Efecan Gülerce 72 DF  TUR Harun Toprak 77 DF  TUR Abdurrahim Dursun 81 FW  PAR Braian Samudio 89 DF  TUR Veysel Sarı (captain) 91 MF  TUR Burak İngenç 99 GK  TUR Kağan Arıcan

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player — MF  TUR Erkan Eyibil (at Serik Belediyespor until 30 June 2025)

National swimmers are:^[11]

• Sevim Eylül Süpürgeci
• Emir Batur Ayyıldız (born 2007)

• Turgut Kabaca (born 1972)

• Official website (in Turkish)
• Antalyaspor on TFF.org

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