Bursaspor

Bursaspor Kulübü Derneği, commonly known as Bursaspor, is a Turkish professional sports club based in the city of Bursa. Founded in 1963, the club is best known for its football team, which has a rich history in Turkish football. Bursaspor’s traditional colors are green and white, and the team’s home kits typically feature these colors in a striped pattern. The club has played its home matches at the Bursa Centennial Atatürk Stadium since 2015.

Bursaspor experienced its greatest success during the 2009–10 Süper Lig season, when the club’s men’s football team sensationally won its first Turkish league title, finishing with 75 points, just one point ahead of perennial contenders Fenerbahçe. This victory made Bursaspor only the second team outside of Istanbul to win the Süper Lig, following Trabzonspor, who first achieved the feat in the 1975–76 season. Bursaspor’s triumph disrupted the long-standing dominance of the “Istanbul Big Three” (Galatasaray, Fenerbahçe, and Beşiktaş) and remains one of the most memorable achievements in Turkish football history.

In domestic cup competitions, Bursaspor has also enjoyed notable success. The club has won the Turkish Cup once (1986), finished runners-up on multiple occasions, and has claimed the Prime Minister’s Cup twice. In addition, Bursaspor has twice won promotion from the TFF First League (second tier), and has a strong tradition of youth development, having produced several prominent Turkish players over the decades.

Bursaspor’s first, and most successful, foray into European competition came in the 1974–75 European Cup Winners’ Cup, where the team reached the quarter-finals. They also participated in the 1986–87 UEFA Cup, the 1995 UEFA Intertoto Cup, and the 2010–11 UEFA Champions League, where they played in the group stages against Manchester United, Valencia, and Rangers. While they finished bottom of their group, qualifying for the Champions League was a historic achievement for the club and its supporters.