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Eskişehirspor is a local football club in Eskişehir, Turkey. Also known as Kırmızı Şimşekler (Red Lightnings) or The Star of Anatolia. The club was founded in 1965 and started a football revolution in Anatolia. The club has a large group of supporters. Their slogan is "Es Es Es Ki Ki Ki , Eski Eski Es!".
EskiÅŸehirspor started a long term stay in the first league in Turkey when they were founded. This term lasted 16 years until they were relegated. After being out of the Turkish Super League for 12 years the club won the Bank Asya First League play-offs and were promoted in May of 2008.
Eskişehirspor were founded by merging regional teams of İdman Yurdu, Akademi Gençlik and Yıldıztepe and was admitted in Second League in 1965-1966 season. They promoted to First League in first professional season. Eskişehirspor became one of the better historically rich Anatolian clubs despite having never won the Süperlig between 1968-1975. They were runners-up in 1968-1969, 1969-1970, and 1971-1972 seasons. Eskişehirspor won the Turkish Cup in the 1969-1970 season by beating Bursaspor by 4-3 (1-2, 3-1) aggregate and a year after that in 1970-1971 season they lifted the Cumhurbaskanligi Kupasi (President Cup) by beating Galatasaray once again by the same scoreline 3-2 with all goals coming from the Eskişehirspor legend himself Fethi Heper. After that, they started to slowly lose their success. Eskişehirspor relegated to Second League in 1981-82 season after an eventful match against Beşiktaş at Round 34, which was alo last round. The match was halted at 78th minute due to intemperence of Eskişehirspor's supporters, when after Beşiktaş's midfielder Ziya's goal at 76th minute, and match score was changed to 2-1 for Beşiktaş. Eskişehirspor was announced 3-0 unanimously lost and relegated as 1 point behind of Gaziantepspor. Also, Beşiktaş finished their championship yearning since 1967. Eskişehirspor returned 1st League in 1983-84 season. They reached Federation Cup final in 1986-87 season but lost against Gençlerbirliği by 6-2 aggregate. They won Prime Minister Cup against Beşiktaş after penalty shoots as 4-2, total 6-4. This match was resulted 2-2.
They relegated again Second League after 1-0 lost against Galatasaray, which goal scored by Tanju at Round 28 in 1988-89 season. EskiÅŸehirspor collected 41 points and remained behind of Altay by average. They relegated to Third League once after finishing third from last at Group A of 2nd League in 1991-92 season. However, they returned to Second League next season after finishing 1st at Group 5 of Third League.
Eskişehirspor finished 1st at 3rd Group in Second League and qualified for Promotion Groupin 1994-95 season. They finished 3rd and qualified to Extra Play-Off. They defeated successively Erzurumspor as 2-1, Adanaspor as 3-2, which after extra time and Aydınspor as 2-1 and returned to First League. Eskişehirspor's new adventure at First League lasted only one season and relegated after losing 7-1 (5 of 7 scored by Shota) against Trabzonspor despite a good start against İstanbulspor and this match finished 3-1 for Eskişehirspor. Eskişehirspor qualified to Promotion Play-Off but didn't return to First League in 1997-98. They escaped from relegation to Third League danger and Petrolofisi relegated in 1998-99 season. Eskişehirspor finally qualified to Second League Category B (later Second League), who is third level of Turkish League, after 2000-2001 season.
Promotion to Super League After a successful season in the Bank Asya First League, EskiÅŸehirspor finished in 4th place and qualified for the play-offs in 2007-2008 season. The play-offs determine who is going to take the third and final promotion spot for the Turkish Super League. She was managed by Metin Diyadin (1-26) and Nejad Biyedic (27-34) in this season.
EskiÅŸehirspor's first play off match was against Diyarbakirspor. After regular and extra time the match ended in a 0-0 draw. EskiÅŸehirspor advanced to the final game after beating Diyarbakirspor 6-5 in the penalty shoot out.
The final match against Boluspor was held in Istanbul at the Besiktas Inonu Stadium. At the end of 90 minutes EskiÅŸehirspor were promoted to the Turkish Super League with their 2-0 win. Eskisehirspor's goals were scored by DoÄŸa Kaya and CoÅŸkun Birdal.
On 3 June 2008, Halil Ünal was choosen as the new chairman of Eskişehirspor. Rıza Çalımbay was appointed as manager for the 2008-2009 season.
Great successes in Europe One of EskiÅŸehirspor's greatest matches took place in the 1970-71 UEFA Cup against Sevilla FC. EskiÅŸehirspor lost the first match 1-0 in Sevilla, but won the second 3-1 in EskiÅŸehir to win 3-2 on aggregate. All three goals from Eskisehirspor came after the 80th minute by Fethi.
League participations Turkish Super League: 1966-1982, 1984-1989, 1995-1996, 2008-
TFF First League: 1965-1966, 1982-1984, 1989-1992, 1993-1995, 1996-2001, 2006-2008
TFF Second League: 1992-1993, 2001-2006