Akçaabat Sebatspor

Akçaabat Sebatspor, also known as A. Sebatspor is a Turkish football club located in the Akçaabat district of Trabzon Province. They play their home games in the Akçaabat Fatih Stadyumu. The club was founded in 1923.

Akçaabat Sebatspor
Full nameAkçaabat Sebatspor
Founded1923
GroundAkçaabat Fatih Stadyumu,
Trabzon, Turkey
Capacity6238
ChairmanCemil Kalkışım
ManagerMehmet Birinci
LeagueTrabzon 1st Amateur
2014–154th

History

Akçaabat Sebatspor were founded as Sebat İdman Yurdu in 1923 in Akcaabat, Trabzon, Turkey. They are among the ten oldest football clubs in Turkey despite being a team of a relatively small town. The first kits sported the colors of the nations flag, red and white. The team changed its name to Akcaabat Genclik in 1940, and then to Sebat Genclik in 1947. Sebatspor were promoted to the professional leagues in 1968 as Sebat Gençlik Kulübü. They started in the TFF 3rd League. They spent several seasons in the Third Division, before being promoted to the Turkish Second Division as champions in 1978. During the 1981–82 season, Sebatspor were almost promoted to the Super League, finishing one point behind Samsunspor. The club changed its name to the current form, Akçaabat Sebatspor in 1986. The club was relegated to the Third Division in 1991, but quickly bounced back and were promoted to the Second Division the next season.

The club spent one season in the Second Division before being relegated again in 1993. After years of struggling, influential businessman and philanthropist Mevlüt Selami Yardım took the helms as a chairman. He, who died recently, put tremendous financial and personal effort for the team to recoup its historical valour. It was until 2000 that the club would be promoted to the Second Division once more after a dramatic as well as a miraculous play-off against Balikesirspor. Three years later, Sebatspor were promoted to the Super League for the first time in the club's history. This was a major achievement in the sense that for the first time in Turkish football history,a town team (other than that of Istanbul, Ankara and Izmir) was promoted to the Turkish Premier Division. In their first season Sebatspor achieved an ecstatic escape from relegation to the surprise of almost everybody. The stay, however, did not last long as they were subsequently relegated at the end of the Super League 2004–05 season. In 2007, the club was relegated to the TFF Second League.

Honours

Runners-up: 1969
Third place: 2002–03

Past Seasons

YearDivision[1]PositionPWDLGoalsPts
2002–03Turkish First Division334197861–3964
2003–04Super League13341191445–5342
2004–05Super League18343102140–7819
2005–06Turkish First Division15347131437–5434
2006–07Turkish First Division1734881840–6532
2007–08Iddaa League B23211101138–4143
2008–09Iddaa League B43614101243–4152
2009–10Iddaa League B3381751652–5956
2010–11Iddaa League B16348101632–5334
2011–12Turkish Third League1936213319–1057
2012–13Turkish Regional Amateur League8281161144–3739
2013–14Trabzon 1st Amateur Play-Off4944120–1316
2014–15Trabzon 1st Amateur Play-Off4942315–1314

References

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