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| Full name | Galatasaray Spor Kulübü | ||
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| Nickname(s) | "Aslanlar" ("Lions") "Cimbom" (pronounced Jim-Bom) | ||
| Founded | 1905 | ||
| Ground | Ali Sami Yen Stadium, Istanbul, Turkey | ||
| Capacity | 25,000 | ||
| Chairman | Özhan Canaydın | ||
| Manager | Eric Gerets | ||
| League | Turkish Premier Super League | ||
| 2004-05 | Turkish Premier Super League, 3rd | ||
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For Galatasaray High School, visit Galatasaray Lisesi
Galatasaray Spor Kulübü (Galatasaray Sports Club, or Galatasaray SK) is a Turkish sports club based in İstanbul which is most famous for its football section. Founded in 1905 by Ali Sami Yen and his fellows from the prestigious Galatasaray High School, Galatasaray currently has 15 Turkish league championships, and also won the UEFA Cup and UEFA Super Cup in 2000.
Galatasaray is one of only two teams to have won the UEFA Cup without being beaten in a single match, (the other being Ajax), and is also notable for being the first team to win the competition after having been knocked out of the Champions League. In winning the UEFA Cup during the 1999/2000 season, beating Arsenal of England on penalties, Galatasaray became the first Turkish club ever to win a European trophy. Galatasaray also holds the world record of most games won in row at home (24 games in row: 13 May 2001 - 8 December 2002).
Galatasaray is the most internationally recognised Turkish club as a result of its European successes. The team is famous for its outstandingly enthusiastic home support, especially for its supporters' habit of displaying enormous banners throughout its ground, welcoming visiting teams "to Hell!"
The club's ground, Ali Sami Yen Stadyumu, reopened for the 2004-05 season, and a massive renovation project of one of its stands was completed in the 5th week of 2005-2006 season.
Achievements
- Turkish league championships (15): 1962, 1963, 1969, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1987, 1988, 1993, 1994, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2002
- Turkish Cup (14): 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1973, 1976, 1982, 1985, 1991, 1993, 1995, 1999, 2000, 2005
- European Super Cup (1): 2000, 2-1 vs. Real Madrid
- UEFA Champions League:
- Semi-final in 1988-1989 (eliminated by FC Steaua Bucuresti 0-4 in Romania, 1-1 in Istanbul )
- Quarter-final in 2000-2001 (eliminated by Real Madrid 3-2 in Istanbul and 0-3 in Spain)
Current squad
As of 1 September, 2005:
Notable Players
1905 to 1990s
Metin Oktay- Turgay Şeren
- Tanju Çolak
- Uğur Tütüneker
- Fatih Terim
- Mustafa Denizli
Xhevad Prekazi- Zoran Simoviċ
- Metin Yildiz
Didier Six
1990s
- Bülent Korkmaz
- Hakan Şükür
Gheorghe Hagi- Gheorghe Popescu
Claudio Taffarel- Tugay Kerimoğlu
- Emre Belözoğlu
- Okan Buruk
- Arif Erdem
- Suat Kaya
- Hakan Ünsal
- Ümit Davala
- Hamza Hamzaoğlu
- Adrian Ilie
Kubilay Türkyilmaz- Oliveira Capone
Falco Götz- Reinhard Stumpf
Brad Friedel
2000s
- Hasan Şaş
- Necati Ateş
- Flavio Conceição
- Mario Jardel
Haim Revivo
Frank De Boer- Elvir Baljic
- Umit Karan
Mondragon
Rigobert Song
Sergio Almaguer
Managerial history
- Özkan Sümer (1982-1983)
- Tomislav Ivic (1983-1984)
- Jupp Derwall (1984-1988)
- Mustafa Denizli (1988-1990) (1991-1992)
- Sigfried Held (1990-1991)
- Karl Heinz Feldkamp (1992-1993)
- Rainer Hollmann & Karl Heinz Feldkamp (1993-1994)
- Reinhard Saftig (1994-1995)
Graeme Souness (1995-1996)- Fatih Terim (1996-2000) (2002-2004)
- Mircea Lucescu (2000-2002)
- Gheorghe Hagi (2004-2005)
Eric Gerets (2005-...)
Presidents
- Ali Sami Yen (1905-1918) (1925)
- Refik Cevdet Kalpakçıoğlu (1919-1922) (1934)
- Yusuf Ziya Öniş (1922-1924) (1950-1952)
- Ali Haydar Şekip (1925)
- Ahmet Robenson (1926)
- Adnan Ibrahim Pirioğlu (1927)
- Necmettin Sadak (1928-1929)
- Abidin Daver (1929-1930)
- Ahmet Kara (1930-1931) (1933)
- Tahir Kevkep (1931-1932)
- Ali Haydar Barsal (1932-1933) (1933-1934)
- Fethi Isfendiyaroğlu (1933)
- Saim Gögen (1936-1937)
- Sedat Ziya Kantoğlu (1937-1939) (1944)
- Nizan Nuri (1939)
- Adnan Akıska (1939)
- Tevfik Ali Çınar (1940-1942)
- Osman Dardağan(1942-1943)
- Muslihittin Peykoğlu (1944-1946)
- Suphi Batur (1946-1950) (1965-1968)
- Ulvi Yenal (1953) (1962-1964)
- Refik Selimoğlu (1954-1956) (1960-1962)
- Sadik Giz (1957-1959)
- Selahattin Beyazıt (1969-1973) (1975-1979)
- Prof. Dr. Mustafa Pekin (1973-1975)
- Prof. Dr. Ali Uras (1979-1984) (1984-1986)
- Dr. Ali Tanrıyar (1986-1988) (1988-1990)
- Alp Yalman (1990-1992) (1992-1996)
- Faruk Süren (1996-2001)
- H. Mehmet Cansun (2001-2002)
- Özhan Canaydın (2002-...)
Hooliganism associated with Galatasaray
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A minority of fans have been involved in trouble with rival fans, which has tarnished the club's reputation.
In April 2000, on the eve of Galatasaray’s UEFA Cup semi-final first leg match against Leeds United, street violence erupted between people claiming to be local Galatasaray fans and visiting Leeds supporters. Two Leeds fans were stabbed to death, and Galatasaray fans were banned from travelling to the away leg. The violence is said to have broke out after a Leeds fan insulted a van driver. Leeds fans and officials were later outraged as while a message of condolence was read out for the victims, the home fans jeered. Galatasaray’s players also refused to wear black arm bands. The Leeds chairman at the time, Peter Ridsdale, accused Galatasaray as "showing a lack of respect". A man was later arrested and sentenced to 15 years of imprisonment. However, the sentence was subsequently reduced to 5 years on the basis of provocation. Leeds fans are said to have to started the violence after making obscene gestures towards the Turkish flag. Galatasaray later disassociated themselves with the murderers, claiming that they were not fans after all.
Further incidents between Galatasaray’s hooligan elements have occurred between rival fans of Paris St-Germain, Arsenal and A.S. Roma . Despite the Galatasaray’s notoriety with hooliganism, the club’s hooligan element is still only minority of fans.
External links
- Official website of Galatasaray SK
- Supporters group UltrAslan
- GalatasarayNews.com
- CimBomBom.net
- Unofficial website of Galatasaray
- GalatasarayMedia.com
- Galatasarayi.com
- Galatasaray Lycee
- Galatasaray University
- Cimbom.Gs
Galata related places
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