Konyaspor host Fatih Karagümrük in the Trendyol Süper Lig on Sunday afternoon, 12 April 2026, with both sides feeling very different kinds of pressure. For Konyaspor, this is about steadiness and staying clear of any late-season wobble. They’re 12th on 31 points, sitting in a comfortable but hardly glamorous mid-table spot. Fatih Karagümrük arrive in 18th with just 20 points. That’s the ugly side of the table. They need points, and they need them fast.
There’s still a lot on the line for both. Konyaspor don’t look like a team in danger, but another home win would almost certainly give them a much calmer final stretch. Fatih Karagümrük, by contrast, are staring at a survival scrap that’s already looking tight. One more poor away day would only deepen the mess. They’ve got to drag results out of somewhere. Easier said than done.
The pair also come in with very different moods after their latest league outings. Konyaspor were held 2-2 away to Samsunspor in a game that had plenty going on, while Fatih Karagümrük beat Çaykur Rizespor 2-1 at home to arrest a wobble. So there’s life in the visitors yet. But away from home, that’s another story entirely.
Konyaspor Form & Analysis
Konyaspor’s recent run has been the sort of sequence a mid-table side can live with. They’ve mixed strong home control with a few scrappy away performances, and the overall picture is pretty solid. After losing 2-0 at Başakşehir FK on 27 February, they got themselves moving again with a 1-1 draw against Kasımpaşa on 8 March, then edged Kocaelispor 2-1 away four days later. That was followed by a clean, narrow 1-0 home win over Gençlerbirliği on 19 March. Then came the 2-2 draw at Samsunspor, where they led twice, gave up too many chances, and still left with a point. Not a disaster. Not exactly serene either.
The home numbers are respectable enough. Konyaspor have taken 18 points from their league matches in Konya, with four wins, six draws and four defeats. They’ve scored 16 and conceded 15 at home, which tells the story pretty neatly: they’re competitive, but not overwhelming. They don’t blow teams away. They make you work for everything. That can be enough against weaker visitors, especially when they’re in the habit of getting the first goal — which they’ve done in four of their last five. It’s a useful edge. Not flashy, but useful.
There are still a couple of warning signs. They haven’t exactly turned home games into a fortress, and the attack can flatline if the first goal doesn’t come. Even so, the blend of recent results is decent. Konyaspor are unbeaten in five, and that matters. They’re not racking up huge scorelines, but they’re hard to beat and usually in the contest. That’s the kind of profile that should unsettle a side as fragile away from home as Karagümrük.
Fatih Karagümrük Form & Analysis
Fatih Karagümrük’s season has been a slog, and that’s putting it kindly. Their recent results have been a ragged mix of flashes and frustration. They beat Fenerbahçe 2-0 at home on 13 March, which is the sort of result that can make a struggling team feel briefly reborn. Then they went to Kayserispor and lost 1-0 on 19 March, which brought the mood right back down. They recovered with that 2-1 home win over Çaykur Rizespor on 5 April, but the hard truth is that they still look like a side that lives on moments rather than control.
Away from home, the picture is bleak. Karagümrük’s league record on the road is 1 win, 2 draws and 11 losses, with just 12 goals scored and 28 conceded. That’s not a typo. One win away all season. One. Their only away victory came at Antalyaspor on 30 August 2025, and since then they’ve spent most trips chasing games they don’t really control. Can they turn that around in Konya? Nothing in the numbers says they can.
What’s most concerning is how often they concede pressure and chances away from home. They’ve lost 11 of 14 league away matches, and the 28 goals shipped on the road suggest they’re regularly giving opponents too much room. The win over Fenerbahçe showed they can spring a surprise at home. On the road, though, they’ve been soft. Their recent away defeat at Kayserispor was a reminder of that, and the 1-1 draw at Gaziantep FK before it doesn’t really soften the broader issue. They can keep things respectable for spells. They can’t sustain it.
Head-to-Head
This fixture has had a pretty clear personality in recent seasons. Fatih Karagümrük beat Konyaspor 2-0 in Istanbul on 9 November 2025, and that remains the most recent meeting between the sides. Before that, though, a lot of their games ended level. They drew 1-1 in both March 2024 and November 2023, and they were also locked at 1-1 in June 2023. Go back further and there was a wild 3-3 draw in January 2023, plus a 2-1 Karagümrük win in April 2022. It’s rarely dull when these two meet. That much is certain.
There’s one angle that stands out here: Konyaspor have gone 10 head-to-head meetings without a clean sheet against Karagümrük. That’s a real little nuisance for the home side. Even so, the broader pattern leans toward both teams getting chances, and the current form lines up with that. Karagümrük have been leaky away from home, while Konyaspor have enough home control to create. It often turns into a game where both sides have spells. This one probably will too.
We Predict: Home Win
We’re backing Home Win at 8/13 for this one. Konyaspor are simply the sturdier side in the right place, and Karagümrük’s away record is too poor to ignore. One away win all season is the killer stat. That’s the one that stands out above everything else. Konyaspor don’t need to be brilliant to beat that. They just need to be themselves.
The call is for a 2-1 Konyaspor win. The 1.6 xG projection for the hosts against 0.9 for Karagümrük fits that scoreline nicely, and it matches the feel of both teams too: Konyaspor should create enough at home, while Karagümrük probably nick a goal because they’ve shown they can score and Konyaspor haven’t been keeping many clean sheets. If you wanted a different angle, Konyaspor to score first also looks live. They’ve done that in four of their last five, and an early home lead would put this result on rails.
