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.

Süper Lig
Season2005–06
ChampionsGalatasaray
16th title
RelegatedMalatyaspor
Samsunspor
Diyarbakırspor
Champions LeagueGalatasaray
Fenerbahçe
UEFA CupBeşiktaş
Trabzonspor
Intertoto CupKayserispor
Matches played306
Goals scored849 (2.77 per match)
Top goalscorerGökhan Ünal
(25 goals)

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

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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

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

Results

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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:
  1. ^ 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

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Top scorers

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  • 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
  Ümit Karan Galatasaray
7   Umut Bulut Ankaragücü 16
8   Tuncay Fenerbahçe 15
9   Alex Fenerbahçe 14
  Mehmet Çakır Gençlerbirliği

Hat-tricks

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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

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  1. ^ "2005-2006 SEZONU GOL KRALLIĞI" (in Turkish). turkfutbolu.net. Archived from the original on 23 July 2008. Retrieved 20 April 2021.
  2. ^ "Ligin Gol Kralları" (in Turkish). Turkish Football Federation. Archived from the original on 13 September 2008. Retrieved 20 April 2021.