The wait is lastly over for soccer lovers because the Turkish Süper Lig’s 2024-2025 season kicks off on Friday after a 74-day hiatus.
The 67th season of the Süper Lig will start with a match between the reigning champions Galatasaray and Hatayspor.
The league will function 38 weeks of motion, with every crew taking a bye week.
The first half of the season will wrap up with the seventeenth spherical of matches on Dec. 20.
The second half will start on Jan. 3 with the 18th spherical and conclude on June 1, 2025.
This season will see 17 matches within the first half and 21 within the second.
Nineteen groups from 12 Turkish cities will compete in 342 matches this season.
At the tip of the season, the underside 4 groups will probably be relegated to the Trendyol 1. Lig.
Teams by metropolis
The Süper Lig’s 67th season will function groups from 12 cities.
Istanbul will probably be represented by six groups: Beşiktaş, Fenerbahçe, Galatasaray, Başakşehir, Kasımpaşa and Ikhlas Eyüpspor.
Teams from different cities embody:
- Antalya: Antalyaspor, Alanyaspor
- Adana: Adana Demirspor
- Hatay: Hatayspor
- Sivas: Sivasspor
- Gaziantep: Gaziantep FC
- Konya: Konyaspor
- Rize: Rizespor
- Trabzon: Trabzonspor
- Kayseri: Kayserispor
- Samsun: Samsunspor
- İzmir: Göztepe
- Muğla: Bodrum FC
Key fixtures
The first main conflict of the season will probably be between Trabzonspor and Beşiktaş within the fifth week.
The first derby match will probably be between Fenerbahçe and Galatasaray within the sixth week.
Key fixtures additionally embody:
- tenth Week: Galatasaray vs. Beşiktaş
- eleventh Week: Trabzonspor vs. Fenerbahçe
- fifteenth Week: Beşiktaş vs. Fenerbahçe
- sixteenth Week: Galatasaray vs. Trabzonspor
Foreign participant laws
For the 2024-2025 season, the Süper Lig has up to date its overseas participant laws.
Each membership’s first crew can now embody as much as 14 overseas gamers, with 12 allowed in match squads.
On the sector, a most of 11 overseas gamers can play concurrently.
The first-team roster dimension has elevated from 26 to twenty-eight gamers, and groups can listing as much as 14 gamers who’re ineligible for the Turkish nationwide crew.
However, solely 12 of those may be included within the matchday squad.
Transfer home windows
The switch and registration window for the 2024-2025 season opens on June 24 and closes on Sept. 13.
The “mid-season transfer” interval runs from Jan. 13, 2025, to Feb. 11, 2025.
Opening week fixtures
The opening week of the Süper Lig options the next matches:
Aug. 9:
- 9 p.m. Galatasaray vs. Hatayspor (RAMS Park)
Aug. 10:
- 7:15 p.m. Kasımpaşa vs. Konyaspor (Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Stadium)
- 9:45 p.m. Antalyaspor vs. Göztepe (Corendon Airlines Park Antalya)
- 9:45 p.m. Fenerbahçe vs. Adana Demirspor (Ülker Stadium)
Aug. 11:
- 7:15 p.m. Sivasspor vs. Trabzonspor (BG Grup 4 Eylül Stadium)
- 9:45 p.m. Alanyaspor vs. Eyüpspor (Alanya Oba Stadium)
- 9:45 p.m. Samsunspor vs. Beşiktaş (Samsun Yeni 19 Mayıs Stadium)
Aug. 12:
- 9 p.m. Çaykur Rizespor vs. Başakşehir (Çaykur Didi Stadium)
- 9 p.m. Bodrum FK vs. Gaziantep FC (Stadium to be introduced; Bodrum FC will play with out spectators)
Highlights and historic notes
As the Süper Lig enters its 67th season, it brings with it a wealthy historical past of exceptional occasions and statistics:
- Most championships: Galatasaray with 24 titles.
- Most second-place finishes: Fenerbahçe with 25.
- Longest unbeaten streak: Beşiktaş with 48 matches (1990-1991 season).
- Highest scoring match: Fenerbahçe vs. Gaziantepspor (8-4) within the 1991-1992 season.
- Largest victory margin: Beşiktaş vs. Adana Demirspor (10-0) within the 1989-1990 season.
- Most objectives scored in a season: Fenerbahçe with 3,944 objectives general.
- Most objectives conceded: Ankaragücü with 2,389 objectives conceded.
The league has witnessed unforgettable moments, together with a referee scoring a objective and groups narrowly avoiding relegation primarily based on objective distinction.
Beşiktaş’s dramatic fall from the highest in 2003-2004 and Fenerbahçe’s heartbreaking final-day losses in 2005-2006 and 2009-2010 are etched within the league’s annals.
Source: www.dailysabah.com