Yeni Malatyaspor was founded in 1986 as Malatya Belediyespor and its colors were adopted as orange-green. Malatya Belediyespor achieved a great success by moving from the amateur division to the 2nd League within 2 seasons. It achieved this success first by being promoted to the 3rd League in 1997-1998, and then one season later by becoming the champion of the 3rd League in the 1998-1999 season and reaching the 2nd League.