Altay S.K.

Altay Spor Kulübü is a Turkish professional football club based in the city of İzmir.

Altay

Full name	Altay Spor Kulübü
Nickname(s)	Büyük Altay (Great Altay)
Founded	16 January 1914; 111 years ago (1914-01-16)
Ground	Alsancak Mustafa Denizli Stadium
Capacity	12,285
President	Süleyman Özkaral
Manager	Gökhan Karaaslan
Website	www.altay.org.tr
Home colours Away colours Third colours
Current season

Formed in 1914, Altay are nicknamed Büyük Altay (Great Altay). The club colors are black and white, and they play their home matches at the Alsancak Mustafa Denizli Stadium.

Domestically, the club has finished third place for the Süper Lig three times and have won the Turkish Cup twice. They hold the record for most İzmir Football League titles with 14. They are the most successful İzmir-based club with 16 championships in various competitions.

Collecting 24 points in the first half of the 1969–70 season in undefeated 15 games with 9 wins and 6 draws, Altay SK is one of three non-champion clubs that topped the first half of 1. Lig table, along with Kocaelispor in 1992–93, and Sivasspor in 2007–08, 2008–09 and 2019–20.^[1]

History

Altay was founded in 1914 in İzmir as İstiklal. The initial aim of the club was to unite Turkish youth under sporting activities and to encourage them, because in the 1910s minorities dominated sporting activities in İzmir. Under Ottoman rule, Turkish footballers were unable to compete. Altay was supported by many prominent Turkish politicians of the era. Former Turkish President Celal Bayar worked very hard in founding the club and gave his full support.^{[citation needed]}

Altay has an important place in Turkey's football history. The club had a key role in uniting the Turkish community during the Turkish War of Independence.^{[citation needed]} Many players and supporters of Altay SK lost their lives in the Turkish War of Independence.^{[citation needed]} After the Surname Law was adopted, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk gave General Fahreddin Pasha the surname of "Altay". Altay plays in the İzmir Alsancak Stadium first built in 1929 and was rebuilt in 2021.

Honours

National Championships

• Süper Lig
  • Third place (3): 1956–57, 1969–70, 1976–77
• Turkish Football Championship
  • Runners-up (2): 1934, 1951
• TFF First League
  • Winners (1): 2001–02
  • Runners-up (2): 1983–84, 1990–91
• Turkish Football Federation Cup
  • Winners (1): 2006–07
  • Runners-up (1): 1963–64

National Cups

• Turkish Cup
  • Winners (2): 1966–67, 1979–80
  • Runners-up (5): 1963–64, 1967–68, 1971–72, 1978–79, 1985–86
• Super Cup
  • Runners-up (2): 1967, 1980
• Prime Minister's Cup
  • Runners-up (3): 1972, 1979, 1986
• Organ Doğan Cup
  • Runners-up (18): 1936, 1937, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1958, 1961, 1968, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1984, 2004, 2005, 2021
• Ayçilek Doğan Cup
  • Runners-up (2): 1973, 1978
• Tore Doğan Cup
  • Runners-up (1): 1976
• Aydin Doğan Cup
  • Runners-up (3): 1963, 1964, 1986

Regional competitions

• İzmir Professional League
  • Winners (2): 1956–57, 1957–58
• İzmir Football League
  • Winners (14) (record): 1923–24, 1924–25, 1927–28, 1928–29, 1930–31, 1933–34, 1936–37, 1940–41, 1945–46, 1947–48, 1950–51, 1953–54, 1956–57, 1957–58

¹Altay won the championship as "Üçok" (Three arrows), an alliance between Altay, Altınordu, and Bucaspor.

League participations

• Super League: 1958–83, 1984–90, 1991–2000, 2002–03, 2021–2022
• TFF First League: 1983–84, 1990–91, 2000–02, 2003–11, 2018–21, 2022–2024
• TFF Second League: 2011–15, 2017–18, 2024–25
• TFF Third League: 2015–17, 2025–

European record

As of 25 July 1998

Competition	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
UEFA Cup Winners' Cup	6	1	2	3	6	12	–6
UEFA Cup	2	1	0	1	5	6	–1
UEFA Intertoto Cup1	6	3	1	2	10	9	+1
UEFA Total	14	5	3	6	21	27	–6
Inter-Cities Fairs Cup	4	0	1	3	3	14	–11
Intertoto Cup2	6	1	3	2	6	9	–3
Balkans Cup	8	1	1	6	6	23	–17
Non-UEFA Total	18	2	5	11	15	46	–31
Overall Total	32	7	8	17	36	73	–37

¹ UEFA edition.

² non-UEFA edition.

UEFA Cup Winners' Cup:

Season	Round	Club	Home	Away	Aggregate
1967–68	First Round	Standard Liège	2–3	0–0	2–3
1968–69		Lyn	3–1	1–4	4–5
1980–81	Preliminary Round	Benfica	0–0	0–4	0–4

UEFA Cup:

Season	Round	Club	Home	Away	Aggregate
1977–78	First Round	Carl Zeiss Jena	4–1	1–5	5–6

UEFA Intertoto Cup:

Season	Round	Club	Home	Away	Aggregate
19741	Group Stage (Group 10)	CUF	2–1	0–2	3rd
		Landskrona	1–1	1–1
		Hammarby	2–2	0–2
1998	First Round	Shamrock Rovers	3–1	2–3	5–4
	Second Round	Diósgyőr	1–1	1–0	2–1
	Third Round	Bastia	3–2 (aet)	0–2	3–4

¹ The tournament was founded in 1961–62, but was only taken over by UEFA in 1995.

Inter-Cities Fairs Cup:

Season	Round	Club	Home	Away	Aggregate
1962–63	First Round	Roma	2–3	1–10	3–13
1969–70		Carl Zeiss Jena	0–0	0–1	0–1

Balkans Cup:

Season	Round	Club	Home	Away	Aggregate
1971	Group Stage (Group B)	Panionios	2–1	0–1	3rd
		Steagul Roșu Brașov	0–0	0–3
1977	Group Stage (Group A)	Slavia Sofia	0–3	0–6
		Politehnica Timișoara	2–4	2–5

UEFA Ranking history:

See also: UEFA coefficient

As of 1982

Season	Rank	Points	Ref.
1968	168	0.500	[2]
1969	103	1.500	[3]
1970	89	2.000	[4]
1971	86	2.000	[5]
1972	87	2.000	[6]
1973	112	1.500	[7]
1974	203	0.500	[8]
1978	157	1.000	[9]
1979	155	1.000	[10]
1980	155	1.000	[11]
1981	153	1.000	[12]
1982	149	1.000	[13]

Players

Current squad

As of 11 February 2025^[14]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  TUR Ozan Evrim Özenç 3 DF  TUR Yusuf Tekin 4 DF  TUR Hikmet Çolak 5 DF  TUR Sefa Özdemir 6 MF  TUR Ceyhun Gülselam 7 MF  TUR Caner Baycan 8 MF  TUR Murat Demir 9 FW  TUR Onur Yıldız 11 FW  TUR Murat Uluç (captain) 13 GK  TUR Ulaş Hasan Özçelik 16 GK  TUR Semih Mendeş 17 FW  TUR Emre Tangeldi 18 DF  TUR Salih Oktay

No. Pos. Nation Player 20 DF  TUR Mert Yıldırım 22 FW  TUR Mehmet Kaymaz 25 MF  TUR İsa Toygar Ekinci 26 MF  TUR Ege Parmaksiz 28 MF  TUR Mehmet Gündüz 30 DF  TUR Efe Sarıkaya 32 MF  TUR Arda Gezer 35 MF  TUR Ali Kızılkuyu 44 DF  TUR Kuban Altunbudak 63 FW  TUR Deniz Kadah 77 DF  TUR Onur Efe 88 DF  TUR Özgür Özkaya 99 FW  TUR Ünal Alihan Kavlak

Out on loan

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player — MF  TUR Davut Yusuf Özçelik (at Nazillispor until 30 June 2025)

See also

• List of Turkish sports clubs by foundation dates
• Altay–Göztepe derby
• Altay S.K. (women's football)

Sources

• Football history in Izmir (in Turkish)