Post by yenilira on Oct 31, 2011 2:00:12 GMT 1
It is known that the game of football was first played in the last quarter of the 19th century in Turkey though it all started in in Selanik, (now known as Thessaloníki), by the English during the Ottoman period - 1875 to be precise - and spread down to the meadows of Bornova, now a metropolitan district of Ýzmir.
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Since the Empire didn’t approve of the abruptly rough game, the players consisted of mainly Jewish, Greek and Armenian nationals.
The first football club was formed by a group of English people in Izmir. Eventually, it spread further to Istanbul and played in Kadýköy and Moda, the fever for football managed to attract the attention of almost all the city. The first match played between the Izmir selection and the Ýstanbul selection in 1897 was recorded as the first football match ever played on Turkish territory.
Fuat Hüsnü Kayacan, a soldier based in Izmir in 1898, was alleged to be the first ever Turkish football player in Turkish football history.
The first Turkish football team was formed by Fuad Hüsnü Bey and Reþat Danyal Bey under an English name, "Black Stocking", in 1901, as Turkish people were forbidden to play football at the time by the Sultan, Abdulhamit the 2nd, who decreed that the Turkish youth may not set up a club nor engage in the game of football played by the English families that was watched in envy.
The match was played between this team and the team formed by Greeks at Papazýn Çayýrý (literally 'Priest's Meadow') in 1901, which became the very first football pitch of Turkey, and where the first league games of the Istanbul Football League were all held successively. In 1908, local teams of the league needed a regular soccer field, so this land was leased from the Ottoman Sultan Abdülhamid II for 30 Ottoman gold pounds a year. The total construction cost was 3,000 Ottoman gold pounds. The name was changed to the Union Club Field after the club which made the highest donation for the construction.
This 'field' now houses the Þükrü Saracoðlu Stadyumu – Fenerbahçe's home ground, capacity 50,500.
The football fever which was started by a number of English people and spread further with the involvement of a group of Greeks resulted in the formation of many football clubs one after the other.
Kadýköy Football Club, jointly formed by a group of English and Greeks, was the first football club of Istanbul. However, due to certain disputes which arose between the two groups, the English formed Moda Football Club, and some Greeks from Kadýköy formed the Elpis and Imogene clubs.
All these teams came together and formed the Istanbul Football League in 1903, (or the Istanbul/Constantinople Football League), and, under the auspices of James Fontaine, the Turkish Professional League in 1904.
. Other teams of note in this league included the Rumblers, Altinordu, and Telefoncular S.K.
This League was the sign that football was about to spread further in this country. The interest of Turkish youth in those newly formed teams turned into an enthusiasm and they formed Turkey's first official football team. A group of grade 10 students studying at Galatasaray High School (named as Mekteb-i Sultani at the time) formed Galatasaray SK under the leadership of their friend Ali Sami Yen, who later served as president for 14 years in two stints and gave his name to the Galatasaray Futbol Stadyumu, which had a capacity of 23,477, and was situated in the Mecidiyeköy quarter of the Þiþli district, at the center of the European side of the city.
It was formerly known as the Mecidiyeköy Stadium (1945–1964).
The new home ground of Galatasaray is the newly-built Türk Telekom Arena in the Seyrantepe quarter near Maslak financial district in Þiþli. This new stadium, which was opened 15 January 2011, has a capacity of 52,695, making it the largest private stadium owned by a club in Turkey.
Galatasaray entered the Istanbul League in the season of 1905-1906 and, with their first championship title they won in 1907-1908, they heralded the beginning of Turkish football history. Galatasaray was followed by the formation of Fenerbahçe SK (based in Istanbul's Kadýköy district) who joined the league in1909, and Beþiktaþ JK, (founded 1903) giving Turkish football a new perspective. Football in Turkey began to fully develop between 1908 and 1923. New football teams were formed as the winds of freedom started to blow in the post-Second Constitutionalist era, while Turkish teams strongly confirmed their own existence. Following these developments in Istanbul, football started spreading rapidly in Izmir, Ankara, Eskiþehir, Bursa, Adana and Trabzon on the Black Sea coast.
Among the most popular leagues of the time were Sunday League, Friday League (1912), Istanbul Turkish Training Union League and Istanbul Championship League. Later, when World War I started, football in Turkey came to a standstill for nearly 11 years. The early Republican Period was a turning point where a number of initiatives were taken in football, like many other areas, in Turkey. After the war was won, the foundations of a new nation were laid, while modernity and holding a place among the world's most civilized nations became the priority of that new nation, a process of collective restructuring and formation began in a number of fields including science, art and sports.
The Birth of the Turkish Football Federation: Following the formation of the Union of Turkish Training Associations, being Turkey's first sports authority, the Turkish Football Federation was established under the name "Futbol Hey'et-i Müttehidesi" at a meeting held in the meeting hall of Letafet Apartment House in Þehzadebaþý in 1923, and Yusuf Ziya Öniþ was elected first President. Following the Federation's establishment, Turkey applied to FIFA for membership and became FIFA's 26th member on 21 May 1923, and eventually joining UEFA in 1962.
The Turkish Football Federation (TFF) was formed on 23 May 1923 - as the 'Türkiye Futbol Federasyonu'.
The Turkish national team's first match came on October 26, 1923 in a 2–2 draw with the Romania national football team. Turkey have qualified for the FIFA World Cup three times, in 1950, 1954 and 2002.
As a FIFA member, the Turkish National Team played their first international match against Romania at the Istanbul Taksim Stadium on 26 October 1923, only three days before the Republic of Turkey was declared. The match ended with a 2-2 draw. Later, Billy Hunter of Scotland was hired to prepare the Turkish National Team for the 1924 Paris Olympic Games. Hunter was the first coach to introduce Turkish footballers to modern football and train them systematically.
The match played (and lost 5-2) against Czechoslovakia during the 1924 Paris Olympic Games was Turkey's first official match abroad.
A national league known as the Milli Küme was created in 1937 as a competition between the top clubs from Ankara, Istanbul, and Ýzmir. This competition lasted until 1950.
Turkey, like Switzerland, Sweden, and others, remained neutral during the 1939-45 War, and football continued to be played throughout this period.
The (Spor Toto) Süper Lig was founded in 1959 as a replacement for the Istanbul Professional League, and the football leagues founded in Ankara, Ýzmir, Adana, Eskiþehir, Tokat and Trabzon. These leagues were dissolved after that date.
There were a number of 'Cups' played for in Turkey in the 1940s and 1950s, all of which are now defunct: the Atatürk Cup, Fleet Cup, President's Cup, Istanbul Cup, TSYD Cup, the Chancellor Cup, and, more recently, the Spor-Toto Cup.
There are currently two major cup competitions in Turkish football. They are the Turkish Cup and Turkish Super Cup.
The Turkish Cup includes clubs from every division of football in Turkey, while the Super Cup is an annual game held between the winner of the Spor Toto Süper Lig and Turkish Cup.
Galatasaray is the most successful team of the Super Cup competition with 11 wins and 18 appearances.
A total of 66 clubs have competed in the Süper Lig, but only five have won the title: Fenerbahçe (18 times), Galatasaray (17), Beþiktaþ (13), Trabzonspor (6), and Bursaspor (1).
So, from humble (English) beginnings in which is now Greece, to the stature that the game in Turkey is held today is an achievement in itself, considering the drawbacks it had to contend with in its early years.
YL.
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Since the Empire didn’t approve of the abruptly rough game, the players consisted of mainly Jewish, Greek and Armenian nationals.
The first football club was formed by a group of English people in Izmir. Eventually, it spread further to Istanbul and played in Kadýköy and Moda, the fever for football managed to attract the attention of almost all the city. The first match played between the Izmir selection and the Ýstanbul selection in 1897 was recorded as the first football match ever played on Turkish territory.
Fuat Hüsnü Kayacan, a soldier based in Izmir in 1898, was alleged to be the first ever Turkish football player in Turkish football history.
The first Turkish football team was formed by Fuad Hüsnü Bey and Reþat Danyal Bey under an English name, "Black Stocking", in 1901, as Turkish people were forbidden to play football at the time by the Sultan, Abdulhamit the 2nd, who decreed that the Turkish youth may not set up a club nor engage in the game of football played by the English families that was watched in envy.
The match was played between this team and the team formed by Greeks at Papazýn Çayýrý (literally 'Priest's Meadow') in 1901, which became the very first football pitch of Turkey, and where the first league games of the Istanbul Football League were all held successively. In 1908, local teams of the league needed a regular soccer field, so this land was leased from the Ottoman Sultan Abdülhamid II for 30 Ottoman gold pounds a year. The total construction cost was 3,000 Ottoman gold pounds. The name was changed to the Union Club Field after the club which made the highest donation for the construction.
This 'field' now houses the Þükrü Saracoðlu Stadyumu – Fenerbahçe's home ground, capacity 50,500.
The football fever which was started by a number of English people and spread further with the involvement of a group of Greeks resulted in the formation of many football clubs one after the other.
Kadýköy Football Club, jointly formed by a group of English and Greeks, was the first football club of Istanbul. However, due to certain disputes which arose between the two groups, the English formed Moda Football Club, and some Greeks from Kadýköy formed the Elpis and Imogene clubs.
All these teams came together and formed the Istanbul Football League in 1903, (or the Istanbul/Constantinople Football League), and, under the auspices of James Fontaine, the Turkish Professional League in 1904.
. Other teams of note in this league included the Rumblers, Altinordu, and Telefoncular S.K.
This League was the sign that football was about to spread further in this country. The interest of Turkish youth in those newly formed teams turned into an enthusiasm and they formed Turkey's first official football team. A group of grade 10 students studying at Galatasaray High School (named as Mekteb-i Sultani at the time) formed Galatasaray SK under the leadership of their friend Ali Sami Yen, who later served as president for 14 years in two stints and gave his name to the Galatasaray Futbol Stadyumu, which had a capacity of 23,477, and was situated in the Mecidiyeköy quarter of the Þiþli district, at the center of the European side of the city.
It was formerly known as the Mecidiyeköy Stadium (1945–1964).
The new home ground of Galatasaray is the newly-built Türk Telekom Arena in the Seyrantepe quarter near Maslak financial district in Þiþli. This new stadium, which was opened 15 January 2011, has a capacity of 52,695, making it the largest private stadium owned by a club in Turkey.
Galatasaray entered the Istanbul League in the season of 1905-1906 and, with their first championship title they won in 1907-1908, they heralded the beginning of Turkish football history. Galatasaray was followed by the formation of Fenerbahçe SK (based in Istanbul's Kadýköy district) who joined the league in1909, and Beþiktaþ JK, (founded 1903) giving Turkish football a new perspective. Football in Turkey began to fully develop between 1908 and 1923. New football teams were formed as the winds of freedom started to blow in the post-Second Constitutionalist era, while Turkish teams strongly confirmed their own existence. Following these developments in Istanbul, football started spreading rapidly in Izmir, Ankara, Eskiþehir, Bursa, Adana and Trabzon on the Black Sea coast.
Among the most popular leagues of the time were Sunday League, Friday League (1912), Istanbul Turkish Training Union League and Istanbul Championship League. Later, when World War I started, football in Turkey came to a standstill for nearly 11 years. The early Republican Period was a turning point where a number of initiatives were taken in football, like many other areas, in Turkey. After the war was won, the foundations of a new nation were laid, while modernity and holding a place among the world's most civilized nations became the priority of that new nation, a process of collective restructuring and formation began in a number of fields including science, art and sports.
The Birth of the Turkish Football Federation: Following the formation of the Union of Turkish Training Associations, being Turkey's first sports authority, the Turkish Football Federation was established under the name "Futbol Hey'et-i Müttehidesi" at a meeting held in the meeting hall of Letafet Apartment House in Þehzadebaþý in 1923, and Yusuf Ziya Öniþ was elected first President. Following the Federation's establishment, Turkey applied to FIFA for membership and became FIFA's 26th member on 21 May 1923, and eventually joining UEFA in 1962.
The Turkish Football Federation (TFF) was formed on 23 May 1923 - as the 'Türkiye Futbol Federasyonu'.
The Turkish national team's first match came on October 26, 1923 in a 2–2 draw with the Romania national football team. Turkey have qualified for the FIFA World Cup three times, in 1950, 1954 and 2002.
As a FIFA member, the Turkish National Team played their first international match against Romania at the Istanbul Taksim Stadium on 26 October 1923, only three days before the Republic of Turkey was declared. The match ended with a 2-2 draw. Later, Billy Hunter of Scotland was hired to prepare the Turkish National Team for the 1924 Paris Olympic Games. Hunter was the first coach to introduce Turkish footballers to modern football and train them systematically.
The match played (and lost 5-2) against Czechoslovakia during the 1924 Paris Olympic Games was Turkey's first official match abroad.
A national league known as the Milli Küme was created in 1937 as a competition between the top clubs from Ankara, Istanbul, and Ýzmir. This competition lasted until 1950.
Turkey, like Switzerland, Sweden, and others, remained neutral during the 1939-45 War, and football continued to be played throughout this period.
The (Spor Toto) Süper Lig was founded in 1959 as a replacement for the Istanbul Professional League, and the football leagues founded in Ankara, Ýzmir, Adana, Eskiþehir, Tokat and Trabzon. These leagues were dissolved after that date.
There were a number of 'Cups' played for in Turkey in the 1940s and 1950s, all of which are now defunct: the Atatürk Cup, Fleet Cup, President's Cup, Istanbul Cup, TSYD Cup, the Chancellor Cup, and, more recently, the Spor-Toto Cup.
There are currently two major cup competitions in Turkish football. They are the Turkish Cup and Turkish Super Cup.
The Turkish Cup includes clubs from every division of football in Turkey, while the Super Cup is an annual game held between the winner of the Spor Toto Süper Lig and Turkish Cup.
Galatasaray is the most successful team of the Super Cup competition with 11 wins and 18 appearances.
A total of 66 clubs have competed in the Süper Lig, but only five have won the title: Fenerbahçe (18 times), Galatasaray (17), Beþiktaþ (13), Trabzonspor (6), and Bursaspor (1).
So, from humble (English) beginnings in which is now Greece, to the stature that the game in Turkey is held today is an achievement in itself, considering the drawbacks it had to contend with in its early years.
YL.