Fenerbahçe S.K.

Fenerbahçe S.K.

Full name	Fenerbahce Spor Kulubü
Nickname(s)	Sarı Kanaryalar
Founded	1907
Ground	Şükrü Saracoğlu Stadium, Kadıköy-İstanbul, Turkey (Capacity: 50,509[1])
Chairman	Aziz Yıldırım[2]
Manager	Luis Aragonés
League	Turkcell Süper Lig
2007-08	Turkcell Süper Lig, 2nd
Home colours Away colours

Fenerbahçe Spor Kulübü (English: Fenerbahçe Sport Club), commonly known as Fenerbahçe (pronounced [feneːɾbatʃe]), is a professional sports club based in the district of Kadıköy (also known as the Fenerbahçe district) in İstanbul, 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). Fenerbahçe is the most popular sports club in Turkey after their rivals Galatasaray; its football section is the most popular for the club. 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 Sukru Saracoglu Stadium in Kadıköy.

The club also competes in basketball,^[3] volleyball,^[4] rowing,^[5] boxing,^[6] sailing,^[7] athletics,^[8] swimming^[9] and table tennis.^[10] Fenerbahçe celebrated its centennial year in 2007.

Contents 1 History 1.1 Presidents 1.2 Historical players 2 Colours and badge 3 Stadium 3.1 Museum 3.2 Other facilities 4 Supporters 4.1 Genç Fenerbahçeliler 4.2 1907 UniFeb 4.3 Antu/Fenerlist 4.4 Group CK 4.5 FENatics 4.6 Vamos bien 4.7 Fenerbahche 4.8 SUADFEB 5 Sponsorship 5.1 Fenerbahçe TV 6 The Board of Directors 6.1 Achievements 7 Current squad 7.1 Players out on loan 8 Other branches 8.1 Basketball 8.2 Volleyball 8.3 Athletics 8.4 Boxing 8.5 Rowing 8.6 Sailing 9 References 10 External links

History

Ziya Songülen, Ayetullah Bey founded Fenerbahçe Spor Külübü in 1907 by Mehmet can Saygi on Beşbıyık Street in Moda, Istanbul.^[11] 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.^[12] 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.^[12] 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.^[12] 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.^[12] 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.^[13]

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.^[14]

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.^[15] 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.^[16] Fenerbahçe became the most successful Turkish club of the 1960s, winning five out of 10 leagues. They were also runners-up three times.^[17][18] 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.^[18] Fenerbahçe won three titles in the 1980s, a period where each club in the "Big Four"^[19] won at least two titles^[18] 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 1990s came in the 1995-1996 season under Carlos Alberto Parreira.^[17][18]

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.^[20] 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. ^[21] 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).^[22] The next year was followed up by a narrow championship over Trabzonspor, winning the then record of sixteen Turkish First Football League championships.^[23] 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,^[24] and was replaced by Zico on 4 July, 2006.^[25] Zico began his reign by signing two new defenders, highly-touted Uruguayan international Diego Lugano, and fellow Brazilian Edu Dracena.^[26][27] Zico also signed two strikers, Serbian international Mateja Kežman, and another Brazilian, Deivid.^[28] Fenerbahçe's 2006-07 domestic season started off with a 6-0 win over relegation candidates Kayseri Erciyesspor.^[29] 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.^[30][31] Fenerbahçe won their seventeenth Turkish Super League title in 2007, the most in Turkey.^[32]

Fenerbahçe started off their 2007-08 season by signing Brazilian international Roberto Carlos.^[33] 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.^[34] G-14 is an association which consists of top clubs worldwide. Fenerbahçe S.K. is the only Turkish club that have been invited to this association. On March 2008, Fenerbahçe's record application was accepted 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.^[35]

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. Fenerbahce recently beat Galatasaray 4-1.

After successful scores both in 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. Since 2000 Fenerbahçe S.K. improved club's 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, Roberto Carlos ,Emre Belözoğlu, and Dani Güiza.

Presidents

from the official site^[36]

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 Haydar Şen

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

Historical players

Main article: List of Fenerbahçe S.K. players

When it was first founded in 1907, Fenerbahçe had a large 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.^[37] 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.^[37] Zeki was also capped for the Turkey national football team sixteen times, bagging 15 goals.^[38] 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.^[37]

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.^[39] 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.^[40] 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.^[41]

In recent decades, Fenerbahçe have gained an influx of foreigners who have helped the club to a joint-record of 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.^[42] 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.^[43] 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.^[44]

Also talented young players from junior team are going to be up on stage in a few years. There are some names who are being discussed in Turkish media as wonderkids. Two of them; Kerem Mete Ozmen and Alihan Gencoglu are being hot chased by most of the clubs and expactation from them is big by the supporters. Recent chairman declared that these two wonderkids are not going anywhere until they win UEFA Champions League for the club.

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.^[45]

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.[45]

”

Stadium

Fenerbahçe Saraçoğlu Stadyumu

UEFA
Former names	Silahtar Ağa Sahası Papazın Çayırı Union Club Sahası İttihat Spor Sahası Fenerbahçe Stadı (1933-1998)
Location	Kadıköy, İstanbul, Turkey
Broke ground	1907
Opened	1907
Renovated	1999 to 2006
Closed	Open
Demolished	N/A
Owner	Fenerbahçe SK
Operator	Fenerbahçe SK
Surface	Grass
Construction cost	Unknown
Architect	Zehra Aksu, Adnan Aksu, Deniz Boysan Bora
Tenants
Fenerbahçe SK

Main article: Şükrü Saracoğlu Stadium

Şükrü Saracoğlu Stadium^[46] 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 52.056.^[1] Şükrü Saracoğlu Stadium, was selected to host the 2009 UEFA Cup final.^[47]

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 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.^[48]

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.^[49]

• 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.^[50]
  

  Fenerbahce Stadium
  

  Fenerbahce Stadium at Night
  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^[51] 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 1, 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.

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, which still is a much higher number of the capacity crowds that their arch-rivals Galatasaray and Besiktas have ever seen. Fenerbahçe's high attendance rates are unrivaled in Turkey and supporters create the most crowded and supportive performances of the Turkish League respectively.^[52]

“	Hep Destek Tam Destek (Continuous Unwavering Support)	”
—Fans Motto

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

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

Genç Fenerbahçeliler

GFB is leader group of Fenerbahçe Supporters Society. The group has 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 and Maraton tribune of Şükrü Saracoğlu Stadium

1907 UniFeb

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

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.

Group CK

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

FENatics

Fenatics was founded by English website www.anglofeb.com and consists of Fenerbahce Fenatics across the world. Members are not just from English speaking countries and spread from the Americas through to Australasia. FENatics can be found mainly at European away matches.

Vamos bien

Founded in 2006, most of the members have left-wing political stance.

Fenerbahche

founded in 2007,seperated by vamos bien,other left-wing political stance(more radical than vamos bien) for supporters of fenerbahçe.

SUADFEB

SUADFEB (Suadiye Fenerbahçeliler Derneği) was founded in 2007. All members have been living at the Suadiye Neighborhood. Located in the Migros tribune of Şükrü Saracoğlu Stadium.

Sponsorship

Companies that Fenerbahçe S.K. currently has sponsorship deals with include^[53]

Avea - Main sponsor Fenerium - Main sponsor Adidas- Official sponsor Acıbadem - Official sponsor

Alpet - Official sponsor Aras Cargo - Official sponsor Arçelik - Official sponsor Ülker - 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

Fenerbahçe TV

Main article: FB TV

Fenerbahçe TV (FB TV) is first sports club channel of Turkey^[54] 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.^[55]

The Board of Directors

Aziz Yıldırım - President 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

Achievements

• 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 Trophy:
  • Winners (1): 1923

Current squad

As of November 14, 2008; according to the official website.^[56]

No. Position Player 1 GK Volkan Demirel 2 DF Diego Lugano 3 DF Roberto Carlos 4 DF Edu Dracena 5 MF Emre Belözoğlu 6 DF Gökçek Vederson 7 MF Burak Yılmaz 8 FW Colin Kâzım-Richards 10 MF Alex (captain) 11 MF Tümer Metin 14 FW Daniel Güiza 16 MF Josico 17 DF Can Arat 18 MF Ali Bilgin

No. Position Player 19 DF Önder Turacı 21 MF Selçuk Şahin 23 FW Semih Şentürk (vice-captain) 24 MF Deniz Barış 25 MF Uğur Boral 32 MF Gürhan Gürsoy 33 MF Claudio Maldonado 38 FW İlhan Parlak 53 DF Yasin Çakmak 77 DF Gökhan Gönül 88 GK Volkan Babacan 89 GK Fehmi Mert Günok 99 FW Deivid

Players out on loan

No. Position Player –– MF Kerim Zengin (to İstanbul Büyükşehir Belediyespor until June 2009) 85 DF Uğur Arslan Kuru (to Düzcespor until June 2009)[57] 9 FW Mateja Kežman (to Paris Saint-Germain FC until June 2009)

Other branches

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. Although they were a weak team before this marriage, they won the championship twice after this event. The women basketball team is the most successful 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^[58]

Main article: Fenerbahçe Ülker

For women's basketball^[59]

Main article: Fenerbahçe İstanbul

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^[60]

Main article: Fenerbahçe Men's Volleyball

For women's volleyball^[61]

Main article: Fenerbahçe Women's Volleyball

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^[62]

Main article: Fenerbahçe Athletics

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^[63]

Main article: Fenerbahçe Boxing

Rowing

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

For rowing^[64]

Main article: Fenerbahçe Rowing

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^[65]

Main article: Fenerbahçe Sailing

References

External links

• Fenerbahçe Sports Club Official Web Page (English)
• Fenerbahçe Sports Club Official Store Web Page (English)

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