Çaykur Rizespor is a Turkish

Turkey

Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...

 sports club based in Rize

Rize

Rize is the capital of Rize Province, in northeast Turkey, on the Black Sea coast.-Etymology:The name comes from Greek or Ριζαίον , meaning "mountain slopes". In modern times, its name in Greek was usually Ριζούντα . Its Latin forms are Rhizus and Rhizaeum...

. Çaykur Rizespor is currently playing in the TFF First League

TFF First League

The TFF First League is the second level of the Turkish football league system. The league was founded in 2000 after it was separated from the Turkish Second League Category B during reorganizing Second League, who was second level of Turkish league between 1963–2001...

. The club was founded in 1953 in green-yellow colours and had professionalship status in 1968 as Rizespor and changed its colours to blue-green. Since 1990, the team has been sponsored by the Turkish tea

Tea

Tea is an aromatic beverage prepared by adding cured leaves of the Camellia sinensis plant to hot water. The term also refers to the plant itself. After water, tea is the most widely consumed beverage in the world...

 company Çaykur hence the name and the image of a tea leaf on the club's logo.

Current squad

As of 15 October, 2011.

Notable players

Albania Klodian Duro

Klodian Duro

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Bulgaria Zdravko Zdravkov

Zdravko Zdravkov

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Cameroon Nicolas Alnoudji

Nicolas Alnoudji

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France Ibrahim Ba

Ibrahim Ba

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Egypt Besheer El-Tabei

Besheer El-Tabei

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 Ayman Abdelaziz

Ayman Abdelaziz

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Germany Erhan Albayrak

Erhan Albayrak

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 Jürgen Pahl

Jürgen Pahl

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Netherlands Suat Usta

Suat Usta

Suat Usta is a Dutch-born Turkish footballer. He plays at centre back for Diyarbakırspor in the Turkish second division.-Career:...

United States Freddy Adu

Freddy Adu

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Turkey Altan Aksoy

Altan Aksoy

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 Ünal Alpuğan

Ünal Alpugan

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 Koray Avcı

Koray Avci

Mustafa Koray Avcı is a Turkish footballer. He currently plays for Kasımpaşa S.K..-Career:Koray Avci was trained in the youth team of Kocaelispor and moved to Caykur Rizespor. After five years in Rizespor, he was transferred to Besiktas J.K. by manager Riza Calimbay at the beginning of 2005...

 Devran Ayhan

Devran Ayhan

Devran Ayhan is a Turkish football player. He currently plays for FK Khazar Lenkoran in Azerbaijan.He previously played for Gebzespor, B. Petrolspor, Çaykur Rizespor, Gaziantepspor, Kayseri Erciyesspor, Ankaraspor and Ankaragücü in Turkey-External links:*...

 Yasin Çakmak

Yasin Çakmak

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 Murat Ceylan

Murat Ceylan

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 Ali Kemal Denizci Osman Denizci Arif Kocabıyık Kemalettin Şentürk

Kemalettin Sentürk

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 Fahri Tatan

Fahri Tatan

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 Hakan Tecimer Hasan Vezir

Local participitations

Turkcell Super League

1979-81, 1985-89, 2000-02, 2003-08

Turkey 2.League

1974-79, 1981-85, 1989-93, 1994-00, 2002-03, 2008-

Turkey 3.League

1968-74, 1993-94

European history

Intertoto Cup:

Season	Round	Country	Club	Home	Away	Aggregate
2001	2R		FK Pobeda FK Pobeda FK Pobeda is a football team in the Republic of Macedonia from the city of Prilep. It was founded in 1941 as Goce Delčev and renamed in 1950 to FK Pobeda. The club plays at the Goce Delčev Stadium ....	0–2	1–2	1–4

Presidents

• Metin Kalkavan ( )
• Halim Mete ( )
• Abdülkadir Çakır (08.07.2007 - .......)
• Ekrem Cengiz (14.06.2002 - 08.07.2007)
• Mehmet Cengiz (20.06.1998 - 14.06.2002)
• Mehmet Hikmet Aslankaya (07.06.1997 - 20.06.1998)
• Mehmet Cengiz (26.04.1996 - 07.06.1997)
• Cemal Aydoğdu (10.03.1996 - 26.04.1996)
• Ali Baba Çillioğlu (13.01.1996 - 10.03.1996)
• İsmail Topçu (04.11.1995 - 12.01.1996)
• Tuncer Ergüven (06.05.1995 - 04.11.1995)

• Ruşen Kukul (01.04.1995 - 05.05.1995)
• Tuncer Ergüven (19.04.1992 - 30.03.1995)
• Süreyya Turgut (19.01.1992 - 14.04.1992)
• Nejat Ural (30.03.1991 - 19.01.1992)
• Hasan Basri Çillioğlu (23.06.1990 - 30.03.1991)
• Hamit Oral (21.05.1990 - 23.06.1990)
• Muharrem Kürkçü (10.01.1990 - 21.05.1990)
• Ahmet AkyıldIz (02.07.1989 - 10.01.1990)
• Şeref Keçeli (07.01.1989 - 02.07.1989)
• Şadan Tuzcu (05.06.1988 - 07.01.1989)
• M. Turgut Yılmaz (01.01.1987 - 05.06.1988)

• Servet Takış (01.01.1986 - 31.12.1986)
• Fehmi Ekşi (01.01.1985 - 31.12.1985)
• Hasan Kemal Yardımcı (01.01.1984 - 31.12.1984)
• Ali Rıza Feyiz (02.08.1981 - 31.12.1983)
• Nuri Akbulut (23.06.1981 - 02.08.1981)
• Paşa Ali Alaman (30.06.1980 - 23.06.1981)
• Nuri Akbulut (03.07.1978 - 30.06.1980)
• Köksal Mataracı (02.06.1978 - 03.07.1978)
• Mustafa Zeki Rakıcıoğlu (07.06.1975 - 02.06.1978)
• Reşat Uçak (03.04.1973 - 07.06.1975)
• Bahattin Coşkun (21.04.1968 - 03.04.1973)

External links

• Official Website
• http://www.rizesporlular.com