Ali Yılmaz to referee Gençlerbirliği Vs Trabzonspor final decider
Gençlerbirliği vs trabzonspor settles the last place in the Ziraat Türkiye Kupası final, and Ali Yılmaz will referee the match at 20.30. The winner goes on to face TÜMOSAN Konyaspor, so the result closes the bracket and sends one team to the title game.
Ali Yılmaz at 20.30
Yılmaz will have Mehmet Kısa and Gökhan Barcın as assistants, with Buğra Taşkınsoy as fourth official and Özgür Yankaya in the VAR booth. That crew oversees a match that leaves no room for recovery; one team reaches the final, the other stops short of it.
Trabzonspor travels away for the tie, and both sides arrive with key absences. Gençlerbirliği lists six injured players: Varesanovic, Koita, Thalisson, Etebo, Kyabou and Abdullah Şahindere. Trabzonspor will also be without Batagov, Okay Yokuşlu and Visca.
Gençlerbirliği’s injury list
The home side’s missing group is large enough to shape the XI around availability rather than choice. Erhan starts in goal, with Hanousek, Hamza, Arda, Fıratcan, Diabate, Samed, Ensar, ERk, Göktan and Ayaz listed in the starting eleven.
That is the complication on Gençlerbirliği’s side: six injured players sitting out while the club tries to finish the job in a knockout match. The upside is simple and immediate, though, because the winner does not merely advance from a round — it earns the right to play TÜMOSAN Konyaspor for the cup.
Trabzonspor’s XI
Trabzonspor’s lineup sends Onana, Salih, Chibuike, Lovik, Pina, Oulai, Bouchouari, Zubkov, Muci, Nwakaeme and Onuachu onto the pitch from the start. That group will have to cope with three injuries and an away setting in a match where the margin is final or nothing.
For readers following the cup race, the practical takeaway is straight to the point: the 20.30 kickoff decides the last finalist. By the final whistle, one of these teams will move on to TÜMOSAN Konyaspor, and the other will be out of the tournament.
