Following a draw with Rizespor in December 2023, Koca punched the referee, Halil Umut Meler, causing serious injury. He ...

A former high-ranking Turkish soccer executive was handed down a lengthy prison sentence on Monday in the aftermath of his ...

On Monday a court in the Turkish capital Ankara sentenced Koca, 60, to three years and seven months in prison for ...

Turkish football club Ankaragucu have defended their former president Faruk Koca after he was sentenced to jail for ...

Turkish football club MKE Ankaragucu have defended their former president Faruk Koca as being the “target of one-sided public ...

Referee Meler was later pictured battered and bruised and wearing a neck brace in hospital, with the incident causing outrage ...

Turkish football club Ankaragucu have protested against their former president, Faruk Koca being sentenced to more than three years in prison for assaulting a referee last year, claiming the verdict ...

Caykur Rizespor midfielder Ibrahim Olawoyin has made the Turkish Super Lig Team of the Week for the second consecutive week, ...

A Turkish court has handed a former Super Lig team president a prison sentence of more than three years for attacking a ...

Faruk Koca and three other defendants have received suspended prison sentences ranging from 15 months to over five years.

A former football chief in Turkey's Super Lig was sentenced to more than three years in prison Monday over an on-pitch attack on a referee, the Anadolu news agency reported.