2005–06 Süper Lig Explained

Competition:Süper Lig
Season:2005–06
Winners:Galatasaray
16th title
Relegated:Malatyaspor
Samsunspor
Diyarbakırspor
Continentalcup1:Champions League
Continentalcup1 Qualifiers:Galatasaray
Fenerbahçe
Continentalcup2:UEFA Cup
Continentalcup2 Qualifiers:Beşiktaş
Trabzonspor
Continentalcup3:Intertoto Cup
Continentalcup3 Qualifiers:Kayserispor
Matches:306
Total Goals:849
League Topscorer:Gökhan Ünal
(25 goals)
Prevseason:2004–05
Nextseason:2006–07

The 2005–06 Süper Lig season began with Turkcell signing a 5-year sponsorship deal with the Turkish Football Federation to name the league Turkcell Süper Lig.

Since Turkey dropped from tenth to eleventh place in the UEFA association coefficient rankings at the end of the 2004–05 season, the champions will not directly be entered into the group stage of the UEFA Champions League any more, but rather have to begin in the third qualification round.

The season also saw a first in Turkish football; for the first time in history the team that entered the last week first, Fenerbahçe, failed to win the title. Fenerbahçe and Galatasaray went into the last week deadlocked at 80 points and Fenerbahçe had a better head-to-head record. Fenerbahçe needed only a win to defend their title and win their third successive championship. However, a 1–1 draw to Denizlispor combined with a 3–0 Galatasaray win against Kayserispor gave Galatasaray their 16th league title. The same day, Gaziantepspor defeated Malatyaspor 1–0 and remained in the Süper Lig. Ankaraspor, with a 1–0 win away to Erciyesspor, managed to remain, but Malatyaspor, Samsunspor and Diyarbakırspor were relegated to TFF First League.

Foreign Players

ClubPlayer 1Player 2Player 3Player 4Player 5Player 6Player 7Player 8Former Players
Ankaragücü Elvir Baljić Héverton Robson Ivaylo Petkov Hervé Zengue Ahmad Belal Charles-Édouard Coridon Ali Ghariani Jean
Ankaraspor Jabá Tita Wederson Adam Petrouš Dragoslav Jevrić Radoslav Batak Balázs Molnár
Beşiktaş Bobô Kléberson Óscar Córdoba Tomáš Jun Ahmed Hassan Aílton
Daniel Pancu
Çaykur Rizespor Allyson Douglas Zdravko Zdravkov Gustavo Victoria Besheer El-Tabei Pape Ciré Dia
Denizlispor Alessandro Cambalhota Alex Alves Souleymanou Hamidou Tomáš Abrahám Miikka Multaharju Roman Kratochvíl Radek Dosoudil
Diyarbakırspor Redi Jupi Borislav Mikić Goce Sedloski Goran Maznov Goran Stavrevski Ermin Rakovič Igor Jančevski
Sami Gtari
Fenerbahçe Alex Fábio Luciano Márcio Nobre Marco Aurélio Nicolas Anelka Stephen Appiah
Galatasaray Alioum Saidou Rigobert Song Faryd Mondragón Stjepan Tomas Marek Heinz Saša Ilić
Gaziantepspor Kenan Hasagić Zdravko Lazarov Tarik El Taib Abdelilah Fahmi Giani Kiriță Sofiane Melliti Shingayi Kaondera Georgi Ivanov
Gençlerbirliği Christophe Lepoint Marcinho David Abwo Isaac Promise Igor Bogdanović Fredrik Risp Christian Järdler
Kayserispor Rashad Sadygov Aleksandar Aleksandrov Dimitar Ivankov Samuel Johnson Aleksandar Rodić
Kayseri Erciyesspor Júlio César Junivan Lucien Mettomo Serge Dié Victor Agali Khaled Fadhel Riadh Bouazizi Mamadou Seck
Konyaspor Gustave Bebbe Kaies Ghodhbane Jobany Rivero Vladimir Vasilj
Ahmad Belal
Malatyaspor Cris Jiří Homola Jiří Mašek Tomáš Michálek Zdeněk Šenkeřík Balázs Tóth Sebastian Johansson Catatau
Jean-Emmanuel Owona
Ibrahim Kargbo
Samsunspor Marciel Rafael Marques Alioum Boukar Ibrahima Gueye Dejan Maksić Anis Ayari Yordan Petkov
Dejan Rađenović
Oliver Kovačević

Final league table

Statistics

Top scorers

RankPlayerClubGoals
1 Gökhan ÜnalKayserispor25
2 Fatih TekkeTrabzonspor22
3 Cenk IşlerKayseri Erciyesspor20
4 Necati AteşGalatasaray18
5 Mert NobreFenerbahçe17
Ümit KaranGalatasaray
7 Umut BulutAnkaragücü16
8 TuncayFenerbahçe15
9 AlexFenerbahçe14
Mehmet ÇakırGençlerbirliği

Hat-tricks

Player For Against Result Date
Ümit KaranGalatasarayMalatyaspor5–2
Semih ŞentürkFenerbahçeDenizlispor6–2
Ümit KaranGalatasarayGaziantepspor6–0
Sinan KaloğluManisasporFenerbahçe5–3
Fatih TekkeTrabzonsporÇaykur Rizespor6–1
Gökhan ÜnalKayserisporManisaspor7–2

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 2005-2006 SEZONU GOL KRALLIĞI. turkfutbolu.net. tr. 20 April 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20080723114340/http://www.turkfutbolu.net/2005-06/2005-06golkrali.html. 23 July 2008. dead.
  2. Web site: Ligin Gol Kralları. Turkish Football Federation. tr. 20 April 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20080913074757/http://www.tff.org/Default.aspx?pageID=405. 13 September 2008. dead.