Kasimpasa U19

Kasımpaşa's academy plays out of the Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Stadyumu, seating around 13,797. That arrangement matters more for a youth side than it would for most: the U19s train and grow inside a club structure that has spent most of its history climbing rather than consolidating.

The senior club dates to 15 January 1921, founded as Altıntuğ before taking the Kasımpaşa name in 1942, and the youth setup has run as part of that same continuous structure ever since, without a separate founding date of its own. Navy blue and white, and the nickname Apaches, carry across from the first team to the academy sides that wear the same badge.

The U19s have had their own moments apart from producing players for the league team: the İstanbul Cup at this age group in 2017, and the Coca-Cola Akademi U18 League title in the 2012–13 season. Those are academy honours in their own right, won before anyone involved had played a senior match.

What the age group is really judged on, though, is who leaves it. Yasin Özcan went from this youth system to Aston Villa for a fee that set a record for a Kasımpaşa academy sale.