Türkgücü München

The club was formed in 1975 by a handful of Turkish migrant workers in Munich, then under the name of SV Türk Gücü München (English: Turkish Power Munich). Originally, the football team played in the lowest tiers of Munich amateur football, something that changed from 1983 onwards, when a number of wealthy Turkish businessmen took over the running of the club. The club found the Bezirksportanlage am Krehlebogen as a permanent home ground and was able to establish a youth department.[2]

Türk Gücü, as the club was commonly referred to, earned a number of promotions, culminating in a 3–1 promotion decider victory over VfR Neuburg, played in front of 3,000 spectators, which earned the club entry to the fourth division Landesliga Bayern-Süd.

After its promotion to the Landesliga, Türk Gücü strengthened its team with non-Turkish players and, under coach Peter Grosser, the club won promotion to the Bayernliga in 1988, with future professionals like Gerry Hillringhaus and Thomas Kristl in the team. Türk Gücü was an instant success in Bavaria's highest football league, coming sixth in its first season,[3] where it attracted as many as 12,000 spectators in the games against TSV 1860 Munich. The club was able to draw on up to 1,000 fans to travel with the team to away games.[2] Hillringhaus, a goalie, scored Germany's goal of the month for September 1989 in a Bayernliga game against MTV Ingolstadt.[4]

The club under chairman Ergun Berksoy, rivaled in its success in the German Turkish community only by Türkiyemspor Berlin, begun to aim even for professional football, hoping to earn promotion to the 2. Bundesliga.[2] But the club was not able to live up to its ambitions. It finished seventh in the league in the following year, followed by a twelfth place in 1991 and relegation in 1992 after a bitter 4–3 defeat on penalties in the relegation decider against SC 08 Bamberg.[5]

Fundamental changes started to affect the club. Support for the team had steadily declined, one reason being the large number of non-Turkish players in the club which affected the identification of the local Turkish population with the club. The other was the rise of Satellite television. Being able to watch Turkish giants Beşiktaş, Galatasaray and Fenerbahçe live on TV greatly reduced the number of Turkish people interested in seeing a third- or fourth-division side on the field and, consequently, the club's financial means.[2] Nevertheless, the club's significance in Bavarian football was demonstrated in the fact that the Bavarian Football Associations fiftieth anniversary book had its own two-page article on Türk Gücü, something only awarded to Bavarian giants FC Bayern, TSV 1860, 1. FC Nürnberg and rising star SpVgg Unterhaching.[6]

After the 1995–96 season Türk Gücü came second-last and fell to the fifth tier of German football.[7] The club came close promotion once more in 1998, when it finished second in its league but lost to 1. FC Nürnberg Amateure in the first round of the promotion matches.[8]

The glory days of Türk Gücü were definitely over now and, in 2001, having become insolvent, the club was dissolved.[9]

Players from Türk Gücü formed a new club called Türkischer SV 1975 München. The new team was not competitive in the Landesliga in 2001–02, finishing second to last, with only SV Lohhof behind it, another club who had only recently played at a much higher level.[10] The team spent three seasons in the sixth tier Bezirksoberliga Oberbayern before another relegation in 2005 took it down to the Bezirksliga level.[11]

The side played in the eastern division of this league, the Bezirksliga Oberbayern-Ost, but again as a lower table side with another relegation following in 2008, the season ATA Spor München entered the league and finished fifth.[12]

Türkischer SV spent its last season before the merger, 2008–09, in the tier-nine Kreisliga München 3, where it achieved its only single-digit league finish in its eight season of existence.[13]

ATA Spor München was formed in 1981.[1]

Unlike Türk Gücü, ATA Spor had never climbed the heights of Bavarian amateur football and promotion from the tier-eight Kreisliga followed by two seasons in the Bezirksliga just before the merger were the club's most successful era.

On 19 May 2009, ATA Spor and Türkischer SV merged to form SV Türkgücü-Ataspor in an effort to combine the strength of the two clubs and form a strong side in the eastern suburbs of Munich. The new club had a membership of approximately 500 people.[1]

The new club took up ATA Spor's place in the Bezirksliga Oberbayern-Nord, where it came eighth in 2010 and tenth in 2011, a long way from the glory days of the old Türk Gücü club.[14]

In 2013, the club finished second and, via the promotion round, earned promotion to the Landesliga Bayern-Südost.

In 2019, the club finished first in the Bayernliga Süd and earned promotion to the fourth-tier Regionalliga Bayern.

After promotion, the club decided to shorten its name to Türkgücü München.[15]

As of 8 October 2020[16]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  GER René Vollath 2 DF  KOR Yi-Young Park (on loan from St. Pauli) 5 MF  GER Benedikt Kirsch 7 MF  GER Alexander Laukart 8 MF  GER Ünal Tosun 9 FW  GER Lucas Röser 10 FW  TUR Sercan Sararer (captain) 11 MF  GER Sebastian Maier 13 DF  GER Alexander Sorge 14 FW  FRA Mounir Bouziane 17 MF  GER Kilian Fischer 18 MF  GER Boubacar Barry 19 FW  GER Furkan Kircicek 21 FW  MNE Omar Sijarić 22 DF  GER Aaron Berzel 23 DF  AUT Stefan Stangl

No. Pos. Nation Player 24 MF  AUT Philipp Erhardt 25 FW  CRO Petar Slišković 26 GK  GER Franco Flückinger 27 MF  GER Amani Mbaraka 28 FW  GER Kerem Kavuk 29 MF  GER Atakan Akkaynak (on loan from Çaykur Rizespor) 33 DF  GER Michael Zant 35 DF  TUR Furkan Zorba 36 DF  SRB Filip Kusić 37 MF  GER Nico Gorzel 38 MF  GER Fabijan Podunavac 39 GK  GER Maximilian Engl 40 GK  USA Jordaine Jäger — DF  GER Maxime Awoudja (on loan from Stuttgart) — DF  GER Kilian Jakob (on loan from Augsburg) — FW  GER Noel Niemann (on loan from Arminia Bielefeld)

• Regionalliga Bayern (IV)
  • Promoted: 2019–20
• Bayernliga Süd (V)
  • Champions: 2018–19
• Landesliga Bayern-Südost (VI)
  • Champions: 2017–18
• Landesliga Bayern-Süd (V)
  • Champions: 1987–88, 1993–94
  • Runners-up: 1997–98

• Bezirksliga Oberbayern-Nord (VII)
  • Runners-up: 2012–13
• Kreisliga 3 Schmid (VIII)
  • Runners-up: 2006–07

• With the introduction of the Bezirksoberligas in 1988 as the new fifth tier, below the Landesligas, all leagues below dropped one tier. With the introduction of the Regionalligas in 1994 and the 3. Liga in 2008 as the new third tier, below the 2. Bundesliga, all leagues below dropped one tier. With the establishment of the Regionalliga Bayern as the new fourth tier in Bavaria in 2012 the Bayernliga was split into a northern and a southern division, the number of Landesligas expanded from three to five and the Bezirksoberligas abolished. All leagues from the Bezirksligas onwards were elevated one tier.

• Die Bayernliga 1945–97 (in German) DSFS, published: 1998
• Die Deutsche Liga-Chronik 1945–2005 (in German) History of German football from 1945 to 2005 in tables, publisher: DSFS, published: 2006
• 50 Jahre Bayrischer Fussball-Verband (in German) 50-year-anniversary book of the Bavarian FA, publisher: Vindelica Verlag, published: 1996