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Rugby team

Adana Demirspor

Club · Turkey · 1. Lig

«Blue Lightnings»

255 Matches
85 wins
57 draws
113 losses
387–497 Goals
−110 Difference
1.5 Scored per game
Form L 7 Apr · Away Hatayspor · 0:4 L 12 Apr · Home 76 Iğdır Belediyespor · 1:6 L 19 Apr · Away Boluspor · 0:6 L 25 Apr · Home Ümraniyespor · 1:3 L 1 May · Away İstanbulspor · 1:8 W 6 Sep · Away Isparta 32 Spor · 2:1

Adana Demirspor spent last season fighting relegation from the Süper Lig and lost the fight: the drop was confirmed in the 28th week, in March 2025, after Bodrum FK beat their neighbours, and the club now plays in the Trendyol 1. Lig. Two wins from 36 matches, five draws and 28 defeats told part of the story; twelve points deducted across the campaign, three of them for walking off the pitch during a match against Galatasaray, told the rest. Four managers passed through the dugout in a single season, from Michael Valkanis at the start to Mustafa Alper Avcı at the end, and none of them stopped the slide.

None of that fits the club that grew out of Adana's amateur football scene. Getting to the top flight itself was a longer job, done in stages through the second tier, with the most recent, in 2021, finally the one that stuck for a while. A Turkish Cup final was lost to Trabzonspor in 1978, and the Süper Lig title has never come; 4th place in 2022–23 remains the highest the club has finished.

The Adana derby against Adanaspor is the fixture that matters most in the city, sharpened further by the wider Çukurova rivalry with Mersin İdman Yurdu. But the name most people outside Turkey reach for is Mario Balotelli, who arrived in 2021, scored 19 goals in his first season at Yeni Adana Stadyumu, and came back for a second spell in 2023 — long enough to see the club he'd helped push forward start to fall apart.

Latest results

All matches
6 Sep 2. Lig Isparta 32 Spor A 2:1 W
1 May 1. Lig İstanbulspor A 1:8 L
25 Apr 1. Lig Ümraniyespor H 1:3 L
19 Apr 1. Lig Boluspor A 0:6 L
12 Apr 1. Lig 76 Iğdır Belediyespor H 1:6 L
7 Apr 1. Lig Hatayspor A 0:4 L

Standing

2. Lig

Group stage · Lig B: White Group

# Team M W L Goals Pts
14 Sebat Gençlikspor 1 0 1 1:3 0
15 Arnavutköy Belediyespor 1 0 1 1:4 0
16 Kastamonuspor 1966 1 0 1 0:5 0
17 Hatayspor 1 0 1 0:2 0
18 Adana Demirspor 1 1 0 2:1 0
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Team statistics

matches counted: 255
255 Matches
85 wins
57 draws
113 losses
387–497 Goals
−110 Difference
1.5 Scored per game
Season results matches counted: 255
85wins: 85 · 33% 57draws: 57 · 22% 113losses: 113 · 44%
wins losses
Scored and conceded last matches
7 Apr · Away Hatayspor · 0:4
12 Apr · Home 76 Iğdır Belediyespor · 1:6
19 Apr · Away Boluspor · 0:6
25 Apr · Home Ümraniyespor · 1:3
1 May · Away İstanbulspor · 1:8
6 Sep · Away Isparta 32 Spor · 2:1
scored — above the line conceded — below the line
Metric Total Home Away
Matches 255 132 123
Scored 387 240 147
Conceded 497 236 261
Scored per game 1.5 1.8 1.2
Conceded per game 1.9 1.8 2.1
Difference −110 +4 −114

Key players

by appearances over the last year
T. Bayar Midfielder 14 Matches A. Sarkaya Defender 14 Matches K. Saygan Midfielder 14 Matches Gokdeniz Tunch Midfielder 13 Matches Yusuf Bughra Demirki ran Defender 13 Matches Osman Kaynak Defender 13 Matches Mehmet Ergen Midfielder 12 Matches Ali Fidan Defender 12 Matches

Squad of Adana Demirspor

by appearances over the last year
Number Player Position Matches
98 T. Bayar Midfielder 14
24 A. Sarkaya Defender 14
88 K. Saygan Midfielder 14
22 Gokdeniz Tunch Midfielder 13
23 Yusuf Bughra Demirki ran Defender 13
77 Osman Kaynak Defender 13
97 Mehmet Ergen Midfielder 12
43 Ali Fidan Defender 12
16 K. Kucuk Defender 12
5 Aimen Namli Defender 12
78 Sefi Efe Irka Midfielder 12
2 E. Demir tas Defender 12
17 M. Menemencioglu Midfielder 11
21 Arda Ozkanbas Midfielder 11
80 A. Yilmaz Midfielder 10
25 M. Esar Goalkeeper 10
15 Diar Zengin Forward 10
27 Ata Gul Goalkeeper 9
99 Eren Fidan Goalkeeper 8
3 Hasan Kaya Midfielder 7
29 Mert Bas Midfielder 7
90 Oktay Cimen Goalkeeper 7
30 Yücel Gürol Midfielder 6
18 A. Bolat Forward 5
14 Demir Yavuz Midfielder 4
4 Aslan Atay Defender 4
19 Coklar Celeng Defender 4
94 Mehmet Erdogan Defender 4
26 D. A. Dubois Defender 4
28 Yigit Can Okat Midfielder 3
33 Kaira Ozba Forward 3
66 Halil Eray Aktaş Defender 3
12 Ege Achimis Defender 3
11 M. Bozkurt Midfielder 3
87 Ulas Imergi Midfielder 2

Fixtures of Adana Demirspor

Honours of Adana Demirspor

  • Çukurova Football League 1943, 1944, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959 17
  • TFF 1. Lig 1973, 1987, 1991, 1994, 2021 5
  • Turkish Amateur Championship 1954 1
  • Turkish Cup 1978 1

Transfers

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Arrivals

Departures