2019–20 TFF First League

TFF First League
Season	2019–20
Dates	16 August 2019 – 19 July 2020
Champions	Hatayspor
Promoted	Hatayspor; BB Erzurumspor ; Fatih Karagümrük
Matches played	311
Goals scored	786 (2.53 per match)
Top goalscorer	Marco Paixão (22 goals)
Biggest home win	Ümraniyespor 4–0 Altınordu ; (26 October 2019); İstanbulspor 4–0 Fatih Karagümrük ; (29 November 2019)
Biggest away win	Balıkesirspor 1–6 Adana Demirspor ; (20 January 2020) ; Balıkesirspor 0–5 İstanbulspor ; (16 February 2020) ; Balıkesirspor 0–5 Fatih Karagümrük ; (2 July 2020)
Highest scoring	Akhisarspor 4–3 İstanbulspor ; (7 December 2019) ; Balıkesirspor 1–6 Adana Demirspor ; (20 January 2020) ; Akhisarspor 3–4 Fatih Karagümrük ; (18 July 2020) ; Osmanlıspor 4–3 Balıkesirspor ; (19 July 2020)
Longest winning run	Hatayspor ; (5 matches)
Longest unbeaten run	Fatih Karagümrük ; (14 matches)
Longest winless run	Boluspor ; (16 matches)
Longest losing run	Eskişehirspor ; Giresunspor ; (5 matches)
	← 2018–19 2020–21 → All statistics correct as of 30 July 2020.

The 2019–20 TFF First League was the 19th season since the league was established in 2001 and 57th season of the second-level football league of Turkey since its establishment in 1963–64. The season began on 16 August 2019 and the regular season will be ended on 2 May 2020.^[2] Fixtures for the 2019–20 season were announced on 18 July 2019.^[3] On 12 March 2020, The Ministry of Youth and Sports announced matches will be played behind closed doors in the stadiums until the end of April due to the coronavirus pandemic.^[4] On 19 March 2020, the league was suspended.^[5] The league resumed behind closed doors on 19 June until 19 July 2020. The semi-finals were played on 22 and 26 July, then the final was played on 30 July 2020.

Teams

Akhisarspor, BB Erzurumspor and Bursaspor relegated from 2018–19 Süper Lig.
Denizlispor, Gençlerbirliği and Gazişehir Gaziantep promoted to 2019–20 Süper Lig.
Afjet Afyonspor, Elazığspor and Kardemir Karabükspor relegated to 2019–20 TFF Second League.
Keçiörengücü, Menemenspor and Fatih Karagümrük promoted from 2018–19 TFF Second League.

Stadiums and locations

Istanbul

Adana Demirspor
Adanaspor

Location of teams in 2019–20 TFF First League

Fatih Karagümrük

İstanbulspor

Ümraniyespor

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Istanbul Province clubs

Team	Home city	Stadium	Capacity
Adana Demirspor	Adana (Yüreğir)	Adana 5 Ocak Stadium	14,805
Adanaspor	Adana (Çukurova)	Adana 5 Ocak Stadium	14,805
Akhisarspor	Manisa (Akhisar)	Spor Toto Akhisar Stadium	12,139
Altay	İzmir (Gaziemir)	İzmir Atatürk Stadium	51,295
Altınordu	İzmir (Karabağlar)	Doğanlar Stadium	12,500
Balıkesirspor	Balıkesir	Balıkesir Atatürk Stadium	15,800
BB Erzurumspor	Erzurum	Kazım Karabekir Stadium	23,277
Boluspor	Bolu	Bolu Atatürk Stadium	8,456
Bursaspor	Bursa	Büyüksehir Belediyesi Stadium	43,361
Eskişehirspor	Eskişehir	New Eskişehir Stadium	34,930
Fatih Karagümrük	Istanbul (Fatih)	Vefa Stadium	12,500
Giresunspor	Giresun	Giresun Atatürk Stadium	12,191
Hatayspor	Hatay	Antakya Atatürk Stadium	6,015
İstanbulspor	Istanbul (Büyükçekmece)	Necmi Kadıoğlu Stadium	4,491
Keçiörengücü	Ankara (Keçiören)	Ankara Aktepe Stadium	4,883
Menemenspor	İzmir (Menemen)	Menemen İlçe Stadium	2,500
Osmanlıspor	Ankara (Sincan)	Osmanlı Stadium	20,000
Ümraniyespor	Istanbul (Ümraniye)	Ümraniye Belediyesi Şehir Stadium	1,601

Foreign Players

Club	Player 1	Player 2	Player 3	Player 4	Player 5	Player 6	Player 7	Player 8	Player 9	Player 10	Former Players
Adana Demirspor	Mustapha Carayol	Pa Dibba	Hamidou Traoré	Ibrahima Koné	Jakub Kosecki	Joher Rassoul	Milan Mitrović	Aias Aosman	Oleksandr Hladkyi		Jonathan Legear Anderson Anthony Stokes Djemoussa Traore
Adanaspor	Renan Diniz	Roni	Goran Karačić	Mbilla Etame	Giorgi Arabidze	Moussa Bagayoko	Emeka Eze	Amidou Diop
Akhisarspor	Sokol Cikalleshi	Avdija Vršajević	Edin Cocalić	Irfan Hadžić	Elmar Bjarnason	Milan Lukač	Rajko Rotman
Altay	Anton Putsila	Leandrinho	Hélder Tavares	Andreas Tatos	Leandro Kappel	Adamu Alhassan	Asuque Aniekeme	Marco Paixão	Prince Segbefia
Altınordu
Balıkesirspor	Nemanja Anđušić	Nermin Hodzic	Foxi Kéthévoama	Andrija Vuković	Antonio Mršić	Mahatma Otoo	Aly Mallé	Francis Ezeh			Tomislav Glumac
BB Erzurumspor	Jugurtha Hamroun	Mickaël Poté	Ibrahim Šehić	Jasmin Šćuk	Gabriel Obertan	Rashad Muhammed	Ibrahim Sissoko	Mahamadou Ba			Gilles Sunu
Boluspor	Moïse Adiléhou	Emir Halilović	Dodô	Alimardon Shukurov	Rydell Poepon	Seth Sincere	Dzon Delarge	Orlando Mosquera	Rok Kidric
Bursaspor	Abdou Traoré	Shehu Abdullahi	Jani Atanasov	Mamadou Diarra	Yevhen Seleznyov						Igor Silva Iasmin Latovlevici
Eskişehirspor											Kamal Issah Ibrahim Sissoko Jesse Sekidika Marko Milinković
Fatih Karagümrük	Cristóbal Jorquera	Joseph Attamah	Brahim Darri	Raheem Lawal	Artur Sobiech	Alassane Ndao	Bojan Šaranov	Erik Sabo	Gaber Dobrovoljc	Innocent Emeghara	Alagie Sosseh Stefan Silva
Giresunspor	Adriano	Renan Foguinho	Guy-Michel Landel	Cristian Tănase	Raul Rusescu	Marko Milinković	Yonathan Del Valle				Stallone Limbombe
Hatayspor	Strahil Popov	Idir Ouali	Rayane Aabid	Joseph Akomadi	Hélder Barbosa	Dame Diop					Jeremy Bokila Hamidou Maiga
İstanbulspor	Kamal Issah	Wellington	Patrick Etoga	Kamal Issah	Papa Alioune Diouf						Joseph Mensah Allahyar Sayyadmanesh
Keçiörengücü	Jeremy Bokila	Lévy Madinda	Famoussa Koné	Idrissa Diarra	Boubacar Dialiba	Theo Mendy
Menemenspor	Gentian Selmani	David Domgjoni	Henri Onoka	Rasheed Akanbi	Sikiru Olatunbosun	Jasmin Trtovac					Abdelaye Diakité Ibrahim Sangaré
Osmanlıspor	Ognjen Todorović	Eric Ayuk	Jovan Blagojević	Santiago Mele
Ümraniyespor	Ajdin Hasić	Tomislav Glumac	Tonći Mujan	Ghislain Gimbert	Riad Nouri	Chukwuma Akabueze	Vasco Fernandes				Valentin Lazăr

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Hatayspor (C, P)	34	19	9	6	48	28	+20	66	Promotion to the Süper Lig
2	BB Erzurumspor (P)	34	18	8	8	41	25	+16	62	Promotion to the Süper Lig
3	Adana Demirspor	34	17	10	7	68	44	+24	61	Qualification for the Süper Lig Playoffs
4	Akhisarspor	34	16	9	9	46	39	+7	57
5	Fatih Karagümrük (P)	34	15	11	8	53	39	+14	56
6	Bursaspor^[a]	34	17	8	9	49	41	+8	56
7	Altay	34	14	12	8	45	37	+8	54
8	Keçiörengücü	34	13	11	10	33	28	+5	50
9	Menemenspor	34	11	11	12	42	46	−4	44^[b]
10	Giresunspor	34	12	8	14	40	47	−7	44^[b]
11	Ümraniyespor	34	12	8	14	48	51	−3	44^[b]
12	İstanbulspor	34	9	13	12	45	43	+2	40
13	Balıkesirspor	34	9	11	14	36	48	−12	38
14	Altınordu	34	8	13	13	37	44	−7	37
15	Boluspor	34	6	15	13	30	41	−11	33
16	Osmanlıspor^[c]	34	8	9	17	41	53	−12	30
17	Adanaspor	34	3	12	19	31	53	−22	21
18	Eskişehirspor^[d]	34	7	6	21	34	60	−26	12

Source: TFF
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head points; 3) Head-to-head goal difference; 4) Head-to-head goals scored; 5) Goal difference; 6) Goals scored
(C) Champions; (P) Promoted
Notes:

^ Bursaspor have been deducted 3 points.
^ ^a ^b ^c Head-to-head points: Menemenspor 7, Giresunspor 6, Ümraniyespor 4
^ Osmanlıspor have been deducted 3 points.
^ Eskişehirspor have been deducted 15 points.

Positions by round

The table lists the positions of teams after each week of matches. In order to preserve chronological evolvements, any postponed matches are not included to the round at which they were originally scheduled, but added to the full round they were played immediately afterwards.

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
Hatayspor	7	2	2	3	7	4	2	1	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
BB Erzurumspor	8	13	8	13	10	12	10	10	8	5	6	4	2	3	2	4	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	3	2	2	2
Adana Demirspor	3	4	5	8	3	5	8	11	10	11	11	10	13	11	13	11	8	8	5	4	4	4	4	3	3	3	5	4	3	3	2	3	3	3
Akhisarspor	6	7	10	7	2	1	4	2	5	4	5	3	5	2	3	3	5	4	6	8	7	6	9	7	7	5	4	5	6	5	5	5	4	4
Fatih Karagümrük	1	3	3	4	4	9	5	3	3	6	2	7	8	8	7	10	11	12	11	11	11	9	6	5	6	7	6	6	7	7	6	6	6	5
Bursaspor	15	9	4	2	6	2	11	8	7	7	8	5	3	4	6	7	6	3	3	3	3	3	3	4	4	4	3	3	5	4	4	4	5	6
Altay	14	15	11	6	8	11	6	4	6	8	10	11	10	12	10	9	10	9	9	6	5	8	5	6	5	6	7	7	4	6	7	7	7	7
Keçiörengücü	10	5	6	5	5	7	7	6	9	9	7	9	6	6	8	5	3	5	4	5	8	5	7	9	9	10	10	10	10	9	9	9	8	8
Menemenspor	4	11	12	15	15	15	13	12	12	10	9	6	7	7	5	2	4	7	8	10	9	7	10	11	12	12	12	12	11	11	11	11	11	9
Giresunspor	17	17	17	17	17	17	16	17	15	15	13	12	11	10	11	12	12	11	10	9	6	10	12	12	10	9	9	8	8	8	10	10	10	10
Ümraniyespor	2	1	1	1	1	3	1	5	1	2	3	2	4	5	4	6	7	6	7	7	12	11	8	8	8	8	8	9	9	10	8	8	9	11
İstanbulspor	9	12	14	10	12	10	9	9	11	12	12	13	12	13	12	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	12	12	12
Balıkesirspor	16	10	13	9	9	6	3	7	4	3	4	8	9	9	9	8	9	10	12	12	10	12	11	10	11	11	11	11	12	12	12	13	13	13
Altınordu	13	16	15	12	14	14	15	15	17	17	17	16	16	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14
Boluspor	11	14	16	16	16	16	17	16	14	14	14	14	14	16	16	16	16	17	17	17	18	18	17	16	16	16	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	15
Osmanlıspor	5	8	9	14	11	8	12	14	13	13	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	16	15	15	15	15	15	15	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16
Adanaspor	12	6	7	11	13	13	14	13	16	16	16	17	17	17	17	17	17	16	16	15	16	16	16	17	17	17	17	17	17	17	17	17	17	17
Eskişehirspor	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	17	17	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18

	Champion, Promotion to Süper Lig
	Promotion to Süper Lig
	Play-off

Source: TFF

Results

Home \ Away	ADS	ADA	AKH	ALT	ATO	BAL	BBE	BOL	BUR	ESK	FKG	GRS	HAT	İST	KÖG	MBS	OSM	ÜMR
Adana Demirspor	—	4–1	2–3	2–2	4–2	2–0	1–0	2–2	4–1	2–3	1–1	4–2	1–1	3–0	0–0	0–1	2–1	4–2
Adanaspor	0–0	—	0–0	3–3	0–0	1–1	0–0	0–0	2–3	3–2	2–0	1–1	1–2	2–2	1–1	1–3	2–1	0–1
Akhisarspor	1–1	1–0	—	2–1	0–0	3–1	0–0	0–0	0–1	2–1	0–2	2–0	3–1	4–3	3–4	2–2	3–2	1–0
Altay	1–0	3–1	3–1	—	1–0	1–0	0–1	2–1	2–1	1–1	0–1	0–0	2–1	1–0	0–0	0–2	3–0	1–3
Altınordu	2–2	1–0	2–0	0–3	—	1–1	2–1	2–0	0–0	4–1	1–2	3–1	2–2	1–1	1–2	1–0	2–2	1–2
Balıkesirspor	1–6	3–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	—	2–1	3–2	1–3	2–0	0–5	2–0	0–1	0–5	2–2	0–1	1–1	2–0
BB Erzurumspor	1–2	2–1	0–0	1–3	1–0	1–0	—	1–0	2–1	1–0	1–3	2–0	3–1	2–2	1–0	2–0	2–0	4–1
Boluspor	0–0	2–1	0–1	0–2	0–0	1–1	1–1	—	1–1	1–1	0–2	2–0	1–0	1–2	3–1	2–2	0–2	1–1
Bursaspor	2–1	1–0	2–1	2–2	1–0	0–0	1–0	1–1	—	0–1	2–1	2–3	2–1	1–1	1–0	2–2	3–1	2–1
Eskişehirspor	1–4	0–0	1–2	2–2	3–0	1–2	1–2	0–3	0–2	—	1–3	0–2	0–1	0–3	1–1	3–0	3–2	3–1
Fatih Karagümrük	2–2	3–0	2–3	2–2	3–3	0–0	0–1	3–1	3–1	2–0	—	2–1	1–1	1–0	0–2	1–1	2–0	2–3
Giresunspor	1–0	3–1	1–0	1–2	1–1	0–3	0–2	2–0	0–1	3–1	1–1	—	2–2	2–1	1–0	0–2	2–1	2–1
Hatayspor	2–1	1–0	2–3	3–2	1–0	2–0	0–0	3–0	3–1	1–0	0–0	1–1	—	1–0	1–0	2–0	1–0	2–0
İstanbulspor	0–2	1–0	0–1	2–2	0–2	2–2	1–1	0–0	1–2	1–0	4–0	2–1	2–2	—	1–1	1–2	1–0	2–1
Keçiörengücü	1–3	2–0	1–0	2–0	2–1	1–0	1–0	0–1	1–0	0–1	3–0	0–0	0–1	0–0	—	2–1	1–0	1–1
Menemenspor	2–3	4–2	0–1	1–1	1–1	1–0	0–0	1–1	2–1	3–1	0–1	0–3	0–4	2–2	1–1	—	1–2	3–0^[a]
Osmanlıspor	2–3	2–2	2–1	0–0	2–1	4–3	1–3	2–1	2–4	1–1	1–1	1–1	0–1	1–1	0–0	2–0	—	3–2
Ümraniyespor	2–3	2–1	2–2	1–0	4–0	0–3	1–2	1–1	1–1	3–0	1–1	4–1	0–0	2–1	2–0	1–1	1–0	—

Source: TFF (in Turkish)
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
For upcoming matches, an "a" indicates there is an article about the rivalry between the two participants.
Notes:

^ Match awarded.

Promotion Playoffs

Semifinals

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Bursaspor	1–4	Adana Demirspor	0–0	1–4
Fatih Karagümrük	4–3	Akhisarspor	3–3	1–0

Final

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Adana Demirspor	1–1 (5–6 p)	Fatih Karagümrük

Statistics

Top goalscorers

As of matches played 19 July 2020^[6]

Top goalscorers
Rank	Player	Team	Goals
1	Marco Paixão	Altay	22
2	Raul Rusescu	Giresunspor	12
3	Emircan Altıntaş	Ümraniyespor	11
	Erkan Zengin	Adana Demirspor
	Mertan Caner Öztürk	Osmanlıspor
6	Burhan Eşer	Akhisarspor	10
	Ghislain Gimbert	Ümraniyespor
	Mehmet Akyüz	Adana Demirspor
	Samed Kaya	Menemenspor
	Yevhen Seleznyov	Bursaspor

References

^ "Süper Lig ne zaman başlayacak 2019-2020 sezonu". milliyet.com.tr (in Turkish). 3 May 2019. Retrieved 7 June 2019.
^ "Profesyonel liglerde 2019-2020 sezonu başlangıç tarihleri belli oldu". tff.org (in Turkish). 3 May 2019. Archived from the original on 8 May 2019.
^ "TFF 1. Lig fikstürü çekildi". tff.org (in Turkish). 18 July 2019. Archived from the original on 12 August 2019.
^ "Türkiye'de o tarihe kadar tüm spor müsabakaları seyircisiz oynanacak" (in Turkish). Hürriyet. 12 March 2020. Retrieved 12 March 2020.
^ "Süper Lig'de maçlar ertelendi!" (in Turkish). Hürriyet. 19 March 2020. Retrieved 19 March 2020.
^ "TFF 1. Lig Gol Krallığı". TFF. Retrieved 7 July 2020.

External links

(in Turkish and English) Turkish Football Federation PTT 1. League

[table_note_BUR0.78280251556207-6] Bursaspor have been deducted 3 points.

[table_hth_MEN0.78280251556207-7] Head-to-head points: Menemenspor 7, Giresunspor 6, Ümraniyespor 4

[table_note_OSM0.78280251556207-8] Osmanlıspor have been deducted 3 points.

[table_note_ESK0.78280251556207-9] Eskişehirspor have been deducted 15 points.

[table_note_1_MBS_ÜMR0.63601209206321-10] Match awarded.

[1] "Süper Lig ne zaman başlayacak 2019-2020 sezonu". milliyet.com.tr (in Turkish). 3 May 2019. Retrieved 7 June 2019.

[2] "Profesyonel liglerde 2019-2020 sezonu başlangıç tarihleri belli oldu". tff.org (in Turkish). 3 May 2019. Archived from the original on 8 May 2019.

[3] "TFF 1. Lig fikstürü çekildi". tff.org (in Turkish). 18 July 2019. Archived from the original on 12 August 2019.

[4] "Türkiye'de o tarihe kadar tüm spor müsabakaları seyircisiz oynanacak" (in Turkish). Hürriyet. 12 March 2020. Retrieved 12 March 2020.

[5] "Süper Lig'de maçlar ertelendi!" (in Turkish). Hürriyet. 19 March 2020. Retrieved 19 March 2020.

[11] "TFF 1. Lig Gol Krallığı". TFF. Retrieved 7 July 2020.

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