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==UEFA ranking==
==UEFA ranking==
'''National League Ranking for 2007-08 Euro Season''' (Previous year rank in italics, [[UEFA]] National League Coefficients in parentheses)
'''National League Ranking for 2007-08 Euro Season''' (Previous year rank in italics, [[UEFA National League Coefficients]] in parentheses)
*  9  [[Image:RedDownArrow.svg|15px]]  (''8'') {{flagicon|Netherlands}} [[Eredivisie]] (38.213)
*  9  [[Image:RedDownArrow.svg|15px]]  (''8'') {{flagicon|Netherlands}} [[Eredivisie]] (38.213)
* 10 [[Image:YellowCircle.svg|15px]] (''10'') {{flagicon|Scotland}} [[Scottish Premier League]] (33.375)
* 10 [[Image:YellowCircle.svg|15px]] (''10'') {{flagicon|Scotland}} [[Scottish Premier League]] (33.375)

Revision as of 22:23, 30 November 2008

Süper Lig
File:Turkcell Super League logo.png
Founded1959
CountryTurkey
ConfederationUEFA
Number of clubs18
Level on pyramid1
Relegation toTFF First League
Domestic cup(s)Turkish Super Cup
Fortis Turkey Cup
International cup(s)Champions League
UEFA Cup
Intertoto Cup
Current championsGalatasaray S.K.
(2007-08)
Most championshipsFenerbahçe S.K. (17 titles)
Galatasaray S.K. (17 titles)
Websitehttp://www.turkcellsuperlig.com
Current: 2008-09 season

The Süper Lig (formerly National League, First Football League and First Super League and currently known under a sponsorship deal as the Turkcell Süper Lig) is the top-flight league in Turkish nationwide football, and the most popular sporting competition in the country. It is managed by Turkish Football Federation.

Overview

The league was established in 1959 as an attempt to unify some of the many regional leagues around the country. The season begins in August each year and ends in May, with a month-long winter break in December and January. The 18 clubs in the league play each other twice, once at home and once away. The bottom three teams are relegated to the TFF First League at the end of each season and replaced by three others teams from that league.

As of the 2005/06 season, the top two teams qualify for the Champions League, with the champions entering the third qualifying round and the runners-up entering in the second qualifying round. The third-placed league team and the winners of the Turkey Cup make up the two Turkish teams that enter the UEFA Cup.

The arrival of private television channels in Turkey in the 1990s created a bidding war for live coverage rights, pouring money into the league and raising footballing standards dramatically. Live coverage rights are currently held by Digiturk, the digital satellite platform, until the contract expires in 2010. Digiturk bought the rights in 2004 for 135.85 million New Turkish lira (US$99 million).[1] On the other hand, Doğan Medya, the company of the Turkish media magnate Aydın Doğan, argues that the contract of Digiturk will expire in 2008. In accordance to this claim, Doğan Medya came out with a new offer of approximately $180 million.[2]

In 2005, the Turkish Football Federation signed a five-year deal with mobile phone operator Turkcell that saw the league's name changed to the 'Turkcell Super League' for five years. It came some years after an abortive sponsorship attempt by Turkcell's rivals, Telsim, in 1999.

For the new inspiring Turkcell Super Lig Season season saw more than £50,000,000 spent on new exciting players, this includes such super stars as Daniel Guiza, Milan Baros, Gokhan Unal, Emre Belozoglu, Harry Kewell, Fernando Meira and many more. Economist in the next five years have foreshadowed, that the Turkcell Super Lig will be one of the top leagues to be watched in the world.

Super League clubs, 2008-09

The clubs to play in the 2008-2009 season are listed below, alongside their home towns.

Club Home town Founded in Stadium In league since Finishing position last season First season in top division Number of seasons in top division Last title Number of titles
Ankara S.A.Ş. Ankara 1978 Yenikent 2004-2005 10th 2004-2005 5 - 0
Antalya S.K. Antalya 1966 Antalya Atatürk 2008-2009 TFF First League; 2nd 1982-1983 14 - 0
Beşiktaş J.K. İstanbul 1903 İnönü 1959 3rd 1959 51 2002-2003 12
Bursaspor Bursa 1963 Bursa Atatürk 2006-2007 13th 1967-1968 40 - 0
Denizlispor Denizli 1966 Denizli Atatürk 1999-2000 7th 1983-1984 18 - 0
Eskişehirspor Eskişehir 1965 Eskişehir Atatürk 2008-2009 TFF First League; Play-Off winner 1966-1967 23 - 0
Fenerbahçe S.K. İstanbul 1907 Şükrü Saracoğlu 1959 2nd 1959 51 2006-2007 17
Galatasaray A.Ş. İstanbul 1905 Ali Sami Yen 1959 1st 1959 51 2007-2008 17
Gaziantepspor Gaziantep 1969 Kamil Ocak 1990-1991 9th 1979-1980 23 - 0
Gençlerbirliği S.K. Ankara 1923 Ankara 19 Mayıs 1989-1990 15th 1959 37 - 0
Hacettepe S.K. Ankara 1949 Ankara 19 Mayıs 2007-2008 11th 2007-2008 2 - 0
İstanbul B.B. İstanbul 1990 Atatürk Olympic 2007-2008 12th 2007-2008 2 - 0
Kayserispor Kayseri 1966 Kadir Has 2004-2005 5th 2004-2005 5 - 0
Kocaelispor Kocaeli 1966 İsmet Paşa 2008-2009 TFF First League; 1st 1980-1981 20 - 0
Konyaspor Konya 1981 Konya Atatürk 2003-2004 14th 1988-1989 11 - 0
M.K.E. Ankaragücü Ankara 1910 Ankara 19 Mayıs 1981-1982 8th 1959 46 - 0
Sivasspor Sivas 1967 4 Eylül 2005-2006 4th 2005-2006 4 - 0
Trabzonspor Trabzon 1967 Avni Aker 1974-1975 6th 1974-1975 35 1983-1984 6

The clubs below took part in the TFF First League play-offs but failed to clinch the final promotion spot for the 2008-09 season.

Club Home town Founded in Last season in Super League Finishing position in Category A
Sakaryaspor Sakarya 1966 2006-2007 3rd
Diyarbakırspor Diyarbakır 1968 2005-2006 5th
Boluspor Bolu 1965 1991-1992 6th

The clubs below were relegated to the TFF First League at the end of the 2007-08 season.

Club Home town Founded in In league since Finishing position last season
Manisaspor Manisa 1931 2005-2006 16th
Çaykur Rizespor Rize 1953 2002-2003 17th
Kasımpaşa S.K. İstanbul 1921 2007-2008 18th

Champions

Only four clubs, also known as the "Big Four" have been champions since the beginning of the Super League: Fenerbahçe SK (17), Galatasaray A.Ş (17), Beşiktaş J.K. (12, normally 10) and Trabzonspor (6). The first three, all Istanbul-based clubs, are known as Big Three (Üç Büyükler in Turkish).


  • Fenerbahçe: 1959, 1960-61, 1963-64, 1964-65, 1967-68, 1969-70, 1973-74, 1974-75, 1977-78, 1982-83, 1984-85, 1986-87, 1995-96, 2000-01, 2003-04, 2004-05, 2006-07.
  • Galatasaray: 1961-62, 1962-63, 1968-69, 1970-71, 1971-72, 1972-73, 1986-87, 1987-88, 1992-93, 1993-94, 1996-97, 1997-98, 1998-99, 1999-2000, 2001-02, 2005-06, 2007-08
  • Beşiktaş: 1959-60, 1965-66, 1966-67, 1981-82, 1985-86, 1989-90, 1990-91, 1991-92, 1994-95, 2002-03.
  • Trabzonspor: 1975-76, 1976-77, 1978-79, 1979-80, 1980-81, 1983-84.

Number of Süper Lig Titles Won by Club

Club Seasons
Galatasaray SK 17
Fenerbahçe SK 17
Beşiktaş JK 10
Trabzonspor 6

Beşiktaş have formally requested that championships won in the 1956/57 and 1957/58 versions of the Turkish Federation Cup to be counted as Turkish Professional First Division championships. The Turkish Football Federation's ruling on this matter was announced in a press release on March 25, 2002. The press release indicated that the championships won by Beşiktaş in the Turkish Federation Cup will be considered as national championships but the Turkish Federation Cup can not be considered as the precursor to the Turkish Professional First Division (later named Süper Lig) and as such these titles can not be categorized as a Turkish Professional First Division championships.[3]

The Turkish Football Federation permits clubs to place a golden star above their crest on their uniforms for every five national championships won. For the purposes of calculating national championships, the Turkish Football Federation ruled that Beşiktaş has two additional national championships due to their success in the Turkish Federation Cup during the 1956/57 and 1957/58 seasons.[4] For the 2008/09 season Fenerbahçe and Galatasaray are permitted three golden stars, Beşiktaş are permitted two golden stars and Trabzonspor are permitted one golden star to be placed above their crest on their jerseys.

Participations

Türkcell Super League was created in the Spring of 1959 by the Turkish Football Federation and played as 1 league only with 16, 17, 18, 19, 20 or 22 teams. These are the 66 teams which took part to the championships played from 1959 to 2009. Beşiktaş, Fenerbahçe and Galatasaray are the only clubs which played all the seasons.

Note: Kayseri Erciyesspor played as Kayserispor between 1973-1975, 1979-1980, 1985-1986, 1992-1996 and 1997-1998. They were renamed to Kayseri Erciyesspor and played again in Super League since 2005. Also, Kayseri Erciyesspor were renamed to Kayserispor and have played in the Super League since 2004.

Keçiörengücü played as Hacettepe when they were in the Super League and Hacettepe S.K. were Gençlerbirliği Oftaş until 2008-2009 season.

Türk Telekom G.S.K. were PTT when they were playing Super League football in sixties and seventies.

Siirt S.K. were Siirt Jetpa S.K. and Manisaspor were Vestel Manisaspor due to the sponsorship reasons

Belediye Vanspor were Vanspor.

Many players who enjoy global popularity started their professional careers or came to Turkey in order to continue their careers. Some of them are as follows (in alphabetical order for nationality):

Records

Season
  • The longest season: 1962-1963 (42 matches)[5]
Teams
  • Most time champions: Fenerbahçe and Galatasaray with 17 seasons
  • Most consecutive championships: Galatasaray with 4 seasons in a row (1996 - 2000).
  • Largest win: 1989-1990 Beşiktaş - Adana Demirspor (10-0)
  • The highest scoring match: 1991-1992 Fenerbahçe - Gaziantepspor (8-4)
  • Best performing team: 1988-1989 Fenerbahçe (29 wins, 6 draws, 1 loss in 36 matches)
  • Longest unbeaten run: Beşiktaş (48 matches)
  • Longest winning streak: 1959-1960 Beşiktaş (13 matches)
  • Teams unbeaten in a season: 1985-1986 Galatasaray, 1991-1992 Beşiktaş
  • Unbeaten Champions: 1991-1992 Beşiktaş
  • Team with the most wins in a season: 1959-1960 Beşiktaş, 1988-1989 Fenerbahçe (29 wins)
  • Highest scoring team: 1988-1989 Fenerbahçe (103 goals)
  • Most games won in row at home: Galatasaray (25 games)
  • Champion team with highest point: 1987-1988 Galatasaray (90 pts - 27 wins, 9 draws, 2 losses in 38 matches)
Players

Top scorers

'All-time top scorers in the Süper League'
'(Süper League goals only)'
Rank Player Goals
1 Turkey Hakan Şükür 249
2 Turkey Tanju Çolak 240
3 Turkey Hami Mandıralı 219
4 Turkey Metin Oktay 217
5 Turkey Aykut Kocaman 200
6 Turkey Feyyaz Uçar 191
7 Turkey Serkan Aykut 188
8 Turkey Fevzi Zemzem 144
9 Turkey Ertuğrul Sağlam 132
10 Turkey Cenk İşler 131
10 Turkey Mehmet Özdilek 130
As of 10 May 2008 (Bold and italic denotes players still in Turkcell Süper League).
Coaches with multiple Süper Lig Titles Won (in order of date of first title win)

UEFA ranking

National League Ranking for 2007-08 Euro Season (Previous year rank in italics, UEFA National League Coefficients in parentheses)

See also

References

  1. ^ Lig TV'den D-Smart'a Tepki, retrieved 2007-08-29 {{citation}}: |first= missing |last= (help)
  2. ^ D-Smart'dan Müthiş Teklif, retrieved 2007-08-29 {{citation}}: |first= missing |last= (help)
  3. ^ "TFF Basın Bülteni".
  4. ^ "TFF Basın Bülteni".
  5. ^ "turkfutbolu.net Statistics".
  6. ^ UEFA Country Ranking Retrieved on 9 March 2008

Current Turkish Süper Lig standings

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