2009–10 Süper Lig

The 2009–10 Süper Lig (known as the Turkcell Süper Lig for sponsorship reasons) was the 52nd season since its establishment. The season commenced on 7 August 2009 with Istanbul B.B. hosting defending champions Beşiktaş at Atatürk Olympic Stadium. The last matches were played on 16 May 2010.

Süper Lig

Season	2009–10
Champions	Bursaspor 1st title
Relegated	Ankaraspor Denizlispor Diyarbakırspor
Champions League	Bursaspor Fenerbahçe
Europa League	Galatasaray Beşiktaş Trabzonspor
Matches played	272
Goals scored	644 (2.37 per match)
Top goalscorer	Ariza Makukula (21)
Biggest home win	Bursaspor 6–0 İstanbul B.B (24 October 2009)[citation needed]
Biggest away win	İstanbul B.B 1–6 Trabzonspor (13 September 2009)[citation needed]
Highest scoring	İstanbul B.B 1–6 Trabzonspor (13 September 2009)[citation needed] Galatasaray 4–3 Trabzonspor (18 October 2009)[citation needed] (7 goals each)
← 2008–09 2010–11 →

Bursaspor won the league beating defending champions Beşiktaş 2–1 at home.^[1] They beat second placed Fenerbahçe by just one point after they could only manage a 1–1 home draw against Trabzonspor. It was only the seventh time a club outside the Istanbul Big Three have won the league, with Trabzonspor being the only other team with six championships, winning their last title in 1984.^[2]

Promotion and relegation from 2008–09

Konyaspor, Kocaelispor and Hacettepe SK were relegated at the end of the 2008–09 season after finishing in the bottom three places of the standings. Konyaspor had to face demotion after six years in the highest Turkish football league. Kocaelispor returned to the First League after just one year in the Süper Lig, while Hacettepe ended a two-year stint in the Turkish top flight.

The relegated teams were replaced by 2008–09 TFF First League champions Manisaspor, runners-up Diyarbakırspor and promotion play-off winners Kasımpaşa. Manisaspor and Kasımpaşa made an immediate return to the Süper Lig while Diyarbakırspor returned after a three-year hiatus.

Team overview

Fenerbahçe

İstanbul B.B.

Beşiktaş

Galatasaray

Kasımpaşa

Ankaragücü
Gençlerbirliği

Ankaraspor

Antalyaspor

Bursaspor

Denizlispor

Diyarbakırspor

Eskişehirspor

Gaziantepspor

Kayserispor

Manisaspor

Sivasspor

Trabzonspor

Location of (qualified) teams in Süper Lig 2009–10

Team	Head coach	Team captain	Venue	Capacity[3]	Kitmaker	Shirt sponsor	Club Chairman
Ankaragücü	Roger Lemerre	Hürriyet Güçer	Ankara 19 Mayıs Stadium	19,209	Lotto	Turkcell	Ahmet Gökçek
Ankaraspor	Jürgen Röber	Hürriyet Güçer	Yenikent Asaş Stadium	19,626	Nike	Turkcell	Ruhi Kurnaz
Antalyaspor	Mehmet Özdilek	Ömer Çatkıç	Antalya Atatürk Stadium	11,137	Puma	Rixos Hotels	Hasan Akıncıoğlu
Beşiktaş	Mustafa Denizli	İbrahim Üzülmez	BJK İnönü Stadium	32,086	Adidas	Cola Turka	Yıldırım Demirören
Bursaspor	Ertuğrul Sağlam	Ömer Erdoğan	Bursa Atatürk Stadium	18,587	Puma	Turkcell	İbrahim Yazıcı
Denizlispor	Hakan Kutlu	Özden Öngün	Denizli Atatürk Stadium	15,427	Lescon	Turkcell	Ali İpek
Diyarbakırspor	Güvenç Kurtar	Barış Ataş	Diyarbakır Atatürk Stadium	12,963	Lescon	Turkcell	Çetin Sümer
Eskişehirspor	Rıza Çalımbay	Serdar Özbayraktar	Eskişehir Atatürk Stadium	13,520	Puma	Eti	Halil Ünal
Fenerbahçe	Christoph Daum	Alex	Şükrü Saracoğlu Stadium	53,586	Adidas	Avea	Aziz Yıldırım
Galatasaray	Frank Rijkaard	Arda Turan	Ali Sami Yen Stadium	52,800	Adidas	Türk Telekom	Adnan Polat
Gaziantepspor	José Couceiro	Christian Rodrigo Zurita	Gaziantep Kamil Ocak Stadium	16,981	Diadora	Turkcell	İbrahim Halil Kızıl
Gençlerbirliği	Thomas Doll	İlhan Eker	Ankara 19 Mayıs Stadium	19,209	Lotto	Turkcell	İlhan Cavcav
Istanbul B.B.	Abdullah Avcı	Okan Buruk	Atatürk Olympic Stadium	76,485	Nike	Turkcell	Göksel Gümüşdağ
Kasımpaşa	Yılmaz Vural	Tolga Özgen	Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Stadium	9,576	Lotto	Turkcell	Hasan Hilmi Öksüz
Kayserispor	Tolunay Kafkas	Aydın Toscalı	Kadir Has Stadium	32,864	Adidas	Turkcell	Recep Mamur
Manisaspor	Mesut Bakkal	Yiğit İncedemir	Manisa 19 Mayıs Stadium	14,965	Lescon	Vestel	Kenan Yaralı
Sivasspor	Muhsin Ertuğral	Mehmet Yildiz	Sivas 4 Eylül Stadium	14,998	Adidas	Turkcell	Mecnun Odyakmaz
Trabzonspor	Şenol Güneş	Rigobert Song	Hüseyin Avni Aker Stadium	19,649	Nike	Türk Telekom	Sadri Şener

Managerial changes

During summer break

Nine teams decided to change their head coach in the offseason, among them Fenerbahçe and Galatasaray.

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Replaced by	Date of appointment
Diyarbakırspor	Coşkun Demirbakan	End of Contract	31 May 2009[4]	Nurullah Sağlam	29 June 2009[5]
Ankaraspor	Aykut Kocaman	End of Contract	31 May 2009[6]	Jürgen Röber	1 July 2009[7]
Gençlerbirliği	Samet Aybaba	End of Contract	31 May 2009[8]	Thomas Doll	1 July 2009[9]
Fenerbahçe	Luis Aragonés	Sacked	2 June 2009[10]	Christoph Daum	1 July 2009[10]
Galatasaray	Bülent Korkmaz	Resign	5 June 2009[11]	Frank Rijkaard	1 July 2009[11]
Denizlispor	Mesut Bakkal	Sacked	8 June 2009[12]	Erhan Altın	1 July 2009[12]
Manisaspor	Levent Eriş	End of contract	18 June 2009[13]	Mesut Bakkal	1 July 2009[13]
Trabzonspor	Ahmet Özen	End of tenure as caretaker	30 June 2009[14]	Hugo Broos	1 July 2009[14]
Diyarbakirspor	Nurullah Sağlam	Resign	7 July 2009[15]	Ziya Doğan	8 July 2009[16]

After start of the 2009–10 season

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Replaced by	Date of appointment
Denizlispor	Erhan Altın	Sacked	1 September 2009[17]	Nurullah Sağlam	2 September 2009[18]
Kasımpaşa	Besim Durmuş	Sacked	3 September 2009[19]	Yılmaz Vural	4 September 2009[20]
Sivasspor	Bülent Uygun	Resign	4 October 2009[21]	Muhsin Ertuğral	8 October 2009[22]
Denizlispor	Nurullah Sağlam	Resign	18 October 2009[23]	Hakan Kutlu	28 October 2009[24]
Ankaragücü	Hikmet Karaman	Sacked	12 November 2009[25]	Roger Lemerre	22 December 2009[26]
Trabzonspor	Hugo Broos	Sacked	22 November 2009[27]	Şenol Güneş	28 November 2009[28]

Foreign players

Club	Player 1	Player 2	Player 3	Player 4	Player 5	Player 6	Player 7	Player 8	Former Players
Ankaragücü	Ariel Broggi	Geremi	Jan Rajnoch	Darius Vassell	Jérôme Rothen	Theo Lewis Weeks	Marek Sapara	Róbert Vittek	Leonardo Iglesias Gustave Bebbe Erich Brabec Ian Henderson Roguy Méyé Madiou Konate Štefan Senecký Fredrik Risp
Ankaraspor	Roguy Méyé								Tita Erich Brabec Neca Štefan Senecký
Antalyaspor	Mile Jedinak	Tita	Serge Djiéhoua	Radoslav Batak	Ali Zitouni
Beşiktaş	Bobô	Rodrigo Tabata	Rodrigo Tello	Tomáš Sivok	Fabian Ernst	Michael Fink	Matteo Ferrari	Filip Hološko
Bursaspor	Leonardo Iglesias	Pablo Batalla	Dimitar Ivankov	Tomáš Zápotočný	Giani Kiriță	Ivan Ergić			Tadeu Shin Young-rok
Denizlispor	Damien Chrysostome	Branimir Bajić	Džemal Berberović	Douglas	Emil Angelov	Ibrahima Bangoura	Souleymane Youla	Darryl Roberts	Norman Sylla
Diyarbakırspor	Bruce Djite	Gustave Bebbe	Thierry Fidjeu	Mamadou Diallo	Bassim Abbas	Razundara Tjikuzu	Goran Stankovski	Milan Martinović	Joseph-Désiré Job Rorys Aragón Amir Azmy Mikkel Rask Andrés Mendoza
Eskişehirspor	Jojo	Safet Nadarević	Luka Vučko	Vanja Iveša					Souleymane Youla
Fenerbahçe	Alex	André Santos	Cristian	Deivid	Fábio Bilica	Dani Güiza	Diego Lugano		Roberto Carlos
Galatasaray	Leo Franco	Harry Kewell	Lucas Neill	Elano	Jô	Milan Baroš	Kader Keïta	Giovani dos Santos	Lincoln Shabani Nonda Tobias Linderoth
Gaziantepspor	Christian Zurita	Beto	Ivan	Jorginho	Júlio César	Armand Deumi	Stjepan Tomas	Žydrūnas Karčemarskas	Roland Linz Júlio César Rodrigo Tabata
Gençlerbirliği	Ivan Radeljić	Kahê	Sandro	Tozo	Jurica Vranješ	Patiyo Tambwe	Labinot Harbuzi		Bruce Djite Mile Jedinak Jacques Momha
Istanbul B.B.	Kenan Hasagić	Marcus Vinícius	Marquinhos	Hervé Tum	Mazowa N'sumbu	Kanfory Sylla	Marcin Kuś
Kasımpaşa	Diego Ruiz	André Moritz	Christian Keller	Nourdin Boukhari	Martin Baran				André Galiassi Petr Bolek Petr Pavlík
Kayserispor	Franco Cángele	James Troisi	Alioum Saidou	Souleymanou Hamidou	Mohamed Shawky	Delio Toledo	Makukula		Salomon Olembé
Manisaspor	Gabriel	Jacques Momha	Josh Simpson	Oumar Kalabane	Jimmy Dixon	Isaac Promise			Vlastimir Jovanović Reinaldo Rahim Ouédraogo
Sivasspor	Michael Petkovic	Lucien Aubey	Yannick Kamanan	Bruno Mbanangoyé	Souleymane Keïta	Akeem Agbetu	Elrio van Heerden	Nabil Taïder	Hamer Bouazza Pieter Mbemba
Trabzonspor	Gustavo Colman	Alanzinho	Rigobert Song	Teófilo Gutiérrez	Drago Gabrić	Hrvoje Čale	Tony Sylva		Razundara Tjikuzu

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Bursaspor (C)	34	23	6	5	65	26	+39	75	Qualification to Champions League group stage
2	Fenerbahçe	34	23	5	6	61	28	+33	74	Qualification to Champions League third qualifying round
3	Galatasaray	34	19	7	8	61	35	+26	64[a]	Qualification to Europa League third qualifying round
4	Beşiktaş	34	18	10	6	47	25	+22	64[a]	Qualification to Europa League second qualifying round
5	Trabzonspor	34	16	9	9	53	32	+21	57	Qualification to Europa League play-off round[b]
6	İstanbul B.B.	34	16	8	10	47	44	+3	56
7	Eskişehirspor	34	15	10	9	44	34	+10	55
8	Kayserispor	34	14	9	11	45	37	+8	51
9	Antalyaspor	34	14	7	13	49	38	+11	49
10	Gençlerbirliği	34	12	11	11	38	35	+3	47
11	Kasımpaşa	34	10	11	13	50	53	−3	41[c]
12	MKE Ankaragücü	34	9	14	11	39	40	−1	41[c]
13	Gaziantepspor	34	9	13	12	38	39	−1	40
14	Manisaspor	34	8	13	13	27	34	−7	37
15	Sivasspor	34	8	10	16	42	59	−17	34
16	Diyarbakırspor (R)	34	6	9	19	28	54	−26	27	Relegation to TFF First League
17	Denizlispor (R)	34	6	8	20	30	49	−19	26
18	Ankaraspor (R)	34	0	0	34	0	102	−102	0[d]

Source: Süper Lig official website
Rules for classification: 1st overall points, 2nd head-to-head points, 3rd head-to-head goal differential, 4th overall goal differential, 5th overall goals scored.^[30]
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated
Notes:

1. Galatasaray finished ahead of Beşiktaş on head-to-head record: Galatasaray–Beşiktaş 3–0, Beşiktaş–Galatasaray 1–1.
2. Trabzonspor won the 2009–10 Turkish Cup and thus qualified for the play-off round of the UEFA Europa League.
3. Kasımpaşa finished ahead of Ankaragücü on head-to-head record: Kasımpaşa–Ankaragücü 2–0, Ankaragücü–Kasımpaşa 2–2.
4. On 7 October 2009, the Turkish Football Federation relegated Ankaraspor to the TFF First League with immediate effect due to the relationship of its governors with those of Ankaragücü being unsuitable for two teams competing in the same division. All of Ankaraspor's matches were scratched and counted as a 3–0 win for their opponents.^[29]

Positions by round

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
Bursaspor	5	9	4	6	11	7	4	3	3	2	3	4	4	3	5	4	3	3	3	3	3	2	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	2	2	1
Fenerbahçe	2	1	2	2	2	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	2	1	1	1	1	2	3	3	3	4	3	2	2	2	2	1	1	1	2
Galatasaray	3	2	1	1	1	1	2	2	2	3	2	2	2	4	4	3	2	2	2	2	1	1	1	2	2	2	4	4	3	3	3	3	3	3
Beşiktaş	8	5	7	9	12	12	9	8	7	5	4	3	3	2	3	5	5	5	5	4	4	5	4	4	3	4	3	3	4	4	4	4	4	4
Trabzonspor	4	10	12	13	10	6	7	7	9	8	6	9	9	8	7	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5
İstanbul B.B.	9	4	6	8	13	13	11	9	8	10	7	6	8	7	9	9	8	10	8	9	10	9	8	8	8	8	8	8	6	7	6	6	6	6
Eskişehirspor	10	7	8	4	5	4	5	6	6	7	8	7	7	9	8	8	9	7	9	7	7	7	7	7	7	6	7	6	7	8	7	7	7	7
Kayserispor	13	13	14	11	6	5	6	4	4	4	5	5	5	5	1	1	4	4	4	5	5	4	5	5	6	7	6	7	8	6	8	8	8	8
Antalyaspor	1	8	3	7	4	9	10	13	10	9	10	11	11	10	10	10	10	8	10	10	11	11	11	11	9	10	10	11	12	11	10	9	9	9
Gençlerbirliği	12	3	5	3	3	3	3	5	5	6	9	8	6	6	6	7	7	9	7	8	9	8	9	10	11	9	9	9	9	9	9	10	10	10
Kasımpaşa	16	15	17	17	17	17	17	16	16	15	15	15	14	13	14	14	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	13	11	13	13	13	11	11
MKE Ankaragücü	6	11	13	14	14	15	14	11	13	11	13	12	12	12	12	13	15	14	13	13	13	14	13	13	13	13	13	12	13	12	12	11	12	12
Gaziantepspor	14	14	10	10	7	11	13	12	11	12	11	10	10	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	8	10	10	9	10	11	11	10	10	10	11	12	13	13
Manisaspor	11	12	9	12	8	8	8	10	12	14	12	13	13	15	13	12	13	15	14	16	16	16	15	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14
Sivasspor	15	16	15	15	16	16	16	17	17	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	15	15	13	14	15	15	16	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	15
Diyarbakırspor	7	6	11	5	9	10	12	14	14	13	14	14	15	14	15	15	14	13	15	14	14	15	16	16	16	15	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16
Denizlispor	17	17	16	16	15	14	15	15	15	17	17	17	17	17	17	17	17	17	17	17	17	17	17	17	17	17	17	17	17	17	17	17	17	17
Ankaraspor	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18

Source: tff.org (in Turkish)

Results

Home \ Away	MKE	ANS	ANT	BEŞ	BUR	DEN	DYB	ESK	FEN	GAL	GAZ	GEN	İBB	KSM	KAY	MAN	SİV	TRA
MKE Ankaragücü		3–0	2–2	0–0	0–0	1–0	0–0	3–1	0–3	3–0	0–0	1–2	2–2	2–2	3–0	1–1	2–3	1–0
Ankaraspor	0–3		0–3	0–3	0–3	0–3	0–3	0–3	0–3	0–3	0–3	0–3	0–3	0–3	0–3	0–3	0–3	0–3
Antalyaspor	1–0	3–0		0–1	1–1	2–1	4–1	1–2	1–2	2–3	1–0	2–0	1–3	2–0	4–0	0–0	3–0	1–1
Beşiktaş	1–0	3–0	2–0		2–3	1–0	0–0	3–2	3–0	1–1	0–0	4–1	2–0	2–1	0–1	2–0	2–2	0–0
Bursaspor	1–0	3–0	2–1	2–1		2–1	4–0	3–1	0–1	1–0	2–0	1–2	6–0	2–1	2–0	2–0	3–0	1–1
Denizlispor	0–0	3–0	1–1	0–1	2–3		0–0	1–0	0–2	1–2	1–1	2–0	0–1	3–3	1–0	1–1	1–1	0–1
Diyarbakırspor	2–2	3–0	1–0	1–3	0–3[a]	0–2		0–2	1–3	1–2	1–3	1–0	1–3	2–2	0–3	0–0	1–1	1–2
Eskişehirspor	0–0	3–0	2–1	0–1	3–2	2–0	0–0		2–1	2–1	3–2	0–0	2–1	2–0	0–1	1–0	1–1	1–0
Fenerbahçe	3–2	3–0	1–0	1–0	2–3	3–1	1–1	2–0		3–1	1–0	3–0	1–0	1–3	2–0	2–1	3–0	1–1
Galatasaray	3–0	3–0	1–2	3–0	0–0	4–1	4–1	1–1	0–1		1–0	1–0	1–1	4–1	4–1	1–1	2–0	4–3
Gaziantepspor	1–3	3–0	1–1	2–0	0–1	2–1	2–1	1–1	2–1	2–3		1–1	2–3	1–0	0–1	0–0	2–2	1–1
Gençlerbirliği	0–1	3–0	0–2	0–0	0–0	2–0	1–0	2–2	0–0	2–1	1–1		3–1	0–2	0–0	0–2	2–0	2–2
İstanbul B.B.	1–1	3–0	1–0	1–1	2–1	3–1	1–0	0–0	2–1	0–1	1–1	1–3		4–2	1–2	1–0	1–0	1–6
Kasımpaşa	2–0	3–0	2–2	2–2	0–2	3–1	1–0	1–1	0–1	1–3	3–0	0–4	1–3		2–2	3–1	2–2	3–1
Kayserispor	3–0	3–0	1–2	1–2	3–0	3–0	2–0	1–2	1–1	0–0	1–1	1–1	1–1	0–0		1–2	2–2	1–0
Manisaspor	0–0	3–0	1–2	1–1	0–2	0–0	2–1	0–0	2–2	1–2	0–3	0–0	1–0	0–0	0–1		3–1	1–0
Sivasspor	3–3	3–0	2–0	0–1	1–3	2–0	0–2	2–1	1–5	1–1	3–0	0–2	0–1	1–1	2–4	1–0		1–2
Trabzonspor	3–0	3–0	3–1	0–2	1–1	2–1	1–2	2–1	0–1	1–0	0–0	3–1	0–0	2–0	2–1	3–0	3–1

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
Notes:

1. Bursaspor were awarded a 3–0 win after the match was abandoned in the 17th minute with the score level at 0–0 after Diyarbakırspor fans pelted Bursaspor players and officials with various objects.^[31]

Top scorers

Source: Süper Lig official website

Rank	Scorer	Club	Goals
1	Ariza Makukula	Kayserispor	21
2	Júlio César	Gaziantepspor	13
3	Bobô	Beşiktaş	12
	Necati Ateş	Antalyaspor
5	Umut Bulut	Trabzonspor	11
	Alex	Fenerbahçe
	Milan Baroš	Galatasaray
	Mustafa Pektemek	Gençlerbirliği
	Daniel Güiza	Fenerbahçe
10	İskender Alın	İstanbul B.B.	10

Hat-tricks

Player	For	Against	Result	Date
Egemen Korkmaz	Trabzonspor	İstanbul BB	6–1	13 September 2009
Shabani Nonda	Galatasaray	Kasımpaşa	3–1	21 September 2009
Milan Baroš	Galatasaray	Diyarbakırspor	4–1	11 April 2010