Dinarsuspor was a
women's football Women's football most often refers to:
* Women's association football
Women's football may also refer to:
* Women's gridiron football
* Women's Australian rules football
* Ladies' Gaelic football
* Women's rugby league
* Women's rugby union
...
club based in
Istanbul
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, Turkey.
Dinarsuspor was founded in 1991 by six women's footballers, who left
Dostluk Spor. The team was the women's football side of the same-named club, which was established in 1982 by the
carpeting
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and
artificial turf
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producer Dinarsu. With the establishment of the Turkish Women's Football League by the
Turkish Football Federation
The Turkish Football Federation (; TFF) is the governing body of association football in Turkey. It was formed on 23 April 1923, and joined FIFA the same year and UEFA in 1962. It organizes the Turkey national football team, the Turkish Foo ...
(TFF) in 1994, the team started to play regular matches. The team became champion already in the first ever league season in
1994
The year 1994 was designated as the " International Year of the Family" and the "International Year of Sport and the Olympic Ideal" by the United Nations.
In the Line Islands and Phoenix Islands of Kiribati, 1994 had only 364 days, omitti ...
. The team repeated their success in a row in the following three seasons also.
The team won the Federation Cup in 1997 as well.
Dinarsuspor took part at international tournaments. They became champion of the Schwäbisch Hall Tournament in Germany in 1996. They placed in the 1997 Stuttgart-tockach Tournament, at which 42 teams participated from Austria, Switzerland, Poland and Germany. The team won 26 of the 39 international matches and scored 108 goals in total.
In 1997, club president İlker İnat decided to withdraw from the league after his demand on assignment of a stadium and referees for a friendly match with a women's team from Romania was not met by the TFF although nine players of the team were members of the
national team
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.
Notable players
Players, who were member of the Turkey women's national team:
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Feride Akgün
Feride Akgün (born 1973) is a Turkish former footballer, who played as forward in the Turkish Women's League for various clubs, and the Turkey women's national team. She was named the league's top goalscorer three times.
Early years
Akgün profe ...
*
Aysun Boyacı
Aysun Boyacı (born 1972) is a Turkish former footballer, national teams coach and high school teacher of physical education.
Boyacı played for the Istanbul-based Dinasruspor in the Turkish Women's League between 1991 and 1996. After graduatio ...
*
Nazan Bulut
Nazan Bulut (born 24 May 1973) is a Turkish former women's footballer. She was a member of the Turkey women's national teams. She is a teacher for physical education.
Nazan Bulut was born at Akçalören village of İvrindi district in Balıkes ...
*
Bilgin Defterli
Bilgin Defterli (born 1 November 1980) is a Turkish former women's football forward. She had been a member of the Turkey women's national football team from 1999 to 2014 and served as their captain. Defterli is tall.
Early life
Defterli was bo ...
*
Melahat Eryurt
Melahat Eryurt, (October 27, 1975 in Hannover, West Germany), is a Turkish female footballer. A member of the Turkey women's national football team, she is the most capped player with 39 matches and the top scorer with 18 goals, as of March 201 ...
*
Seyhan Gündüz
Seyhan Gündüz (born September 15, 1980) is a Turkish former women's footballer who plays as a forward. She last played in the Turkish Women's First Football League for Zeytinburnuspor in Istanbul. She was part of the Turkish women's national ...
*Meral Halıcı
*
Ayşe Kuru
Ayşe Kuru (born 2 January 1974) is a Turkish former women's football defender. She was part of the Turkish women's national team between 1996 and 2001.
Playing career Club
Kuru obtained her license for Dinarsuspor on 30 August 1996. She playe ...
*Yasemin Metin
*Alev Paçal
*İlknur Şenol
*
Ayfer Topluoğlu
Ayfer Topluoğlu (born January 31, 1977) is a Turkish former women's football goalkeeper and manager. She was member of the Turkey women's national team between 1995 and 2003.
Early life
Ayfer Topluoğlu was born in Çatalca district of Istanbu ...
Honours
;
Turkish Women's Football League
* ''Winners'' (4):
1994
The year 1994 was designated as the " International Year of the Family" and the "International Year of Sport and the Olympic Ideal" by the United Nations.
In the Line Islands and Phoenix Islands of Kiribati, 1994 had only 364 days, omitti ...
, 1994–95, 1995–96, 1996–97
;Turkish Women's Federation Cup
* Winners (1): 1996-97
References
Association football clubs established in 1991
1991 establishments in Turkey
Women's football clubs in Turkey
Football clubs in Istanbul
Association football clubs disestablished in 1997
1997 disestablishments in Turkey
Defunct football clubs in Turkey
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