İstanbul Ottomans
Template:Short descriptionScript error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". İstanbul Ottomans R.F.C. is a professional rugby union club based in Istanbul, Turkey. Founded in 1999 by mostly French and English rugby lovers working and living in İstanbul, the Ottomans were the first rugby club to be established in the country, and, until 2006, the only chapter in the history of Turkish rugby prior to the foundation of Turkey's second rugby club, Kadıköy Rugby.
Another first of the İstanbul Ottomans was to win the very first official Turkish Rugby Union competition in the year of 2007 / 2008.
The club has participated in a number of tournaments taking place both in Turkey and abroad, and has formidably good relations with the rugby clubs of neighboring countries. With most of its players having played rugby away back since their junior years, they are a driving force and a role model of experience to other rugby players in Turkey.
The İstanbul Ottomans joined the international Ameland Beach Rugby Festival in The Netherlands in June 2008, as a first Turkish team ever to participate in this tournament. The team played under the name of the Ottoman Sevens. Out of the 64 teams within the 2-day competition, the İstanbul Ottomans just missed out a place on the podium, became 4th and had 1st place in 2009 tournament.
Current squad
- Template:Flagicon Template:FlagiconBlake, Alistair Baran
- Template:Flagicon Baykal, Anılcan
- Template:Flagicon Baykal, Onur
- Template:Flagicon Bozanoglu, Mustafa
- Template:Flagicon Bozoglu, Emre
- Template:Flagicon Bulman, Orhan
- Template:Flagicon Çakıner, Gürhan
- Template:Flagicon Çakıroğlu, Samet
- Template:Flagicon Cemiloglu, Fuat
- Template:Flagicon Cicek, Basar
- Template:Flagicon Colok, Oytun
- Template:Flagicon Delettre, Jean-François
- Template:Flagicon Dursun, Sarven
- Template:Flagicon Gandois, Florent
- Template:Flagicon Greatorex, Stephen
- Template:Flagicon Gungormus, Oguzhan
- Template:Flagicon Hebert, Yannick
- Template:Flagicon James, Tamwar
- Template:Flagicon Karadeniz, Deniz
- Template:Flagicon Küçüktuna, Salih
- Template:Flagicon Langlois, Thomas
- Template:Flagicon Matheson, Alan
- Template:Flagicon Narbay, Sertac
- Template:FlagiconTemplate:Flagicon Önkal, Özer Ali
- Template:Flagicon Template:FlagiconÖztuna, Çağan
- Template:Flagicon Reardon, Bryan
- Template:Flagicon Soysevinç, Ulaş
- Template:Flagicon Şapçı, Emre
- Template:Flagicon Şengelen, Yiğit
- Template:Flagicon Şirinyan, Yenovk
- Template:Flagicon Tatar, Murat Boygar
- Template:Flagicon Tezel, Murat
- Template:Flagicon Tosun, Altug
- Template:Flagicon Tuğtağ, Melih
- Template:Flagicon Turkaslan, Cansin
- Template:Flagicon Turkay, Cenk
- Template:Flagicon Belentepe, Mehmet Turgut
- Template:Flagicon Yenidogan, Deniz
- Template:Flagicon Yesil, Coskun
- Template:Flagicon Yılmazgüler, Oğuzhan
- Template:Flagicon Alkan, Vedat
- Template:Flagicon Bayraktar, Alkım
- Template:Flagicon Alçar, Ekin
- Template:Flagicon Erdem, Berk
- Template:Flagicon Yavuz, Eyüp
- Template:Flagicon Alkan, Doğukan