Fenerbahçe S.K.

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Fenerbahçe S.K.
Full name	Fenerbahçe S.K.
Nickname(s)	Sarı Kanaryalar (Yellow canaries)
Founded	1907
Ground	Şükrü Saracoğlu Stadium, Kadıköy-Istanbul, Turkey In honour of Sukru Saracoglu. (Capacity 53,000[1])
Chairman	Aziz Yıldırım[2]
Manager	Zico[3]
League	Turkcell Süper Lig
2007-08	Süper Lig, 2nd
Home colours 　 Away colours

Fenerbahçe Spor Kulübü (English: Fenerbahçe Sports Club), commonly known as Fenerbahçe (pronounced [feneːɾbatʃe]), is a professional sports club based in the district of Kadıköy (also known as the Fenerbahçe district), city of Istanbul, Turkey. The name of the sports club (as well as the nickname of Kadıköy) derives from a famous lighthouse located within the area ('Fener' in Turkish means lighthouse, 'bahçe' means garden). The most popular branch of the club is football ^[4]. Fenerbahçe's football team currently plays in Turkcell Süper Lig. They are nicknamed The Yellow Canaries (Turkish: Sarı Kanaryalar) and play their home games at Şükrü Saracoğlu Stadyumu in Kadıköy.

The club also competes in basketball^[5], volleyball^[6], rowing^[7], boxing^[8], sailing^[9], athletics^[10], swimming^[11] and table tennis^[12]. Fenerbahçe celebrated its centennial year in 2007.

Contents 1 History 1.1 Presidents 1.2 Historical players 2 Colours and badge 3 Facilities 3.1 Stadium 3.2 Museum 3.3 Other facilities 4 Supporters 4.1 Genç Fenerbahçeliler 4.2 1907 UniFeb 4.3 Antu/Fenerlist 4.4 Group CK 5 Sponsorship 5.1 Club’s Sportive Company 5.2 Fenerbahçe TV 6 The Board of Directors 7 Football 7.1 Technical staff 7.2 Current squad 8 Fenerbahçe Lineup 2007/08 8.1 Out on loan 8.2 Youth team 8.3 Player records 8.3.1 League top scorers 8.3.2 Most appearances 8.4 Notable players 8.5 Club captains 8.6 Managers 8.7 Football honours 8.8 Retired numbers 8.9 Rankings 8.9.1 IFFHS ranking 8.9.2 UEFA ranking 9 Other branches 9.1 Basketball 9.2 Volleyball 9.3 Athletics 9.4 Boxing 9.5 Rowing 9.6 Sailing 10 References 11 External links

[edit] History

Ziya Songülen, Ayetullah Bey and Necip Okaner founded Fenerbahçe Spor Külübü in 1907 on Beşbıyık Street in Moda, Istanbul.^[13]. This made Fenerbahçe the second Turkish football club, after their arch-rivals Galatasaray SK, which was founded in 1905. The club had to be kept under wraps because of the strict Ottoman law under Sultan Abdul Hamid, where Turkish youth were not allowed to set up clubs or play football.^[14] Ziya Songülen was elected the first president of the club, Ayetullah Bey became the first General Secretary, and Necip Okaner was given the post of the General Captain.^[14] The lighthouse situated on the Fenerbahçe cape was a big influence on the design of the club's first emblem, which sported the yellow and white colors of daffodils around the lighthouse. The kits were also designed with yellow and white stripes.^[14] The emblem and colors of the club were changed in 1910 when Topuz Hikmet redesigned the badge and changed the colors to yellow and navy, still seen today. Fenerbahçe's activities were kept in secrecy until a legislation reform in 1908, when, under a new law, all football clubs had to register to exist legally.^[14] Fenerbahçe joined the Istanbul League in 1909, finishing fifth in their first year. The first line-up included Ziya Songülen, Ayetullah Bey, Necip Okaner, Galip Kulaksızoğlu, Hassan Sami Kocamemi, Asaf Beşpınar, Enver Yetiker, Şevkati Hulusi Bey, Fuat Hüsnü Kayacan, Hamit Hüsnü Kayacan, and Nasuhi Baydar.^[15] They did not achieve any success until the 1912-13 season, when they won the league undefeated.

Fenerbahçe played against the staff of the Royal Navy that occupied Istanbul during the Turkish War of Independence. Some British soldiers formed football teams that were named after the players' speciality, for example Essex Engineers, Irish Guards, Grenadiers, and Artillery. These teams played against each other and against local football teams in Istanbul. Fenerbahçe won many of these matches.^[16]

The Turkish Football Federation founded a national league in 1959, which continues today under the name of the Turkcell Super League. Fenerbahçe won the first tournament, beating Galatasaray S.K. 4-1 on aggregate.^[17] The next year, Fenerbahçe participated in the UEFA Champions League for the first time. They qualified through a 4-3 win over Csepel SC. They lost their first round game to OGC Nice 1-5 in a playoff game after drawing on aggregate.^[18] Fenerbahçe became the most successful Turkish club of the 1960s, winning five out of 10 leagues. They were also runners-up three times.^[19][20] In the 1967 Balkans Cup (a competition set up for clubs from Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Romania, Turkey, and Yugoslavia that existed between the 1960-61 and 1993-94 seasons), Fenerbahçe won the cup after three matches against Greek club AEK Athens FC, making them the first Turkish club to win a non-domestic competition. This success would remain unparalleled by a Turkish club until Sarıyer G.K. and Samsunspor won the cup many years later in the 1990s.

The 1970s saw Fenerbahçe win four more league titles. The decade also saw the first non-Istanbul club and a club outside of Fenerbahçe,Beşiktaş J.K., and Galatasaray S.K. to win a league title. Trabzonspor went on to win four titles during the decade.^[20] Fenerbahçe won three titles in the 1980s, a period where each club in the "Big Four"^[21] won at least two titles^[20] Galatasaray S.K. and Beşiktaş J.K. dominated the Turkish League during the 1990s, combining to win nine out of 10 times. Fenerbahçe's only Turkish League success during the 1990's came in the 1995-1996 season under Carlos Alberto Parreira.^[19][20]

Fenerbahçe won the league in 2001, denying Galatasaray a fifth consecutive title. They followed up the next season with a runners-up place behind Galatasaray with new coach Werner Lorant. The next season, however, did not go so well as Fenerbahçe finished in sixth place with Ariel Ortega in the squad.^[22] Despite this, that season is memorable to many Fenerbahçe fans due to a 6-0 victory against arch-rivals Galatasaray in Şükrü Saracoğlu Stadium on 6 November 2002. ^[23] After firing Werner Lorant, they hired another German coach, Christoph Daum. Daum had previously coached in Turkey, winning the league with Beşiktaş J.K. in 1994-95. Fenerbahçe brought in players including Pierre van Hooijdonk, Mehmet Aurélio, and Fabio Luciano as a rebuilding process. These new players lead Fenerbahçe to their fifteenth title and third star (one being awarded for every 5 league titles won by a club).^[24] The next year was followed up by a narrow championship over Trabzonspor, winning the then record of sixteen Turkish First Football League championships.^[25] Fenerbahçe lost the title in the last week of the 2005-06 season to Galatasaray. Fenerbahçe needed a win, but instead drew 1-1 with Denizlispor while Galatasaray won 3-0 over Kayserispor.

Soon after, Christoph Daum stepped down as manager,^[26] and was replaced by Zico on July 4, 2006.^[27] Zico began his reign by signing two new defenders, highly-touted Uruguayan international Diego Lugano, and fellow Brazilian Edu Dracena.^[28][29] Zico also signed two strikers, Serbian international Mateja Kežman, and another Brazilian, Deivid.^[30] Fenerbahçe's 2006-07 domestic season started off with a 6-0 win over relegation candidates Kayseri Erciyesspor.^[31] In the 32^nd week of the Turkcell Super League, Fenerbahçe drew Trabzonspor 2-2, while Beşiktaş J.K. lost to Bursaspor 0-3, putting the former out of contention for the title.^[32][33] Fenerbahçe won their seventeenth Turkish Super League title in 2007, the most in Turkey.^[34]

Fenerbahçe started off their 2007-08 season by signing Brazilian international Roberto Carlos.^[35] The deal saw the defender come for free after his contract was not extended by Real Madrid. Young Turkish players like Gökhan Gönül, Yasin Çakmak, İlhan Parlak, Ali Bilgin, Turkish-English attacker Colin Kâzım-Richards, Turkish-Brazilian left back Wederson joined Fenerbahçe in the beginning of the season and Chile national football team captain Claudio Maldonado joined the team in January'08 transfer window.

On 11 January 2007 Fenerbahce S.K. was officially invited to G-14.^[36] G-14 is an association which consists of top clubs worldwide. Fenerbahçe S.K. is the first and only Turkish club that have been invited to this association. On March 2008, Fenerbahçe's record application was accpeted by Guinness World Records Menagement Team, which envisages Fenerbahçe to have the most number of medal and trophy achievements on the planet with its 9 branches entirely, total of 1134 cups and medals.^[37]

Under Zico’s command Fenerbahçe has qualified from UEFA Champions League 2007-08 groups stage for the first time of club's history and beat Sevilla FC to become a quarter-finalist in 2007-08 season. So far, Zico also is the most successful manager of team's history in the European arena.

After successful scores both in the local league of Turkey and international matches, Zico gained a new nickname from Fenerbahçe fans: Kral Arthur (means "King Arthur" in Turkish). For the team's nickname King Arthur and his Knights.^{France-Presse}

Since 2000 the arch-rivals Fenerbahçe S.K. improved clubs finances with facilities, bringing world stars to the club such as Kennet Andersson, Haim Revivo, Ariel Ortega, Serhiy Rebrov, Pierre van Hooijdonk, Alex de Souza, Stephen Appiah, Nicolas Anelka and lately Mateja Kežman and Roberto Carlos.

[edit] Presidents

from the official site ^[38]

1907–1908 N. Ziya Songülen 1908–1909 Ayetullah Bey 1909–1910 Tevfik H. Taşçı 1911–1912 O. Fuat Efendi 1912–1914 H. Hüsnü Kayacan 1914–1915 Hulusi Salih Paşa (Salih Hulusi Kezrak) 1915–1916 M. Sabri Toprak 1916–1918 Dr. Nazım Bey 1918–1919 İ. A. Nuri Sekizinci

1920–1923 Ömer Faruk Efendi 1924–1927 Nasuhi Baydar 1928–1932 M. Menemencioğlu 1932–1933 Sait S. Cihanoğlu 1933–1934 Hayri Celal Atamer 1934–1950 Şükrü Saraçoğlu 1950–1951 Ali M. Hacıbekir 1951–1953 O. Kavrakoğlu 1953–1954 Bedii Yazıcı 1955–1957 Zeki Rıza Sporel

1958–1959 Agah Erozan 1960–1960 Medeni Berk 1960–1961 Hasan Kamil Sporel 1961–1962 Razi Trak 1962–1966 İsmet Uluğ 1966–1974 Faruk Ilgaz 1974–1976 Emin Cankurtaran 1976–1980 Faruk Ilgaz 1980–1981 Razi Trak 1981–1983 Ali Şen

1983–1984 Faruk Ilgaz 1984–1986 Fikret Arıcan 1986–1989 Tahsin Kaya 1989–1993 Metin Aşık 1993–1994 Güven Sazak 1994–1994 Hasan Özaydın 1994–1998 Ali Şen 1998— Aziz Yıldırım

[edit] Historical players

Main article: List of Fenerbahçe S.K. players

When it was first founded in 1907, Fenerbahçe had a small squad. One of these players, Galip Kulaksızoğlu, was the longest serving player of the original squad. He spent seventeen years at the club, retiring in 1924 after 216 matches.^[39] Zeki Rıza Sporel was the first product of the Fenerbahçe youth system. During his eighteen year career with the club, Zeki scored 470 goals in 352 matches, or 1.3 goals every match.^[39] Zeki was also capped for the Turkey national football team sixteen times, bagging 15 goals.^[40] Cihat Arman became the first in a long-line of long-serving goalkeepers at Fenerbahçe. Cihat played twelve seasons with the club, playing in 308 matches.^[39]

Lefter Küçükandonyadis was one of the first Turkish football players to play in Europe. Lefter spent two seasons in Europe, playing for ACF Fiorentina and OGC Nice before returning to Fenerbahçe. In all, Lefter scored 423 goals in 615 matches for the club, helping them to two Istanbul Football League titles, and three Turkish First Football League titles.^[41] Another player, Can Bartu, became the next big Turkish export to Europe. He was also the first Turkish player to play in a European competition final, doing so with ACF Fiorentina against Rangers on January 1, 1961.^[42] Can also spent some seasons playing for Venezia A.C. and S.S. Lazio before returning to Fenerbahçe in 1967. He was a four-time league champion with Fenerbahçe and scored 162 goals in 330 matches.^[43]

In recent decades, Fenerbahçe have gained an influx of foreigners who have helped the club to a record seventeen league titles. Among these include Uche Okechukwu, who after 13 seasons with Fenerbahçe and Istanbulspor became the longest serving foreigner in Turkey. During Uche's career with Fenerbahçe, he won two league titles and became a fan favourite.^[44] In more recent times, Fenerbahçe has been the home to Brazilian-born Mehmet Aurélio (Marco Aurélio), who in 2006, became the first naturalized Turkish citizen to play for the Turkey national football team ^[45]. Wederson (Gökçek Vederson), another Brazilian-born naturalized Turkish citizen, was added to the squad in the beginning of the 2007-2008 season and now plays for Fenerbahçe and the Turkey national football team. ^[46]

[edit] Colours and badge

Since the club's foundation, Fenerbahçe has used the same badge, which has only undergone minor alterations.

It was designed by Topuz Hikmet (Hikmet Topuzer) who played left wing in 1910 and was made by Tevfik Haccar (Taşcı) in London. The emblem consists of five colours. The white section which includes the writing Fenerbahçe Spor Kulübü 1907 represents purity and open heartedness, the red section represents love and attachment to the club and symbolises the Turkish flag. The yellow middle section symbolises admiration and envy, while the navy symbolises nobility. The oak acorn leaf which rises from the navy and yellow section shows the power of Fenerbahçe. The green colour of the leaf shows the success of Fenerbahçe is imperative.^[47]

Hikmet Topuzer describes the story of the emblem:

“

After the change of the club’s colours from yellow and white to yellow and navy, it was an issue to create an emblem with our new colours. My friends left the design of this emblem to me. Firstly, I brought together the colours of our national flag, red and white. Then drew a heart shape over the red and gave it a yellow and navy colour, adding an acorn leaf that represents resistance, power and strength. I wrote the club name and foundation date on the white section. When drawing our emblem, I tried to give this meaning: Serving the club with dependence from heart. The design was favored by my friends and our new emblem was made through the guidance of Tevfik Haccar, who was in Germany at time. After the new alphabet was approved, the design was protected, but the club name on the emblem was changed to Fenerbahçe Spor Kulübü - 1907.[47]

”

[edit] Facilities

[edit] Stadium

Main article: Şükrü Saracoğlu Stadium

Şükrü Saracoğlu Stadium^[48] is a football stadium in the Kadıköy district of İstanbul, Turkey. It is the home venue of Fenerbahçe S.K. It was inaugurated in 1908 and was renovated between 1999 and 2006, increasing the capacity.

The Fenerbahçe Şükrü Saracoğlu Stadium is rapidly becoming one of Europe’s elite football arenas. Fenerbahçe’s huge investments in top quality facilities since President Aziz Yıldırım’s election has been much appreciated by players and fans alike and the stadium has been the major part in this.

This style of stadium has never before existed in Turkey, as the stands are usually separated from the pitch by a running track. These stand include "corporate boxes" which have all been rented out from the club. These corporate boxes, equipped with TVs, Internet, work areas, dining facilities and many other luxuries, are the first of their kind in Turkey. The current total capacity of the stadium is 50.509.^[1]. Şükrü Saracoğlu Stadium, was selected to host the 2009 UEFA Cup final.^[49]

[edit] Museum

Fenerbahçe has a huge leading profile over other clubs concerning trophies. Fenerbahçe S.K. has won many trophies at the currently active branches and at some other branches which have been discontinued.

During the Turkish War of Independence, Fenerbahçe played against many teams set up by the invading forces and injected morale to the Turkish people by winning those games. Fenerbahçe’s football team has many records which are still not broken. Yet the success is not limited only with the football team. At the Olympics, the first gold medal won by a Turkish sportsperson in a field outside of wrestling was Fenerbahçe athlete, Ruhi Sarıalp. In athletics, the only Turkish club to have won the European Championship is Fenerbahçe S.K.

The museum was moved from location to location and has been renovated on several occasions during the club's history. Most recently the museum was moved to Şükrü Saracoğlu Stadium and opened on October 19, 2005. ^[50]

[edit] Other facilities

Other club facilities include the social venue, the training complex, the club headquarters, the Dereağzı Metin Aşık camp facilities, the youth academy football centre, the sports hall, the Fikirtepe facilities, the college, and the swimming pool.^[51]

• Caferağa Sport Hall, is a multi-purpose indoor arena located in Kadıköy and opened in 1982. It is owned by the Municipality of Kadıköy District and operated by the Directorate of Youth and Sport of Istanbul Province.^[52] Women's basketball team (Fenerbahçe İstanbul) and volleyball teams (Fenerbahçe Men's Volleyball and Fenerbahçe Women's Volleyball) play their league matches.

• Atatürk Sport Hall, will be new hall with capacity 12.000 is to be built ^[53] in a few years. The basketball teams (Fenerbahçe Ülker and Fenerbahçe İstanbul), volleyball teams (Fenerbahçe Men's Volleyball and Fenerbahçe Women's Volleyball) will play their league matches.

• The Faruk Ilgaz Social Venue, located next to the club’s headquarters, is the new venue for the club’s gatherings. It was initially opened 15 May 1969 but Aziz Yıldırım rebuilt a modern complex and re-opened it on 21 January 2004.

• Samandıra Training Complex; the construction for this top quality training complex began in 1997 during Ali Şen’s presidency. The construction was completed in the year 2000. Serves the senior football team.

• Dereağzı Metin Aşık Camp Facilities, serves Fenerbahçe PAF and is located at Dereağzı. Re-opened in 1989. Facilities also serve the athletics branch, the boxing branch, the rowing branch and the sailing branch.

• Youth Football Academy, located next to the Metin Aşık Camp Facilities. Built in 1999, serves the youth ranks of the football branch.

• The Fikirtepe Facilities, located on Yumurtacı Abdi Bey Road, Kadıköy. Opened July 1st 1998, serves youth football development.

• The Sports Hall, located on Munir Nurettin Selcuk Road Kızıltoprak. Refurbished 24 February.2001. First opened in 1982. Serves Fenerbahçe Ülker, Fenerbahçe Istanbul, Fenerbahçe Men's Volleyball and Fenerbahçe Women's Volleyball teams.

• Vefa Küçük Swimming Pool, opened on 16 July 1999 and serves the swimming branch.

[edit] Supporters

Since rebuilding the Şükrü Saracoğlu Stadium, Fenerbahçe's average attendances have been in the top in Turkey, though in the 2006-07 season Fenerbahçe's attendances fell slightly, to an average league attendance of approximately 45.000.^[54]

Fenerbahçe have some supporters organisations as Genç Fenerbahçeliler (GFB), Kill For You (KFY), Antu/Fenerlist, UniFeb, Group CK (Cefakar Kanaryalar) and Vamos Bien.

• See also: Top average attendances of European football clubs.

[edit] Genç Fenerbahçeliler

GFB is leader group of Fenerbahçe Supporters Society. Group have six lower groups, 1907 Gençlik (founded in 2000 and joined GFB in 2001), GFB Europe, Lise GFB (founded by high school students in 2002), Uni GFB (founded by university students in 2001), GFB’s Angels (ladies group) and Devils of GFB (founded in 2004).

GFB has 63 city representations, 54 university representations and 10 international representations (United States, Australia, Germany, Belgium, France, Netherlands, United Kingdom, Denmark, Sweden).

Group and sub-groups locate in Migros tribune of Şükrü Saracoğlu Stadium

[edit] 1907 UniFeb

Founded in 2002. All members have been university students and located in Telsim tribune of Şükrü Saracoğlu Stadium.

[edit] Antu/Fenerlist

Group is an internet fanbase society founded by Metin Şen and Adnan Şen brothers who are sons of Fenerbahçe former president Ali Şen. Organizations have 33 international representations, 37 city representations and 50,000 members worldwide. Members are located in the Telsim tribune of Şükrü Saracoğlu Stadium.

[edit] Group CK

Group CK (Cefakar Kanaryalar) was founded in 1999 by Alpaslan Özçelik. Group supports the team on all professional and amateur matches. Located in the Telsim tribune of Şükrü Saracoğlu Stadium.

[edit] Sponsorship

Companies that Fenerbahçe S.K. currently has sponsorship deals with include ^[55]

Avea - Main sponsor Fenerium - Main sponsor Adidas - Official sponsor Acıbadem - Official sponsor Alpet - Official sponsor Aras Cargo - Official sponsor

Arçelik - Official sponsor Cola Turka - Official sponsor Koç Holding - Official sponsor Audi - Official sponsor Doğuş Holding - Official sponsor

Denizbank - Official sponsor Efes Pilsen - Official sponsor Siemens - Official sponsor Vakıfbank - Official sponsor Mail2Web - Internet service

Rivals: galatasaray, besiktas, and trabzonspor but galatasaray and fenerbahce is the worlds 2nd best derbys althogh fenerbahce is slightly better than galatasaray accoding to the stasistics and the turkish football federation president hasan dogan explains fenerbahce is the best club in turkey and he supports galatasaray.

The Fenerium store began as a lone shop in 1997 located beside the North East entrance of the Sukru Saracoglu Stadium. Today, fans would recognize that store as the "Little Fenerium" as opposed to the "Big Fenerium" on the other side of the club grounds.

The brand "Fenerium" came under the spotlight in the 2000-2001 season as the sole kit provider for the entire club. Fenerbahce won a long awaited championship in the same season, ousting a legendary Galatasaray squad at the time. The Fenerium name grew throughout Turkey, and so did the technology. In the summer prior to the start of the 2003-2004 season, Fenerbahce sealed a deal with chemical giant DuPont, introducing a revolutionary fabric that allowed sweat generated from players to seep outside the jersey, allowing a comfortable fit through 90 minutes.

At the start of the 2004-2005 compaign Fenerbahce inked a 4 year 'kit-only' deal with Adidas, leaving the Fenerium brand to supply the football squad with practice wear. Fenerium sold 1.720.000 items of merchandise to make 19 M US$ in gross revenue in 41 stores and 200 other outlets. The number of kits sold is reached 285.000 for the 2004-05 season, which marked a stepping stone for sales by any sport club retail shop in Turkey. Although there are no official numbers to date since the Roberto Carlos transfer, it would be safe to assume that these numbers increased 3-4 fold.

Fenerbahce board member Nihat Ozdemir has claimed that Fenerium has become a "Money Making Machine" and has provided the necessary funds to complete non-football related projects such as schools, sports complexes, and sport academies for children. The Fenerium brand has become so successful and profitable, that the added revenue propelled Fenerbahce into a big player in the Turkish retail industry. With this high influx of revenue from Fenerium, Fenerbahce is now among the highest taxpaying organizations in the country.

Today, Fenerium stores are scattered all over Turkey, and has begun to expand to many locations in Europe as well. In addition to these stores, Fenerium introduced a mobile store which is a Semi Truck full of Fenerium gear that travels with the squad to away matches. Its aim is to provide a convenient solution to Fenerbahce fans at these away fixtures.

Fenerium has grown into a full fledged apparel brand, selling merchandise from baby clothing, watches, jackets, to slippers, towels, mobile telephones, shoes and much more. Fenerbahce's past footballer Nicolas Anelka's launched clothing line Nic39 and current star Stephen Appiah's charity organisation called StepApp Foundation's clothes also available at Fenerium stores.

Fenerium stores have officially reached 67 locations in the month of April 2008, with new establishments in Batman, Ankara and Denizli. ^[56]

[edit] Club’s Sportive Company

Fenerbahçe has surged past $1 Billion US Dollars in stock market value after just 4 years of trading. ^[57] On 19 February 2004, Fenerbahçe floated 15% of the club on the stock market for a combined worth of $200 Million USD. The 5 fold increase since has taken the club value above that of many major corporations trading on the IMKB (Istanbul Stock Exchange).

In a statement issued at the IMKB, Financial Co-ordinator Abdülkadir Kuşin announced that Fenerbahce Sportive PLC shares reached 53 YTL (approx. £21,20 GBP; €29,81 Euros; $43,27 USD). ^[58] This share price takes the club's current stock market value to just a fraction under $1,1 Billion USD (in February 2008).

• See also: Richest football clubs.
• See also: Deloitte Football Money League.

According to third party research, Fenerbahce SK is a top ten brand name in Turkey and a popular commercial vehicle for hundreds of advertisers.

Local marketing industry journal MediaCat commissioned research through BRANDTRX Inquision to investigate the most popular brands in Turkey. Of the ‘top 10 most talked about labels’, Fenerbahce was eighth on a list containing blue-chip giants such as Turkcell and Coca-Cola.

The survey also discovered that the club’s television channel FB TV is the advertisers’ number 1 choice among free-to-air Sports TV stations. From a whole-of-sports TV market listing FB TV came second only to the official Turkcell Super Lig broadcaster and subscription service Lig TV. With an overall market share of 27% FB TV is almost three times the commercial size of BJK TV (6%) and GS TV (4%) combined.^[59]

[edit] Fenerbahçe TV

Main article: FB TV

Fenerbahçe TV (FB TV) is first sports club channel of Turkey^[60] The channel launched in 2004 over satellite (Free-To-Air on Turksat 2A located 42° East, 11804 V 24444 5/6), satellite network services and cable service.^[61]

[edit] The Board of Directors

Aziz Yıldırım - President[62] Nihat Özdemir - Deputy President, Press Spokesman Vedat Olcay - General Secretary Mahmut Uslu - Vice-President, Responsible for Amateur Departments Şekip Mosturoğlu - Vice-President, Responsible for Law & Institutional Relations Ali Koç - Vice-President, Member Ali Yıldırım - Vice-President, Member Murat Özaydınlı - Vice-President, Member

Nihat Özbağı - Vice-President, Responsible for Investment & Project Mithat Yenigün - Vice-President, Responsible for Social Organizations & Associations Serhat Çeçen - Vice-President, Responsible for Formal Association Relations Neşet Yalçın - Vice-President, Responsible for International Relations Tahir Perek - Vice-President, Responsible for Financial Process

Tuncay Uzun - Vice-President, Responsible for Sportive Company Ömer Temelli - Responsible for Stadium and Football Infrastructure Ünal Uzun - Responsible for Social Organizations Turan Şahin - Fenerbahçe Training Company Semih Özsoy - Basketball Department Assistant Hakan Dinçay - Responsible for Volleyball Department Ercan Karasu - Responsible for Associations

[edit] Football

[edit] Technical staff

Name	Nat.	Job
Zico		Manager[63]
Moraci Sant'anna		Assistant Manager
Edu		Assistant Manager and Scout[64]
İrfan Saraloğlu		Coach
Zeki Önder Özen		Coach and Scout
Murat Öztürk		Goalkeeping Coach
Şenol Çorlu		Fenerbahçe Academy Director[65]
Mehmet Hacıoğlu		PAF (U-20) Manager
Piyer Arzuman		Doctor
Eurico de Campos		Fitness Coach
Michael Schulten		Physiotherapist
Orhan Şakir		Physiotherapist

[edit] Current squad

Turkish clubs are limited to eight players without Turkish citizenship with professional contract. ^[66]

According to the official website; correct as of March 9, 2008

Name and position	No	Joined in	Former team	Birth date	Citizenship
Goalkeepers
Volkan Demirel	1	2002	Kartalspor	27 October 1981
Serdar Kulbilge	22	2005	Bursaspor	7 July 1980
Volkan Babacan	88	2005	Fenerbahçe PAF	11 August 1988
Mert Günok	89	2007	Fenerbahçe PAF	1 March 1989
Defenders
Diego Lugano	2	2006	São Paulo	2 November 1980
Roberto Carlos	3	2007	Real Madrid	10 April 1973
Yasin Çakmak	5	2007	Çaykur Rizespor	6 January 1985
Wederson	6	2007	Ankaraspor	22 July 1981
Can Arat	17	2001	Fenerbahçe PAF	21 January 1984
Önder Turacı vice-	19	2004	Standard Liège	14 July 1981
Edu Dracena	36	2006	Cruzeiro	18 May 1981
Gökhan Gönül	77	2007	Gençlerbirliği OFTAŞ	4 April 1985
Midfielders
Stephen Appiah	4	2005	Juventus	24 December 1980
Kemal Aslan vice-	7	2003	Gaziantepspor	24 October 1981
Mehmet Aurélio	15	2003	Trabzonspor	15 December 1977
Ali Bilgin	18	2007	Antalyaspor	17 December 1981
Alex	20	2004	Cruzeiro	14 September 1977
Selçuk Şahin	21	2003	İstanbulspor	31 January 1981
Deniz Barış	24	2004	Gençlerbirliği	2 July 1977
Uğur Boral	25	2006	Gençlerbirliği	14 April 1982
Gürhan Gürsoy	32	2004	Adanaspor	24 September 1987
Claudio Maldonado	33	2008	Santos	3 January 1980
Strikers
Colin Kâzım-Richards	8	2007	Sheffield United	26 August 1986
Mateja Kežman	9	2006	Atlético Madrid	12 April 1979
Semih Şentürk vice-	23	1999	Fenerbahçe PAF	29 April 1983
İlhan Parlak	38	2007	Kayserispor	19 January 1987
Deivid de Souza	99	2006	Sporting Lisbon	22 October 1979

[edit] Fenerbahçe Lineup 2007/08

1 Volkan 77 Gökhan 2 Lugano 36 Edu 3 R.Carlos 99 Deivid 15 Aurélio 33 Maldonado 25 Uğur 9 Kežman 20 Alex

Fenerbahçe's 2007/08 Lineup

[edit] Out on loan

Name and position	Loan expire	Loan to	Birth date	Citizenship
Midfielders
Kerim Zengin	June 2008	İstanbul Büyükşehir Belediyespor	13 April 1985
Olcan Adın	June 2008	Karşıyaka S.K.	30 September 1985
Tümer Metin	June 2008	A.E. Larissa	14 October 1974
Strikers
Alper Balaban	June 2008	Kocaelispor	1 August 1987
Umut Güzelses	June 2008	Hapoel Tel Aviv	15 May 1987
Mateus	June 2008	Coritiba FC	21 May 1987

For recent transfers, see the "Transfer Deals" section of List of Turkish football transfers 2007-08.

[edit] Youth team

Main article: Fenerbahçe PAF

[edit] Player records

As of match played on March 9, 2008 and according to the official statistics website.^[67] Player in bold character still plays for the team.

[edit] League top scorers Player Matches Goals Aykut Kocaman 211 140 Cemil Turan 193 87 Lefter Küçükandonyadis 151 74 Alex 117 72 Elvir Bolić 145 69

[edit] Most appearances Player Matches Years Müjdat Yetkiner 763 1979-1995 Lefter Küçükandonyadis 615 1947-1965 Şeref Has 605 1955-1969 Cem Pamiroğlu 508 1976-1986 Naci Erdem 440 1953-1963

[edit] Notable players

Main article: List of Fenerbahçe S.K. players

Main article: List of Fenerbahçe S.K. foreign players

Turkey Ogün Altıparmak Serhat Akın Ercan Aktuna Erdoğan Arıca Cihat Arman Mehmet Aurelio Can Bartu Oğuz Çetin Hasan Kamil Sporel Tanju Çolak Şenol Çorlu Rıdvan Dilmen Basri Dirimlili Alpaslan Eratlı Abdullah Ercan Şeref Has Topuz Hikmet Engin İpekoğlu Ömer Kaner Aykut Kocaman Ender Konca Tayfun Korkut Lefter Küçükandonyadis Alpay Özalan Ümit Özat Cem Pamiroğlu Rüştü Reçber Saffet Sancaklı Turan Sofuoğlu Zeki Rıza Sporel Tuncay Şanlı Ziya Şengül Ogün Temizkanoğlu Cemil Turan Engin Verel Sergen Yalçın Müjdat Yetkiner Selçuk Yula Chile Claudio Maldonado

Argentina Ariel Ortega Bosnia and Herzegovina Elvir Baljić Elvir Bolić Brazil Alex Deivid Edu Dracena Fabiano Lima Fabio Luciano Gérson Caçapa Marcio Nobre Roberto Carlos Washington Bulgaria Emil Kostadinov Stanimir Stoilov Croatia Milan Rapaić Stjepan Tomas Denmark Jes Høgh Brian Steen Nielsen England Dalian Atkinson France Nicolas Anelka Germany Mustafa Doğan Harald 'Toni' Schumacher Ghana Stephen Appiah Samuel Johnson Yaw Preko Iran Hossein Sadaghiani

Israel Haim Revivo Netherlands Pierre van Hooijdonk Nigeria Uche Okechukwu Jay-Jay Okocha Portugal Manuel Dimas Romania Ilie Datcu Viorel Moldovan Ion Nunweiller Mircea Sasu Serbia Mateja Kežman Nikola Lazetić Mert Meriç Zoran Mirković Miroslav Stević Slovenia Džoni Novak South Africa John Leshiba Moshoeu Sweden Kennet Andersson Switzerland Murat Yakın Ukraine Serhiy Rebrov Uruguay Diego Lugano Yugoslavia Radomir Antić Dušan Pešić Srebrenko Repčić Fadil Vokrri

Other footballers Fenerbahçe footballers

[edit] Club captains

For more details on this topic, see List of Fenerbahçe S.K. football captains.

According to the official statistics website.^[68]

Period	Name	Trophies
1907–1908	Necip Okaner
1908–1924	Galip Kulaksızoğlu	Istanbul Football League (5), General Harrington Cup
1924–1933	Zeki Rıza Sporel	Istanbul Football League (2), Istanbul Shield
1933–1942	Fikret Arıcan	Turkish Football Championship (2), Istanbul Football League (2), Istanbul Shield (3), National Heap (2)
1942–1951	Cihat Arman	Chancellor Cup (3), Turkish Football Championship, Istanbul Football League (3), Istanbul Football Cup, National Heap (4)
1951–1956	Fikret Kırcan	Istanbul Football League,
1956–1963	Naci Erdem	Istanbul Football League (2), Turkish Super League (2)
1963–1968	Şeref Has	Turkish Super League (3), Turkish Cup, Balkans Cup, Atatürk Cup, President Cup, Spor-Toto Cup
1968–1970	Can Bartu	Turkish Super League, TSYD Cup
1970–1975	Ziya Şengül	Turkish Super League (2), Turkish Cup, President Cup (2), Chancellor Cup, TSYD Cup (2)
1975–1980	Cemil Turan	Turkish Super League, Turkish Cup, Chancellor Cup, TSYD Cup (4)
1980–1983	Alpaslan Eratlı	Turkish Super League, Turkish Cup, TSYD Cup, Fleet Cup (2)
1983–1985	Cem Pamiroğlu	Turkish Super League, President Cup (2), TSYD Cup, Fleet Cup (2)
1985–1987	Müjdat Yetkiner	TSYD Cup
1987–1988	Şenol Çorlu	Chancellor Cup
1988–1990	Harald 'Toni' Schumacher	Turkish Super League, President Cup
1990–1990	Şenol Çorlu
1990–1991	Harald 'Toni' Schumacher
1991–1992	Rıdvan Dilmen	Chancellor Cup
1992–1993	Müjdat Yetkiner
1993–1996	Oğuz Çetin	Turkish Super League, TSYD Cup (2)
1996–2000	Rüştü Reçber	Atatürk Cup, Chancellor Cup
2000–2003	Ogün Temizkanoğlu	Turkish Super League
2003–2007	Ümit Özat	Turkish Super League (3)
2007—	Alex	Turkish Super Cup

[edit] Managers

For more details on this topic, see List of Fenerbahçe S.K. managers.

The following managers have all won at least one Turkish Super League title:

Period	Name	Trophies
1959	Ignace Molnar	Turkish Super League
1960–1961	Laszlo Szekelly	Turkish Super League
1962–1964	Miroslav Kokotović	Turkish Super League
1964–1965	Oscar Hold	Turkish Super League, Atatürk Cup
1966–1967	Abdullah Gegić	TSYD Cup
1967–1968	Ignace Molnar	Turkish Super League, President Cup, FA Cup, Balkans Cup
1968–1969	Traian Ionescu	Turkish Super League, TSYD Cup
1972–1975	Didi	Turkish Super League (2), TSYD Cup (2), Chancellor Cup, President Cup (2), FA Cup
1975–1976	Abdullah Gegić	TSYD Cup
1976–1978	Tomislav Kaloperović	Turkish Super League, TSYD Cup
1978–1979	Nejdet Niş	FA Cup
1979–1980	Ziya Şengül	TSYD Cup
1980–1982	Friedel Rausch	TSYD Cup, Chancellor Cup
1982–1984	Branko Stanković	Turkish Super League, Fleet Cup (2), TSYD Cup, FA Cup
1984–1985 1988–1990	Todor Veselinović	Turkish Super League, Chancellor Cup (2), Fleet Cup (2), TSYD Cup Turkish Super League, Chancellor Cup
1990	Ömer Kaner	Chancellor Cup
1993–1995	Holger Osieck	TSYD Cup, Chancellor Cup
1995–1996	Carlos Alberto Parreira	Turkish Super League, TSYD Cup
2000–2001	Mustafa Denizli	Turkish Super League
2003–2006	Christoph Daum	Turkish Super League (2)
2006—	Zico	Turkish Super League, Turkish Super Cup

[edit] Football honours

• UEFA Champions League:
  • Quarter-Finalist (1): 2007-2008
• Turkish Super League Championships:
  • Winners (17): 1959, 1960-61, 1963-64, 1964-65, 1967-68, 1969-70, 1973-74, 1974-75, 1977-78, 1982-83, 1984-85, 1988-89, 1995-96, 2000-01, 2003-04, 2004-05, 2006-07
  • Runners-up (16): 1960, 1961-62, 1966-67, 1970-71, 1972-73, 1975-76, 1976-77, 1979-80, 1983-84, 1989-90, 1991-92, 1993-94, 1997-98, 2001-02, 2005-06, 2007-2008
• Turkish Cup:
  • Winners (4): 1968, 1974, 1979, 1983
  • Runners-up (7): 1963, 1965, 1989, 1996, 2001, 2005, 2006
• Turkish Super Cup
  • Winners (1): 2007
• Balkans Cup:
  • Winners (1): 1966-67
• Atatürk Cup:
  • Winners (2): 1964, 1998
• President Cup:
  • Winners (6): 1968, 1973, 1975, 1984, 1985, 1990
• Chancellor Cup:
  • Winners (8): 1945, 1946, 1950, 1973, 1980, 1988, 1992, 1998
• TSYD Cup:
  • Winners (12): 1969, 1973, 1975, 1976, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1982, 1985, 1986, 1994, 1995
• Turkish Football Championship:
  • Winners (3): 1932-33, 1934-35, 1943-44
• Istanbul Football League:
  • Winners (16): 1911-12, 1913-14, 1914-15, 1920-21, 1922-23, 1929-30, 1932-33, 1934-35, 1935-36, 1936-37, 1943-44, 1946-47, 1947-48, 1952-53, 1956-57, 1958-59
• Istanbul Football Cup:
  • Winners (1): 1944
• Fleet Cup:
  • Winners (4): 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985
• Istanbul Shield:
  • Winners (4): 1930, 1934, 1938, 1939
• National Heap:
  • Winners (6): 1936-37, 1939-40, 1942-43, 1944-45, 1945-46, 1949-50
• Spor-Toto Cup:
  • Winners (1): 1967
• General Harrington Cup:
  • Winners (1): 1923

[edit] Retired numbers

12 – Club reserving football squad number 12 for their supporters as the twelfth man.^{[69] [70]}

[edit] Rankings

[edit] IFFHS ranking

Club Ranking for 2007-08 Euro Season (Previous year rank in italics, IFFHS Club Coefficients in parentheses)

• 18 (22) Audax Italiano (196,5)
• 19 (31) Villarreal CF (196)
• 20 (21) Fenerbahçe SK (195)
• 21 (25) Glasgow Rangers (189)
• 22 (14) Club Libertad (188)
• Full List ^[71]

[edit] UEFA ranking

Club Ranking for 2007-08 Euro Season (Previous year rank in italics, UEFA Club Coefficients in parentheses)

• 43 (49) Shakhtar Donetsk (49.932)
• 44 (71) Hamburger SV (49.512)
• 45 (66) Fenerbahçe SK (49.303)
• 46 (60) Zenit St. Petersburg (47.447)
• 47 (44) CA Osasuna (46.384)
• Full List ^[72]

National League Ranking for 2007-08 Euro Season (Previous year rank in italics, UEFA National League Coefficients in parentheses)

• 9 (8) Netherlands League (12.500)
• 10 (10) Scottish League (10.353)
• 11 (14) Turkish League (10.303)
• 12 (11) Ukrainian League (9.932)
• 13 (12) Belgium League (8.645)
• Full List ^[73]

[edit] Other branches

[edit] Basketball

Fenerbahçe's second biggest branch is men and women basketball teams. In 2006 Fenerbahçe's men basketball department was merged with Ülkerspor's department and women basketball department was sponsored by Aras Cargo. The women basketball team is the most successfull team of Fenerbahçe Sports Club. In last five years Fenerbahçe women basketball team won 13 of 15 cups that the team have competed.

For men's basketball ^[74]

Main article: Fenerbahçe Ülkerspor

For women's basketball ^[75]

Main article: Fenerbahçe İstanbul

[edit] Volleyball

Fenerbahçe's third biggest branch is men and women volleyball teams. In 2008 Fenerbahçe's men volleyball department win the Turkish championship.

For men's volleyball ^[76]

Main article: Fenerbahçe Men's Volleyball

For women's volleyball ^[77]

Main article: Fenerbahçe Women's Volleyball

[edit] Athletics

Athletics is an important branch of Fenerbahçe Spor Club. Team has important athletes who have Turkish records. Halil Akkaş also member of Fenerbahçe Athletics branch and Eşref Apak was. American sprinter Justin Gatlin, Canadian sprinter Donovan Bailey and Jamaica born Slovenian sprinter Merlene Ottey were also member of the team.

For athletics ^[78]

Main article: Fenerbahçe Athletics

[edit] Boxing

Boxing is an important branch of Fenerbahçe Spor Club. Team has important boxers who have Turkish champions. Atagün Yalçınkaya, Gülsüm Tatar and Sümeyra Kaya also members of Fenerbahçe Boxing branch.

For boxing ^[79]

Main article: Fenerbahçe Boxing

[edit] Rowing

Rowing is an important branch of Fenerbahçe Spor Club. Team has the best rowers of Turkey.

For rowing ^[80]

Main article: Fenerbahçe Rowing

[edit] Sailing

Sailing is an important branch of Fenerbahçe Spor Club. Çağla Kubat; a famous model of Turkey, is also a sailor of Fenerbahçe Sailing Team.

For sailing ^[81]

Main article: Fenerbahçe Sailing

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Fenerbahçe Sports Club Official Website (Turkish) (English) (German) (Portuguese)
• Fenerbahçe Sports Club Official Store Website (Turkish) (English)
• Fenerbahçe Sports Club Official Store Website (Turkish) (English)
• Fenerbahçe Card Official Website (Turkish)
• Fenerbahçe Congre Official Website (Turkish)

Coordinates: 40°59′24″N 29°01′30″E / 40.990, 29.025

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