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| Adana Demirspor | ||
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| Full name | Adana Demirspor Kulübü A.Ş. | |
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| Nickname(s) | Mavi Şimşekler (Blue Lightnings) | |
| Short name | ADS | |
| Founded | 28 December 1940 | |
| Ground | New Adana Stadium (Capacity: 33,543) | |
| Chairman |  Murat Sancak
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| Head Coach |  Patrick Kluivert
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| Current League | Süper Lig | |
| 2022–23 | Süper Lig, 4th | |
| Website | Club home page | |
  
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Adana Demirspor is a sports club based in Adana, Turkey. Founded by railway workers in 1940, the club were competitive in eight sports until 1980s; since then active only with the football department, which returned to the Süper Lig on 9 May 2021 after 26 years' of absence. Football team's thriving success at the Adana League and the water polo team's unbeaten National League titles in the first three decades, built a large worker fan base in the city and attracted landowners to finance the club. Believing that the worker supported, landowner financed, TCDD governed club are alienating them, middle-class merchants and artisans founded Adanaspor in 1954 and competition among the two clubs for the citywide support and domination, created one of the fierce rivalries of Turkish football which continues to this day as Adana derby.
Adana Demirspor was the first club based outside of Istanbul, Ankara, or İzmir to join the National Football League in the 1960–61 season, before this the league games were only hosted in the three cities. However, their stay didn't last long, and they were thrown back into Adana League. It was until 1963, when 2.Lig (second division of Turkish league) was created. Adana Demispor returned to top-flight football in 1973 and stayed there for 11 years, with most notable achievement during that period was reaching finals of Turkish Cup and Prime Minister's Cup in 1978. For the next 10 years, Adana Demispor spent the next several years moving back and forth between the 1. Lig and 2. Lig. Since then, they just competed in lower league levels, and after 26 years of absence, they returned to Süper Lig. Just after two seasons, Adana Demispor was qualified for European competition for the first time, after finishing fourth in the 2022–23 Süper Lig.
Honours[]
- Turkish Football League System
- Second Tier (1.Lig)
- Winners (4): 1972–73, 1986–87, 1990–91, 2020–21
- Playoff winners (1): 1993–94
- Third Tier (2.Lig)
- Winners (1): 2001–02
- Playoff winners (1): 2011–12
- Second Tier (1.Lig)
- Adana Regional Football League System
- Adana League
- Winners (16) (record): 1942–43, 1943–44, 1944–45, 1945–46, 1946–47, 1947–48, 1948–49, 1949–50, 1950–51, 1951–52, 1952–53, 1953–54, 1954–55, 1956–57, 1957–58, 1958–59
- Adana League
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