2008–09 Süper Lig

Süper Lig
Season	2008–09
Champions	Beşiktaş; 13th title
Relegated	Konyaspor; Kocaelispor; Hacettepe SK
Champions League	Beşiktaş; Sivasspor
Europa League	Trabzonspor; Fenerbahçe; Galatasaray
Matches played	306
Goals scored	787 (2.57 per match)
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 →

The 2008–09 Süper Lig (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. Galatasaray were the defending champions.

Quick Facts Season, 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 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.

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	Matías 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	Luis Aragonés	Alex	Şükrü Saracoğlu Stadium	53,586	Adidas	Avea	Aziz Yıldırım
Galatasaray	Bülent Korkmaz	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

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]}

Club	Player 1	Player 2	Player 3	Player 4	Player 5	Player 6	Player 7	Player 8	Former Players
Ankaragücü	Ismaël Bouzid	Jabá	Luiz Henrique	Leonardo Iglesias	Antonio de Nigris	Mouin Chaâbani			Leandro Chaves Sherif Ekramy
Ankaraspor	Roguy Méyé	Theo Lewis Weeks	Radoslav Batak	Neca	Madiou Konate	Štefan Senecký			Tita Antonio de Nigris Fredrik Risp
Antalyaspor	Tita	Serge Djiéhoua	Ali Zitouni	Joseph Ngwenya					Jarosław Bieniuk Piotr Dziewicki Pavol Straka
Beşiktaş	Matías Delgado	Rodrigo Tello	Bobô	Tomáš Sivok	Tomáš Zápotočný	Édouard Cissé	Fabian Ernst	Filip Hološko	Anthony Šerić
Bursaspor	Maksim Romaschenko	Fabrício	Marcelinho	Tadeu	Dimitar Ivankov	Giani Kiriță	Shin Young-rok		Adriano Magrão Leandrao Ysrael Zúñiga
Denizlispor	Džemal Berberović	Carlos Alberto	Douglas	Irineu	Wescley	Emil Angelov	Ibrahima Bangoura	Darryl Roberts	Tomáš Abrahám Ivan Lietava Roman Kratochvíl Renny Vega
Eskişehirspor	Safet Nadarević	Anderson	Krunoslav Lovrek	Luka Vučko	Stjepan Poljak	Vanja Iveša
Fenerbahçe	Alex	Deivid	Edu Dracena	Roberto Carlos	Claudio Maldonado	Dani Güiza	Josico	Diego Lugano
Galatasaray	Harry Kewell	Lincoln	Milan Baroš	Shabani Nonda	Morgan De Sanctis	Tobias Linderoth			Fernando Meira
Gaziantepspor	Christian Zurita	Beto	Eduardo Pacheco	Ivan	Júlio César	Rodrigo Tabata	Armand Deumi
Gençlerbirliği	Bruce Djite	Mile Jedinak	James Troisi	Kahê	Lamine Traoré	Jacques Momha	Daniel Addo	Bojan Isailović	Nicolás Peric
Hacettepe	Gilman Lika	Sandro	Tozo	Ante Kulušić	Patiyo Tambwe	François Zoko			Admir Teli Xhevahir Sukaj Amir Azmy Shaibu Yakubu
İstanbul B.B.	Kenan Hasagić	Adriano	Marcus Vinícius	Marquinhos	Gustave Bebbe	Razundara Tjikuzu	Marcin Kuś
Kayserispor	Franco Cángele	Alioum Saidou	Salomon Olembé	Souleymanou Hamidou	Milan Purović	Julius Aghahowa	Delio Toledo		Matías Escobar
Kocaelispor	Ramal Huseynov	Rashad Sadygov	Júlio César	Patrice Nzekou	Mazowa N'sumbu	Akeem Agbetu	Maurice Ross	Luka Žinko	Fransérgio Đorđe Tutorić Dušan Anđelković Nenad Jestrović
Konyaspor	Jefferson	Kauê	Branimir Poljac	Miloš Mihajlov	Roman Kratochvíl				Jonathan Téhoué
Sivasspor	Michael Petkovic	Fábio Bilica	Sérgio	Hervé Tum	Yannick Kamanan	Kanfory Sylla	Mamadou Diallo
Trabzonspor	Gustavo Colman	Alanzinho	Rigobert Song	Hrvoje Čale	Isaac Promise	Tony Sylva

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Beşiktaş (C)	34	21	8	5	60	30	+30	71	Qualification to Champions League group stage
2	Sivasspor	34	19	9	6	54	28	+26	66	Qualification to Champions League third qualifying round
3	Trabzonspor	34	19	8	7	54	34	+20	65	Qualification to Europa League play-off round
4	Fenerbahçe	34	18	7	9	60	36	+24	61	Qualification to Europa League third qualifying round
5	Galatasaray	34	18	7	9	57	39	+18	61	Qualification to Europa League second qualifying round^[a]
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^[b]
12	Antalyaspor	34	10	10	14	34	42	−8	40^[b]
13	MKE Ankaragücü	34	11	6	17	36	47	−11	39
14	Gençlerbirliği	34	10	8	16	38	50	−12	38^[c]
15	Denizlispor	34	11	5	18	39	52	−13	38^[c]
16	Konyaspor (R)	34	10	8	16	35	46	−11	38^[c]	Relegation to TFF First League
17	Kocaelispor (R)	34	8	5	21	47	73	−26	29
18	Hacettepe Spor (R)	34	5	7	22	24	63	−39	22

Team ╲ Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	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
Team ╲ Round
MKE 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	15
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	13	13	15	12	11	13	13	12	11	10	10	11	13	11	12	10	12	10	12	13	14
Hacettepe Spor	15	12	9	13	14	15	14	15	15	16	17	17	17	18	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

2008–09 Süper Lig

Promotion and relegation from 2007–08

Team overview

Managerial changes

Foreign players

Standings

Positions by round

Results

Top goalscorers

Hat-tricks

Transfers

See also

References

Wikiwand - on

Home \ Away	MKE	ANS	ANT	BEŞ	BUR	DEN	ESK	FEN	GAL	GAZ	GEN	HAC	İBB	KAY	KOC	KON	SİV	TRA
MKE 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 Spor	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