2020–21 Turkish Women's Football League Explained

Competition:Turkcell Women's Football League
Season:2020–21
Dates:17 April 2021 – 5 May 2021
Winners:Beşiktaş J.K.
Promoted:1207 Antalya Spor
Dudullu Spor
İlkadım Belediyesi
Kayseri Gençler Birliği
Continentalcup1:Champions League
Continentalcup1 Qualifiers:Beşiktaş J.K.
Highest Scoring:8-1
Matches:32
Total Goals:116
Best Player: Cansu Nur Kaya
League Topscorer: Zelal Baturay
Best Goalkeeper: Fatma Şahin
Prevseason:2019–20
Nextseason:2021–22
Updated:5 May 2021

The 2020–21 Turkcell Women's Football League is the 25th season of Turkey's premier women's footballleague. The league, formerly called the Turkish Women's First Football League (Turkish: Kadınlar 1. Futbol LigiĬ), was renamed to Turkscell Women's Football League after a sponsorship agreement was signed on 8 March 2021, the International Women's Day, between the Turkish Football Federation and the mobile phone operator Turkcell. The 2020–21 season was dedicated to healthcare Workers and was officially named(Turkish: Sağlık Çalışanları Sezonu).

Due to ongoing COVID-19 pandemic in Turkey, the regular season, which is used to start in the Fall and to conclude in the next year's Spring, was postponed to Spring with changed competition format. The 2020–21 season starts on 17 April and ends on 5 May. The number of participating teams increased to 16, including all the 12 teams from the 2019-20 First League season and additional 4 top teams promoted from the 2019-20 Second League season. The 16 teams are divided in four groups of four teams. Each of the four promoted Second-League teams are assigned to one group. Each team in a group plays three matches in total. The first two top teams of each group are qualified for quarterfinals in a single-elimination tournament. The team winning the final match will represent Turkey at the 2021–22 UEFA Women's Champions League .

Teams

Team changes

Season 2019–20
Team Hometown Ground Capacity data-sort-type="number"2019–20 finish
Zeytinköy Stadium's Field #2. align=center 3rd (Second League)
align=center 2,000 align=center 11th
align=center 1st
Talaytepe Sports Facility align=center 10th
align=center 700 align=center 4th
align=center 800 align=center 2nd
Dudullu Stadium align=center 2nd (Second League)
align=center 800 align=center 5th
Batıkent Stadium align=center align=center 12th
Merzan City Football Fieldalign=center 6th
İlkadım Derebahçe Stadıum align=center 1st (Second League)
Beyçayir Football Field align=center 7th
Argıncık Stadium, Field No. 2 align=center 6th (Second League)
align=center 5,000 align=center 8th
Mehmet Ali Kağıtçı Stadium align=center 9th
Atatürk Stadyum 1 no'lu Yan Saha align=center 3rd

Qualifying stage

All matches of the four groups are played at the Emirhan Sport Complex in Manavgat district of Antalya Province between 17 and 24 April 2021.

Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

Honours

The Turkish Football Federation awarded following sportspeople for the league season following the final match.

Additionally, the referees of the final matches, Melis Özçiğdem, Deybet Gök, Betül Nur Yılmaz, Cansu Tiryaki and Özlem Yapaklar as well as the organizers Dr. Esin Nur Taşdemir and Dr. İsmail Başöz were honored with a plaque.

Top goalscorers

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Rank Player Team
1 align=left align=left 7 6 1.17
2 align=left align=left 6 5 1.20
3 align=left align=left 4 31.33
align=left align=left 4 6 0.67

Hat-tricks and more

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Player Scored For Against Result Date
align=center 3 align=center 3-2 21 April 2021
align=center 4 align=center 7-0 24 April 2021