2001–02 Süper Lig

The 2001-02 Turkish First Football League is the 44th edition of top-flight professional football in Turkey. Galatasaray S.K. became champions for the 15th time. Turkish First Football League was renamed as Turkish Super League in this season.

Turkey climbed from eleventh to seventh place in the UEFA association coefficient rankings at the end of the 2000–01 season, that means the league has gained additional two spots for the UEFA Cup and the champions will now enter the group stage of the UEFA Champions League instead of having to compete in the qualifying rounds, first time in the Turkish history.

After beating cup winners Kocaelispor 4-0 at Denizli in the last week, Denizlispor qualified for the first time to the UEFA Cup in their history.

Final league table

Pos
Team
Pld
W
D
L
GF
GA
GD
Pts
Qualification or relegation
Head-to-head
1 Galatasaray (C) 34 24 6 4 75 31 +44 78 2002–03 UEFA Champions League Group stage
2 Fenerbahçe 34 24 3 7 70 31 +39 75 2002–03 UEFA Champions League Third qualifying round
3 Beşiktaş 34 18 8 8 69 39 +30 62 2002–03 UEFA Cup First round
4 Ankaragücü 34 15 8 11 72 58 +14 53
5 Denizlispor 34 12 12 10 65 52 +13 48 DEN 5-2 GAZ
GAZ 0-0 DEN
6 Gaziantepspor 34 12 12 10 57 52 +5 48
7 Göztepe 34 12 9 13 38 56 −18 45 GÖZ 1-1 GEN
GEN 0-1 GÖZ
8 Gençlerbirliği 34 11 12 11 47 51 −4 45
9 İstanbulspor 34 12 8 14 33 38 −5 44 İST 3-0 BUR
BUR 1-2 İST
10 Bursaspor 34 13 5 16 48 60 −12 44
11 Kocaelispor 34 12 7 15 45 60 −15 43 2002–03 UEFA Cup First round 1
12 Diyarbakırspor 34 10 10 14 41 50 −9 40 DİY:10 pts
MAL:5 pts
TRA:1 pt
13 Malatyaspor 34 11 7 16 34 50 −16 40
14 Trabzonspor 34 11 7 16 49 60 −11 40
15 Samsunspor 34 10 8 16 32 43 −11 38
16 Çaykur Rizespor (R) 34 9 10 15 43 51 −8 37 RİZ 1-1 ANT
ANT 2-2 RİZ
17 Antalyaspor (R) 34 9 10 15 46 61 −15 37
18 Yimpaş Yozgatspor (R) 34 6 9 19 46 67 −21 27

Updated to games played on September 25, 2008
Source: [1]
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
1winner of 2001-02 Turkish Cup
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

Top scorers

Name Team Nationality Goals
İlhan Mansız Beşiktaş 21
Arif Erdem Galatasaray 21
Augustine Ahinful Ankaragücü 19
Serhat Akın Fenerbahçe 16
Veysel Cihan Denizlispor 16
Okan Yılmaz Bursaspor 14
Ahmed Hassan Gençlerbirliği 14
Emmanuel Tetteh Çaykur Rizespor 13
Haim Revivo Fenerbahçe 13
Fatih Tekke Gaziantepspor 12
Maksim Romaschenko Gaziantepspor 12
Ahmet Dursun Beşiktaş 12

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