Zeytinburnu Belediyespor

Zeytinburnu Belediyespor, short for (Turkish: Zeytinburnu Belediyesi Buz Hokeyi Takımı), is the ice hockey team of Zeytinburnu Belediye S.K. in Istanbul, Turkey founded by the Municipality of Zeytinburnu district in 2010. Currently, the team compete in the Turkish Ice Hockey Super League (TBHSL) and play their home matches in Silivrikapı Ice Skating Hall.[1] The club's colors are blue, white and red.[2]

Zeytinburnu Belediyespor
City	Istanbul, Turkey
League	Turkish Ice Hockey Super League (TBHSL)
Founded	May 29, 2010
Home arena	Silivrikapı Ice Skating Hall Capacity 900
Colors
General manager	Halit Albayrak
Head coach	Deniz İnce
Championships
Regular season titles	2013–14 Runner-up 2014–15 Chamğion 2015–16 Champion

History

In 2010, the Municipality of Zeytinburnu erected two mobile ice-rinks of each 400 m² (4,300 sq ft) in the frame of a social responsibility project called "Doğaya destek sizden, buz pateni biletiniz bizden" (literally: You Support the Nature, We Award the Ticket for Ice Skating) to promote recycling. Citizens were awarded free tickets for ice skating session for the duration of half-an-hour under supervision of trainers in exchange for waste brought to recycle. Street children in the district, who are coming from poor families of mostly southeastern and eastern Anatolian origin with up to 10–12 children, collected waste paper to get free tickets. However, some of them tried to enter without a ticket, caused trouble around the venue, threatened the employees and damaged the ice rink. Noticing the youngsters' interest in ice skating, the municipality officials gave them in the beginning free-of-charge sessions instead of calling in for further security measures. The increasing interest of the street children induced the district mayor Murat Aydın to form an ice hockey team with the support of the Turkish Ice Hockey Federation (TBHF).[3][4][5][6][7]

The team was established on May 29, 2010. Around twenty youngsters joined the team. Training and playing ice hockey in a team helped rehabilitate the children, many of whom were drug addicted or smokers, and resume their high school education.[5][6][7] The addicts with social troubles were transformed into gentile sportspeople.[4]

The team played in the Marmara Region Division of the Turkish Ice Hockey First League (TBHBL), the second-level league in Turkey. In the first two seasons, the team lost all league games with high score.[5] The number of players as street children dropped to eight. By and by, the team transferred also professional ice hokey players.[5][6][7] Success came in the 2012–13 season. Composed of players aged 17 to 19, Zeytinburnu Belediyespor became regional league leader, and was promoted at the end to the Turkish Ice Hockey Super League (TBHSL).[5]

The club formed also a farm team consisting of 35 minors aged between 10 and 12, who were selected as talented.[5]

Achievements

Turkish League

The 2012–13 season of the Turkish Ice Hockey First League ended for Zeytinburnu Belediyespor ranking at second place following a defeat by Gümüş Patenler in the play-off final.[8] The team was promoted to the Super League (TBHSL).

The team finished the 2013–14 season as runner-up in their first presence in the TBHSL after losing to Izmir BB GSK in the play-off final.[9]

They became champion in the 2014–15 and 2015–16 seasons, beating their rival from İzmir in the play-offs.[10][11]

Statistics

Season	League	Rank	Pld	W	L	OTW	OTL	GF	GA	GD	Pts
2011–12	First League
2012–13	First League	1
2013–14	Super League	2
2014–15	Super League	1	12	9	3	0	0	183	61	+122	27
2015–16	Super League	1	10	8	1	0	1	146	20	+126	25
2016–17	Super League	1	10	10	0	0	0	175	13	+162	30
Green marks a year followed by promotion, red a year followed by relegation.

Continental Cup

Zeytinburnu BS took part at the 2015–16 IIHF Continental Cup's Group A matches. They won two matches of the three, and failed to advance to the further round.[12]

They participated at the 2016–17 IIHF Continental Cup. They played three matches of the first round in Group A held in Sofia, Bulgaria. Beating all their opponents, they became group champion, and advanced to the second round, which will be held in Jaca, Spain.[13]

Host	Round	Date	Opponent	Result
2015–16 IIHF Continental Cup
Serbia, Belgrade	First Gr. A	Oct 2, 2015	Rishon Devils	W 14–4
		Oct 3, 2015	HK Partizan	W 4–1
		Oct 4, 2015	CSKA Sofia	L 5–9
2016–17 IIHF Continental Cup
Bulgaria, Sofia	First Gr. A	Sep 30, 2016	Irbis-Skate Sofia	W 5–1
		Oct 1, 2016	HK Partizan	W 8–3
		Oct 2, 2016	HC Bat Yam	W 19–2
Spain, Jaca	Second Gr. B	Oct 21, 2016	HK Liepāja	L 1–8
		Oct 22, 2016	Nottingham Panthers	L 1–12
		Oct 23, 2016	CH Jaca	W 7–3

Current roster

As of 21 October 2016.[14]

No.	Player	Nat	Date of Birth and age	C/S	Height	Weight
Goaltenders
1	Tolga Bozacı		January 24, 1998	L	1.76 m (5 ft 9 ^1⁄2 in)	66 kg (146 lb)
35	Nikita Sandyrev		May 27, 1992	L	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)	67 kg (148 lb)
Defense
8	Yusuf Kars		October 15, 1998	L	1.65 m (5 ft 5 in)	60 kg (130 lb)
9	Gökhun Öztürk (C)		December 16, 1985	L	1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)	85 kg (187 lb)
22	Maximilian Siegfried Franz Dimitrovici		February 22, 1989	L	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)	78 kg (172 lb)
36	Cengiz Gök		December 23, 1985	R	1.72 m (5 ft 7 ^1⁄2 in)	80 kg (180 lb)
44	Brian Thomas Dunford		June 25, 1987	L	1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)	82 kg (181 lb)
46	Barış Coşkun		July 2, 1984	R	1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)	90 kg (200 lb)
Forwards
10	Doruk Kamış		May 22, 1984	R	1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)	67 kg (148 lb)
11	Yavuz Karakoç		July 26, 1988	L	1.82 m (5 ft 11 ^1⁄2 in)	80 kg (180 lb)
13	Fatih Taygar		May 7, 1999	L	1.87 m (6 ft 1 ^1⁄2 in)	70 kg (150 lb)
16	Taylan Anlar		September 13, 1998	R	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)	65 kg (143 lb)
17	Oleksei Voytsekhovsky (A)		May 10, 1987	L	1.79 m (5 ft 10 ^1⁄2 in)	74 kg (163 lb)
23	Oleg Zadoenko		February 20, 1990	L	1.76 m (5 ft 9 ^1⁄2 in)	88 kg (194 lb)
24	Ferhat Bakal		March 16, 1999	L	1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)	75 kg (165 lb)
41	Serkan Gümüş (A)		October 17, 1992	L	1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)	60 kg (130 lb)
54	Batuhan Akay		March 3, 1995	R	1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)	60 kg (130 lb)
56	Mahsum Akkuş		March 13, 1995	L	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)	65 kg (143 lb)
72	Konstantin Kuchkin		March 16, 1993	R	1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)	84 kg (185 lb)
74	Faruk Günel		August 1, 1993	R	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)	80 kg (180 lb)
88	Enes Can Gültaş		June 21, 2000	R	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)	75 kg (165 lb)
91	Anton Peronmaa		August 21, 1993	R	1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)	82 kg (181 lb)

Coaching staff

As of 1 May 2016.[15]

• General Manager: Emre Birinci
• Head coach: Deniz İnce
• Goaltending Coach: Anders Jespersen
• Development Coach: Anders Jespersen

Former foreign players

 Canada

• Evan Zych (2014–2015)

 Finland

• Anton Peronmaa (2014–2017)
• Riku Arim (2015–2016)
• Rami Heikkilä (2015–2016)

 Sweden

• Nafi Kaya (2014–2016)

 United States

• Ryan Alves (2015–2016)
• Ryan Bahl (2015–2016)
• Tyler Holske (2015–2016)

References

1. "Zeytinburnu Belediyesi Buz Hokeyi Takımı'ndan 'Süper' Başlangıç" (in Turkish). Zeytinburnu Belediyesi. 2013-12-30. Retrieved 2014-04-05.
2. "Seçilen İldeki Kulüpler Listesi" (PDF) (in Turkish). Gençlik ve Spor Bakanlığı- Spor Genel Müdürlüğü. Retrieved 2014-04-05.
3. Ergün, Bülent (2010-04-06). "Çöpü at, buz pateni biletini kap". Sabah (in Turkish). Retrieved 2014-04-05.
4. "Istanbul district turns street kids into hockey players". Hürriyet Daily News. 2013-01-25. Retrieved 2014-04-05.
5. Öztürk, Ercan (2013-01-06). "Sokağın ayazından hokeyin buzuna". Alşam (in Turkish). Retrieved 2014-04-05.
6. "Dün sokaklarda olanlar bugün buz pistinde". Milliyet (in Turkish). 2013-02-16. Retrieved 2014-04-05.
7. "Sokaktan hokey salonuna yolculuk". Hürriyet (in Turkish). 2013-01-08. Retrieved 2014-04-05.
8. "2012–2013 Sezonu TBHF Erkekler 1.Lig Birincisi Gümüş Patenler Oldu" (in Turkish). Türkiye Buz Hokeyi Federasyonu. Retrieved 2014-04-05.
9. "2013–2014 Sezonu TBHF Süper Ligi 1'incisi İzmir Büy. Bel. SK Oldu" (in Turkish). Türkiye Buz Hokeyi Federasyonu. Retrieved 2014-04-05.
10. "Zeytinburnu Belediyesi Buz Hokeyi Takımı Şampiyon Oldu". Milliyet (in Turkish). 2015-06-05. Retrieved 2016-05-01.
11. "Buz Hokeyinde Şampiyon ZEwytinburnu Belediye". Milliyet (in Turkish). 2016-05-01. Retrieved 2016-05-01.
12. "2016 Continental Cup Group A Belgrade,, Serbia". IIHF. Retrieved 2016-10-05.
13. "Continental Cup 2017". IIHF. Retrieved 2016-10-05.
14. "HK Liepaja vs Zeytinburnu". Continental Cup 2017. Retrieved 2016-10-22.
15. "Zeytinburnu Belediye SK". Elite Hockey Prospects. Retrieved 2016-05-01.

External links

• Official website (in Turkish)