Çaykur Rizespor

Uncommon card · No. 160049

Çaykur Rize Spor Kulübü is a Turkish professional football club based in Rize, a city on the eastern Black Sea coast. The team competes in the Süper Lig, the top tier of Turkish football. The club was originally founded on 19 May 1953, with its initial colors being green and yellow, representing the region’s connection to tea and citrus farming. Later the colors changed to green and blue. In 1968, Rizespor merged with two other local clubs, Fener Gençlik and Güneşspor, leading to a reorganization of the club and the adoption of green and blue as its official colors—green representing the hills of Rize and blue symbolizing the Black Sea. The club has maintained these colors ever since. Since 1990, Rizespor has been sponsored by the Turkish state-owned tea company Çaykur, leading to the official name change to Çaykur Rizespor Kulübü. This partnership also influenced the club’s visual identity, with a tea leaf becoming the central element of the club’s crest. Çaykur Rizespor plays its home...

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