2008–09 Galatasaray S.K. season

Galatasaray

2008–09 season
President	Adnan Polat
Manager	Michael Skibbe (until 23 February 2009) Bülent Korkmaz (until end of the season)
Stadium	Ali Sami Yen Stadı
Süper Lig	5th
Türkiye Kupası	Quarter-finals
UEFA Champions League	Third qualifying round
UEFA Cup	Round of 16
Süper Kupa	Winner
Top goalscorer	League: Milan Baroš (20) All: Milan Baroš (26)
Average home league attendance	21,500
Home colours Away colours Third colours
← 2007–08 2009–10 →

The 2008–09 season was Galatasaray‍ '​s 105th in existence and the 51st consecutive season in the Süper Lig. This article shows statistics of the club's players in the season, and also lists all matches that the club have played in the season.

Current squad

As of March 10, 2009; according to the official website. . Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player 1 GK Aykut Erçetin 2 DF Emre Güngör 3 DF Uğur Uçar 6 MF Tobias Linderoth 7 MF Aydın Yılmaz 8 MF Barış Özbek 10 MF Lincoln 11 MF Hasan Şaş (1st vice-captain) 14 MF Mehmet Topal 15 FW Milan Baroš 17 FW Yaser Yıldız 18 MF Ayhan Akman (2nd vice-captain) 19 MF Harry Kewell 20 FW Shabani Nonda 21 DF Emre Aşık

No. Position Player 22 DF Hakan Balta 23 DF Serkan Kurtuluş 26 GK Morgan De Sanctis 28 DF Semih Kaya 35 MF Ferdi Elmas 54 GK Orkun Uşak 55 MF Sabri Sarıoğlu 60 DF Alparslan Erdem 61 FW Serkan Çalık 66 MF Arda Turan 74 DF Volkan Yaman 76 DF Servet Çetin 80 DF Murat Akça 87 MF Mehmet Güven 99 FW Ümit Karan (captain)

Transfers

In

#	Pos	Player	From	Fee	Date
7	MF	Aydın Yılmaz	İ.B.B.Spor	Loan return
17	FW	Yaser Yıldız	Kartalspor	unknown
21	DF	Emre Aşık	Ankaraspor	Loan return
35	MF	Ferdi Elmas	Çaykur Rizespor	unknown
19	MF	Harry Kewell	Liverpool	Free	03–07–2008
5	DF	Fernando Meira	VfB Stuttgart	unknown	22–07–2008
26	GK	Morgan De Sanctis	Sevilla	Loan	31–07–2008
60	DF	Alparslan Erdem	Werder Bremen II	unknown	02–08–2008
15	FW	Milan Baroš	Lyon	unknown	26–08–2008
23	DF	Serkan Kurtuluş	Bursaspor	unknown	01–09–2008

Out

#	Pos	Player	To	Fee	Date
4	DF	Rigobert Song	Trabzonspor
5	DF	Orhan Ak	Antalyaspor
5	DF	Fernando Meira	Zenit	€ 6,6 million	10–03–2009
7	MF	Okan Buruk	İ.B.B.Spor
9	FW	Hakan Şükür	Retired
13	DF	Uğur Akdemir	Çaykur Rizespor
15	MF	Ahmed Barusso	AS Roma	Loan return
19	DF	Ismaël Bouzid	Troyes AC
30	FW	Çağrı Yarkın	Çaykur Rizespor

Loaned out

#	Pos	Player	To	Start	End
	DF	Gür Ege Gürel	Beylerbeyi	10–06–2008	31–05–2009
	DF	Serdar Keşçi	Beylerbeyi	10–06–2008	31–05–2009
	FW	Fatih Sercan Ekinci	Beylerbeyi	10–06–2008	31–05–2009
	FW	Mehmet Düz	Beylerbeyi	10–06–2008	31–05–2009
	MF	Eray Fırat	Beylerbeyi	11–06–2008	02–02–2009
	DF	İlker Cihan	Beylerbeyi	16–06–2008	27–01–2009
	MF	Recep Soner Cihan	Beylerbeyi	16–06–2008	27–01–2009
	MF	Oğuz Sabankay	Eskişehirspor	03–07–2008	31–05–2009
	MF	Volkan Bekçi	Beylerbeyi	04–07–2008	31–05–2009
16	MF	Marcelo Carrusca	Cruz Azul	08–07–2008
	DF	Erkan Ferin	Beylerbeyi	31–07–2008	15–01–2009
	FW	Özgürcan Özcan	Sakaryaspor	13–08–2008	31–05–2009
	DF	Uğur Erdoğan	Gaziantep B.B.	26–08–2008	31–05–2009
	MF	Cihan Can	Gaziantep B.B.	26–08–2008	31–05–2009
	MF	Mülayim Erdem	Gaziantep B.B.	26–08–2008	31–05–2009
	FW	Cafercan Aksu	Gaziantep B.B.	26–08–2008	31–05–2009
	FW	Efecan Karaca	Gaziantep B.B.	26–08–2008	31–05–2009
88	GK	Fırat Kocaoğlu	Beylerbeyi	01–09–2008	31–05–2009
	DF	Anıl Karaer	MKE Ankaragücü	01–09–2008	02–02–2009
83	FW	Erhan Şentürk	Diyarbakırspor	01–09–2008	31–05–2009
	FW	Necati Ateş	Real Sociedad	01–09–2008
	MF	İrfan Başaran	Beylerbeyi	02–09–2008	31–05–2009
	DF	Erkan Ferin	İstanbulspor	15–01–2009	31–05–2009
	DF	İlker Cihan	İstanbulspor	27–01–2009	31–05–2010
	MF	Recep Soner Cihan	İstanbulspor	27–01–2009	31–05–2010
	DF	Anıl Karaer	Beylerbeyi	02–02–2009	31–05–2009
	MF	Harun Temur	Beylerbeyi	02–02–2009	31–05–2009

Squad statistics

No.	Pos.	Name	TSL		FTC		TSC		UCL		UC		Total		Discipline
			Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
1	GK	Aykut Erçetin	1	0	6	0	1	0	2	0	0	0	10	0	0	0
2	DF	Emre Güngör	5	0	2	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	9	0	1	1
3	DF	Uğur Uçar	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
5	DF	Fernando Meira	21	0	6	0	1	0	2	0	8	0	38	0	8	0
6	MF	Tobias Linderoth	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	3	0	0	0
7	MF	Aydın Yılmaz	15	1	3	2	0	0	1	0	2	0	21	3	1	0
8	MF	Barış Özbek	25	3	3	0	1	0	1	0	6	0	36	3	5	0
10	MF	Lincoln	23	8	3	0	1	0	2	0	10	1	39	9	7	2
11	MF	Hasan Şaş	8	0	0	0	1	0	2	0	2	0	13	0	2	0
14	MF	Mehmet Topal	21	1	5	0	1	0	2	0	4	0	33	1	3	0
15	FW	Milan Baroš	31	20	3	1	0	0	0	0	9	5	43	26	15	0
17	FW	Yaser Yıldız	12	0	4	2	0	0	0	0	3	1	19	3	1	1
18	MF	Ayhan Akman	31	1	4	1	1	0	1	0	9	1	46	3	10	2
19	MF	Harry Kewell	26	8	1	0	1	1	1	0	8	4	37	13	4	0
20	FW	Shabani Nonda	24	5	1	0	1	1	2	2	7	0	35	8	5	0
21	DF	Emre Aşık	18	0	3	0	0	0	1	0	8	1	30	1	12	2
22	DF	Hakan Balta	28	1	6	0	1	0	2	0	7	0	44	1	2	0
23	DF	Serkan Kurtuluş	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	11	0	2	0
26	GK	Morgan De Sanctis	31	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	10	0	41	0	2	0
28	DF	Semih Kaya	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	0	0	0
35	MF	Ferdi Elmas	0	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	0
54	GK	Orkun Uşak	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0
55	MF	Sabri Sarıoğlu	25	0	5	0	1	0	1	0	8	1	40	1	7	0
60	DF	Alparslan Erdem	2	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	5	0	0	0
61	FW	Serkan Çalık	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
66	MF	Arda Turan	29	7	6	2	0	0	2	0	9	2	46	11	7	1
74	DF	Volkan Yaman	20	0	4	0	1	0	0	0	8	0	33	0	1	0
76	DF	Servet Çetin	20	2	3	0	1	0	2	0	7	0	33	2	5	0
80	DF	Murat Akça	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
83	FW	Erhan Şentürk	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
87	MF	Mehmet Güven	16	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	5	0	24	0	0	0
99	FW	Ümit Karan	18	0	5	2	0	0	1	0	4	1	28	3	3	1

Statistics accurate as of match played June 1, 2009

Competitions

Turkcell Super League

Classification

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation	Head-to-head
1	Beşiktaş (C)	34	21	8	5	60	30	+30	71	2009–10 UEFA Champions League Group stage
2	Sivasspor	34	19	9	6	54	28	+26	66	2009–10 UEFA Champions League Third qualifying round
3	Trabzonspor	34	19	8	7	54	34	+20	65	2009–10 UEFA Europa League Play-off round
4	Fenerbahçe	34	18	7	9	60	36	+24	61	2009–10 UEFA Europa League Third qualifying round	FEN 4−1 GAL GAL 0−0 FEN
5	Galatasaray	34	18	7	9	57	39	+18	61	2009–10 UEFA Europa League Second qualifying round 1
6	Bursaspor	34	16	10	8	47	36	+11	58	rowspan="10" style="background-color:white;"|
7	Kayserispor	34	13	11	10	38	26	+12	50
8	Gaziantepspor	34	12	11	11	46	48	−2	47
9	İstanbul B.B.	34	12	6	16	37	46	−9	42
10	Osmanlıspor	34	11	8	15	36	42	−6	41
11	Eskişehirspor	34	10	10	14	45	49	−4	40	ESK 2−0 ANT ANT 0−0 ESK
12	Antalyaspor A.Ş.	34	10	10	14	34	42	−8	40
13	MKE Ankaragücü	34	11	6	17	36	47	−11	39
14	Gençlerbirliği	34	10	8	16	38	50	−12	38	GEN: 6 pts, 5−4 DEN: 6 pts, 5−4 KON:2 pts, 4−6
15	Denizlispor	34	11	5	18	39	52	−13	38
16	Konyaspor (R)	34	10	8	16	35	46	−11	38		Relegation to TFF First League
17	Kocaelispor (R)	34	8	5	21	47	73	−26	29
18	Hacettepe Spor (R)	34	5	7	22	24	63	−39	22

Source: ^[1]
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd head-to-head points; 3rd head-to-head goal difference; 4th head-to-head goals scored; 5th head-to-head away goals scored; 6th goal difference; 7th goals scored
¹Since Türkiye Kupası 2008–09 winners Beşiktaş qualified for the UEFA Champions League and losing finalists Fenerbahçe also finished in the top four, fifth-placed team Galatasary qualified for the UEFA Europa League as well.
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (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; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

Results summary

Overall								Home						Away
Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
34	18	7	9	57	39	+18	61	11	4	2	35	18	+17	7	3	7	22	21	+1

Last updated: May 31, 2009.
Source: Turkcell Super League

Results by round

Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34
Ground	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	A	H	A	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	H	A	H
Result	W	D	D	W	W	L	W	L	W	L	W	D	W	W	W	W	L	W	D	L	L	W	W	D	L	W	D	W	D	L	W	W	L	W

Last updated: May 31, 2009.
Source: Galatasaray SK
Ground: A = Away; H = Home. Result: D = Draw; L = Loss; W = Win; P = Postponed.

UEFA Cup group stage

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Metalist Kharkiv	4	3	1	0	3	0	+3	10
Galatasaray	4	3	0	1	4	1	+3	9
Olympiacos	4	2	0	2	9	3	+6	6
Hertha BSC	4	0	2	2	1	6	−5	2
Benfica	4	0	1	3	2	9	−7	1

Matches

Turkish Super League

Kick-off listed in local time (EEST)

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UEFA Champions League

All times at CET

Third qualifying round

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UEFA Cup

All times at CET

First round

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Group stage

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Round of 32

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Round of 16

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Turkish Super Cup

All times at CEST

Fortis Turkish Cup

Group stage

Kick-off listed in local time (EEST)

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Quarter-finals

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Attendances

Competition	Av. Att.	Total Att.
Süper Lig	21,500	365,500[2]
Türkiye Kupası	n/a	n/a
Europe	21,168	105,839[3]
Total	21,424	471,339

References

External links

• Galatasaray Sports Club Official Website (Turkish) (English) (French)
• Turkish Football Federation - Galatasaray A.Ş. (Turkish) (English)
• uefa.com - Galatasaray AŞ

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