--- title: Ahmet Suat Özyazıcı slug: ahmet-suat-ozyazici-344d8 url: /detay/ahmet-suat-ozyazici-344d8 type: biography language: English entity: primary: Ahmet Suat Özyazıcı type: biography disambiguation: Ahmet Suat Özyazıcı: Trabzonspor legend, champion coach. Anatolian football revolution. categories: - name: Sport slug: spor url: /kategori/spor tags: - LordOfCups - TrabzonsporHistory - FromInfrastructureToTop - TrabzonsporLegend author: Emre Zengin created_at: 2025-07-08T17:10:12.116988+03:00 updated_at: 2025-07-11T16:16:31.705134+03:00 image: https://cdn.t3pedia.org/media/uploads/2025/07/08/ZLAk3e2oM1phWUxRfATtUoOfQucmMcy2.jpg --- # Ahmet Suat Özyazıcı > Ahmet Suat Özyazıcı is a pioneering sports figure who made his mark on Turkish football as a head coach and served as the architect of Trabzonspor’s first major successes. ## KURE Information Cards ### KURE Information Card: Ahmet Suat Özyazıcı ![6H4eg2sy3cqRydercM7Yku4T5YIXHd7q (1).webp](https://cdn.t3pedia.org/media/uploads/2025/07/08/67XRF3KXy4tmVaJTfm7eFMU0NysfjqrP.webp) *Kaynak: Goal.com* | Field | Value | |-------|-------| | Personal Information | Position: Defender,Profession: Football Player- CoachPlaying,Death: February 18 2023,Date-Place of Birth: 1936-Trabzon | | Technical Director Career | Sariyer,Bursaspor,Trabzonspor | | Football Career | Trabzonspor,Ankara Air Force,İdmanocagi,Yolspor | ## Article Content Ahmet Suat Özyazıcı is one of [the important](/en/detay/onemli-0325c/llms.txt) figures of the success story born from [Anatolia in ](/en/detay/anadolu-4/llms.txt) history . Born in [Trabzon](/en/detay/trabzon-2/llms.txt) in 1936 , Özyazıcı took his place among the legends of Trabzonspor with his career as both a football player and a coach [.](/en/detay/teknik-2/llms.txt) ### **Personal Information and Football Process** Ahmet Suat Özyazıcı was born on [April](/en/detay/nisan-748390/llms.txt) 20, 1936 in Trabzon. He started playing football in 1954 at Trabzon Yolspor. He was transferred to İdmanocağı in 1956 and played football there [for many years. He also played for ](/en/detay/uzun/llms.txt) Havagücü during his military service . He [was](/en/detay/yer-2/llms.txt) in the first squad of Trabzonspor, which was founded in 1967 , and ended his active football career in 1969. ### **Technical Director Career** After his football career , Özyazıcı [stepped](/en/detay/adim-2/llms.txt) into the technical management field and served as an assistant coach in the Trabzonspor A Team in 1970. In 1971, he took over the Trabzonspor Youth Team and the team became the Black Sea [Region](/en/detay/bolge-2/llms.txt) Champion. He was appointed as the technical director of Trabzonspor in the second half of the 1972-73 season. Although he missed the championship with a goal difference of 1 in his first season, he made Trabzonspor the champion in his second season and promoted it to the First League.  During his time as a manager, Özyazıcı won the Turkish 1st Football League (now known as the Super League) championship with Trabzonspor in the 1975-76, 1976-77, 1979-80 and 1983-84 seasons. With this result, he became the first manager to lead a team from outside of Istanbul to the championship. He also won 3 Turkish Cups , 5 Presidential Cups and 2 Prime Ministry Cups with Trabzonspor. In  Trabzonspor, he also worked as a manager for teams [such as](/en/detay/gibi-749510/llms.txt) Bursaspor, Sarıyer and Vanspor . He won the Balkan Cup with Sarıyer and achieved first place in an international tournament at the club level. ### **Football Understanding and Legacy** Ahmet Suat Özyazıcı adopted a disciplined and team-based football approach. He achieved success with players trained in Trabzonspor's infrastructure, placing [importance](/en/detay/onem/llms.txt) on local talent. Under his leadership, Trabzonspor displayed remarkable performances not [only](/en/detay/sadece-e8b50/llms.txt) at the national level but also in [European cups. Özyazıcı's successes marked a ](/en/detay/avrupa-2/llms.txt) point in Turkish football by showing that Anatolian clubs could also achieve great success. For this reason, he was remembered as the architect of the "Anatolian Revolution".  ### **Death and Commemoration** Ahmet Suat Özyazıcı passed away at his home in Trabzon on [February](/en/detay/subat-748380/llms.txt) 18 , 2023. In a statement, Trabzonspor Club expressed its condolences by emphasizing the successes Özyazıcı brought to the club. His funeral was held on February 19, 2023, following a ceremony held at the Hüseyin Avni Aker National Garden.  ### **Their successes** As Trabzonspor Technical Director: • Super League Championships: 1975-76, 1976-77, 1979-80, 1983-84 • Turkish Cup: 1976-77, 1977-78, 1983-84 • Presidential Cup: 1976, 1977, 1978, 1980, 1983 • Prime Minister's Cup: 1976, 1978 • 2nd League Championship: 1973-74 • Cyprus Peace Cup: 1974 In total, he won 18 trophies with Trabzonspor, becoming the most [successful](/en/detay/basarili-751316/llms.txt) coach in the club's history.  ### **Featured Features** - He is the first coach to produce a champion from Anatolia. - He maintained a disciplined and local player-based football approach. - He is known as the “Lord of Cups”. - He made silent and lasting contributions to Turkish football. ## Academic Sources and References 1. Anadolu Agency. “Trabzonspor’s legendary coach Ahmet Suat Özyazıcı.” Last access: April 12, 2025. https://www.aa.com.tr/tr/futbol/trabzonsporun-efsane-teknik-direktoru-ahmet-suat-ozyazici/3485157NTV Spor. “Who is Ahmet Suat Özyazıcı, how old was he? Here is the life of Ahmet Suat Özyazıcı, nicknamed ‘Lord of the Cups’.” Last access: April 12, 2025. https://www.ntvspor.net/futbol/ahmet-suat-ozyazici-kimdir-kac-yasindaydi-iste-kupalarin-efendisi-lakapli-ahmet-suat-ozyazici-nin-hayati-65d1f18515d2e0006321e25bTRT News. “Trabzonspor legend Ahmet Suat Özyazıcı.” Last access: April 12, 2025. https://www.trthaber.com/haber/spor/trabzonspor-efsanesi-ahmet-suat-ozyazici-838270.html