Turkish Women's Football Super League

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Turkish Women's Football Super League
Organising bodyTurkish Football Federation (TFF)
Founded1993
CountryTurkey
ConfederationUEFA
Number of teams24
Level on pyramid1
Relegation toTurkish Women's Football First League
International cup(s)UEFA Champions League
Current championsBeşiktaş (2nd title)
(2020–21)
Most championshipsKonak Belediyespor (5 titles)
WebsiteWebsite
Current: 2021–22 Turkish Women's Football Super League

The Turkish Women's Football Super League, formerly the First Women's Football League (also known as the Turkcell Women's Football Super League for sponsorship reasons), is the top level women's football league of Turkey. In the 2021–22 season, two groups of twelve teams play a double round robin and finals to decide a champion club, which qualifies for a spot in the UEFA Women's Champions League.[citation needed]

On 8 March 2021, the International Women's Day, the Turkish Football Federation signed a sponsorship agreement with the Turkish mobile phone operator Turkcell. Accordingly, the First Women's Football League was named Turkcell Women's Football League (Turkish: Turkcell Kadın Futbol Ligi) beginning with the 2021 season.[1]

Format[]

In an effort to increase quality of the league, in the 2009–10 season two teams were relegated and four teams were promoted to the first league. Thus, the 2010–11 season consisted of twelve teams.[2] Fashion One TV became the official media sponsor of the league for the 2010–11 season.[3] At this time the league gained little attention in Turkey.[4] After playing two groups with six teams and then having a championship and relegation group, the 2012–13 season was played as a double-round robin with ten teams again. The winner after 18 games was the champion and qualifies for the UEFA Women's Champions League, the bottom two teams get relegated. In 2016–17 there again was introduced a championship and relegation round after the regular season.

For the 2019-20 league season, the number of participating teams was increased from ten to twelve again after eight seasons. No relegation was planned to take place, so that the planned number of teams would be achieved with two promoted teams from the Women's Second League. However, Trabzon İdmanocağı had to be relegated since they did not show up in the entire previous season. To replace them, a third team from the Second League was promoted.[5] All three women's leagues of the 2019-20 season were stopped on 8 March 2020 due to COVID-19 pandemic in Turkey.[6]

Due to the ongoing pandemic, the 2020-21 season of the Women's First Football League, after renaming the Turkcell Women's Football League, will take start with delay on 17 April 2021. The season was dedicated to healthcare workers, and named 2021 Turkish Turkcell Women's Football League Healthcare Workers' Season (Turkish: 2021 Sağlık Çalışanları Futbol Ligi). The league consisted of 16 teams, including all the 12 teams from the previous season and 4 teams promoted from the Second League's previous season. The teams were divided into four groups of four teams each, with one promoted team in each group. Each team in the group played only three matches in a round-robin tournament. The top two teams of the four groups play quarter-finals and semi-finals in Single-elimination tournament. The winner of the final match, on 4 May 2021, represented Turkey at the 2021–22 UEFA Women's Champions League.[6][7]

Number of teams by season archive of the Turkish Football Federation
First League
2006–07
15
2007–08
25
2008–09
10
2009–10
10
2010–11
12
2011–12
12
2012–13
10
2013–14
8
2014–15
10
2015–16
10
2016–17
10
2017–18
10
2018–19
10
2019-20
12
2020-21
16
2021-22
24

Total: 204

Past winners[]

Season[8] Champions Runners-up
1994 Dinarsuspor Acarlarspor
1994–95 Dinarsuspor Acarlarspor
1995–96 Dinarsuspor Gürtaşspor
1996–97 Dinarsuspor İstanbul Sitespor
1997–98 Marshall Boyaspor
1998–99 Marshall Boyaspor
1999–00 Delta Mobilyaspor
2000–01 İstanbul Kuzeyspor Zeytinburnuspor
2001–02 Zeytinburnuspor Samsungücü
2002–03 Gazi Üniversitesispor
2003–06 No league
2006–07 Gazi Üniversitesispor Mersin Camspor
2007–08 Gazi Üniversitesispor Bucaspor
2008–09 Trabzonspor Bucaspor
2009–10 Gazi Üniversitesispor Trabzonspor
2010–11[9] Ataşehir Belediyespor Konak Belediyespor
2011–12[10] Ataşehir Belediyespor Kdz. Ereğlispor
2012–13[11] Konak Belediyespor Ataşehir Belediyespor
2013–14[12] Konak Belediyespor Ataşehir Belediyespor
2014–15[13] Konak Belediyespor Ataşehir Belediyespor
2015–16[14] Konak Belediyespor Ataşehir Belediyespor
2016–17[14] Konak Belediyespor Beşiktaş
2017–18 Ataşehir Belediyespor Beşiktaş
2018–19 Beşiktaş ALG Spor
Season discontinued due to COVID-19.
2020–21 Beşiktaş Fatih Vatan Spor

Winners by team[]

Club Titles Runners-up
Konak Belediyespor 5 1
Dinarsuspor 4 –
Ataşehir Belediyespor 3 4
Gazi Üniversitesispor 3 1
Beşiktaş 2 2
Marshall Boyaspor 2 –
1 1
Trabzonspor 1 1
Zeytinburnuspor 1 1
Delta Mobilyaspor 1 –
İstanbul Kuzeyspor 1 –

Foreign players[]

Top goalscorers[]

Season Player Club Goals Matches Goals per Match
2009–10 Turkey Reyhan Şeker Gazi Üniversitesispor 32 18 1.78
2010–11 Turkey Sevgi Çınar Adana İdmanyurduspor 26 22 1.18
2011–12 Turkey Merve Aladağ Ataşehir Belediyespor 27 21 1.29
2012–13 Romania Cosmina Dușa Konak Belediyespor 32 17 1.88
2013–14 Romania Cosmina Dușa Konak Belediyespor 15 18 0.83
2014–15 Romania Cosmina Dușa Konak Belediyespor 33 17 1.94
2015–16 Turkey Arzu Karabulut Trabzon İdmanocağı 23 17 1.35
2016–17 Turkey Sevgi Çınar Konak Belediyespor 24 22 1.09
2017–18 Turkey Kader Hançar Konak Belediyespor 30 19 1.58
2018–19 Tunisia Mariem Houij Ataşehir Belediyespor 15 16 0.94
2019–20 Turkey Yağmur Uraz Beşiktaş J.K. 27 15 1.8
2020–21 Turkey Zelal Baturay Fatih Vatan Spor 7 6 1.17

  • Reyhan Şeker

  • Sevgi Çınar

  • Merve Aladağ

  • Cosmina Dușa

  • Arzu Karabulut

  • Kader Hançar

  • Mariem Houij

  • Yağmur Uraz

  • Zelal Baturay

See also[]

References[]

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  2. ^ "Gazi Üniversitesispor back on top of women's football league". Today's Zaman. 2010-05-09. Archived from the original on 2014-02-01. Retrieved 2014-01-18.
  3. ^ "Fashion One TV TFF Bayanlar Futbol Ligi'nin Resmi Medya Sponsoru Oldu". Medya Tava (in Turkish). 2010-11-26. Archived from the original on 2012-03-30. Retrieved 2014-01-18.
  4. ^ Maden, Esra (2010-02-07). "Women strive hard to stay alive in Turkish soccer league". Today's Zaman. Archived from the original on 2013-12-16. Retrieved 2014-01-18.
  5. ^ "Kadınlar 1. Lig Puan Cetveli ve Fikstürü" (in Turkish). Türkiye Futbol Federasyonu. Retrieved 3 October 2019.
  6. ^ a b "Turkcell Kadın Futbol Ligi 17 Nisan'da başlayacak" (in Turkish). Türkiye Futbol Federasyonu. 22 March 2021. Retrieved 3 April 2021.
  7. ^ "Turkcell Kadın Futbol Ligi kura çekimi 8 Nisan'da yapılacak" (in Turkish). Türkiye Futbol Federasyonu. 6 April 2021. Retrieved 6 April 2021.
  8. ^ "Turkey – List of Women Champions". RSSSF. Retrieved 7 April 2013.
  9. ^ "Ataşehir'in Sultanları Şampiyon" (in Turkish). atasehir.bel.tr. 18 April 2011. Retrieved 18 April 2011.
  10. ^ "Ataşehir wins title" (in Turkish). karaman.ca. 14 June 2012. Archived from the original on 18 October 2013. Retrieved 14 June 2012.
  11. ^ "Konak champion". TRT Spor (in Turkish). 1 April 2013. Archived from the original on 18 April 2013. Retrieved 1 April 2013.
  12. ^ "Konak Belediyespor şampiyon". trthaber.com (in Turkish). 4 May 2014. Retrieved 7 May 2014.
  13. ^ "Kadınlar futbolda şampiyon Konak Belediyespor". Milliyet (in Turkish). 24 April 2015. Retrieved 24 April 2015.
  14. ^ a b "Kadınlar 1. Lig Fikstür ve Puan Cetveli" (in Turkish). Türkiye Futbol Federasyonu. Retrieved 2014-09-28.

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