Eyüpspor is the football team of Istanbul

Istanbul

Istanbul , historically known as Byzantium and Constantinople , is the largest city of Turkey. Istanbul metropolitan province had 13.26 million people living in it as of December, 2010, which is 18% of Turkey's population and the 3rd largest metropolitan area in Europe after London and...

 district Eyüp

Eyüp

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. Team colours are lavender

Lavender

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 and yellow

Yellow

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. They play at the 2,500 capacity Eyüp Stadı. Eyüp fans have strong rivalry with Fatih Karagümrük

Fatih Karagümrük

Fatih Karagümrük is a football club in Turkey. The side currently plays in the TFF Third League, having been relegated in the 2007–2008 season....

 and Beykoz 1908

Beykoz 1908

TTNet Beykoz 1908 is a Turkish sports club based in Beykoz, an İstanbul district. Their home arena is the Beykoz Sport Hall.Beykoz was founded in 1908. Team colours are black and yellow. The Beykoz football team played in Turkish First League in 8 seasons...

fans and this causes big riots during the matches between those two teams. They also played in İstanbul First League between 1934-1937.Team match's usually Sunday play with but the Turkey Football Federation (TFF) want weekday play with.

League participation

• Second Level: 1982-83, 1987-94
• Third Level: 1970-73, 1984-87, 1994-01, 2002-
• Fourth Level: 2001-02
• Amateur Level: 1959-70, 1973-82, 1983-84

External links

• Eyüpspor web site
• Eyüpspor Club Details on TTF
• Photo of Eyüp Stadium