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Diyarbekirspor

Turkish sports club

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 2, 2026
Entity authorityQ19613117 ↗
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Diyarbekirspor is a Turkish professional football club located in the city of Diyarbakır. Their colours are red and green, and they play their home matches at Diyarbakır Stadium.

History

The club which was formed as Tarım Doğanspor in 1977, then renamed to Beşyüzevlerspor in 1986, was active in the Diyarbakır Amateur League. In 2010, Bedirhan Akyol, club's chairman since 1986, reestablished the club as Yeni Diyarbakırspor to compete in the Turkish Regional Amateur League until 2013, when they managed to secure promotion to the TFF Third League. In 2015, the club adopted Diyarbekirspor as their new name.

After four play-offs finals, Diyarbekirspor finished top of the 2020–21 TFF Third League season, and were promoted to the TFF Second League. Following the 2023 Turkey–Syria earthquake, the club decided to withdraw from the rest of the 2022–23 season.

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Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1977, 1986, 2010, 2013—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Diyarbekirspor, Turkish and sports is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “Diyarbekirspor” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.