Amed S.F.K.

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Amed
Full nameAmed Sportif Faaliyetler Kulübü
Nickname(s)Amedspor
Founded1972
1990 (Diyarbakır Büyükşehir Belediyespor)
GroundDiyarbakır Stadium, Diyarbakır
Capacity33,000
ChairmanSelahattin Yıldırım
ManagerAykan Atik
LeagueTFF Second League
2021–22TFF Second League, White, 2nd
WebsiteClub website

Amed Sportif Faaliyetler Kulübü,[1] formerly Diyarbakır Büyükşehir Belediyespor, is a Turkish sports club based in Diyarbakır. The football club plays in TFF Second League since 2013-14 season. It is the football club of Diyarbakır Metropolitan Municipality.[2]

History

The club was established in 1972 and competed in the amateur leagues for many years as Melikahmet Turanspor, because of a sponsorship with Turan Gazozlar. The club colours were red and white. In 1985 the club name changed into Melikahmetspor after the sponsorship had ended.[3]

Diyarbakır municipality bought the club in 1990 and changed its name to "Diyarbakır Belediyespor". In October 2014, they changed their name to "Amedspor" without official approval, and therefore have been fined by the Turkish Football Federation (TFF).[4] The objection of the TFF was because of the existence of the original Amedspor, which later on changed its name into Amidaspor.[5][6] However, when the team changed its name to Amed Sportif Faaliyetler Kulübü, TFF announced that it accepted this new name.

Crest and colours

Season Manufacture Kit Colours
-2013 Umbro Red-Green
2013-2016 Lotto Red-Green, White, Black
2016-2017 Nike[7] White, Red, Black
2018-2019 Nike Red-Green, White, Green, Red
2021-2022 Nike Red-Green, White, Black

Support

In early 2016, Amedspor pulled off an upset win over Bursaspor to make it into quarterfinals of the Turkish Cup.[8] After this victory their fans were banned from the following match against Fenerbahçe S.K. by the TFF. The TFF also suspended their midfielder Deniz Naki 12 games for ideologic, propagandic and unsportmanship tweets and fined him with 19.500 TL (~6500$).[9] Also the police raided the club's offices taking their computers on suspicion that a politically controversial Tweet might possibly have originated from there.[10]

According to an interview which the German newspaper Die Zeit held with their representatives, the club experienced difficulties as the club was seen as a symbol of Kurdish nationalist identity by the TFF and Turkish authorities. The flag of Kurdistan is banned from the stadiums and since December 2015 the fans of Amedspor are banned from watching the away games in the regular season. After the ban about 500 fans went to watch their team without showing the colors of their team, but as they showed their emotions for their team when it scored a goal, they had trouble with the fans from the opposite team and the police and they had to leave before the end of the match.[11] From January 2016 to February 2019 the fans were banned to watch away games from the male football team for 64 games. Fans of the Amed S.K. women's team were not allowed to watch away games from 2018 to February 2019.[12] Also merchandise articles of the fans are also often seized by the police.[11] Amedspor also has a women's volleyball Team.[13]

Honours

Winners (2): 2006–07 (Group 1), 2012–13 (Group 1)

Current squad

As of 8 September 2022

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

No. Pos. Nation Player
2 DF Turkey TUR Hüseyin Güngör
3 DF Turkey TUR Anıl Şahin
4 DF Turkey TUR Cenk Kaplan
5 MF Turkey TUR Ercan Çapar
6 MF Turkey TUR Kerem Çağatay
7 MF Turkey TUR Mustafa Hüseyin Seyhan (on loan from Bucaspor 1928)
10 MF Turkey TUR Ömer Bozan
11 FW Turkey TUR Serdar Eylik
14 DF Turkey TUR Gökhan Köseoğlu
17 FW Turkey TUR Okan Deniz
19 FW Turkey TUR Mehmet Gürkan Öztürk
21 GK Turkey TUR Bekir Sevgi
23 DF Turkey TUR Oğuz Çetinkaya
No. Pos. Nation Player
24 MF Turkey TUR Mehmet Alaeddinoğlu
28 GK Turkey TUR Aziz Aztağaç
30 MF Turkey TUR Yunus Tarhan
34 DF Turkey TUR Raşit Yöndem
35 DF Turkey TUR Emre Can Coşkun
39 FW Turkey TUR Tayyib Kanarya
41 GK Turkey TUR Cantuğ Temel
66 MF Turkey TUR Halit Çokyaşar (on loan from Sivasspor)
70 FW Turkey TUR Taner Gümüş
72 MF Turkey TUR Mansur Çalar
77 FW Turkey TUR Emrullah Ertuş
83 GK Turkey TUR Oğul Kaan Doğan

Out on loan

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

No. Pos. Nation Player
— DF Azerbaijan AZE Metin Güler (at Pazarspor until 30 June 2023)

References

  1. ^ "Diyarbakır Büyükşehir BLD'nin adı değişti".
  2. ^ "Turkey Kurds: The bitter politics of the football pitch". 2019-05-14. Retrieved 2019-06-11.
  3. ^ History amedspor.com.tr (in Turkish), accessed 6 February 2022.
  4. ^ "Turkish Football Federation fines Diyarbakır club for giving itself city's Kurdish name". Hürriyet Daily News.
  5. ^ Amidaspor tff.org, accessed 6 February 2022
  6. ^ Amedspor'a TFF'den kötü haber Yenisafak.com (in Turkish), accessed 6 February 2022.
  7. ^ "Amed Store - Amed Spor Resmi Forma ve Aksesuar Satış Sitesi". amedstore.com.tr. Retrieved 2019-10-08.
  8. ^ "Amedspor, Fener set for tense Turkish Cup clash". Archived from the original on 2016-02-08. Retrieved 2016-02-09.
  9. ^ Tahkim Kurulu Kararları - 08.02.2016 tff.org (in Turkish), accessed 6 February 2022.
  10. ^ http://www.middleeasteye.net/Turkey%20football%20politics%20Amedspor
  11. ^ a b Lopez, Edgar (2019-02-05). "Fußball in der Türkei: "Unsere Spieler werden sogar von Balljungen bepöbelt"". Die Zeit (in German). ISSN 0044-2070. Retrieved 2019-02-09.
  12. ^ "Amedspor spielt wieder mit Fans". ANF News (in German). Retrieved 2019-03-09.
  13. ^ "Kadın Voleybol – Amed SFK" (in Turkish). Retrieved 2019-02-09.

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