2005–06 Süper Lig

Süper Lig
Season	2005–06
Champions	Galatasaray; 16th title
Relegated	Malatyaspor; Samsunspor; Diyarbakırspor
Champions League	Galatasaray; Fenerbahçe
UEFA Cup	Beşiktaş; Trabzonspor
Intertoto Cup	Kayserispor
Matches played	306
Goals scored	849 (2.77 per match)
Top goalscorer	Gökhan Ünal; (25 goals)
	← 2004–05 2006–07 →

The 2005–06 Süper Lig season began with Turkcell signing a 5-year sponsorship deal with the Turkish Football Federation to name the league Turkcell Süper Lig.

Since Turkey dropped from tenth to eleventh place in the UEFA association coefficient rankings at the end of the 2004–05 season, the champions will not directly be entered into the group stage of the UEFA Champions League any more, but rather have to begin in the third qualification round.

The season also saw a first in Turkish football; for the first time in history the team that entered the last week first, Fenerbahçe, failed to win the title. Fenerbahçe and Galatasaray went into the last week deadlocked at 80 points and Fenerbahçe had a better head-to-head record. Fenerbahçe needed only a win to defend their title and win their third successive championship. However, a 1–1 draw to Denizlispor combined with a 3–0 Galatasaray win against Kayserispor gave Galatasaray their 16th league title. The same day, Gaziantepspor defeated Malatyaspor 1–0 and remained in the Süper Lig. Ankaraspor, with a 1–0 win away to Erciyesspor, managed to remain, but Malatyaspor, Samsunspor and Diyarbakırspor were relegated to TFF First League.

Foreign Players

Club	Player 1	Player 2	Player 3	Player 4	Player 5	Player 6	Player 7	Player 8	Former Players
Ankaragücü	Elvir Baljić	Héverton	Robson	Ivaylo Petkov	Hervé Zengue	Ahmad Belal	Charles-Édouard Coridon	Ali Ghariani	Jean
Ankaraspor	Jabá	Tita	Wederson	Adam Petrouš	Dragoslav Jevrić	Radoslav Batak			Balázs Molnár
Beşiktaş	Bobô	Kléberson	Óscar Córdoba	Tomáš Jun	Ahmed Hassan				Aílton Daniel Pancu
Çaykur Rizespor	Allyson	Douglas	Zdravko Zdravkov	Gustavo Victoria	Besheer El-Tabei	Pape Ciré Dia
Denizlispor	Alessandro Cambalhota	Alex Alves	Souleymanou Hamidou	Tomáš Abrahám	Miikka Multaharju	Roman Kratochvíl			Radek Dosoudil
Diyarbakırspor	Redi Jupi	Borislav Mikić	Goce Sedloski	Goran Maznov	Goran Stavrevski	Ermin Rakovič			Igor Jančevski Sami Gtari
Fenerbahçe	Alex	Fábio Luciano	Márcio Nobre	Marco Aurélio	Nicolas Anelka	Stephen Appiah
Galatasaray	Alioum Saidou	Rigobert Song	Faryd Mondragón	Stjepan Tomas	Marek Heinz	Saša Ilić
Gaziantepspor	Kenan Hasagić	Zdravko Lazarov	Tarik El Taib	Abdelilah Fahmi	Giani Kiriță	Sofiane Melliti	Shingayi Kaondera		Georgi Ivanov
Gençlerbirliği	Christophe Lepoint	Marcinho	David Abwo	Isaac Promise	Igor Bogdanović	Fredrik Risp			Christian Järdler
Kayserispor	Rashad Sadygov	Aleksandar Aleksandrov	Dimitar Ivankov	Samuel Johnson	Aleksandar Rodić
Kayseri Erciyesspor	Júlio César	Junivan	Lucien Mettomo	Serge Dié	Victor Agali	Khaled Fadhel	Riadh Bouazizi		Mamadou Seck
Konyaspor	Gustave Bebbe	Kaies Ghodhbane	Jobany Rivero						Vladimir Vasilj Ahmad Belal
Malatyaspor	Cris	Jiří Homola	Jiří Mašek	Tomáš Michálek	Zdeněk Šenkeřík	Balázs Tóth	Sebastian Johansson		Catatau Jean-Emmanuel Owona Ibrahim Kargbo
Samsunspor	Marciel	Rafael Marques	Alioum Boukar	Ibrahima Gueye	Dejan Maksić	Anis Ayari			Yordan Petkov Dejan Rađenović Oliver Kovačević

Final league table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Galatasaray (C)	34	26	5	3	82	34	+48	83	Qualification to Champions League third qualifying round
2	Fenerbahçe	34	25	6	3	90	34	+56	81	Qualification to Champions League second qualifying round
3	Beşiktaş	34	15	9	10	52	39	+13	54	Qualification to UEFA Cup first round^[a]
4	Trabzonspor	34	15	7	12	51	42	+9	52	Qualification to UEFA Cup second qualifying round
5	Kayserispor	34	15	6	13	59	42	+17	51^[b]	Qualification to Intertoto Cup second round
6	Gençlerbirliği	34	14	9	11	47	39	+8	51^[b]
7	Konyaspor	34	12	10	12	39	43	−4	46
8	Sivasspor	34	10	13	11	34	44	−10	43
9	Çaykur Rizespor	34	10	11	13	35	44	−9	41
10	Kayseri Erciyesspor	34	9	13	12	36	47	−11	40^[c]
11	Gaziantepspor	34	10	10	14	34	50	−16	40^[c]
12	Manisaspor	34	11	7	16	52	61	−9	40^[c]
13	MKE Ankaragücü	34	10	9	15	43	48	−5	39^[d]
14	Ankaraspor	34	9	12	13	44	51	−7	39^[d]
15	Denizlispor	34	9	10	15	41	50	−9	37
16	Malatyaspor (R)	34	9	9	16	34	50	−16	36^[e]	Relegation to Türk Telekom League A
17	Samsunspor (R)	34	9	9	16	45	62	−17	36^[e]
18	Diyarbakırspor (R)	34	8	5	21	31	69	−38	29

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

^ Beşiktaş have won the 2005–06 Turkish Cup competition and thus are qualified for the first round of the UEFA Cup.
^ ^a ^b Kayserispor were ahead of Gençlerbirliği on head-to-head goal difference: Kayserispor–Gençlerbirliği 2–0, Gençlerbirliği–Kayserispor 3–2.
^ ^a ^b ^c Kayseri Erciyesspor were ahead of Gaziantepspor and Manisaspor on head-to-head points: Kayseri Erciyesspor: 12 pts, Gaziantepspor: 4 pts, Manisaspor: 1 pts.
^ ^a ^b Trabzonspor were ahead of Ankaraspor on head-to-head record: Ankaragücü–Ankaraspor 3–2, Ankaraspor–Ankaragücü 1–2.
^ ^a ^b Malatyaspor were ahead of Samsunspor on head-to-head record: Malatyaspor–Samsunspor 3–0, Samsunspor–Malatyaspor 1–2.

Results

Home \ Away	ANG	ANK	BJK	ÇRZ	DEN	DIY	FEN	GSY	GAZ	GBR	KAY	KER	KON	MAL	SAM	SIV	TRB	VMN
Ankaragücü		3–2	2–3	1–0	1–1	5–1	1–4	0–1	2–1	1–1	2–0	1–2	3–0	0–1	1–1	0–0	1–2	0–2
Ankaraspor	1–2		2–0	0–0	1–3	3–3	2–1	1–2	3–0	0–0	1–3	1–1	0–0	1–2	3–3	1–1	0–2	3–1
Beşiktaş	4–2	3–0		0–1	2–0	1–1	1–2	1–2	0–1	2–1	0–0	2–2	0–1	2–2	3–2	0–1	0–1	3–1
Çaykur Rizespor	1–0	1–1	1–0		1–2	2–0	1–2	0–3	0–0	1–1	0–0	2–2	1–1	1–0	1–2	1–0	1–6	4–1
Denizlispor	0–0	1–1	1–1	2–0		1–0	1–1	1–2	1–2	0–2	1–3	1–1	5–2	1–0	1–2	4–0	0–1	1–1
Diyarbakırspor	0–3	1–2	1–3	1–0	1–0		0–4	1–3	1–2	0–2	0–2	2–1	0–3^[a]	3–2	0–0	1–1	3–0	0–2
Fenerbahçe	2–1	2–1	2–2	1–1	6–2	2–2		4–0	1–0	3–0	3–0	4–2	5–0	2–0	5–2	3–0	2–2	2–1
Galatasaray	2–0	4–0	3–2	4–2	1–1	2–0	0–1		6–0	3–0	3–0	4–2	2–1	5–2	3–2	2–0	4–1	4–2
Gaziantepspor	1–1	3–3	2–2	1–1	1–0	2–0	0–2	2–2		1–1	1–4	1–2	2–0	1–0	0–1	0–0	0–2	1–1
Gençlerbirliği	1–1	2–1	0–2	1–3	3–3	4–0	0–0	2–1	3–1		3–2	3–0	1–1	2–0	0–1	0–1	1–0	2–1
Kayserispor	1–2	2–1	0–1	3–1	2–2	3–0	1–0	1–3	0–1	2–0		1–2	1–0	2–0	6–3	2–2	4–2	7–2
Kayseri Erciyesspor	1–2	0–1	1–1	0–2	2–0	0–2	0–3	1–2	1–0	2–0	0–0		0–0	1–1	2–2	0–0	1–0	2–1
Konyaspor	2–0	0–0	0–1	3–1	1–0	5–1	2–4	0–1	3–2	0–3	1–0	2–0		0–2	4–2	2–1	0–0	1–1
Malatyaspor	0–0	0–2	1–1	1–0	0–1	1–2	0–3	1–1	2–0	1–3	2–1	2–2	1–0		3–0	0–0	1–1	0–5
Samsunspor	2–1	0–1	1–3	0–0	1–2	1–0	0–5	1–2	2–3	2–0	0–0	1–1	1–1	1–2		1–2	3–1	1–1
Sivasspor	3–1	2–2	1–3	1–2	1–0	4–1	2–3	0–0	0–0	2–1	0–5	3–0	1–1	1–1	0–3		2–1	1–0
Trabzonspor	3–1	2–3	1–2	3–1	3–0	3–0	2–3	1–1	2–0	1–1	2–1	0–0	1–2	1–0	2–1	0–0		0–2
Vestel Manisaspor	2–2	1–0	0–1	1–1	4–2	0–3	5–3	1–4	1–2	0–3	1–0	0–2	0–0	4–3	3–0	3–1	1–2

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

^ Diyarbakırspor-Konyaspor match was halted at 86th minute due to breaking seats and throwing them by spectators to the pitch and the police during score was 0-1. This match awarded 3-0 for Konyaspor.

Statistics

Top scorers

Last updated on May 23, 2008^[1]^[2]

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Gökhan Ünal	Kayserispor	25
2	Fatih Tekke	Trabzonspor	22
3	Cenk Işler	Kayseri Erciyesspor	20
4	Necati Ateş	Galatasaray	18
5	Mert Nobre	Fenerbahçe	17
5	Ümit Karan	Galatasaray	17
7	Umut Bulut	Ankaragücü	16
8	Tuncay	Fenerbahçe	15
9	Alex	Fenerbahçe	14
9	Mehmet Çakır	Gençlerbirliği	14

Hat-tricks

Player	For	Against	Result	Date
Ümit Karan	Galatasaray	Malatyaspor	5–2	25 August 2005
Semih Şentürk	Fenerbahçe	Denizlispor	6–2	17 December 2005
Ümit Karan	Galatasaray	Gaziantepspor	6–0	12 February 2006
Sinan Kaloğlu	Manisaspor	Fenerbahçe	5–3	15 April 2006
Fatih Tekke	Trabzonspor	Çaykur Rizespor	6–1	23 April 2006
Gökhan Ünal	Kayserispor	Manisaspor	7–2	6 May 2006

References

^ "2005-2006 SEZONU GOL KRALLIĞI" (in Turkish). turkfutbolu.net. Archived from the original on 23 July 2008. Retrieved 20 April 2021.
^ "Ligin Gol Kralları" (in Turkish). Turkish Football Federation. Archived from the original on 13 September 2008. Retrieved 20 April 2021.

[table_note_res_UC10.56444500133602-1] Beşiktaş have won the 2005–06 Turkish Cup competition and thus are qualified for the first round of the UEFA Cup.

[table_hth_KAY0.56444500133602-2] Kayserispor were ahead of Gençlerbirliği on head-to-head goal difference: Kayserispor–Gençlerbirliği 2–0, Gençlerbirliği–Kayserispor 3–2.

[table_hth_KEC0.56444500133602-3] Kayseri Erciyesspor were ahead of Gaziantepspor and Manisaspor on head-to-head points: Kayseri Erciyesspor: 12 pts, Gaziantepspor: 4 pts, Manisaspor: 1 pts.

[table_hth_MKE0.56444500133602-4] Trabzonspor were ahead of Ankaraspor on head-to-head record: Ankaragücü–Ankaraspor 3–2, Ankaraspor–Ankaragücü 1–2.

[table_hth_MAL0.56444500133602-5] Malatyaspor were ahead of Samsunspor on head-to-head record: Malatyaspor–Samsunspor 3–0, Samsunspor–Malatyaspor 1–2.

[table_note_1_DIY_KON0.55525962149504-6] Diyarbakırspor-Konyaspor match was halted at 86th minute due to breaking seats and throwing them by spectators to the pitch and the police during score was 0-1. This match awarded 3-0 for Konyaspor.

[7] "2005-2006 SEZONU GOL KRALLIĞI" (in Turkish). turkfutbolu.net. Archived from the original on 23 July 2008. Retrieved 20 April 2021.

[8] "Ligin Gol Kralları" (in Turkish). Turkish Football Federation. Archived from the original on 13 September 2008. Retrieved 20 April 2021.

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