Emin Urcan

FT

A point earned for Manisa, two points lost for Erzurum.

90+' Four more minutes to be played.

1-1

62' Goal for Erzurumspor FK!

Martín Rodríguez equalises for the guests!

1-1

53' Goal for Manisa FK!

Loïs Diony scores for the hosts!

1-0

46' Second-half KO

0-0

(In order to save some battery, I will post more infrequently)

HT

Goalless at the break, but the guests are definitely the dominant side.

The hosts occasionally threatened their opponents, but nothing came out of their attacks.

45+' Three added minutes.

0-0

Anyway, back to the match.

One third of the game has passed, and so far, it's Erzurumspor's game to lose.

Manisa FK have been ineffective on the second and third parts of the pitch, to put it lightly.

After three seasons in Manisa Super Amateur League, Manisaspor earned promotion to the Regional Amateur League this season.

Manisa FK's creation was due to the decline of Manisaspor, who spent a few seasons in Süper Lig with two stints between 2005 and 2012.

The Tarzans' fall started in the mid-2010s, and with financial troubles and multiple relegations, they ended up in Manisa Super Amateur League.

25' Erzurumspor FK had initially scored a goal, but it was overturned by VAR for offside.

Still 0-0

The turning point, however, came in 2019 when the football club separated from the municipal sports club, changing its name to Manisa FK.

Two years later, the black-and-whites won the Second League White Group and earned promotion to the First League, where they have remained ever since.

Manisa FK were founded in 1994 under the name of Manisa Belediyespor, later renamed Manisa Büyükşehir Belediyespor in 2012, as the province of Manisa became a metropolitan province.

1' Kick-off

0-0

Manisa FK are from the city of Manisa, the nearest city being İzmir (36 km).

Manisa 19 Mayıs Stadium, meanwhile, is located in Şehzadeler district, which is in the western part of the province.

Şehzadeler, along with Yunusemre, forms the city centre of Manisa.

The match will be played at Manisa 19 Mayıs Stadium, an-all seater stadium with a capacity of 14,013.

Originally opened in 1974, and most recently renovated in 2024.

Hi! It has been a while, but I am back with a game from the First League (the second tier of Turkish football) in the form of Manisa FK v Erzurumspor FK!

It had been fucked long before Trump first became POTUS.

A final note:

Chinese water torture sounds more enjoyable than whatever I witnessed was for 90 minutes.

FT 1-1

As far as the entertainment aspect of the game is concerned, this was probably the worst game I have ever attended.

₺100 well wasted.

The second half has just begun!

After 45 boring minutes, both teams found one goal each in the stoppage time, through Murat Arslan and Samet Aydın, respectively.

Almost 20 minutes in, and it is pretty much even Steven here. 0-0

Kick-Off

As soon as the match started, the hosts got close to the opening goal.

It is now used primarily by Bornova 1877 and İzmir Çoruhlu FK, both in the Third League.

The stadium is named after former Mayor of Bornova, and later between 2004-2019, the Metropolitan Municipality of İzmir, Aziz Kocaoğlu.

I am now in Bornova Aziz Kocaoğlu Stadium, aka Doğanlar Stadium due to its location.

The stadium was opened in 2016 has a capacity of 9,138. It had been used by the likes of Göztepe, Altay, Altınordu and Karşıyaka in the past.

The Alanya club changed changed their name last season. 1221 refers to the year Alanya was taken by the Seljuk Turkish Sultan of Rum, Kayqubad I.

As for Alanya 1221 FSK, they were founded in 1992 under the name of Alanya Kestelspor in the Kestel neighbourhood of Alanya, which itself is a district of Antalya.

Initially playing under the name of Bornova FK, the club took their current name upon their promotion to the Third League in 2023.

1877 refers to the year when football was first played on Turkish soil, in Bornova, by a group of British Levantines who brought the game from Thessaloniki.

Bornova 1877 SY were came into being after purchasing the competitive rights of Halilbeylispor (based in Halilbeyli, a village in Kemalpaşa) in 2020, who had just earned promotion to the Regional Amateur Leagues.