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Çaykur Rizespor
Turkish football club / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Çaykur Rizespor Kulübü is a Turkish professional football club based in Rize. The club plays in the Turkish Süper Lig. The club was founded on May 19, 1953, with green-yellow as club colours, but later changed to blue-green. Since 1990, the team has been sponsored by the Turkish tea company Çaykur, hence the name and the image of a tea leaf on the club's logo. The club plays its home games in Rize City Stadium.[2]
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Full name | Çaykur Rize Gençlik ve Spor Kulübü Derneği[1] | |||
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Nickname(s) | Karadeniz Atmacası (The Black Sea Sparrowhawk) | |||
Short name | Rizespor | |||
Founded | 19 May 1953; 71 years ago (1953-05-19) | |||
Ground | Rize City Stadium | |||
Capacity | 15,558 | |||
Owner | Çaykur | |||
Chairman | İbrahim Turgut | |||
Manager | İlhan Palut | |||
League | Süper Lig | |||
2023–24 | Süper Lig, 9th of 20 | |||
Website | Club website | |||
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