Samsunspor is a Turkish professional multi-sports club based in the city of Samsun, best known for its football department.

[7] In the Turkish Cup, the club reached the semi-finals, defeating Konyaspor, Adanaspor, Manisaspor, Galatasaray, and Fenerbahçe along the way.

The club finished with a record of eleven wins, nine draws, and ten losses, while scoring 24 goals and allowing 28.

[11] Samsunspor finished tenth the following season and were knocked out of the first round of the Turkish Cup for the second year in a row.

[5] In the same season, Samsunspor won Ministry of Youth and Sports Cup after Bursaspor II was defeated 2–1.

[14] In the late 1970s, Ender Cengiz, who was then the club chairman, introduced the return to roots (Turkish: öze dönüş) policy, aimed at bringing back local talent to strengthen the soccer team.

After the promotion from second tier in 1984–85, Samsunspor finished First League at 3rd place with 33 goals scored by Tanju Çolak in 1985–86 season.

Ranking again 3rd in the league where Tanju Çolak scored 25 goals, the team rose to the semi-finals in the Federation Cup.

Among the players killed were Mete Adanır and Muzaffer Badalıoğlu; Zoran Tomić fell into a coma for six months before dying in his native Yugoslavia.

Fatih Uraz, then starting goalkeeper of Samsunspor and the Turkey national football team, broke a vertebra in his back.

The club finished the league at 5th position and run to semi-finals in Turkish Cup at their comeback season.

Returning from an away match in February 2012, two players were injured when the team coach was struck by a train on a level crossing.

The club took part in the last edition of the Balkans Cup, defeating PFC Pirin Blagoevgrad before facing PAS Giannina in the final.

[22] They were drawn into Group 6 alongside Hamburger SV, FBK Kaunas, Leiftur Ólafsfjörður, Odense Boldklub.

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