Sakaryaspor Kulübü Derneği is a Turkish professional

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club playing in the

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, which is the second level of

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History

The club was formed in 1965 after the merger of ''Adapazarı Gençlerbirliği'', ''Adapazarı İdman Yurdu'', ''Güneşspor'' and ''Ada Gençlik''. The club is better known as Sakaryaspor. The football club is nicknamed the "Football Factory" by Turkish football scene because of the many national footballers born and raised in the city.

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has also five national top scorers (

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, Bülent Uygun, Aykut Yiğit, Ogün Altıparmak) of all time and three of them did carry the Sakaryaspor shirt. Sakaryaspor became

champions in 1980–81 and 1986–87. They accomplished this feat again at the end of the 2005–06 season. Sakaryaspor subsequently won a place in the play–off matches. After eliminating

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in the first play–off match, Sakaryaspor went on to defeat Altay 4–1 in the finals and were promoted to the

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. They were relegated from the

the following season. In 1988 the team won the

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, with some of the Turkish football legends like Oğuz Çetin,

, Engin İpekoğlu and

in the squad. In 2022, it became the champion of Turkey's third professional league, the 2st league, and was promoted to the 1st league. In the 2023-2024 season, it played the play-off final match with Bodrum Football Club.

Supporters and rivalries

Sakaryaspor fans call themselves "Tatangalar", which was founded in 1990 and means "Bisons". The name Tatanga (Tatanka) comes from the movie Dances with Wolves. The word Tatanga (plural Tatangalar) became the nickname of the club over time.

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is considered as the archrival and the supporters have friendly ties with Göztepe.

League participations

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: 1981–86, 1987–90, 1998–99, 2004–05, 2006–07 *

: 1965–81, 1986–87, 1990–98, 1999–04, 2005–06, 2007–09, 2011–12, 2022– *

TFF Second League The TFF 2. Lig (), currently referred to as Nesine 2. Lig for sponsorship reasons, is the third level in the Turkish football league system. It was founded in the 2001–02 season with the name of ''Turkish Second League Category B'' as a continu ...

: 2009–11, 2012–13, 2017–2022 *

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: 2013–17

Achievements

* Second League Category A: **Winners (2): 2004, 2006 * Second League: **Winners (2): 1998, 2011 * Third League: **Winners (1): 2017 *

: **Winners (1): 1988

European participations

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UEFA Ranking history

Current squad

Out on loan

References

External links

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