Trabzonspor (women's football)

The first women's football team in Trabzon was of the Karadeniz Teknik Üniversitesi (KTÜ) formed in 2001. Following this initiative, another football club in Trabzon, İdmanocağı founded its women's team basing it on the squad of Trabzon High School.^[5] However, due to inadequate interest, women's football in Trabzon did not improve.

In 2007, former KTÜ player Zeliha Şimşek and Trabzonspor's coordinator Özkan Sümer formed the team. Using their previous experiences where they had played a leading role in the foundation of a women's team within Trabzonspor, they formed the team in six weeks before the beginning of the league season.^[6] The Trabzonspor women's team competed in the first year of the women's league along with the other women's team in Trabzon, İdmanocağı.^[7]

The team played its first league match against İdmanocağı on November 18, 2007 at its home stadium Mehmet Ali Yılmaz Stadium and won by 2–0.^[1][8] However, Trabzonspor was not so successful in later matches to get out of Group C. Gazi Üniversitesispor from Ankara, which played in the same group, became champion in the 2007–08 season.^[9]With the 2008–09 season, the structure of the women's league was modified and it gained national status. Trabzonspor competed in the restructured league of ten teams^[10] and gained the champion's title with 45 points in 18 games defeating Cengiz Topelspor of Mersin by 2–0 in the last match played away.^[11]

With this achievement, Trabzonspor became the only Turkish club which was champion of both the men's and women's premier leagues.^[12]

The women's football team of the club was re-established after the Turkish Football Federation formed the Turkish Women's Football Super League replacing Turkish Women's First Football League in 2021, and appealed to the major men's football clubs in the Süper Lig to participate in the women's football. The team is one of the eight new formed teams, which joined the 2021–22 Turkish Women's Football Super League for the first time.^[13][14][15]

As of 17 December 2022^[update]

• (¹): Season in progress

Trabzonspor was entitled to participate in the qualifying round of the 2009–10 UEFA Women's Champions League.^[16] This was the first time a Turkish women's football team had participated in the qualifying round of the UEFA league since it was established in 2001.^[17]

The team won its first match in the Group D against ŽNK Krka from Slovenia by 2–0,^[18] however lost the following matches to Italy's Torres Calcio Femminile by 0–9^[19] and to Slovan Duslo Šaľa from Slovakia by 1–2.^[10] Trabzonspor women's team failed to participate in the 2009–2010 UEFA Champions League.^[20]

Event	Stage	Date	Venue	Opponent	Result	Scorers
2009–10 UEFA Champions League	QR Group D 3rd	Jul 30, 2009	Slovenia, Krško	ŽNK Krka	W 2–0	Tchkonia, Önder[21]
		Aug 1, 2009		ASD Torres Calcio	L 0–9
		Aug 4, 2010		FK Slovan Duslo Šaľa	L 1–2	Kalyoncu[22]

Season	Rank	Points	Ref.
2009–10	91	0.750	[23]
2010–11	84	1.495	[24]
2011–12	97	1.660	[25]
2012–13	93	1.990	[26]
2013–14	86	4.300	[27]

• Turkish Women's Football Premier League:
  • Winners (1): 2008–09
  • Runners-up (1): 2009–10

As of 23 September 2023^[update]

• Head coach: Mehmet Birinci

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
17	MF	TUR	Arife Şentürk
23	MF	AZE	Nargiz Hajiyeva
54	MF	TUR	Pelin Nur Çelebi
77	MF	TUR	Damla Çoban
—	MF	CRO	Petra Pezelj
11	FW	COD	Grâce Mfwamba
7		TUR	Meryem Küçğkbirinci
9		TUR	Rabia Demir
20		TUR	Gizem Yazıcı
94		TUR	Emine İsen