Kardemir Karabükspor

Foundation and early history

In the year 1938, Azmi Tılabar, the head manager of the Turkish iron-steel industry, founded DÇ Gençlik Kulübü; DÇ Youth Club with grey-blue colours. In these times, the trainer of the football team was an English engineer Mr. Lain. The trainer of atlhletism was Turkish athlete Faik Önen. Moreover, Mersinli Ahmet and Yaşar Doğu were trainers of wrestling. During the 1940s, Karabükspor became a symbol in cycling, tennis and wrestling around Turkey. Starting in the 1950s, the "Karabük Gençlikspor" joined "DÇ Gençlik Kulübü" and finally, the club got its colours as red-blue.

The 1990s

In the last game of the 1993–94 season against Zeytinburnuspor, Karabükspor relegated from the Süper Lig. Karabükspor promoted to the top tier after winning the promotion play-off in the 1996–97 season. Karabükspor finished 8th in 1997–98. The next season, however, was disastrous for them as they again relegated to the second level. Karabükspor relocated to the Second League B Category in the 2001–02 season.

The 2000s

The team was promoted to the TFF First League in the 2007–08 season after a 7–0 win against Erzurumspor in the promotion group. On their 30th game of the 2009–10 season, they won 3–0 against Çaykur Rizespor which meant they were promoted to the Süper Lig after 11 years.

Domestic results

League participations

• Süper Lig: 1993–94, 1997–99, 2010–15, 2016–18
• TFF First League: 1972–73, 1974–83, 1984–93, 1994–97, 1999–01, 2008–10, 2015–16, 2018–
• TFF Second League: 1969–72, 1973–74, 1983–84, 2001–08
• Amateur Level: 1983–84

Current squad

As of 16 August 2018^[5]

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

No. Position Player 1 GK Furkan Kaçar 2 DF Serkan Kurtulus 3 MF Tuna Yalçın 4 DF Ferhat Görgülü 5 DF Ibrahim Kas 6 MF Murat Ceylan 7 MF Aydin Yilmaz 8 MF Serdar Özbayraktar 9 MF Ramazan Övüç 10 FW Aymen Souda 11 MF Ahmet Karadayi 13 DF Fatih Tultak 14 MF Fatih Kamaci 15 MF Berat Ustabasi 17 MF Enes Nalbantoğlu 18 FW Francis Narh 19 FW Justin Mengolo 20 DF Berkay Yılmaz

No. Position Player 22 GK Ferhat Yilmaz 23 DF Abdullah Sezgin 24 MF Zeki Korkmaz 27 MF Taşkın İlter 33 DF Nikola Lekovic 34 MF Emre Eser 55 DF Sezer Gündüz 61 GK Yavuz Aygün (on loan from Göztepe) 70 MF Toykan Topuz 77 MF Fatih Kizilay 78 FW Yusuf Akbulut 88 DF Mahamadou Sissoko 90 FW Batuhan Kurt 92 MF Cihan Aydin 97 FW Arif Bostancı 98 DF Berk Kervankiran 99 FW Melih Berat Arslan