2005–06 Süper Lig

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 an 1-0 win away to Erciyesspor, managed to remain, but Malatyaspor, Samsunspor and Diyarbakirspor were relegated to TFF First League.

Final league table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation	Head-to-head
1	Galatasaray (C)	34	26	5	3	82	34	+48	83	2006–07 UEFA Champions League Third qualifying round
2	Fenerbahçe	34	25	6	3	90	34	+56	81	2006–07 UEFA Champions League Second qualifying round
3	Beşiktaş	34	15	9	10	52	39	+13	54	2006–07 UEFA Cup First round 1
4	Trabzonspor	34	15	7	12	51	42	+9	52	2006–07 UEFA Cup Second qualifying round
5	Kayserispor	34	15	6	13	59	42	+17	51	2006 UEFA Intertoto Cup Second round	KAY 2-0 GBR GBR 3-2 KAY
6	Gençlerbirliği	34	14	9	11	47	39	+8	51
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		KER: 12 pts GAZ: 4 pts VMN: 1 pt
11	Gaziantepspor	34	10	10	14	34	50	−16	40
12	Manisaspor	34	11	7	16	52	61	−9	40
13	MKE Ankaragücü	34	10	9	15	43	48	−5	39		ANG 3-2 ANK ANK 1-2 ANG
14	Osmanlıspor	34	9	12	13	44	51	−7	39
15	Denizlispor	34	9	10	15	41	50	−9	37
16	Malatyaspor (R)	34	9	9	16	34	50	−16	36		MAL 3-0 SAM SAM 1-2 MAL
17	Samsunspor (R)	34	9	9	16	45	62	−17	36
18	Diyarbakırspor (R)	34	8	5	21	31	69	−38	29

Updated to games played on September 25, 2008.
Source: [1]
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
¹winner of Turkish Cup.
(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.

Tablewise results

Last updated: May 14

	Team	GSY	FEN	BJK	TRB	KAY	GBR	KON	SIV	ÇRZ	KER	GAZ	VMN	ANG	ANK	DEN	MAL	SAM	DIY
1.	Galatasaray	XXX	0-1	3-2	4-1	3-0	3-0	2-1	2-0	4-2	4-2	6-0	4-2	2-0	4-0	1-1	5-2	3-2	2-0
2.	Fenerbahçe	4-0	XXX	2-2	2-2	3-0	3-0	5-0	3-0	1-1	4-2	1-0	2-1	2-1	2-1	6-2	2-0	5-2	2-2
3.	Beşiktaş	1-2	1-2	XXX	0-1	0-0	2-1	0-1	0-1	0-1	2-2	0-1	3-1	4-2	3-0	2-0	2-2	3-2	1-1
4.	Trabzonspor	1-1	2-3	1-2	XXX	2-1	1-1	1-2	0-0	3-1	0-0	2-0	0-2	3-1	2-3	3-0	1-0	2-1	3-0
5.	Kayserispor	1-3	1-0	0-1	4-2	XXX	2-0	1-0	2-2	3-1	1-2	0-1	7-2	1-2	2-1	2-2	2-0	6-3	3-0
6.	Gençlerbirliği	2-1	0-0	0-2	1-0	3-2	XXX	1-1	0-1	1-3	3-0	3-1	2-1	1-1	2-1	3-3	2-0	0-1	4-0
7.	Konyaspor	0-1	2-4	0-1	0-0	1-0	0-3	XXX	2-1	3-1	2-0	3-2	1-1	2-0	0-0	1-0	0-2	4-2	5-1
8.	Sivasspor	0-0	2-3	1-3	2-1	0-5	2-1	1-1	XXX	1-2	3-0	0-0	1-0	3-1	2-2	1-0	1-1	0-3	4-1
9.	Çaykur Rizespor	0-3	1-2	1-0	1-6	0-0	1-1	1-1	1-0	XXX	2-2	0-0	4-1	1-0	1-1	1-2	1-0	1-2	2-0
10.	Kayseri Erciyesspor	1-2	0-3	1-1	1-0	0-0	2-0	0-0	0-0	0-2	XXX	1-0	2-1	1-2	0-1	2-0	1-1	2-2	0-2
11.	Gaziantepspor	2-2	0-2	2-2	0-2	1-4	1-1	2-0	0-0	1-1	1-2	XXX	1-1	1-1	3-3	1-0	1-0	0-1	2-0
12.	Vestel Manisaspor	1-4	5-3	0-1	1-2	1-0	0-3	0-0	3-1	1-1	0-2	1-2	XXX	2-2	1-0	4-2	4-3	3-0	0-3
13.	Ankaragücü	0-1	1-4	2-3	1-2	2-0	1-1	3-0	0-0	1-0	1-2	2-1	0-2	XXX	3-2	1-1	0-1	1-1	5-1
14.	Ankaraspor	1-2	2-1	2-0	0-2	1-3	0-0	0-0	1-1	0-0	1-1	3-0	3-1	1-2	XXX	1-3	1-2	3-3	3-3
15.	Denizlispor	1-2	1-1	1-1	0-1	1-3	0-2	5-2	4-0	2-0	1-1	1-2	1-1	0-0	1-1	XXX	1-0	1-2	1-0
16.	Malatyaspor	1-1	0-3	1-1	1-1	2-1	1-3	1-0	0-0	1-0	2-2	2-0	0-5	0-0	0-2	0-1	XXX	3-0	1-2
17.	Samsunspor	1-2	0-5	1-3	3-1	0-0	2-0	1-1	1-2	0-0	1-1	2-3	1-1	2-1	0-1	1-2	1-2	XXX	1-0
18.	Diyarbakırspor	1-3	0-4	1-3	3-0	0-2	0-2	0-3	1-1	1-0	2-1	1-2	0-2	0-3	1-2	1-0	3-2	0-0	XXX

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 [2] [3]

Name	Team	Nationality	Goals
Gökhan Ünal	Kayserispor		25
Fatih Tekke	Trabzonspor		22
Cenk Işler	Kayseri Erciyesspor		20
Necati Ateş	Galatasaray		18
Mert Nobre	Fenerbahçe		17
Ümit Karan	Galatasaray		17
Umut Bulut	MKE Ankaragücü		16
Tuncay Şanlı	Fenerbahçe		15
Alex	Fenerbahçe		14
Mehmet Çakır	Gençlerbirliği		14
Saša Ilić	Galatasaray		12
Jaba	Ankaraspor		12

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