Trabzonspor face off with visiting team Samsunspor at Papara Park in the Super Lig fixture on Sunday.
View all of the Trabzonspor v Samsunspor predictions, poll and stats below - as well as up-to-date odds.
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Form Guide
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Trabzonspor
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Trabzonspor head into this fixture after a 1-1 Super Lig drawn result versus Bodrumspor.
In that game, Trabzonspor managed 66% possession and 9 shots at goal with 5 on target. The only player to score for Trabzonspor was Muhammed Cham (75'). At the other end, Bodrumspor got 17 shots at goal with 4 on target. Taylan Antalyalı (11') scored for Bodrumspor.
Fewer than three goals per game were recorded in 5 of the past 6 fixtures where Trabzonspor have been participants. In terms of the goal split from this period, their opponents scored an aggregate of 7 while Trabzonspor managed the sum of 9.
Heading into this fixture, Trabzonspor have not won against Samsunspor in their previous 2 league games.
Samsunspor
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Samsunspor go into this match following a 1-0 Super Lig win with the defeat of Sivasspor in their last fixture.
In that match, Samsunspor had 50% possession and 4 attempts on goal with 4 on target. The only player to score for Samsunspor was Landry Dimata (9'). Sivasspor had 0 attempts at goal with 0 of them on target.
In the course of their six latest matches, Thomas Reis's Samsunspor have fired home a total of 7 times therefore yielding them a goals scored per game average of 1.17.
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Head to head
Looking at their most recent head-to-head clashes dating back to 19/03/2006 shows us that Trabzonspor have won 3 of these games & Samsunspor 2, with the number of draws being 1.
A sum of 19 goals were yielded between them throughout the course of those matches, with 11 from Karadeniz Fırtınası and 8 for Kırmızı Şimşekler. That’s an average goals per game of 3.17.
The previous league contest between the two was Super Lig match day 18 on 04/01/2025 which ended up with the score at Samsunspor 2-1 Trabzonspor.
On that day, Samsunspor managed 36% possession and 9 attempts at goal with 3 of them on target. Their only player on the scoresheet was Carlo Holse (30', 75').
For their opponents, Trabzonspor got 14 shots at goal with 5 on target. Simon Banza (49') scored.
The referee was Mehmet Türkmen.
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Team News: Trabzonspor
Uğurcan Çakır (Muscle injury), Mustafa Eskihellaç (Muscle injury), Arseniy Batagov (Partial muscle tear), Stefan Savic (Muscle injury), Hüseyin Türkmen (Torn thigh muscle), Enis Destan (Inner ligament injury) and Onuralp Çevikkan (Meniscus tear) won’t be available for Trabzonspor boss Fatih Tekke.
In our view, Karadeniz Fırtınası will possibly use the 4-2-3-1 formation for this game and select Muhammet Taha Tepe, Pedro Malheiro, Okay Yokuslu, John Lundstram, Arif Bosluk, Salih Malkocoglu, Ozan Tufan, Oleksandr Zubkov, Muhammed Cham, Denis Drăguş and Anthony Nwakaeme.
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Team News: Samsunspor
There’s a good chance that Kırmızı Şimşekler appear most likely to elect for a 4-2-3-1 lineup by sending out Okan Kocuk, Zeki Yavru, Lubomir Satka, Rick Van Drongelen, Marc Bola, Y. Aït Bennasser, Olivier Ntcham, Kingsley Schindler, Carlo Holse, Emre Kilinc and Landry Dimata.
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Prediction
We believe that Samsunspor are dangerous enough to break down this Trabzonspor side, but it might not quite be enough to avoid defeat.
We are anticipating a narrow 2-1 advantage for Trabzonspor at the end of the 90 minutes. It’s a very tough call.
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⚽️ What are the top odds for this match?
Looking at the bookies’ prices on the 90 minute result market, victory for Trabzonspor can be had for 2.25, betting on a drawn result is 3.5 & staking on the win for Samsunspor is 2.8. These are the best market prices being offered right now.
Renata Leite,
18:03 21/05/2025
Odds correct at time of publishing. All odds subject to change.
🏟️ Team Focus:
Trabzonspor
Formed: 1967
Stadium: Papara Park (41,131)
Captain: Uğurcan Çakır
Chairman: Ertuğrul Doğan
Manager: Fatih Tekke
Competitions: Super Lig position 7, Conference League Qualifiers (Play Off Round)
🔑 Key Man: Oleksandr Zubkov
Normally deployed in the Right Wing position, Oleksandr Zubkov was born in Makiivka, Ukraine. After making a first senior appearance for Ferencvárosi TC in the 2019 - 2020 season, the talented Forward has netted 5 league goals in the Süper Lig 2024 - 2025 campaign so far coming from a total of 13 appearances.