2011–12 TFF First League

1. Lig
Season	2011–12
Champions	Akhisar Belediyespor
Promoted	Akhisar Belediyespor; Elazığspor; Kasımpaşa
Relegated	Sakaryaspor; Güngörenspor; Giresunspor
Matches played	306
Goals scored	747 (2.44 per match)
Top goalscorer	Severin Bikoko (13 goals)
	← 2010–11 2012–13 →

The 2011–12 TFF 1. Lig, also known as Bank Asya 1. Lig due to sponsoring reasons, is the 11th season since the league was established in 2001 and 49th season of the second-level football league of Turkey since its establishment in 1963–64. The start date of the league was 14 August 2011 and end date is 13 May 2012.^[1]

Teams

Kasımpaşa, Bucaspor and Konyaspor relegated from Süper Lig after the 31st week games of 2011–12 Süper Lig. Mersin İdman Yurdu, Samsunspor and Orduspor promoted to 2011–12 Süper Lig.

Göztepe, Sakaryaspor and Elazığspor promoted from TFF Second League. Altay and Diyarbakırspor relegated to 2011–12 TFF Second League.

Gaziantep Büyükşehir Belediyespor

Location of teams in TFF First Lig 2011–12

Team summaries

Team	Venue	Capacity^[2]	Kitmaker^[3]	President^[4]	Coach^[5]
Adanaspor	Adana 5 Ocak Stadium	14,085	Nike	Bayram Akgül	Levent Eriş
Akhisar Belediyespor	Akhisar Belediye Stadium	2,918	Adidas	Hüseyin Eryüksel	Hamza Hamzaoğlu
Boluspor	Bolu Atatürk Stadium	8,881	Lescon	Necip Çarıkçı	Cihat Arslan
Bucaspor	Buca Arena	10,000	Lotto	Şeref Üstündağ	Sait Karafırtınalar
Çaykur Rizespor	New Rize City Stadium	15,485	Umbro	Metin Kalkavan	Hüseyin Kalpar
Denizlispor	Denizli Atatürk Stadium	15,427	Lescon	Salih Amiroğlu	Güvenç Kurtar
Elazığspor	Elazığ Atatürk Stadium	13,923	Lotto	Akın Şatıroğlu	Bülent Uygun
Gaziantep Büyükşehir Belediyespor	Kamil Ocak Stadium	16,981	Lotto	Ünsal Göksen	Erol Azgın
Giresunspor	Giresun Atatürk Stadium	12,191	Lescon	Ömer Ülkü	Bahri Kaya
Göztepe	İzmir Alsancak Stadium^[6]	15,358	Lotto	İnan Altınbaş	Özcan Kızıltan
Güngörenspor	Mimar Yahya Baş Stadium	7,589	Umbro	Yahya Baş	Fahrettin Genç
Karşıyaka	İzmir Atatürk Stadium	51,295	Lotto	Hüseyin Çalışkan	Reha Kapsal
Kartalspor	Kartal City Stadium	7,195	Lotto	Binali Aydın	Besim Durmuş
Kasımpaşa	Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Stadium	9,576	Lescon	H. Hilmi Öksüz	Uğur Tütüneker
Kayseri Erciyesspor	B.B. Kadir Has Stadium	32,864	Lotto	Ziya Eren	Fikret Yılmaz
Konyaspor	BŞ Bld Atatürk Stadium	22,559	Lotto	Bahattin Karapınar	Osman Özdemir
Sakaryaspor	Sakarya Atatürk Stadium	13,216	Lotto	Rauf Batuboylu	Şaban Yıldırım
TKİ Tavşanlı Linyitspor	Tavşanlı Ada City Stadium	3,000	Lotto	Mustafa Çokuslu	Coşkun Demibakan

Managerial changes

Before the start of the season

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Replaced by	Date of appointment
Çaykur Rizespor	Ümit Kayıhan	Contract ended	31 May 2011	Hüseyin Kalpar	18 May 2011^[7]
Kasımpaşa	Fuat Çapa	Contract ended	31 May 2011	Uğur Tütüneker	30 May 2011^[8]
Adanaspor	Eyüp Arın	Contract ended	31 May 2011	Levent Eriş	31 May 2011^[9]
Güngören Belediyespor	Metin Altınay	Contract ended	31 May 2011	Fahrettin Genç	1 June 2011^[10]
Kartalspor	Engin Korukır	Contract ended	31 May 2011	Besim Durmuş	3 June 2011^[11]
TKİ Tavşanlı Linyitspor	Mustafa Akçay	Contract ended	31 May 2011	Coşkun Demirbakan	10 June 2011^[12]
Boluspor	Hüsnü Özkara	Contract ended	31 May 2011	Cihat Arslan	11 June 2011^[13]
Kayseri Erciyesspor	Ergün Penbe	Contract ended	31 May 2011	Fikret Yılmaz	15 June 2011^[14]
Denizlispor	Kenan Atik	Contract ended	31 May 2011	Güvenç Kurtar	23 June 2011^[15]
Konyaspor	Yılmaz Vural	Contract ended	31 May 2011	Osman Özdemir	1 July 2011^[16]

After the start of the season

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Replaced by	Date of appointment

Foreign Players

Club	Player 1	Player 2	Player 3	Player 4	Former Players
Adanaspor	Marc Mbamba	Mbilla Etame			Fredrick Okwara
Akhisar Belediyespor	Diego Lima	Gideon Sani
Boluspor	Landry Matondo	Emmanuel Gomis	Omar Wade		Eugène Kouamé
Bucaspor	Kabiru Imoro				Leandrão Torric Jebrin
Çaykur Rizespor	Hair Zeqiri	Severin Bikoko	Ousman Jallow
Denizlispor	Eric Odhiambo	Mohamed Sakho	Gerard Gohou
Elazığspor
Gaziantep Büyükşehir Belediyespor
Giresunspor	Vilim Posinković	Emmanuel Banahene			Boka
Göztepe	Theo Lewis Weeks	Bradley Grobler			Bismark Idan
Güngörenspor	Benjamin Boateng	Obed Owusu	Paul Aidoo
Karşıyaka	Akeem Agbetu	Oliver Ogbonnaya	Azizullo Mahmudov		Dominic Adiyiah Karim Izrailov
Kartalspor	Deyvison	Muzafer Ejupi			Boubacar Fofana
Kasımpaşa	Luiz Henrique	Georgi Sarmov	Nikolay Dimitrov	Juan Robledo	Nourdin Boukhari
Kayseri Erciyesspor	Sofiane Hanni	Amit Guluzade	Insa Sylla	Hassan Wasswa	Vilim Posinković
Konyaspor	Mahamoudou Kéré	Marcin Robak	Mariusz Pawełek	Álvaro Mejía
Sakaryaspor
TKİ Tavşanlı Linyitspor	Souhalio Toure	Kingsley Nwankwo			Kazeem Ahmed

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Akhisar Belediyespor (C, P)	34	17	12	5	46	28	+18	63	Promotion to Süper Lig
2	Elazığspor (P)	34	18	7	9	45	30	+15	61	Promotion to Süper Lig
3	Çaykur Rizespor	34	16	11	7	52	44	+8	59	Qualification for Promotion Playoffs
4	Kasımpaşa (O, P)	34	16	11	7	50	39	+11	59
5	Konyaspor	34	16	11	7	35	25	+10	59
6	Adanaspor	34	14	11	9	46	32	+14	53
7	Boluspor	34	13	12	9	40	33	+7	51
8	Kayseri Erciyesspor	34	12	10	12	43	39	+4	46
9	Kartalspor	34	11	12	11	37	32	+5	45
10	Denizlispor	34	11	12	11	51	46	+5	45
11	TKİ Tavşanlı Linyitspor	34	12	7	15	42	39	+3	43
12	Bucaspor	34	12	7	15	45	53	−8	43
13	Göztepe A.Ş.	34	11	8	15	36	43	−7	41
14	Gaziantep B.B.	34	9	13	12	36	37	−1	40
15	Karşıyaka	34	10	9	15	31	37	−6	39
16	Giresunspor (R)	34	8	15	11	39	48	−9	39	Relegation to TFF Second League
17	Sakaryaspor (R)	34	4	9	21	31	66	−35	21
18	Güngörenspor (R)	34	2	11	21	24	58	−34	17

Source: TFF First League page
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(C) Champions; (O) Play-off winners; (P) Promoted; (R) Relegated

Positions by round

Team ╲ 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
Team ╲ Round
Akhisar Belediyespor	4	3	9	6	8	4	2	7	6	4	3	3	4	2	3	4	2	3	4	4	3	4	3	3	4	3	2	2	2	2	5	3	2	1
Elazığspor	16	6	4	9	10	5	8	6	2	1	4	4	2	3	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	2
Çaykur Rizespor	11	1	7	4	2	6	4	3	3	2	1	1	1	1	2	2	4	5	5	6	6	6	6	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	4	5	3	3
Kasımpaşa	12	12	5	2	7	3	5	8	8	5	5	5	6	5	5	3	3	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	3	3	3	4	3	2	4	4
Konyaspor	13	14	16	15	11	13	9	9	9	6	6	7	7	6	7	6	6	7	6	5	4	3	4	4	3	4	4	4	4	3	2	4	5	5
Adanaspor	1	7	2	1	4	8	12	11	11	12	12	12	11	9	11	9	9	12	12	10	11	10	11	8	7	8	7	7	7	7	6	6	6	6
Boluspor	9	2	1	3	1	1	1	2	4	7	7	8	5	7	6	7	7	4	3	3	5	5	5	7	8	6	6	6	6	6	7	7	7	7
Kayseri Erciyesspor	6	11	6	8	5	2	3	1	1	3	2	2	3	4	4	5	5	6	7	9	7	7	7	6	6	7	9	8	8	8	8	8	8	8
Kartalspor	5	4	10	10	9	9	6	4	5	9	9	6	8	8	10	12	11	13	13	13	13	12	10	10	9	9	10	9	11	11	11	9	10	9
Denizlispor	2	9	15	13	15	16	16	17	17	17	17	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	14	14	14	15	15	15	14	13	10	10	11	9	10
TKİ Tavşanlı Linyitspor	15	5	3	7	3	7	10	10	10	10	10	9	9	11	13	14	12	10	8	11	12	13	13	13	13	13	14	15	15	15	15	15	13	11
Bucaspor	7	17	11	11	13	11	11	12	12	8	8	10	12	12	8	8	8	8	10	8	10	11	12	11	11	10	11	12	9	9	9	10	11	12
Göztepe A.Ş.	14	15	8	5	6	12	13	13	14	14	13	13	13	10	12	13	14	14	14	14	14	15	15	15	14	14	13	13	14	14	14	14	12	13
Gaziantep B.B.	10	13	13	12	12	10	7	5	7	11	11	11	10	13	9	10	10	9	11	12	8	8	9	12	12	11	8	10	10	12	12	12	14	14
Karşıyaka	18	18	17	17	18	14	14	14	13	13	14	14	14	14	14	11	13	11	9	7	9	9	8	9	10	12	12	11	12	13	13	13	15	15
Giresunspor	8	10	12	14	14	15	15	15	15	15	15	16	17	17	17	17	17	17	17	17	17	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16
Sakaryaspor	3	8	14	16	16	17	18	16	16	16	16	17	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	17	17	17	17	17	17	17	17	17	17	17	17	17
Güngörenspor	17	16	18	18	17	18	17	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18

Source: TFF First League page

Results

Home \ Away	ADA	AKH	BOL	BUC	ÇYR	DEN	ELA	GBB	GRS	GÖZ	GÜN	KSK	KRT	KAS	KER	KON	SAK	TAV
Adanaspor		0–1	0–0	4–0	0–2	2–2	2–0	3–0	2–1	4–3	2–0	0–1	2–1	0–0	2–1	0–0	2–2	1–0
Akhisar Belediyespor	1–1		0–0	0–1	3–0	3–3	0–0	1–1	1–1	1–0	0–0	3–0	0–0	2–2	2–0	1–1	2–0	1–0
Boluspor	1–0	2–1		0–0	1–4	2–3	2–2	0–1	2–0	0–1	0–0	1–0	1–0	0–1	1–2	1–2	2–1	1–0
Bucaspor	2–2	1–3	0–2		0–1	5–2	2–1	2–1	2–1	1–2	2–1	2–0	0–2	3–3	1–1	0–0	3–0	2–7
Çaykur Rizespor	1–1	1–2	2–2	0–0		3–1	3–5	0–0	1–1	2–3	0–0	2–1	2–1	4–2	0–2	2–2	1–0	2–1
Denizlispor	3–1	2–3	2–0	1–0	1–1		0–1	0–0	6–1	2–1	3–1	0–0	1–1	0–3	1–1	1–2	4–0	1–3
Elazığspor	1–0	1–0	2–0	2–1	0–2	2–0		0–1	3–0	3–0	3–2	0–2	1–0	2–1	0–0	1–0	3–0	3–0
Gaziantep B.B.	2–1	1–1	0–0	2–1	3–0	0–0	1–2		0–0	2–4	0–0	0–0	2–0	4–1	1–3	0–1	5–1	1–1
Giresunspor	0–0	3–1	1–1	3–0	1–1	0–3	0–0	2–2		0–0	6–2	3–2	1–0	0–0	2–1	0–0	1–3	0–0
Göztepe A.Ş.	1–0	0–1	0–1	1–2	1–1	1–1	1–0	0–1	1–1		3–1	1–1	0–2	1–2	2–1	1–0	1–1	0–0
İstanbul Güngörenspor	0–2	0–1	0–1	1–5	0–1	0–3	0–0	2–0	2–3	1–1		1–3	0–0	0–1	0–0	0–2	2–3	2–1
Karşıyaka	0–2	2–0	1–3	0–0	2–4	1–1	0–1	0–0	2–1	1–0	0–0		2–1	0–1	0–1	0–1	1–0	2–1
Kartalspor	0–2	0–1	1–1	1–0	1–2	3–1	1–0	2–1	3–1	2–0	2–2	2–0		1–1	1–2	3–2	1–1	1–1
Kasımpaşa	1–1	1–2	1–1	3–1	1–2	2–0	0–1	2–1	2–2	2–1	2–1	2–1	1–1		1–0	3–1	3–2	0–1
Kayseri Erciyesspor	2–1	2–3	1–2	1–3	4–0	1–1	1–1	2–1	1–0	4–2	2–0	1–1	0–0	2–2		0–0	2–0	1–2
Konyaspor	0–2	0–0	1–1	1–0	1–3	1–0	4–1	1–0	1–1	2–1	2–1	1–0	0–0	0–0	1–0		1–0	0–1
Sakaryaspor	2–3	1–3	2–7	1–2	0–0	0–0	3–3	0–0	1–2	0–1	2–2	1–1	0–2	1–2	2–1	0–2		1–0
TKİ Tavşanlı Linyitspor	1–1	1–2	1–1	3–1	1–2	1–2	1–0	4–2	2–0	0–1	2–0	0–4	1–1	0–1	3–0	1–2	1–0

Source: TFF First League page
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Promotion playoffs

The teams ranked third through sixth will compete in the promotion playoffs for the 2012–13 Süper Lig. The 3rd team and 6th team will play two matches at home. Likewise 4th and 5th teams will play two matches elimination round. This round is named as semi-finals. Winner teams will play one final match at a neutral venue. Winner of the final will be third team to promote to Süper Lig 2012–2013.

Semi-finals 3–6

18 May 2012

Friday, 18:30

Adanaspor	3–1	Çaykur Rizespor
Barut 55' Mbilla Etame 57', 60'		Jallow 62'

5 Ocak, Adana

22 May 2012

Tuesday, 18:30

Çaykur Rizespor	0–1	Adanaspor
		Yıldız 47'

New Rize City, Rize

Semi-finals 4–5

19 May 2012

Saturday, 18:30

Konyaspor	0–2	Kasımpaşa
		Büyük 74' Dimitrov 82'

Atatürk, Konya

23 May 2012

Wednesday, 18:30

Kasımpaşa	4–0	Konyaspor
Dimitrov 17' Büyük 45', 52', 67'

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, İstanbul

Final

27 May 2012

Sunday, 19:00

Adanaspor	2–3 (a.e.t.)	Kasımpaşa
Oguz 67' Mbilla Etame 90'		Güleç 37' Büyük 72' Karadas 117'

19 Mayıs, Ankara

Referee: Fırat Aydınus

Season statistics

Top goalscorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Severin Bikoko	Çaykur Rizespor	18
2	Ousman Jallow	Çaykur Rizespor	15
3	Nikolay Dimitrov	Kasımpaşa	12
3	Ümit Tütünci	Tavşanlı Linyitspor	12
5	Sertan Vardar	Akhisar Belediyespor	11
5	Sinan Özkan	Elazığspor	11

References

^ TFF official page. "Seasonal plan for professional leagues in 2011–2012." Profesyonel liglerde 2011–2012 sezon planlaması. Retrieved on 26 June 2012. (in Turkish)
^ Information on grounds can be found in TFF Stadium search.
^ First league kits catalogue. Bank Asya 1. Lig Forma Seti Kataloğu TFF web site (in Turkish)
^ Presidents' names were obtained from TFF club search.
^ Managers can be found through TFF coach search.
^ Göztepe may also use İzmir Atatürk Stadium (51,295 seats) for high-attendance matches.
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