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} Galatasaray Spor Kulübü (Galatasaray Sports Club, or even Galatasaray SK) occurs as Turkish sports club based within İstanbul which is most famous for its football section. Based inside 1905 by Ali Sami Yen and his fellows from a prestigious Galatasaray High School, Galatasaray currently has Fifteen Turkish league championships, and too won a UEFA Cup and UEFA Super Cup in 2000.

Galatasaray is a simply team to keep around won a UEFA Ventral suction cup forgoing existence beaten inside one match, & is too notable for existence a number 1 team to win a competition when getting been knocked away from the Champions League. Within winning a UEFA Cup during the 1999/2000 year, beating Arsenal of England on penalties, Galatasaray became the number one Turkish club ever to win a European trophy.

Galatasaray is the virtually all internationally recognised Turkish club following of its international successes. A team is notable for its outstandingly enthusiastic at home trend lines, especially for its supporters' habit of displaying tremendous banners throughout its ground, welcoming camping teams "to Hell!" A club's ground, Ali Sami Yen Stadyumu, reopened for the 2004-05 year, although a massive renovation plan has been completed on the 5th week of 2005-2006 season.

Achievements

Turkish league championships (15): 1962, 1963, 1969, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1987, 1988, 1993, 1994, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2002

Turkish Cup (14): 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1973, 1976, 1982, 1985, 1991, 1993, 1995, 1999, 2000, 2005

UEFA Cup (One): 2000, Four-1 in penalties fallowing the 0-0 draw vs. Arsenal

European Super Cup (One): 2000, Two-1 vs. Real Madrid

UEFA Champions League: Semi-semi inside 1988-1989 (eliminated by FC Steaua Bucuresti) Quarter-final within 2000-2001 (eliminated by Real Madrid Three-3 & 3-0)

Current squad
When of 1 September, 2005:

Notable Players
1905 to 1990s Tanju Çolak Hamza Hamzaoğlu Metin Oktay Xhevad Prekazi Mustafa Denizli Zoran Simoviċ Turgay Şeren Fatih Terim Metin Yildiz

1990s Tugay Kerimoğlu Arif Erdem Gheorghe Hagi Suat Kaya Bülent Korkmaz Gheorghe Popescu Kubilay Türkyilmaz Hakan Şükür Claudio Taffarel Emre Belözoğlu

2000s Necati Ateş Flavio Conceição Mario Jardel Haim Revivo Hasan Şaş

Managerial history
Jupp Derwall Eric Gerets Mircea Lucescu Didier Six Graeme Souness Gheorghe Hagi Mustafa Denizli Fatih Terim

Presidents
Ali Sami Yen (1905-1918) (1925) Refik Cevdet Kalpakçıoğlu (1919-1922) (1934) Yusuf Ziya Öniş (1922-1924) (1950-1952) Ali Haydar Şekip (1925) Ahmet Robenson (1926) Adnan Ibrahim Pirioğlu (1927) Necmettin Sadak (1928-1929) Abidin Daver (1929-1930) Ahmet Kara (1930-1931) (1933) Tahir Kevkep (1931-1932) Ali Haydar Barsal (1932-1933) (1933-1934) Fethi Isfendiyaroğlu (1933) Saim Gögen (1936-1937) Sedat Ziya Kantoğlu (1937-1939) (1944) Nizan Nuri (1939) Adnan Akıska (1939) Tevfik Ali Çınar (1940-1942) Osman Dardağan(1942-1943) Muslihittin Peykoğlu (1944-1946) Suphi Batur (1946-1950) (1965-1968) Ulvi Yenal (1953) (1962-1964) Refik Selimoğlu (1954-1956) (1960-1962) Sadım Giz (1957-1959) Selahattin Beyazıt (1969-1973) (1975-1979) Prof. Dr. Mustafa Pekin (1973-1975) Prof. Dr. Ali Uras (1979-1984) (1984-1986) Dr. Ali Tanrıyar (1986-1988) (1988-1990) Alp Yalman (1990-1992) (1992-1996) Faruk Süren (1996-2001) H. Mehmet Cansun (2001-2002) Özhan Canaydın (2002-...)

Galatasaray High school and University
Galatasaray Lisesi Galatasaray Üniversitesi

GalatasarayNews.com
An unofficial fan site with news, photographs, fixtures, tables, polls, links, and a message board.

Uefa.com: Galatasaray
Official UEFA Champions League page on Galatasaray with news, information and results.

Yener's Gala Page
Galatasaray's successes in UEFA and Turkey's Super League.

Galatasaray Sports Club
The official site with news, fixtures, results, tables, players, pictures, downloads, and movie clips.

Cimbombom.net
A fan site with news, club history, and a forum.

123Football.com: Galatasaray
Offers club information, history, honours, trophies and awards.


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