2004–05 Süper Lig

Süper Lig
Season	2004–05
Champions	Fenerbahçe; 16th title
Relegated	Sakaryaspor; İstanbulspor; Akçaabat Sebatspor
Champions League	Fenerbahçe; Trabzonspor
UEFA Cup	Galatasaray; Beşiktaş
Intertoto Cup	Ankaraspor
Matches played	306
Goals scored	901 (2.94 per match)
Top goalscorer	Fatih Tekke; (31 goals)
Biggest home win	Fenerbahçe 7–0 Kayserispor
Biggest away win	Akçaabat Sebatspor 0–5 Gençlerbirliği; İstanbulspor 0–5 Trabzonspor
Highest scoring	MKE Ankaragücü 2–7 Sakaryaspor
	← 2003–04 2005–06 →

The 2004–05 Süper Lig was 47th edition of Turkish league and 4th edition of Turkish Super League. Fenerbahçe won their 16th title, being 3 points ahead Trabzonspor and 4 points ahead Galatasaray. In the final fixture, Diyarbakırspor were 1 point behind Sakaryaspor. Malatyaspor and Diyarbakırspor are rivals, but Malatyaspor, defeating 4-2 Sakaryaspor at home, allowed Diyarbakırspor to remain, winning 1-0 away over Samsunspor. Galatasaray won the Cup, beating rivals Fenerbahçe with 5-1.

Final league table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Fenerbahçe (C)	34	26	2	6	77	24	+53	80	Qualification to Champions League group stage^[a]
2	Trabzonspor	34	24	5	5	73	29	+44	77	Qualification to Champions League second qualifying round
3	Galatasaray	34	24	4	6	64	25	+39	76	Qualification to UEFA Cup first round^[b]
4	Beşiktaş	34	20	9	5	70	39	+31	69	Qualification to UEFA Cup second qualifying round
5	Gençlerbirliği	34	14	9	11	52	41	+11	51
6	Denizlispor	34	13	10	11	46	45	+1	49
7	Ankaraspor	34	13	9	12	52	48	+4	48	Qualification to Intertoto Cup second round
8	Konyaspor	34	11	12	11	62	62	0	45
9	Gaziantepspor	34	13	5	16	49	55	−6	44
10	Çaykur Rizespor	34	11	10	13	36	37	−1	43
11	Malatyaspor	34	12	7	15	47	53	−6	43
12	Samsunspor	34	10	8	16	40	55	−15	38^[c]
13	MKE Ankaragücü	34	10	8	16	37	61	−24	38^[c]
14	Kayserispor	34	8	10	16	42	65	−23	34^[d]
15	Diyarbakırspor	34	9	7	18	31	53	−22	34^[d]
16	Sakaryaspor (R)	34	9	5	20	51	72	−21	32	Relegation to Turkish Second League Category A
17	İstanbulspor (R)	34	5	12	17	32	59	−27	27
18	Akçaabat Sebatspor (R)	34	3	10	21	40	78	−38	19

Source: [1]
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated
Notes:

^ Liverpool, winner of 2004–05 UEFA Champions League, forced to play in the UEFA Champions League first qualifying round as they cannot finish 2004–05 FA Premier League top four, so the title holder spot in the group stage became vacant and this spot goes to best excluded champions, champion of Turkey, originally qualified for the third qualifying round.
^ Galatasaray have won the 2004–05 Turkish Cup competition and thus are qualified for the first round of the UEFA Cup.
^ ^a ^b Samsunspor were ahead of Ankaragücü on head-to-head record: Samsunspor–Ankaragücü 1–1, Ankaragücü–Samsunspor 1–2.
^ ^a ^b Kayserispor were ahead of Diyarbakırspor on head-to-head goal difference: Kayserispor–Diyarbakırspor 3–0, Diyarbakırspor–Kayserispor 2–1.

Results

Home \ Away	AKÇ	ANK	BJK	ÇYR	DEN	DYB	FNB	GAL	GAZ	GEN	İST	KAY	KON	MAL	AGÜ	SAK	SAM	TRA
Akçaabat Sebatspor		1–3	2–2	0–0	2–1	2–2	1–4	1–3	2–0	0–5	2–2	0–0	3–5	1–1	0–0	0–1	3–0	0–1
Ankaraspor	2–1		2–4	1–0	3–2	3–0	0–1	0–2	1–0	2–1	3–2	4–1	1–3	1–3	2–0	1–1	0–1	1–1
Beşiktaş	6–1	2–3		2–2	2–0	4–0	2–1	0–0	3–4	1–1	0–0	3–2	2–1	1–0	4–1	2–1	2–0	1–0
Çaykur Rizespor	2–1	2–1	0–1		2–0	3–0	2–2	0–3	1–1	1–1	1–1	2–1	1–1	0–1	1–2	2–0	2–0	1–2
Denizlispor	4–2	1–1	3–1	3–0		0–0	2–0	0–0	2–1	1–1	2–2	2–1	2–1	0–0	2–0	6–1	2–0	0–2
Diyarbakırspor	1–0	1–0	0–0	1–1	0–1		0–2	2–0	3–0	1–3	1–0	2–1	3–3	1–2	0–1	1–0	3–0	0–1
Fenerbahçe	2–0	1–0	3–4	2–0	2–0	3–0		1–0	2–0	3–2	4–0	7–0	3–0	3–1	5–0	6–0	2–1	2–1
Galatasaray	2–0	4–2	1–0	2–1	4–0	1–0	1–0		5–1	1–2	4–1	5–1	3–1	1–1	2–1	1–0	3–1	0–2
Gaziantepspor	6–4	2–1	0–1	0–1	3–1	1–1	0–1	1–0		1–0	0–1	1–2	2–0	4–3	2–0	1–0	1–3	3–2
Gençlerbirliği	1–1	1–1	1–1	2–1	1–3	2–0	1–2	1–3	2–1		1–0	0–0	2–1	5–3	4–0	1–0	0–0	0–1
İstanbulspor	1–0	1–1	1–1	0–3	1–1	1–1	0–3	0–3	1–3	1–3		2–0	2–2	0–2	1–2	3–0	1–1	0–5
Kayserispor	4–1	0–0	1–2	2–1	1–0	3–0	0–2	2–2	3–1	1–2	0–0		2–2	1–1	1–1	1–0	1–4	0–3
Konyaspor	3–3	2–3	2–2	0–0	0–0	2–1	4–2	0–2	2–2	3–2	2–1	3–1		2–0	3–4	2–0	3–0	1–1
Malatyaspor	2–2	2–1	1–1	0–1	2–2	2–1	0–2	0–1	2–1	0–2	2–0	0–1	5–0		1–0	4–2	1–2	3–4
MKE Ankaragücü	2–1	2–5	1–4	0–0	1–1	4–1	1–0	0–1	2–1	1–0	0–0	2–2	1–1	3–0		2–7	1–2	0–2
Sakaryaspor	4–2	1–1	1–4	3–1	1–2	3–2	0–1	1–2	2–2	2–2	1–3	4–2	1–4	4–1	1–0		4–2	1–3
Samsunspor	3–0	0–0	2–4	0–1	4–0	0–1	1–1	2–1	1–3	2–0	2–1	3–3	1–1	0–1	1–1	1–1		0–4
Trabzonspor	3–1	2–2	1–0	1–0	3–0	4–1	0–2	0–1	0–0	3–1	1–1	3–1	4–2	3–0	3–1	4–3	3–0

Source: TFF, Mackolik
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Statistics

Top scorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Fatih Tekke	Trabzonspor	31
2	Alex	Fenerbahçe	24
3	Hakan Şükür	Galatasaray	18
	Mert Nobre	Fenerbahçe
	Zafer Biryol	Konyaspor
6	Jaba	Ankaraspor	17
7	Cenk Işler	Samsunspor	15
7	Necati Ateş	Galatasaray	15
9	Souleymane Youla	Gençlerbirliği	14
10	John Carew	Beşiktaş	13
10	Zdravko Lazarov	Gaziantepspor	13

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Hat-tricks

Player	For	Against	Result	Date
Hakan Şükür	Galatasaray	Konyaspor	3–1	8 August 2004
Jaba	Ankaraspor	Akçaabat Sebatspor	3–1	8 August 2004
Fatih Tekke	Trabzonspor	Malatyaspor	4–3	21 August 2004
Atilla Birlik	Malatyaspor	Konyaspor	5–0	26 September 2004
Alex de Souza	Fenerbahçe	MKE Ankaragücü	5–0	3 December 2004
Zdravko Lazarov	Gaziantepspor	Akçaabat Sebatspor	6–4	5 December 2004
Fatih Tekke	Trabzonspor	Samsunspor	4–0	11 December 2004
Umut Bulut	MKE Ankaragücü	Konyaspor	4–3	12 December 2004
Murat Sözkesen	Çaykur Rizespor	Diyarbakırspor	3–0	12 December 2004
Ziad Jaziri	Gaziantepspor	Denizlispor	3–1	30 January 2005
Ersen Martin	Denizlispor	Sakaryaspor	6–1	6 February 2005
Hasan Kabze	Galatasaray	İstanbulspor	3–0	12 March 2005
Alex de Souza	Fenerbahçe	Gençlerbirliği	3–2	13 March 2005
Sertan Eser	Gençlerbirliği	Akçaabat Sebatspor	5–0	30 April 2005
Fatih Tekke	Trabzonspor	Konyaspor	4–2	7 May 2005

References

Turkish-Soccer.com by Erdinç Sivritepe

^ Goal records Archived 2011-09-29 at the Wayback Machine

[table_note_res_CLGS0.469164627357-1] Liverpool, winner of 2004–05 UEFA Champions League, forced to play in the UEFA Champions League first qualifying round as they cannot finish 2004–05 FA Premier League top four, so the title holder spot in the group stage became vacant and this spot goes to best excluded champions, champion of Turkey, originally qualified for the third qualifying round.

[table_note_res_UC10.469164627357-2] Galatasaray have won the 2004–05 Turkish Cup competition and thus are qualified for the first round of the UEFA Cup.

[table_hth_SAM0.469164627357-3] Samsunspor were ahead of Ankaragücü on head-to-head record: Samsunspor–Ankaragücü 1–1, Ankaragücü–Samsunspor 1–2.

[table_hth_KAY0.469164627357-4] Kayserispor were ahead of Diyarbakırspor on head-to-head goal difference: Kayserispor–Diyarbakırspor 3–0, Diyarbakırspor–Kayserispor 2–1.

[5] Goal records Archived 2011-09-29 at the Wayback Machine

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