ALG Spor, formerly known as Güneykent Spor, is a

women's football Women's football most often refers to: * Women's association football Women's football may also refer to: * Women's gridiron football * Women's Australian rules football * Ladies' Gaelic football * Women's rugby league * Women's rugby union ...

club based in

Gaziantep Gaziantep, historically Aintab and still informally called Antep, is a major city in south-central Turkey. It is the capital of the Gaziantep Province, in the westernmost part of Turkey's Southeastern Anatolia Region and partially in the Medi ...

, southeastern

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. Founded in 1998. The club is named after its local sponsor ALG Textile. The club's president is Ali Gözcü. It is located in the İncilipınar neighborhood of

Şehitkamil Şehitkamil is a municipality and district of Gaziantep Province, Turkey. Its area is 1,290 km2, and its population is 857,167 (2022). It covers the northern part of the agglomeration of Gaziantep and the adjacent countryside. It contains the ...

district. The team play their home matches at the

Batur Stadium Batur Stadium () is a privately owned football stadium in Gaziantep, Turkey. Batur Stadium is located at İbrahim Tevfik Kutlar St. 41 in 25 Aralık Neighborhood of Şahinbey district in Gaziantep, Turkey. It is home to the football clubs ALG S ...

History

The club was founded as Güneykent Spor in

. ALG Spor started playing league matches by entering the Group 6 of the 2015–16

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season. They finished the season runners-up in the group. The next season, the team became runners-up at the end of the play-offs, and was entitled to play in the

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. They finished the 2017–18 Women's Second League season as champion after the play-offs, and were so promoted to the Women' First League for the 2018–19 season. To strengthen the team for the matches in the Women's First League, the club transferred three experienced footballers,

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, Gülbin Hız from

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and Second-League striker Ebru Atıcı from

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in the summer of 2018. Further transfers were local players

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and Fatma Songül. In the beginning of the second half of the 2018–19 season, the club transferred the Ukrainian striker Tetyana Kozyrenko. ALG Spor finished their first season in the Women's First League as runner-up behind

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losing the champion title only in the last league round equal on points but with goal average. ALG Spor, the leader of the previous two rounds with goal average, won their last match with 5–1, Beşiktaş J.K. defeated their opponent by 9–0, which enabled them a goal average of four in the final. The

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set a play-off round between the two teams to be played on 12 May 2019 at a neutral venue, in

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. The team became runners-up after losing to Beşiktaş J.K. in the play-off match with 0–1. The 2019–20 First League season was discontinued on 19 March 2020 according to an announcement by the Youth and Sports Ministry including from the round 17 on due to the

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. The

decided on 8 July 2020 that the further matches will not be played, the league will be registered according to the score ranking on the date when the league was stopped, no champion will be declared, and the top-ranking team ALG Spor, are to represent Turkey at the

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. ALG Spor played in the

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of the

against Albanian team

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on 3 November 2020. The team were eliminated after losing the penalty shout-out by 2–3 following a draw by 2–2 in the regular time and subsequently another draw by 3–3

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. ALG Spor finished the 2021–22 Women's Super League season as Group B leader and became league champion after the play-offs. The team was entitled to represent Turkey at the

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. They were eliminated in the First qualifying round Tournament 11's first match after losing 0–1 to

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from Norway.

Stadium

ALG Spor play their home matches in the

located in

Şahinbey Şahinbey is a municipality and district of Gaziantep Province, Turkey. Its area is 960 km2, and its population is 941,055 (2022). It was named after Şahin Bey (1877–1920), a Turkish National Movement commander. It covers the southern part ...

district of

Statistics

. *(¹): three penalty points had been deducted imposed by the

. *(²⁾: Season discontinued. No league champion was declared. *(³): Season in progress

Players

Current squad

Head coach:

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Notable players

Former managers

International results

Ranking history

Honours

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: ''Champions'' (1): 2021–22 : ''First Place'' (1): 2019–20 (¹) : ''Runners-up'' (1): 2018–19 :''Third places'' (1):

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: ''Champions'' (1): 2017–18 *

: ''Runners-up'' (1): 2016–17 Note: *(¹) declared league first, not a champion. Season discontinued. No league champion was declared.

Kit history

Squad history

File:AlgS2018-19 (6).jpg, ALG Spor squad in the 2018–19 Women's First League File:AlgS2018-19 (21).jpg, ALG Spor squad in the 2018-19 Women's First League File:AlgS2019-20 (17).jpg, ALG Spor squad in the 2019-20 Turkish Women's First League

References

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