Amed Sportif Faaliyetler Kulübü, formerly Diyarbakır Büyükşehir Belediyespor, is a Turkish

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based in

Diyarbakır Diyarbakır (; ; ; ) is the largest Kurdish-majority city in Turkey. It is the administrative center of Diyarbakır Province. Situated around a high plateau by the banks of the Tigris river on which stands the historic Diyarbakır Fortress, ...

. The

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club plays in

TFF Second League TFF 2. Lig (Turkish Football Federation Second League), is the third level in the Turkish football league system. It was founded in the 2001–02 season with the name of ''Turkish Second League Category B'' as a continuation of the then second lev ...

since 2013-14 season. It is the football club of Diyarbakır Metropolitan Municipality.

History

The club was established in 1972 and competed in the amateur leagues for many years as ''Melikahmet Turanspor'', because of a sponsorship with Turan Gazozlar. The club colours were red and white. In 1985 the club name changed into ''Melikahmetspor'' after the sponsorship had ended. Diyarbakır municipality bought the club in 1990 and changed its name to "Diyarbakır Belediyespor". In October 2014, they changed their name to "Amedspor" without official approval, and therefore have been fined by the

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(TFF). The objection of the TFF was because of the existence of the original ''Amedspor'', which later on changed its name into ''Amidaspor''. However, when the team changed its name to ''Amed Sportif Faaliyetler Kulübü'', TFF announced that it accepted this new name.

Crest and colours

Support

In early 2016, Amedspor pulled off an upset win over

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to make it into quarterfinals of the

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. After this victory their fans were banned from the following match against Fenerbahçe S.K. by the TFF. The TFF also suspended their midfielder Deniz Naki 12 games for ideologic, propagandic and unsportmanship tweets and fined him with 19.500 TL (~6500$). Also the police raided the club's offices taking their computers on suspicion that a politically controversial Tweet might possibly have originated from there. According to an interview which the German newspaper '' Die Zeit'' held with their representatives, the club experienced difficulties as the club was seen as a symbol of

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identity by the TFF and Turkish authorities. The

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is banned from the stadiums and since December 2015 the fans of Amedspor are banned from watching the away games in the regular season. After the ban about 500 fans went to watch their team without showing the colors of their team, but as they showed their emotions for their team when it scored a goal, they had trouble with the fans from the opposite team and the police and they had to leave before the end of the match. From January 2016 to February 2019 the fans were banned to watch away games from the male football team for 64 games. Fans of the Amed S.K. women's team were not allowed to watch away games from 2018 to February 2019. Also merchandise articles of the fans are also often seized by the police. Amedspor also has a women's volleyball Team.

Honours

TFF Third League TFF 3. Lig (Turkish Football Federation Third League) is the fourth level in the Turkish football league system. It was founded in 2001–02 season as a continuation of then third level division Turkish Third Football League.Turkish Third Footba ...

: Winners (2): 2006–07 (Group 1), 2012–13 (Group 1)

Current squad

Out on loan

References

External links

Amed SK on TFF.org
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