Samsun 19 Mayis

The name arrived in Tekkeköy before the ground did. It carries over from the stadium in Canik that opened in 1975 and came down in 2018, and both take it from 19 May 1919, the day Mustafa Kemal Atatürk landed at Samsun and began the Turkish War of Independence. Through the planning years, from 2011 to 2017, the project went by Stadyum Samsun and then Samsun Arena; neither stuck.

Bahadır Kul drew it, and the building opened on 29 July 2017 not with a Samsunspor fixture but with the Turkish Super Cup final between Beşiktaş and Konyaspor. Construction ran to about ₺145 million, roughly €34.83 million at the time.

The pitch has already been replaced once. It opened on natural grass; the hybrid surface came in with a renovation that also laid a twelve-zone heating system and new irrigation beneath it. A further ₺16 million went into seats, lighting and facilities across 2024 and 2025.

The full house has been reached exactly once: 33,919 for Samsunspor against Galatasaray on 2 February 2024, which is the capacity to the seat. Between those two dates the ground took on international work — Turkey beat Wales 2–0 in a UEFA Euro 2024 qualifier on 19 June 2023, and saw out a 1–0 win over Montenegro in the UEFA Nations League on 11 October 2024. It also staged the opening ceremony of the 2017 Summer Deaflympics.