Altay S.K.

Altay
Full name	Altay Spor Kulübü
Nickname(s)	Büyük Altay (Great Altay)
Founded	16 January 1914; 110 years ago
Ground	Alsancak Mustafa Denizli Stadium
Capacity	12,285
President	Süleyman Özkaral
Manager	Gökhan Karaaslan
League	TFF Second League
2023–24	TFF First League, 17th of 19 (relegated)
Website	http://www.altay.org.tr/
	Current season

Altay Spor Kulübü is a Turkish professional football club based in the city of İzmir.

Formed in 1914, Altay are nicknamed Büyük Altay (Great Altay). The club colors are black and white, and they play their home matches at the Alsancak Mustafa Denizli Stadium.

Domestically, the club has finished third place for the Süper Lig three times and have won the Turkish Cup twice. They hold the record for most İzmir Football League titles with 14. They are the most successful İzmir-based club with 16 championships in various competitions.

Collecting 24 points in the first half of the 1969–70 season in undefeated 15 games with 9 wins and 6 draws, Altay SK is one of three non-champion clubs that topped the first half of 1. Lig table, along with Kocaelispor in 1992–93, and Sivasspor in 2007–08, 2008–09 and 2019–20.^[1]

History

Altay was founded in 1914 in İzmir as İstiklal. The initial aim of the club was to unite Turkish youth under sporting activities and to encourage them, because in the 1910s minorities dominated sporting activities in İzmir. Under Ottoman rule, Turkish footballers were unable to compete. Altay was supported by many prominent Turkish politicians of the era. Former Turkish President Celal Bayar worked very hard in founding the club and gave his full support.^{[citation needed]}

Altay has an important place in Turkey's football history. The club had a key role in uniting the Turkish community during the Turkish War of Independence.^{[citation needed]} Many players and supporters of Altay SK lost their lives in the Turkish War.^{[citation needed]} After the Surname Law was adopted, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk gave General Fahreddin Pasha the surname of "Altay". Altay plays in the İzmir Alsancak Stadium first built in 1929 and was rebuilt in 2021.

Honours

National Championships

Süper Lig
- Third place (3): 1956–57, 1969–70, 1976–77
Turkish Football Championship
- Runners-up (2): 1934, 1951
TFF First League
- Winners (1): 2001–02
- Runners-up (2): 1983–84, 1990–91
Turkish Football Federation Cup
- Winners (1): 2006–07
- Runners-up (1): 1963–64

National Cups

Turkish Cup
- Winners (2): 1966–67, 1979–80
- Runners-up (5): 1963–64, 1967–68, 1971–72, 1978–79, 1985–86
Super Cup
- Runners-up (2): 1967, 1980
Prime Minister's Cup
- Runners-up (3): 1972, 1979, 1986
Organ Doğan Cup
- Runners-up (18): 1936, 1937, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1958, 1961, 1968, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1984, 2004, 2005, 2021
Ayçilek Doğan Cup
- Runners-up (2): 1973, 1978
Tore Doğan Cup
- Runners-up (1): 1976
Aydin Doğan Cup
- Runners-up (3): 1963, 1964, 1986

Regional competitions

İzmir Professional League
- Winners (2): 1956–57, 1957–58
İzmir Football League
- Winners (14) (record): 1923–24, 1924–25, 1927–28, 1928–29, 1930–31, 1933–34, 1936–37, 1940–41, 1945–46, 1947–48, 1950–51, 1953–54, 1956–57, 1957–58

¹Altay won the championship as "Üçok" (Three arrows), an alliance between Altay, Altınordu, and Bucaspor.

League participations

Super League: 1958–83, 1984–90, 1991–2000, 2002–03, 2021–2022
TFF First League: 1983–84, 1990–91, 2000–02, 2003–11, 2018–21, 2022–2024
TFF Second League: 2011–15, 2017–18, 2024–
TFF Third League: 2015–17

European record

As of 25 July 1998

Competition	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
UEFA Cup Winners' Cup	6	1	2	3	6	12	–6
UEFA Cup	2	1	0	1	5	6	–1
UEFA Intertoto Cup¹	6	3	1	2	10	9	+1
UEFA Total	14	5	3	6	21	27	–6
Inter-Cities Fairs Cup	4	0	1	3	3	14	–11
Intertoto Cup²	6	1	3	2	6	9	–3
Balkans Cup	8	1	1	6	6	23	–17
Non-UEFA Total	18	2	5	11	15	46	–31
Overall Total	32	7	8	17	36	73	–37

¹ UEFA edition.

² non-UEFA edition.

UEFA Cup Winners' Cup:

Season	Round	Club	Home	Away	Aggregate
1967–68	First Round	Standard Liège	2–3	0–0	2–3
1968–69	First Round	Lyn	3–1	1–4	4–5
1980–81	Preliminary Round	Benfica	0–0	0–4	0–4

UEFA Cup:

Season	Round	Club	Home	Away	Aggregate
1977–78	First Round	Carl Zeiss Jena	4–1	1–5	5–6

UEFA Intertoto Cup:

Season	Round	Club	Home	Away	Aggregate
1974¹	Group Stage (Group 10)	CUF	2–1	0–2	3rd
		Landskrona	1–1	1–1
		Hammarby	2–2	0–2
1998	First Round	Shamrock Rovers	3–1	2–3	5–4
	Second Round	Diósgyőr	1–1	1–0	2–1
	Third Round	Bastia	3–2 (aet)	0–2	3–4

¹ The tournament was founded in 1961–62, but was only taken over by UEFA in 1995.

Inter-Cities Fairs Cup:

Season	Round	Club	Home	Away	Aggregate
1962–63	First Round	Roma	2–3	1–10	3–13
1969–70	First Round	Carl Zeiss Jena	0–0	0–1	0–1

Balkans Cup:

Season	Round	Club	Home	Away	Aggregate
1971	Group Stage (Group B)	Panionios	2–1	0–1	3rd
1971	Group Stage (Group B)	Steagul Roșu Brașov	0–0	0–3	3rd
1977	Group Stage (Group A)	Slavia Sofia	0–3	0–6	3rd
1977	Group Stage (Group A)	Politehnica Timișoara	2–4	2–5	3rd

UEFA Ranking history:

As of 1982

Season	Rank	Points	Ref.
1968	168	0.500	^[2]
1969	103	1.500	^[3]
1970	89	2.000	^[4]
1971	86	2.000	^[5]
1972	87	2.000	^[6]
1973	112	1.500	^[7]
1974	203	0.500	^[8]
1978	157	1.000	^[9]
1979	155	1.000	^[10]
1980	155	1.000	^[11]
1981	153	1.000	^[12]
1982	149	1.000	^[13]

Players

Current squad

As of 3 February 2024^[14]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
1	GK	TUR	Ozan Evrim Özenç
3	DF	TUR	Yusuf Tekin
4	DF	TUR	Hikmet Çolak
5	DF	TUR	Sefa Özdemir
6	MF	TUR	Ceyhun Gülselam
7	FW	TUR	Eren Erdoğan
11	FW	TUR	Murat Uluç
13	GK	TUR	Ulaş Hasan Özçelik
17	DF	TUR	Salih Sarıkaya
20	MF	TUR	Enes Yetkin
21	MF	TUR	Ali Kızılkuyu
23	MF	TUR	Murat Demir
24	FW	TUR	Erdem Özcan


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
25	DF	TUR	Tugay Gündem
26	MF	TUR	Ege Parmaksiz
28	MF	TUR	Mehmet Gündüz
30	MF	TUR	Caner Baycan
32	MF	TUR	Arda Gezer
34	MF	TUR	Enes Öğrüce
44	DF	TUR	Kuban Altunbudak
45	GK	TUR	Mustafa Çalışkan
63	FW	TUR	Deniz Kadah
77	DF	TUR	Onur Efe
88	DF	TUR	Özgür Özkaya
99	FW	TUR	Nurettin Küçükdeniz

Sources

Football history in Izmir (in Turkish)

References

^ "Futbolda İlk Yarı Liderleri ve Şampiyonlar" (in Turkish). []. 5 January 2014. Archived from the original on 27 December 2016. Retrieved 27 December 2016.
^ Bert Kassies. "UEFA Team Ranking 1968". Xs4all.nl. Archived from the original on 20 September 2022. Retrieved 17 September 2022.
^ Bert Kassies. "UEFA Team Ranking 1969". Xs4all.nl. Archived from the original on 20 September 2022. Retrieved 17 September 2022.
^ Bert Kassies. "UEFA Team Ranking 1970". Xs4all.nl. Archived from the original on 20 September 2022. Retrieved 17 September 2022.
^ Bert Kassies. "UEFA Team Ranking 1971". Xs4all.nl. Archived from the original on 20 September 2022. Retrieved 17 September 2022.
^ Bert Kassies. "UEFA Team Ranking 1972". Xs4all.nl. Archived from the original on 20 September 2022. Retrieved 17 September 2022.
^ Bert Kassies. "UEFA Team Ranking 1973". Xs4all.nl. Archived from the original on 20 September 2022. Retrieved 17 September 2022.
^ Bert Kassies. "UEFA Team Ranking 1974". Xs4all.nl. Archived from the original on 20 September 2022. Retrieved 17 September 2022.
^ Bert Kassies. "UEFA Team Ranking 1978". Xs4all.nl. Archived from the original on 20 September 2022. Retrieved 17 September 2022.
^ Bert Kassies. "UEFA Team Ranking 1979". Xs4all.nl. Archived from the original on 28 December 2023. Retrieved 17 September 2022.
^ Bert Kassies. "UEFA Team Ranking 1980". Xs4all.nl. Archived from the original on 20 September 2022. Retrieved 17 September 2022.
^ Bert Kassies. "UEFA Team Ranking 1981". Xs4all.nl. Archived from the original on 9 September 2022. Retrieved 17 September 2022.
^ Bert Kassies. "UEFA Team Ranking 1982". Xs4all.nl. Archived from the original on 20 September 2022. Retrieved 17 September 2022.
^ "A TAKIM". Altay. Archived from the original on 9 August 2020. Retrieved 12 September 2020.

External links

Official website
Altay on TFF.org

[1] "Futbolda İlk Yarı Liderleri ve Şampiyonlar" (in Turkish). []. 5 January 2014. Archived from the original on 27 December 2016. Retrieved 27 December 2016.

[2] Bert Kassies. "UEFA Team Ranking 1968". Xs4all.nl. Archived from the original on 20 September 2022. Retrieved 17 September 2022.

[3] Bert Kassies. "UEFA Team Ranking 1969". Xs4all.nl. Archived from the original on 20 September 2022. Retrieved 17 September 2022.

[4] Bert Kassies. "UEFA Team Ranking 1970". Xs4all.nl. Archived from the original on 20 September 2022. Retrieved 17 September 2022.

[5] Bert Kassies. "UEFA Team Ranking 1971". Xs4all.nl. Archived from the original on 20 September 2022. Retrieved 17 September 2022.

[6] Bert Kassies. "UEFA Team Ranking 1972". Xs4all.nl. Archived from the original on 20 September 2022. Retrieved 17 September 2022.

[7] Bert Kassies. "UEFA Team Ranking 1973". Xs4all.nl. Archived from the original on 20 September 2022. Retrieved 17 September 2022.

[8] Bert Kassies. "UEFA Team Ranking 1974". Xs4all.nl. Archived from the original on 20 September 2022. Retrieved 17 September 2022.

[9] Bert Kassies. "UEFA Team Ranking 1978". Xs4all.nl. Archived from the original on 20 September 2022. Retrieved 17 September 2022.

[10] Bert Kassies. "UEFA Team Ranking 1979". Xs4all.nl. Archived from the original on 28 December 2023. Retrieved 17 September 2022.

[11] Bert Kassies. "UEFA Team Ranking 1980". Xs4all.nl. Archived from the original on 20 September 2022. Retrieved 17 September 2022.

[12] Bert Kassies. "UEFA Team Ranking 1981". Xs4all.nl. Archived from the original on 9 September 2022. Retrieved 17 September 2022.

[13] Bert Kassies. "UEFA Team Ranking 1982". Xs4all.nl. Archived from the original on 20 September 2022. Retrieved 17 September 2022.

[Current_squad-14] "A TAKIM". Altay. Archived from the original on 9 August 2020. Retrieved 12 September 2020.

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v t e Altay Spor Kulübü
The club	Club history Europe
Football	Managers
Seasons	2019–20 2020–21 2021–22 2022–23

v t e Süper Lig
TFF Union of Clubs
Millî Lig	1959 1959–60 1960–61 1961–62 1962–63
1. Lig	1963–64 1964–65 1965–66 1966–67 1967–68 1968–69 1969–70 1970–71 1971–72 1972–73 1973–74 1974–75 1975–76 1976–77 1977–78 1978–79 1979–80 1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87 1987–88 1988–89 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95 1995–96 1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–2000 2000–01
Süper Lig	2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16 2016–17 2017–18 2018–19 2019–20 2020–21 2021–22 2022–23 2023–24 2024–25
Champions	Galatasaray (24) Fenerbahçe (19) Beşiktaş (16) Trabzonspor (7) Başakşehir (1) Bursaspor (1)
Current clubs	Adana Demirspor Alanyaspor Antalyaspor Başakşehir Beşiktaş Bodrum Eyüpspor Fenerbahçe Galatasaray Gaziantep Göztepe Hatayspor Kasımpaşa Kayserispor Konyaspor Rizespor Samsunspor Sivasspor Trabzonspor
Former clubs	Adanaspor Adalet Akçaabat Sebatspor Akhisarspor Altay Altınordu Ankara Demirspor Ankaragücü Ankaraspor Aydınspor Bakırköyspor Balıkesirspor Beykozspor Beyoğlu Boluspor Bucaspor Bursaspor Çanakkale Dardanelspor Denizlispor Diyarbakırspor Elazığspor Erzurumspor Erzurumspor F.K. Eskişehirspor Fatih Karagümrük Feriköy Gaziantepspor Gençlerbirliği Giresunspor Hacettepe İstanbulspor İzmirspor Kahramanmaraşspor Karabükspor Karşıyaka Kayseri Erciyesspor Keçiörengücü MKE Kırıkkalespor Kocaelispor Malatyaspor Manisaspor Mersin İdman Yurdu Orduspor Pendikspor Petrolofisi PTT Sakaryaspor Sarıyer Siirtspor Şekerspor Ümraniyespor Vanspor Vefa Yeni Malatyaspor Yeşildirek Yozgatspor Zeytinburnuspor Zonguldakspor

v t e Turkish Cup
Seasons	1962–63 1963–64 1964–65 1965–66 1966–67 1967–68 1968–69 1969–70 1970–71 1971–72 1972–73 1973–74 1974–75 1975–76 1976–77 1977–78 1978–79 1979–80 1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87 1987–88 1988–89 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95 1995–96 1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–2000 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16 2016–17 2017–18 2018–19 2019–20 2020–21 2021–22 2022–23 2023–24 2024–25
Finals	1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024
Winners	Galatasaray (18) Beşiktaş (11) Trabzonspor (9) Fenerbahçe (7) Altay (2) Ankaragücü (2) Gençlerbirliği (2) Göztepe (2) Kocaelispor (2) Akhisarspor (1) Bursaspor (1) Eskişehirspor (1) Kayserispor (1) Konyaspor (1) Sakaryaspor (1) Sivasspor (1)