Trabzonspor to Play Its 160th European Match Against Freiburg

Trabzonspor will host Germany's Freiburg in the UEFA Conference League on Thursday evening at their home ground. This match will be the claret-and-blue side's 160th appearance in European cup competitions.

In the 159 European matches Trabzonspor has played so far, it has won 58, drawn 39 and lost 62. The team has scored 200 goals in Europe and conceded 216. The Black Sea club began its European journey in the 1976-1977 season and has played 30 matches in the European Champion Clubs' Cup and UEFA Champions League, 99 in the UEFA Cup and UEFA Europa League, 12 in the European Cup Winners' Cup, 8 in the UEFA Intertoto Cup and 10 in the UEFA Conference League.

Trabzonspor first met Norway's Molde in the UEFA Conference League in the 2021-22 season. In the 10 matches it has played in this competition, the club has won 3, drawn 4 and lost 3. In these matches it has found the net 13 times and conceded 14 goals. The Freiburg match will be the team's 11th in this competition.

This season, Trabzonspor will play its fifth European match. The club was eliminated in the UEFA Europa League play-off round by Hungary's Ferencvaros, losing 1-0 at home and 4-0 away. In the first week of the Conference League, it beat Finland's KuPS Kuopio 4-2 away and Scotland's Hearts 2-0 at home.

The claret-and-blue side will face the German club for the first time in 27 years. The two teams last met in the 1999-2000 season, in the semi-final of the Intertoto Cup. Trabzonspor had drawn 2-2 at home against Hamburg on July 28, and was eliminated after losing 4-1 away on August 4, 1999.