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Ali Sami Yen
Personal information

Full name	Ali Sami Yen
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1905–1909	Galatasaray SK
Managerial career
1916-1917	Galatasaray SK
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Ali Sami Yen, born in Kandilli, Constantinople (now Istanbul), Ottoman Empire on May 20, 1886, is best known as the founder of Galatasaray Sports Club. His original name was Ali Sami Frashëri and he is the son of Sami Frashëri, one of the most famous Albanian writers, philosophers and playwrights. After the enactment of law on family names in 1934, he took the surname Yen, which literally means “beat!”.

He was a student at the prestigious Galatasaray Lycee in Constantinople. In October 1905, he decided with some of his fellow students to create a football club. At the beginning, the stated goal was “To play together like Englishmen, to have a color and a name, and to beat the other non Turkish teams” according to him.

Yen was the club's first president for 13 years, between 1905 and 1918, and again for a brief spell in 1925.

Besides founding Galatasaray SK, he made numerous other contributions to Turkish sports. He was president of the Turkish National Olympic Committee between 1926 and 1931. He coached the Turkish national team in its first international match, in 1923 against Romania.

Ali Sami Yen died in 1951.

As founder and first president of Galatasaray SK, Ali Sami Yen gave his name to Galatasaray's stadium. With a capacity of 25,000 seats, the Ali Sami Yen Stadium is situated in the center of Istanbul, in Mecidiyeköy.

Honours

As player

Galatasaray SK
- Istanbul Football League: 1
  - 1908-1909

v t e Galatasaray S.K. – managers
Nikolov (1905–06) Serdaroğlu (1907) Armitage (1908–11) Serdaroğlu (1911–14) Sadi Bey (1915) Sami Yen (1916–17) Şahin (1919–21) Giray (1922–23) Kabalski (1923–24) Hunter (1924–28) Bekdik (1929) Limbeck (1930–31) Pagnam (1931–32) Puddefoot (1933–34) Baar (1934–36) Szabó (1936–38) Tandler (1938–39) Hayman (1939) Zaharczuk (1939–40) Begget (1941–45) Dimitriyadis (1945–46) Swenk (1947) Molloy (1947–49) Lochhead (1950–52) Kılıç (1952–53) Székely (1953–54) Kılıç (1954–57) Dick (1957–58) Remondini (1959–61) Kılıç (1961–63) Özarı (1963–64) Kılıç (1964–67) Aykaç (1967–68) Kaloperović (1968–70) Oktay (1970) Özarı (1970–71) Birch (1971–74) Mansell (1974–75) Howe (1975–76) Allison (1976–77) Demircan (1977–78) Özarı (1978–79) Şeren (1979–80) Birch (1980–82) Sümer (1982–83) Ivić (1983–84) Derwall (1984–87) Denizli (1987–89) Held (1989–90) Denizli (1990–92) Feldkamp (1992–93) Hollmann (1993–94) Saftig (1994–95) Erkasap (1995) Souness (1995–96) Terim (1996–2000) Lucescu (2000–02) Terim (2002–04) Hagi (2004–05) Gerets (2005–07) Feldkamp (2007–08) Güler (a.i.) (2008) Skibbe (2008–09) Korkmaz (2009) Rijkaard (2009–10) Hagi (2010–11) Ünder (2011) Terim (2011–13) Davala (a.i.) (2013) Mancini (2013–14) Prandelli (2014) Taffarel (a.i.) (2014) Hamzaoğlu (2014–15) Taffarel (a.i.) (2015) Denizli (2015–16) Atik (a.i.) (2016) Olde Riekerink (2016–17) Tudor (2017) Terim (2017–22) Torrent (2022) Buruk (2022–)

References

The Encyclopædia Britannica, Vol.7, Edited by Hugh Chisholm, (1911), 3; Constantinople, the capital of the Turkish Empire...
Britannica, Istanbul:When the Republic of Turkey was founded in 1923, the capital was moved to Ankara, and Constantinople was officially renamed Istanbul in 1930.
Turkish law for changing family names of non-Turkish people living in Turkey

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Honours

As player

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