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Süper Lig
Season	2008–09
Champions	Beşiktaş; 13th title
Relegated	Konyaspor; Kocaelispor; Hacettepe SK
UEFA Champions League	Beşiktaş; Sivasspor
UEFA Europa League	Trabzonspor; Fenerbahçe (via domestic cup); Galatasaray
Goals scored	787
Average goals/game	2.57
Top goalscorer	Milan Baroš (20)
Biggest home win	Fenerbahçe 7–0 Hacettepe
Biggest away win	İstanbul B.B. 0–4 Trabzonspor; Hacettepespor 0–4 Kocaelispor
Highest scoring	10 matches with 7 goals each
	← 2007–08 2009–10 →

Süper Lig 2008–09 (also known as Turkcell Super League due to sponsoring reasons) was the fifty-first season since its establishment. It began on 22 August 2008 and ended on 31 May 2009. Beşiktaş were the defending champions.

Beşiktaş clinched the championship after winning at Denizlispor on the last matchday. The latter barely avoided relegation after finishing in a three-way tie on points with Ankara sides Gençlerbirliği and Konyaspor. Head-to-head comparison between those three teams eventually resulted in the demotion of Konyaspor, who joined Kocaelispor and Hacettepe on their way to the second-level First League.

Fenerbahçe and Galatasaray had to settle for fourth and fifth place, respectively, after Sivasspor came in as runners-up and Trabzonspor finished third. The final positions for the three Istanbul clubs marked the first time since the 1980–81 season that only one of them was able to finish among the top three teams in Turkish football.

[edit] Promotion and relegation from 2007–08

Çaykur Rizespor, Manisaspor and Kasımpaşa were relegated at the end of the 2007–08 season after finishing on the bottom three places of the standings. They were replaced by TFF First League champions Kocaelispor, runners-up Antalyaspor and play-off winners Eskişehirspor.

[edit] Overview

Beşiktaş
Fenerbahçe
Galatasaray
İstanbul BŞB

Ankaragücü
Ankaraspor
Gençlerbirliği
Hacettepe

Location of teams in Süper Lig 2008-09

Team	Head coach	Team captain	Venue	Capacity^[1]	Kitmaker	Shirt sponsor	Club Chairman
Ankaragücü	Hakan Kutlu	Murat Erdoğan	Ankara 19 Mayıs Stadium	19,209	Lotto	Turkcell	Cemal Azmi Aydın
Ankaraspor	Aykut Kocaman	Hürriyet Güçer	Yenikent Asaş Stadium	19,626	Nike	Turkcell	Ruhi Kurnaz
Antalyaspor	Mehmet Özdilek	Uğur Kavuk	Antalya Atatürk Stadium	11,137	Nike	Mardan	Hasan Y. Akıncıoğlu
Beşiktaş	Mustafa Denizli	Delgado, MatíasMatías Delgado	BJK İnönü Stadium	32,086	Umbro	Cola Turka	Yıldırım Demirören
Bursaspor	Ertuğrul Sağlam	Ömer Erdoğan	Bursa Atatürk Stadium	18,587	Kappa	Turkcell	İbrahim Yazıcı
Denizlispor	Mesut Bakkal	Roman Kratochvil	Denizli Atatürk Stadium	15,427	Lescon	Turkcell	Ali İpek
Eskişehirspor	Rıza Çalımbay	Emre Toraman	Eskişehir Atatürk Stadium	18,880	Nike	Eti	Halil Ünal
Fenerbahçe	Aragonés, LuisLuis Aragonés	Alex, Alex	Şükrü Saracoğlu Stadium	53,586	Adidas	Avea	Aziz Yıldırım
Galatasaray	Bülent Korkmaz	Ayhan Akman, Ayhan Akman	Ali Sami Yen Stadium	22,800	Adidas	Avea	Adnan Polat
Gaziantepspor	José Couceiro	Bekir İrtegün	Gaziantep Kamil Ocak Stadium	16,981	Lescon	Turkcell	İbrahim Halil Kızıl
Gençlerbirliği	Samet Aybaba	Abdel Zaher El Saka	Ankara 19 Mayıs Stadium	19,209	Lotto	Turkcell	İlhan Cavcav
Hacettepe	Erdoğan Arıca	Orhan Şam	Ankara 19 Mayıs Stadium	19,209	Lotto	Turkcell	Turgay Kalemci
Istanbul BB	Abdullah Avcı	Efe İnanç	Atatürk Olympic Stadium	76,092	Lescon	KalPen	Göksel Gümüşdağ
Kayserispor	Tolunay Kafkas	Mehmet Topuz	Kadir Has Stadium¹	32,864	Adidas	Turkcell	Recep Mamur
Kocaelispor	Erhan Altın	Serdar Topraktepe	Ismet Pasa Stadium	12,710	Umbro	Erciyas	Serhan Gürkan
Konyaspor	Ünal Karaman	Ömer Gündostu	Konya Atatürk Stadium	21,968	Lotto	Turkcell	Mehmet Ali Kuntoğlu
Sivasspor	Bülent Uygun	Mehmet Yildiz	Sivas 4 Eylül Stadium	14,998	Adidas	Turkcell	Mecnun Otyakmaz
Trabzonspor	Ersun Yanal	Hüseyin Çimşir	Hüseyin Avni Aker Stadium	19,649	Nike	Avea	Sadri Şener

Notes

Kayserispor played their 2008 home matches at Kayseri Atatürk Stadium. Before moving to their current stadium in March 2009, the team played several home matches at 5 Ocak Stadium in Adana.^[2]

[edit] Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Replaced by	Date of appointment
Konyaspor	Raşit Çetiner	Sacked	17 September 2008^[3]	Giray Bulak	24 September 2008^[4]
Kocaelispor	Engin İpekoğlu	Sacked	25 September 2008^[5]	Yılmaz Vural	28 September 2008^[6]
Beşiktaş	Ertuğrul Sağlam	Resigned	7 October 2008^[7]	Mustafa Denizli	9 October 2008^[8]
Ankaragücü	Hakan Kutlu	Sacked	20 October 2008^[9]	Ünal Karaman	24 October 2008^[10]
Antalyaspor	Jozef Jarabinský	Sacked	28 October 2008^[11]	Mehmet Özdilek	28 October 2008^[12]
Hacettepe	Osman Özdemir	Resigned	2 November 2008^[13]	Erdoğan Arıca	3 November 2008^[14]
Denizlispor	Ali Yalçın	Resigned	2 November 2008^[15]	Ümit Kayıhan	10 November 2008^[16]
Gençlerbirliği	Mesut Bakkal	Resigned	3 November 2008^[17]	Samet Aybaba	5 November 2008^[18]
Bursaspor	Samet Aybaba	Resigned	4 November 2008^[19]	Güvenç Kurtar	4 November 2008^[20]
Ankaragücü	Ünal Karaman	Resigned	8 December 2008^[21]	Hakan Kutlu	2 January 2009^[22]
Bursaspor	Güvenç Kurtar	Resigned	23 December 2008^[23]	Ertuğrul Sağlam	2 January 2009^[24]
Kocaelispor	Yılmaz Vural	Resigned	29 December 2008^[25]	Erhan Altın	17 January 2009^[26]
Denizlispor	Ümit Kayıhan	Sacked	5 February 2009^[27]	Mesut Bakkal	6 February 2009^[28]
Galatasaray	Michael Skibbe	Sacked	23 February 2009^[29]	Bülent Korkmaz	23 February 2009^[30]
Hacettepe	Erdoğan Arıca	Resigned	2 March 2009^[31]	Ergün Penbe	2 March 2009^[31]
Gaziantepspor	Nurullah Sağlam	Resigned	9 March 2009^[32]	José Couceiro	6 April 2009^{[citation needed]}
Konyaspor	Giray Bulak	Sacked	19 May 2009^[33]	Ünal Karaman	20 May 2009^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Standings

P	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation	Head-to-head
1	Beşiktaş (C)	34	21	8	5	60	30	+30	71	2009–10 UEFA Champions League Group stage
2	Sivasspor	34	19	9	6	54	28	+26	66	2009–10 UEFA Champions League Third qualifying round
3	Trabzonspor	34	19	8	7	54	34	+20	65	2009–10 UEFA Europa League Play-off round
4	Fenerbahçe	34	18	7	9	60	36	+24	61	2009–10 UEFA Europa League Third qualifying round	FEN 4−1 GAL GAL 0−0 FEN
5	Galatasaray	34	18	7	9	57	39	+18	61	2009–10 UEFA Europa League Second qualifying round ¹	FEN 4−1 GAL GAL 0−0 FEN
6	Bursaspor	34	16	10	8	47	36	+11	58
7	Kayserispor	34	13	11	10	38	26	+12	50
8	Gaziantepspor	34	12	11	11	46	48	−2	47
9	İstanbul B.B.	34	12	6	16	37	46	−9	42
10	Ankaraspor	34	11	8	15	36	42	−6	41
11	Eskişehirspor	34	10	10	14	45	49	−4	40		ESK 2−0 ANT ANT 0−0 ESK
12	Antalyaspor	34	10	10	14	34	42	−8	40		ESK 2−0 ANT ANT 0−0 ESK
13	Ankaragücü	34	11	6	17	36	47	−11	39
14	Gençlerbirliği	34	10	8	16	38	50	−12	38		GEN: 6 pts, 5−4 DEN: 6 pts, 5−4 KON:2 pts, 4−6
15	Denizlispor	34	11	5	18	39	52	−13	38
16	Konyaspor (R)	34	10	8	16	35	46	−11	38	Relegation to TFF First League
17	Kocaelispor (R)	34	8	5	21	47	73	−26	29
18	Hacettepe (R)	34	5	7	22	24	63	−39	22

Source: ^[34]
Rules for classification: 1^st points; 2^nd head-to-head points; 3^rd head-to-head goal difference; 4^th head-to-head goals scored; 5^th head-to-head away goals scored; 6^th goal difference; 7^th goals scored.
¹Since Türkiye Kupası 2008–09 winners Beşiktaş qualified for the UEFA Champions League and losing finalists Fenerbahçe also finished in the top four, fifth-placed team Galatasary qualified for the UEFA Europa League as well.
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (Q) = Qualified to respective phase of tournament; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.

[edit] Positions by round

Team \ Round	01	02	03	04	05	06	07	08	09	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34
Ankaragücü	14	17	16	15	11	14	16	16	16	17	15	14	13	15	15	14	16	16	16	15	16	14	15	16	16	16	16	15	13	10	13	15	12	13
Ankaraspor	17	18	13	9	8	8	6	3	2	2	3	3	6	5	5	5	4	5	6	6	6	6	6	6	9	9	9	8	8	9	9	9	10	10
Antalyaspor	13	16	15	17	17	17	17	17	17	15	16	15	15	16	16	16	14	14	14	12	14	16	16	14	13	10	12	10	11	11	14	14	15	12
Beşiktaş	3	1	2	1	4	3	1	1	4	3	2	2	2	6	6	6	6	6	4	5	3	3	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	1	1	1	1
Bursaspor	5	3	5	3	2	2	3	5	7	8	8	9	8	8	9	9	9	9	9	9	8	8	8	7	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6
Denizlispor	18	9	11	11	13	10	13	14	14	13	13	12	14	14	14	13	15	15	15	16	15	13	12	11	12	14	15	13	15	14	15	13	14	14
Eskişehirspor	9	10	14	14	15	13	11	10	10	11	11	13	10	10	10	11	10	10	10	11	11	10	11	12	10	11	10	11	12	15	11	10	11	11
Fenerbahçe	16	7	12	8	10	12	10	9	9	7	6	6	5	4	4	4	5	4	5	4	4	4	4	4	4	3	4	5	5	5	5	5	4	4
Galatasaray	1	5	6	4	3	5	4	6	5	5	5	5	4	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	5	5	5	5	5	4	5	4	4	4	4	4	5	5
Gaziantepspor	6	4	3	6	6	4	7	8	8	9	9	8	9	9	8	8	8	8	7	8	9	9	9	9	8	8	8	9	9	7	8	7	8	8
Gençlerbirliği	7	13	8	12	12	9	12	13	12	14	14	16	16	18	13	15	12	11	13	13	12	11	10	10	11	13	11	12	10	12	10	12	13	14
Hacettepe	15	12	9	13	14	15	14	15	15	16	17	17	17	13	17	17	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18
İstanbul B.B.	12	15	18	16	16	16	15	12	13	12	12	11	11	12	12	10	11	13	11	10	10	12	14	15	14	15	14	16	16	16	12	11	9	9
Kayserispor	10	11	7	10	7	6	8	7	6	6	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	8	7	7	7	7	8	7	7	7	7	7	8	7	8	7	7
Kocaelispor	8	14	17	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	17	18	18	17	17	17	17	17	17	17	17	17	17	17	17	17	17	17	17	17	17
Konyaspor	4	8	10	7	9	11	9	11	11	10	10	10	12	11	11	12	13	12	12	14	13	15	13	13	15	12	13	14	14	13	16	16	16	16
Sivasspor	11	6	1	5	5	7	5	4	3	4	4	4	3	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	2	2	2
Trabzonspor	2	2	4	2	1	1	2	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	3	3	3	5	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3

Source: tff.org (Turkish)

[edit] Results

Home \ Away¹	ANG	ANS	ANT	BEŞ	BUR	DEN	ESK	FEN	GAL	GAZ	GEN	HAC	İBB	KAY	KOC	KON	SİV	TRA
Ankaragücü		1–0	0–1	1–3	1–1	3–0	3–2	0–0	0–3	3–1	0–2	1–0	0–0	1–3	4–0	1–3	0–2	1–2
Ankaraspor	0–1		0–0	1–4	0–2	2–0	2–0	1–0	0–0	0–2	0–0	4–0	1–2	2–2	4–0	3–0	2–0	0–2
Antalyaspor	1–0	1–1		2–3	2–3	2–1	0–0	1–1	1–0	1–4	4–2	1–1	1–0	2–1	0–0	0–1	2–1	0–1
Beşiktaş	1–0	1–3	1–0		0–0	1–0	2–0	1–2	2–1	3–0	3–0	2–1	2–1	1–0	5–2	2–0	1–1	1–1
Bursaspor	2–0	0–1	1–1	0–0		2–0	1–2	2–1	2–1	2–2	2–0	0–0	2–0	1–0	1–1	3–0	1–1	2–1
Denizlispor	1–1	2–0	3–2	1–2	4–3		3–2	0–1	0–2	2–0	2–2	0–0	2–1	1–0	2–1	2–1	0–2	0–1
Eskişehirspor	1–3	2–0	2–0	0–2	1–2	4–3		2–2	4–2	1–1	0–0	0–0	6–1	1–0	2–1	0–0	2–2	2–5
Fenerbahçe	1–2	2–0	2–0	2–1	5–2	1–0	2–1		4–1	1–1	3–0	7–0	2–0	1–4	1–1	4–2	4–2	0–0
Galatasaray	1–0	1–1	1–1	4–2	2–1	4–1	0–1	0–0		3–1	2–1	3–1	2–0	1–1	2–5	4–1	2–1	3–0
Gaziantepspor	2–2	2–0	1–1	0–3	2–0	2–1	1–1	1–0	0–1		2–0	0–0	1–4	0–0	5–2	0–1	2–1	3–2
Gençlerbirliği	2–0	1–1	1–2	1–3	1–2	0–0	3–1	1–0	1–3	1–0		3–1	0–0	0–4	1–1	1–0	1–2	0–1
Hacettepe	0–1	3–1	1–2	2–3	1–2	1–0	2–2	2–1	2–0	0–0	0–3		2–1	0–3	0–4	1–2	1–2	1–4
İstanbul B.B.	1–2	1–2	2–1	1–1	0–1	0–2	0–0	2–0	0–1	1–1	3–1	1–0		1–0	5–0	2–0	0–3	0–4
Kayserispor	2–0	1–2	0–0	1–0	0–0	2–0	1–0	0–2	0–0	3–0	1–3	1–0	2–0		1–0	1–1	0–0	1–1
Kocaelispor	1–1	3–1	1–0	1–3	2–3	3–2	1–0	2–3	1–4	2–5	0–2	4–0	2–3	1–2		3–0	0–2	1–3
Konyaspor	3–2	3–0	2–0	0–0	0–0	1–1	1–2	1–2	0–1	2–3	2–2	2–0	1–2	0–0	2–0		0–0	2–3
Sivasspor	3–0	1–1	1–0	1–1	3–1	3–1	1–0	2–1	2–0	3–0	3–2	2–1	1–2	0–0	2–0	1–0		3–0
Trabzonspor	2–1	2–0	3–2	0–0	1–0	0–2	2–1	1–2	2–2	1–1	2–0	1–0	0–0	4–1	2–1	0–1	0–0

Source: ^[34]^[35]
¹The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

[edit] Top goalscorers

Source: tff.org (Turkish)

20 goals

Milan Baroš (Galatasaray)

18 goals

Taner Gülleri (Kocaelispor)

15 goals

Gökhan Ünal (Trabzonspor)

14 goals

Umut Bulut (Trabzonspor)
Mehmet Yıldız (Sivasspor)

13 goals

Souleymane Youla (Eskişehirspor)

12 goals

Beto (Gaziantepspor)

11 goals

[edit] Transfers

Main article: List of Turkish football transfers 2008-09

[edit] See also

[edit] References

^ Türkiye Futbol Federasyonu Stad Arama (Turkish)
^ "2008-2009 SEZONUNA AÝT BÝLGÝLER" (in Turkish). www.kayserispor.org. http://www.kayserispor.org/index3.asp?o=orta2.asp&m=mac&s_id=43. Retrieved 20 March 2009.
^ - Haber - "Konyaspor Raşit Çetiner'le bitirdi" (Turkish)
^ Giray Bulak Konyaspor'da (Turkish)
^ Kocaeli Engin İpekoğlu'nu yolladı | internetspor.com (Turkish)
^ Yılmaz Vural Kocaelispor'da (Turkish)
^ Ertuğrul Sağlam Resigns
^ Besiktas appoint Mustafa Denizli
^ CNN TÜRK.com - Haberler - Spor Futbol - Hakan Kutlu Ankaragücü'nden ayrıldı - 22 Ekim, 2007 (Turkish)
^ Ankaragücü Ünal Karaman'a emanet (Turkish)
^ Sporx.com - Haberler - Spor Futbol - Jarabinsky gönderildi (Turkish)
^ - Haberler - Spor Futbol - Antalyaspor, Mehmet Özdilek'le anlaştı (Turkish)
^ Osman Özdemir istifa etti (Turkish)
^ Hacettepe hocasını buldu! (Turkish)
^ Denizlispor'un hocası istifa etti (Turkish)
^ Denizlispor, Kayıhan'a İmza Attırdı (Turkish)
^ Gençler'de Bakkal dönemi bitti (Turkish)
^ Samet Aybaba Gençlerbirliği'nde (Turkish)
^ Bursa'da Samet Aybaba dönemi sona erdi (Turkish)
^ Bursa'da Kurtar Dönemi (Turkish)
^ [1] (Turkish)
^ [2] (Turkish)
^ [3] (Turkish)
^ [4] (Turkish)
^ [5] (Turkish)
^ Kocaelispor Erhan Altın'a emanet (Turkish)
^ Denizlispor`da Ümit Kayıhan depremi! (Turkish)
^ Denizli Mesut Bakkal ile anlaştı (Turkish)
^ [6] (Turkish)
^ [7] (Turkish)
^ ^a ^b Erdoğan Arıca istifa etti (Turkish)
^ Nurullah Sağlam istifa etti (Turkish)
^ [8] (Turkish)
^ ^a ^b "Turkcell Süper Lig Puan Cetveli ve Fikstürü". tff.org.tr. http://www.tff.org/default.aspx?pageID=198. Retrieved 2008-08-14. (Turkish)
^ "Turkcell Süper Lig 1. Yarı Fikstürü". ntvspor.net. http://www.ntvspor.net/modules/livescore/fikstur1.asp. Retrieved 2008-07-27. (Turkish)

[0] Türkiye Futbol Federasyonu Stad Arama (Turkish)

[1] "2008-2009 SEZONUNA AÝT BÝLGÝLER" (in Turkish). www.kayserispor.org. http://www.kayserispor.org/index3.asp?o=orta2.asp&m=mac&s_id=43. Retrieved 20 March 2009.

[2] - Haber - "Konyaspor Raşit Çetiner'le bitirdi" (Turkish)

[3] Giray Bulak Konyaspor'da (Turkish)

[4] Kocaeli Engin İpekoğlu'nu yolladı | internetspor.com (Turkish)

[5] Yılmaz Vural Kocaelispor'da (Turkish)

[6] Ertuğrul Sağlam Resigns

[7] Besiktas appoint Mustafa Denizli

[8] CNN TÜRK.com - Haberler - Spor Futbol - Hakan Kutlu Ankaragücü'nden ayrıldı - 22 Ekim, 2007 (Turkish)

[9] Ankaragücü Ünal Karaman'a emanet (Turkish)

[10] Sporx.com - Haberler - Spor Futbol - Jarabinsky gönderildi (Turkish)

[11] - Haberler - Spor Futbol - Antalyaspor, Mehmet Özdilek'le anlaştı (Turkish)

[12] Osman Özdemir istifa etti (Turkish)

[13] Hacettepe hocasını buldu! (Turkish)

[14] Denizlispor'un hocası istifa etti (Turkish)

[15] Denizlispor, Kayıhan'a İmza Attırdı (Turkish)

[16] Gençler'de Bakkal dönemi bitti (Turkish)

[17] Samet Aybaba Gençlerbirliği'nde (Turkish)

[18] Bursa'da Samet Aybaba dönemi sona erdi (Turkish)

[19] Bursa'da Kurtar Dönemi (Turkish)

[20] [1] (Turkish)

[21] [2] (Turkish)

[22] [3] (Turkish)

[23] [4] (Turkish)

[24] [5] (Turkish)

[25] Kocaelispor Erhan Altın'a emanet (Turkish)

[26] Denizlispor`da Ümit Kayıhan depremi! (Turkish)

[27] Denizli Mesut Bakkal ile anlaştı (Turkish)

[28] [6] (Turkish)

[29] [7] (Turkish)

[AricaResigns-30] Erdoğan Arıca istifa etti (Turkish)

[31] Nurullah Sağlam istifa etti (Turkish)

[32] [8] (Turkish)

[standingsresults-33] "Turkcell Süper Lig Puan Cetveli ve Fikstürü". tff.org.tr. http://www.tff.org/default.aspx?pageID=198. Retrieved 2008-08-14. (Turkish)

[34] "Turkcell Süper Lig 1. Yarı Fikstürü". ntvspor.net. http://www.ntvspor.net/modules/livescore/fikstur1.asp. Retrieved 2008-07-27. (Turkish)

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