About Ankaraspor

Ankaraspor is a Turkish football club from the capital Ankara, founded in 1978 as the club of the Ankara municipality. In the 2000s it reached the Süper Lig, but in 2009 it was relegated by the federation over its links with the city's other club, Ankaragücü, and it later had to be re-formed.

From 2014 to 2020 the club played as Osmanlıspor, at the Osmanlı Stadyumu in Ankara. Under that name it won promotion back to the Süper Lig and finished fifth in 2015–16, its best ever league position.

That fifth place took Osmanlıspor into the 2016–17 UEFA Europa League, its only European campaign. It came through three qualifying rounds against Zimbru, Nõmme Kalju and Midtjylland, and then won a group containing Villarreal, Steaua and Zürich. Olympiacos knocked it out in the round of 32. The club reverted to the name Ankaraspor in 2020 and now plays in the lower divisions.