Eskisehirspor

Eskisehirspor is a Turkish professional football club located in Eskisehir. Eskisehirspor has a total of six trophies, making them the club with the 6th most trophies in Turkey. Founded in 1965, Eskisehirspor competed in the top division of Turkish football for 16 years until they were relegated. After being out of the Super Lig for 12 years the club won the TFF First League playoffs and were promoted in May 2008. After being relegated from the Super Lig in 2016 they currently compete in the First League again.

History

Early Years

Eskisehirspor was founded by merging the regional teams of Idman Yurdu, Akademi Genclik and Yildiztepe and was admitted to the Second League in the 1965–1966 season. The team was promoted to the First League in its first professional season. Eskisehirspor became one of the better historically rich Anatolian clubs despite having never won the Super Lig between 1968 and 1975. They were runners-up in 1968–1969, 1969–1970, and 1971–1972 seasons. Eskisehirspor won the Turkish Cup in the 1969–1970 season by beating Bursaspor by 4–3 (1–2, 3–1) aggregate and a year after that in 1970–1971 season they lifted the Cumhurbaskanligi Kupasi (President Cup) by beating Galatasaray once again by the same scoreline 3–2 with all goals coming from the Eskisehirspor legend himself Fethi Heper.

Unforgettable Match

One of Eskisehirspor's greatest matches took place in the 1970–71 UEFA Cup against Sevilla FC. Eskisehirspor lost the first match 1–0 in Sevilla, but won the second 3–1 in Eskisehir to win 3–2 on aggregate. All three goals from Eskisehirspor came after the 80th minute by Fethi Heper.

1980s and 1990s

After that, they started to slowly lose their success. Eskisehirspor relegated to Second League in 1981–82 season after an eventful match against Besiktas at Round 34, which was also last round. The match was halted at 78th minute due to intemperance of Eskisehirspor's supporters, when after Besiktas's mi

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