Trabzonspor is a Turkish football club, from the Black Sea port city of Trabzon playing in the Turkish Premier Super League.
Trabzonspor was formed in 1967 in a merger of two local clubs. Many of the players from these teams became part of the team to win promotion to the top division, and helped Trabzonspor in their early years in the top flight. Trabzonspor is the only club outside Istanbul to have won the Turkish title, earning a name as one of the "Big Four" alongside Fenerbahçe SK, Galatasaray SK,Beşiktaş J.K.. Trabzonspor's nicknames are the "Burgundy Blues" and the "Black Sea storm".
History
At this time the Turkish Football Federation (TFF) had been encouraging local teams in the same city to merge into one, in order to ensure competitiveness in Turkish football. Trabzon had an extremely competitive league dating back to the 1920s, and there was little love between intense rivals who had been vying for the title for so long. The most intense rivalry was between the two most successful sides, Idmangücü and Idmanocaĝi. Ultimately it was these two teams which were responsible for the many delays before Trabzonspor was formed. When the TFF saw that they had no intention of joining together with the others, they were threatened with punishment. The last big hurdle was choosing the colours of the new club. After many disagreements, the colours of burgundy and blue were chosen and Trabzonspor were formed.
Before 1967
After the foundation of the Trabzon Training Society Alliance (Trabzon Idman Cemiyetleri Ittifaki) and the arrival of this alliance in Anatolia, it has also affected Trabzon. After this effect newly clubs were founded in Trabzon. After Idmanocagi, Idman gucu, and Necmiati, a new club called as Trabzon Lisesi has been founded, so the club number has arrived to four. There has been a great rivalry between Idmangucu and Idmanyurdu after 1923. It was a rivalry similar to the one which is between Fenerbahce and Galatasaray. Even sometimes it was a harder rivalry than that one. Trabzon was divided in to two groups, the supporters of Idmangucu and the supporters of Idmanocagi. It can be claimed that football in Trabzon takes its power from this rivalry. Because of this rivalry, Trabzon is represented very lately in the national league. It is an inevtiable factor that this rivalry made the quality of the players higher.
Official football matches in Trabzon have been played since 1923. The first champion was Idmanocagi. The Lise team was the champion of the seasons of 23-24 and 24-25. In 1925 Idmanocagi was again the champion. To the end of 1929 other champions were respectively, Lise, Muallim Mektebi and Ticaret Lisesi.
In the years of 1940s the power was on the Highscholl teams. Among these years 6 respective championships were taken by the Highschool Teams. It must be noted that all the football stars were trained in these High School teams. After 1947-48 season championship was changing between Idmanocagi and Idmangucu. Within these years Necmiati also receoved two championships in the Trabzon Football. There were new clubs like Dogan Genclik (est 1938) Akcaabat Genclik if founded In Akcaabat High School (est. 1941) Surmene Genclik (est 1950) Zafer Genclik (est. 1952) Yolspor (1953) Yalispor (est. 1955).
The rivalry was so deep that Ocak fans were supporting Galatasaray because of its Yellow-Red colors, and Idmangucu fans were supporting Fenerbahce even their colors are Green-White. Necmiati was out of this rivalry even they have yellow-Dark Blue colors. Actually trabzon footbal was the winner of this tivalry. First of all passion to football was strong. This rivalry lead great football stars to rise in Trabzon. Immigration which was the destiny of Trabzon people has also effected the Trabzon football. Most of the stars have left the city ofr higher educations. They were really great stars in Istanbul and Ankara where they were going to school. Hasan Polat and his brother Ali Polat in Ankara Genclerbirligi, Selim Satiroglu, Ahmet Karlikli in Galatasaray, Taka Naci, Zekeriya Bali in Fenerbahce, Nazim Bilge in Besiktas were the football stars.
It was being planned to be founded a “City Team” in all the cities of the country. Football Federation Manager Orhan Seref Apak has begun on a project to make the football league more powerful and spreading the football to the all nation. Trabzon was not out of this project. But it was very hard to set a football club in Trabzon. Idmangucu and Idmanocagi rivalry was so powerful that it was impossible to make these teams to unify in a city team. Consequently, a few idealists who tried to make this unification saw that it was impossible.
Trabzon people wanted to set a team as Trabzonpor but they were also living the insecurity for not being able to succeed this. The officers were also not be able to end this. Ocak and Guclu fans wanted their names and their colors in this newly founded club. Everyday and night meetings were being done, but a little detail was finishing everything. There were gun shots in meetrings, and they were mostly going to the police departments and to the courts at the end of the meetings. On the other hand, Football Feeration< deadline for “setting a city team” was approaching. In June 21st, 1966 Idmanocagi, Martispor, and Yildizspor have attended under the name of Idmanocagi and with the yellow-red colors to the second league. But the official attendance letter was not sent in the time, so Idmanocagi couldn’t play in second league. In July 20th, 1966 Idmangucu, Karadenizgucu, Martispor and Yolspor unified under the name of Trabzonspor with the color of red-white to attend to the second league. But Idmanocagi gave this decision to the higher court of ‘Danistay’ and Danistay stopped the performance of the trabzonspor to attend to the second league. After this stressful situation Ulvi Yenal (The body training general manager of that time) declared that these two clubs wouldn’t be taken to the second league if they didn’t got unified. This was a shock in Trabzon and in these clubs. Trabzon would not be able to be represented in Turkish National Leagues if these teams couldn’t manage to unify. After the intense meetings and debates in Trabzon, in August 2nd 1967 unification was succesful. Trabzonspor was founded with the attendance of Idmanocagi, Idmangucu, Karadenizgucu and Martospor.
After the Official transactions it was time to determine the colors of Trabzonspor. It was not easy to find colors. Yellow-red and Green-white were the dominant colors in Trabzon football. So the colors sholu have been different. It was being searched for the colors which would represent Trabzon and Karadeniz. It was planned to open a contest for the colors but then cancelled. There were being meetings for the colors also. Four meetings were out of result and there must have been a result in the fifth one, city was also impatient about the result. Finally Hamsi was the focus. The silvery blue of Hamsi and the ruby red of its eyes. Because Idmanocagi has a color of red, to be fair The ruby red was consciously held darker.So the color debate for a week has finalised into the color for trabzonspor as Ruby red and Blue.
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Konu: Trabzonspor Football Team 
