Turkish Women's Football Super League Explained

Turkish Women's Football Super League
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Country:Turkey
Organiser:Turkish Football Federation (TFF)
Confed:UEFA
Founded:1993
Teams:16
Relegation:Women's 1. Lig
Levels:1
Pyramid:Women's football in Turkey
Confed Cup:UEFA Champions League
Champions:Galatasaray (1st title)
Season:2023–24
Most Successful Club:Konak Belediyespor (5 titles)
Top Goalscorer:Armisa Kuč, Yağmur Uraz
(25 goals)
Website:Website
Current:2023–24 Turkish Women's Football Super League

The Turkish Women's Football Super League (Turkish: Kadınlar Süper Ligi), also known as the Turkcell Women's Football Super League for sponsorship reasons, is the top level women's football league of Turkey. In the 2023–24 season, 16 teams play a double round robin to decide a champion club, which qualifies for a spot in the UEFA Women's Champions League.March 2022.

Formerly known as the First Women's Football League, the league was renamed to Turkcell Women's Super League (Turkish: Turkcell Kadın Süper Ligi) starting from the 2021 - 22 season, after a sponsorship agreement with the Turkish mobile phone operator Turkcell signed by the Turkish Football Federation on 8 March 2021, the International Women's Day.

Format

In an effort to increase quality of the league, in the 2009–10 season two teams were relegated and four teams were promoted to the first league. Thus, the 2010–11 season consisted of twelve teams. Fashion One TV became the official media sponsor of the league for the 2010–11 season. At this time the league gained little attention in Turkey. After playing two groups with six teams and then having a championship and relegation group, the 2012–13 season was played as a double-round robin with ten teams again. The winner after 18 games was the champion and qualifies for the UEFA Women's Champions League, the bottom two teams get relegated. In 2016–17 there again was introduced a championship and relegation round after the regular season.

For the 2019–20 league season, the number of participating teams was increased from ten to twelve again after eight seasons. No relegation was planned to take place, so that the planned number of teams would be achieved with two promoted teams from the Women's Second League. However, Trabzon İdmanocağı had to be relegated since they did not show up in the entire previous season. To replace them, a third team from the Second League was promoted. All three women's leagues of the 2019-20 season were stopped on 8 March 2020 due to COVID-19 pandemic in Turkey.

Due to the ongoing pandemic, the 2020–21 season of the Women's First Football League, after renaming the Turkcell Women's Football League, will take start with delay on 17 April 2021. The season was dedicated to healthcare workers, and named 2021 Turkish Turkcell Women's Football League Healthcare Workers' Season (Turkish: 2021 Sağlık Çalışanları Futbol Ligi). The league consisted of 16 teams, including all the 12 teams from the previous season and 4 teams promoted from the Second League's previous season. The teams were divided into four groups of four teams each, with one promoted team in each group. Each team in the group played only three matches in a round-robin tournament. The top two teams of the four groups play quarter-finals and semi-finals in Single-elimination tournament. The winner of the final match, on 4 May 2021, represented Turkey at the 2021–22 UEFA Women's Champions League.

Clubs

See main article: article and 2023–24 Turkish Women's Football Super League.

Season 2023–24
Team Hometown Ground Capacity data-sort-type="number"2022–23 finish
Zeytinköy Stadium's Field #3 align=center First Round
align=center 2,000 align=center 9/10 in groups
align=center Semifinal
Talaytepe Sports Facility align=center Quarterfinal
align=center 700 align=center First Round
align=center 5,000 align=center Quarterfinalist
align=center 5,000 align=center Promoted
align=center 5,500 align=center Quarterfinal
align=center Quarterfinal
align=center 500 align=center Runners-up
Batıkent Stadium Champion
Florya Metin Oktay Facilitiesalign=center align=center Semifinal
Aktoprak Futbol Sahası align=center align=center Promoted
Merzan City Football Fieldalign=center First Round
Beyçayir Football Field align=center First Round
align=center 3,000 align=center 8/10 in groups

Past winners

beige;"SeasonChampionsRunners-up
Acarlarspor
1994–95 Acarlarspor
1995–96 Gürtaşspor
1996–97 İstanbul Sitespor
1997–98 Adana Yataşspor
1998–99 ?
1999–00 Marshall Boyaspor
2000–01 Zeytinburnuspor
2001–02 Samsungücü
2002–03 Gazi Üniversitesispor
2003–06 No league
2006–07 Mersin Camspor
2007–08 Bucaspor
Bucaspor
Trabzonspor
Konak Belediyespor
Kdz. Ereğlispor
Ataşehir Belediyespor
Ataşehir Belediyespor
Ataşehir Belediyespor
Ataşehir Belediyespor
Beşiktaş
Beşiktaş
ALG Spor
Season discontinued due to COVID-19.

Winners by team

ClubChampionsRunners-up
5 1
4
3 4
3 1
2 2
Marshall Boyaspor2 2
1 1
1 1
1 1
1 1
1 1
1
1
1

League participation (since 2006)

Note: The tallies below include up to the 2023–24 season. Teams denoted in bold are current participants.

Top goalscorers

Season Player Club Goals Matches Goals per Match
align=left align=left 32 18
align=left align=left 26 22
align=left align=left 27 21
align=left align=left 32 17
align=left align=left 15 18
align=left align=left 33 17
align=left align=left 23 17
align=left align=left 24 22
align=left align=left 30 19
align=left align=left 1516
align=left align=left 2715
align=left align=left 76
align=left align=left 3425
align=left align=left 2621
2023–24align=left align=left 2530
align=left align=left 2530

See also

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