Gençlerbirliği
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| Full name | Gençlerbirliği Spor Kulübü (Gençlerbirliği Sports Club) |
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| Nickname(s) | Ankara Rüzgârı (The Wind of Ankara) Alkaralar (Red and Blacks) |
| Founded | 14 March 1923 |
| Ground | 19 Mayıs Stadyumu, Ankara |
| Capacity | 19,209 |
| President | Murat Cavcav |
| Manager | Ümit Özat |
| League | Süper Lig |
| 2015–16 | Süper Lig, 10th |
| Website | Club home page |
Gençlerbirliği Spor Kulübü (pronounced [ɟent͡ʃˈleɾbiɾliː]) is a professional Turkish football club located in the city of Ankara, which is the capital of Turkey. Formed in 1923, Gençlerbirliği are nicknamed Ankara Rüzgârı (The Wind of Ankara). The club colours are black and red. They play their home matches at Ankara 19 Mayıs Stadyumu. Domestically, the club has won the Türkiye Kupası twice, in 1987 and 2001. The club also won the now-defunct Turkish Football Championship (twice) and Ankara Football League (ten times). Their greatest success continentally came in 2004. The club reached the fourth round of the UEFA Cup before losing to eventual champions Valencia.
Gençlerbirliği was founded in a slightly different way to many other football clubs, having been established by students from a high school, Ankara Erkek Lisesi (Sultani Mektebi). The students in question (Ramiz Eren, Mennan İz, Mazhar Atacanlı, Sait, Kenan, Nuri, Namık Katoğlu, Namık Ambarcıoğlu, Rıdvan Kırmacı, Hafi Araç, Ruhi, Sarı Ziya and Hakkı) had failed to be selected for their own school team, and asked one of their student friends, Asim, to talk with his father about setting up a football team for them to show how well they could play.
On 14 March 1923, Asim's father, the member of parliament from Muş Province established the team for his son and his friends. Since all the members of the teams were students he chose the name 'Youth Union'. They elected Sarı Ziya's father Faik Bey as their first chairman.[1]
Subsequently these young students wanted to play against the school team which had not selected them. Gençlerbirliği won the game, played at "Hamit tarlası", 3–0. According to these young rebel players this victory forged the identity of their new team.
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