Bursaspor, established on July 1st 1963, is the football club of Bursa city; its colours are green and white that they resemble the snow which lies on the peak of Uludağ -the highest mountain in the Marmara Reigon where Bursa lies- and the greenness of Bursa Lowland. Bursaspor plays its matches at Bursa Ataturk Stadium which has a capacity of over 20000. History of Bursaspor Before the foundation of Bursaspor, there had been five football clubs in Bursa; Akınspor, Acar İdman Yurdu, Pınarspor, Muradiye Çelikspor and İstiklal. The foundation dates of these clubs approximately go back to the first quarter of the 20th century. The disunity in Bursa football came to the end in 1963 when administrators of the five clubs came to the decission of abolishing these seperate football clubs and making a unity in order to form the very only football club of the city -Bursaspor. Today, the different-coloured five stars in the emblem of Bursaspor remain the memories of these five football clubs.
Group Çeynç & Bursaspor.Net
Group Çeynç is a community established by a group of people who love Bursaspor and Bursa city, who are willing to make inventive, extraordinary and original organizations associated with Bursaspor. 1990 was the year chosen to set the fire of Group Çeynç; the fire that will never die down. The name "Çeynç" -that has not any relations with either Bursaspor or Bursa city- derives from a witticism among the members of Group Çeynç that has not been dared to be changed yet because of the popularity and fame born by its showy and original organizations. Grup Çeynç is a lot bit different from the other groups of supporters is that it aims to combine not a big mob of people, but a crew that consists of people who are with genuineness, creativity and an exemplary manner of life. Group Çeynç members' affection of Bursaspor takes its source from their assuming Bursaspor among the most valuble merits of Bursa city. They point out that to love Bursaspor is to love Bursa; and conveying this message is one of the most important aims of them. From this aspect www.bursaspor.net -the website that also represents the creativity and being innovative of Group Çeynç members in terms of its being the very first website of Bursaspor- comes into prominence as the major instrument of Group Çeynç.
TEXAS - The Fiery Supporters of Bursaspor
As famous as Bursaspor itself, supporters of Bursaspor are well-known in all around Turkey; almost everyone interested in football knows the fanatics group of Bursaspor which is called Texas. The Texas does its job at the southern covered behind-goal grandstand of Bursa Atatürk Stadium. The name Texas has an interesting story. In 1967, Bursaspor supporters go to Zonguldak, for an away match of Bursaspor versus Zonguldakspor. Bursaspor fans show great interest to the match, thousands of people set out to Zonguldak; long and long convoys amaze even the police. This is the first time that so many supporters go away for a match in an organized way in Turkey. Police officers say "Are this convoys from Texas?", "This must be a Texas convoy!" as Western movies had a crazy popularity in the 60s. With this match, Bursaspor fanatics become famous with the agnomen "Texas". It is that the name "Texas" was not deliberately chosen by the Bursaspor fans; they were named "Texas".