Full name | Yedigen Ashgabat Football Team |
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Nickname(s) | Students |
Founded | 2003 |
Ground |
HTTU Stadium, Ashgabat, Turkmenistan |
Capacity | 1,000 |
Owner | Seyit Embel |
Chairman | Kadyr Hajyýew |
Head Coach | Röwşen Meredow |
League | Ýokary Liga |
2016 | 9th(regelated) |
Yedigen Football Team (Turkmen: Ýedigen futbol topary) is a Turkmenistan professional football club based in Ashgabat. It is the football team of the International Turkmen-Turkish University. They play in the top division of Turkmenistani football, the Turkmenistan Higher League. Their home stadium is the HTTU Stadium which can hold 1,000 people and is located on the University's grounds. The team consists of very young players who have helped the club to win the league three times in nine years.
Football team founded at 2003 as International Turkmen-Turkish University Football Team (Turkmen: Halkara Türkmen-Türk Uniwersiteti futbol topary), usually referred to as ITTU (Turkmen: HTTU).
On the results of the 2012 Ýokary Liga, the team took 3rd place.
In 2013 HTTU early in the season won the Turkmenistan Super Cup, beating 1–1 (2–1 on penalties) champion of Turkmenistan FC Balkan. In summer team participated in the tournament Eskişehir Cup 2013 and won in the final Eskisehirspor. At the end of the season won the 2013 Ýokary Liga. By the end of the season, the second best scorer of the championship was a player of HTTU Süleýman Muhadow (23 goals) and long-term captain Berdy Shamuradov left the club, it six times became the best scorer of the tournament (2004–19, 2005–30, 2007–16, 2008–12, 2009–18, 2010 – 11 goals).