Amputee football was first played in Turkey in 2003, the first nation-wide competition was held in 2004, and the first international participation took place the same year. The sport is governed by the Turkish Physically Disabled Sports Federation ("Türkiye Bedensel Engelliler Spor Federasyonu", TBESF), and supported by the Turkish Football Federation ("Türkiye Futbol Federasyonu", TFF).
History Created in 1982, amputee football was developed for athletes having a physical impairment with unilateral lower and upper limb amputation. The disabled sport became international in 1985.
Amputee football started in Turkey for rehabilitation purposes within the Turkish Armed Forces in 2003, and attracted later scientific research by the Sports Medicine discipline in Turkey.
Domestic In May 2003, the "Karagücü Amputee Football" team, supported by the Turkish Land Forces ("Türk Kara Kuvvetleri") were founded, and started activities in accordance with the rules of the World Amputee Football Federation (WAFF). Amputee football was played in the beginning at regional level. Necessary applications were made to the Turkish Physically Disabled Sports Federation (TBESF) for the recognition of this sport in Turkey, for the establishment of a league, and for including amputee football in the 2004 activity program of the TBESF. Amputee football was included into the TBESF as the 12th branch in 2004.
The first nation-wide competition was the "Ghazi Tournament" (in honor of "Ghazi Mustafa Kemal, founder of the Turkish Republic) held in 2004. The first Turkish Amputee Football Championship was held in Trabzon with seven registered teams on 4–12 March 2007.
Preliminary preparations for the establishment of a league were made in 2008 by organizing a competition, at which eleven teams participated. Competition instructions and referee guidelines were worked our by the Central Referee Committee. In August 2009, the Amputee Football League was established in Turkey. The TBESF governs the ampute football leagues "Super League", "First League" and "Second League" as well as the" Turkey Cup", which are supported by the Turkish Football Federation (TFF). In the 2021–22 season, a total of 34 clubs from 19 cities all over the country competed in three leagues.
City Number of clubs Super LeagueFirstLeague SecondLeague TotalAdana - - 1 1Ankara 3 1 - 4Antalya - 1 - 1Batman - - 1 1Bursa - 1 - 1Denizli 1 - - 1Gaziantep 1 - 3 4Istanbul 3 2 - 5İzmir 1 - - 1Kahramanmaraş - - 1 1Kayseri 1 1 - 2Kocaeli - - 1 1Konya 1 1 - 2Malatya 1 - - 1Mersin - 1 - 1Sakarya - - 2 2Samsun - 1 12Şanlıurfa 1 - - 1Trabzon 1 - 1 2Total 14 9 11 34
Turkish Amputee Football Super League Turkish Amputee Football Super League is the top-level league in Turkey. In the 2021–22 season, the Super League was played by following 14 clubs:
Club CityAnadolu Erciyes Engelliler SK KayseriDenizli Engelliler SK DenizliEtmesgut Bld. Ampute SK AnkaraEsengücü Engelliler SK Istanbulİzmir BBGSK İzmirKonya Engellilergücü SK KonyaMalatya BBSK MalatyaODTÜ SK AnkaraPendik Engelliler SK IstanbulŞahinbey Belediye GSK GaziantepŞanlıurfa SK ŞanlıurfaŞişli Yeditepe Engelliler SK IstanbulTrabzon Ortahisar Belde SK TrabzonTSK Rehab. Merkezi Engelliler SK Ankara
History Year Champion Runners-up Third place2009–10AYBESK (1)? ? 2010–11AYBESK (2)Kara Kuvvetleri Gücü?2011–12AYBESK (3)? ?2012–13AYBESK (4)Kara Kuvvetleri GücüKayseri Melikgazi Belediyespor2013–14AYBESK (5)TSK Rehabilitasyon Merkezi ESKİstanbul Özürlüler SK2014–15AYBESK (6)TSK Rehabilitasyon Merkezi ESKŞahinbey Belediyespor2015–16Ortotek Gaziler SK (1)TSK Rehabilitasyon Merkezi ESKŞahinbey Belediyespor2016–17Ortotek Gaziler SK (2)Şişli Yeditepe Engelliler SKPendik Belediyesi BESK2017–18Ortotek Gaziler SK (3)TSK Rehabilitasyon Merkezi ESKŞahinbey Belediyespor2018–19Şahinbey Belediyespor (1)Ortotek Gaziler SKPendik Belediyesi BESK2019–20Şahinbey Belediyespor Etimesgut Belediyesporİzmir Büyükşehir Belediyespor2020–21Etimesgut Belediyespor (1)Şahinbey Belediyesporİzmir Büyükşehir Belediyespor2021–22Etimesgut Belediyespor (2)Şahinbey Belediyesporİzmir Büyükşehir Belediyespor2022–23Şahinbey Belediyespor (2)Alves Kablo Ampute FKEtimesgut Belediyespor2023–24Alves Kablo Ampute FK (1)Şahinbey BelediyesporPendik Belediyesi BESK2024–25Şahinbey Belediyespor (3)Alves Kablo Ampute FKTrabzon Büyükşehir Ampute FK
Turkish Amputee Football First League The Turkish Amputee Football First League is the second-level league of the amputee football in Turkey. In the 2021-22 seaspn, it consisted of following 9 clubs: Ckub CityAntalya BB Asat SK AntalyaBaşakşehir AMpute Futbol K IstanbulBursa AMpute AK Bursaİstanbul Özürlüler SK IstanbulMelikgazi Belediye BGSK KayseriMP Samsun Engelligücü SK SamsunOlimpik Yetenekler SK MersinUysal Hydraulic Konya Bedensel Engelliler SK KonyaYenimalle Engelligücü SK Ankara
Turkish Amputee Football Second League The Turkish Amputee Football Second League is the third-level league in Turkey. In the 2021–22 season, following 11 clubs competed in the league: Club CityAdana Ampute Engelliler SK AdanaBatman Ampute SK BatmanGaziantep Ampute SK GaziantepGaziantep Bedensel Engelliler SK GaziantepGürbulak Belediye SK TrabzonKahramanmaraş Ampute SK KahramanmaraşKocaeli Gebze Gücü Engelliler SK KocaeliSakarya Akgün Ampute Engelliler Boks SK SakaryaSakarya Ampute Engelliler SK SakaryaSamsun Bedensel Engelliler SK SamsunŞehitkamil Engelliler SK Gaziantep
International The Turkey national team competed for the first time at the European Amputee Football Championship of 2004 held in Kyiv, Ukraine on 27 May-2 June, and became runners-up.
The national team played two friendly matches in London, England on 3-8 July 2005 to gain experience for the then-upcoming World Championship. Turkey's world-level debut was at the 2005 World Championship in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on 11–21 August, where they placed fifth. For preparations to the next World Championship, the national team held a joint training camp in Ankara with the England team in May 2007, and played two friendly matches. The first medal for Turkey came in bronze at the 2007 World Championship hosted by Turkey in Antalya on 11–21 November. Three more consecutive bronze medals followed in 2010 Crespo, 2012 Kaliningrad and 2014 Culiacán. The silver medal was won at the 2018 Guadalajara. The national team became world champions at the 2022 World Cup in Istanbul after defeating Angola in the final by 4–1.
Organized by the TBESF and TFF, Turkey hosted the European Amputee Football Championship in Antalya on 1–6 December 2008. The Turkey team took the silver medal losing to Russia 2–0 in the last match. In February 2015, Turkey was among the founding member countries of the European Amputee Football Federation (EAFF). The first official edition of the European championship organized by the EAFF took place in 2017 held in Istanbul. Turkey won the champion title by defeating England 2–1 in the final. Turkey won a second European gold medal in Kraków, Poland in 2021 beating Spain 5–0 in the final.
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