Bursaspor have released a special kit to mark the 700th anniversary of the Ottoman conquest of Bursa, the city from which the club takes its name. The strip, reported by Footy Headlines, carries the designation a 25-26 anniversary edition and is framed around the historical significance of the city rather than any particular moment in the club's own football history.
Bursa served as the first capital of the Ottoman Empire following its conquest in the 14th century, a fact that gives the anniversary considerable cultural weight in Turkey. For Bursaspor, whose identity is bound to the city's heritage, the release is as much a civic gesture as a commercial one.
The club, who compete in the Turkish football pyramid, have form for leaning into that local identity. Their nickname — the Green Crocodiles — and their traditional green and white colours have long distinguished them in Turkish football, and the anniversary kit appears to extend that visual language into commemorative territory.
Footy Headlines, which tracks kit releases across European and global football, published images of the strip without providing a detailed breakdown of its design elements or the manufacturer's specifications. The broader context, however, is clear: the release situates Bursaspor within a tradition of clubs using anniversary editions to connect their supporter base to something larger than the fixture calendar.
Whether the kit will be available internationally or remains a locally distributed edition has not been confirmed in the available reporting.