Akçaabat Sebatspor were founded as Sebat İdman Yurdu in 1923 in Akcaabat, Trabzon, Turkey.

They are among the ten oldest football clubs in Turkey despite being a team of a relatively small town.

After years of struggling, influential businessman and philanthropist Mevlüt Selami Yardım took the helms as a chairman.

He put tremendous financial and personal effort for the team to recoup its historical valour.

Three years later, Sebatspor were promoted to the Süper Lig for the first time in the club's history.