2005–06 Süper Lig

Template:Short description Template:Short descriptionTemplate:Template other 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.

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

Club	Player 1	Player 2	Player 3	Player 4	Player 5	Player 6	Player 7	Player 8	Former Players
Ankaragücü	Template:Flagicon Elvir Baljić	Template:Flagicon Héverton	Template:Flagicon Robson	Template:Flagicon Ivaylo Petkov	Template:Flagicon Hervé Zengue	Template:Flagicon Ahmad Belal	Template:Flagicon Charles-Édouard Coridon	Template:Flagicon Ali Ghariani	Template:Flagicon Jean
Ankaraspor	Template:Flagicon Jabá	Template:Flagicon Tita	Template:Flagicon Wederson	Template:Flagicon Adam Petrouš	Template:Flagicon Dragoslav Jevrić	Template:Flagicon Radoslav Batak			Template:Flagicon Balázs Molnár
Beşiktaş	Template:Flagicon Bobô	Template:Flagicon Kléberson	Template:Flagicon Óscar Córdoba	Template:Flagicon Tomáš Jun	Template:Flagicon Ahmed Hassan				Template:Flagicon Aílton Template:Flagicon Daniel Pancu
Çaykur Rizespor	Template:Flagicon Allyson	Template:Flagicon Douglas	Template:Flagicon Zdravko Zdravkov	Template:Flagicon Gustavo Victoria	Template:Flagicon Besheer El-Tabei	Template:Flagicon Pape Ciré Dia
Denizlispor	Template:Flagicon Alessandro Cambalhota	Template:Flagicon Alex Alves	Template:Flagicon Souleymanou Hamidou	Template:Flagicon Tomáš Abrahám	Template:Flagicon Miikka Multaharju	Template:Flagicon Roman Kratochvíl			Template:Flagicon Radek Dosoudil
Diyarbakırspor	Template:Flagicon Redi Jupi	Template:Flagicon Borislav Mikić	Template:Flagicon Goce Sedloski	Template:Flagicon Goran Maznov	Template:Flagicon Goran Stavrevski	Template:Flagicon Ermin Rakovič			Template:Flagicon Igor Jančevski Template:Flagicon Sami Gtari
Fenerbahçe	Template:Flagicon Alex	Template:Flagicon Fábio Luciano	Template:Flagicon Márcio Nobre	Template:Flagicon Marco Aurélio	Template:Flagicon Nicolas Anelka	Template:Flagicon Stephen Appiah
Galatasaray	Template:Flagicon Alioum Saidou	Template:Flagicon Rigobert Song	Template:Flagicon Faryd Mondragón	Template:Flagicon Stjepan Tomas	Template:Flagicon Marek Heinz	Template:Flagicon Saša Ilić
Gaziantepspor	Template:Flagicon Kenan Hasagić	Template:Flagicon Zdravko Lazarov	Template:Flagicon Tarik El Taib	Template:Flagicon Abdelilah Fahmi	Template:Flagicon Giani Kiriță	Template:Flagicon Sofiane Melliti	Template:Flagicon Shingayi Kaondera		Template:Flagicon Georgi Ivanov
Gençlerbirliği	Template:Flagicon Christophe Lepoint	Template:Flagicon Marcinho	Template:Flagicon David Abwo	Template:Flagicon Isaac Promise	Template:Flagicon Igor Bogdanović	Template:Flagicon Fredrik Risp			Template:Flagicon Christian Järdler
Kayserispor	Template:Flagicon Rashad Sadygov	Template:Flagicon Aleksandar Aleksandrov	Template:Flagicon Dimitar Ivankov	Template:Flagicon Samuel Johnson	Template:Flagicon Aleksandar Rodić
Kayseri Erciyesspor	Template:Flagicon Júlio César	Template:Flagicon Junivan	Template:Flagicon Lucien Mettomo	Template:Flagicon Serge Dié	Template:Flagicon Victor Agali	Template:Flagicon Khaled Fadhel	Template:Flagicon Riadh Bouazizi		Template:Flagicon Mamadou Seck
Konyaspor	Template:Flagicon Gustave Bebbe	Template:Flagicon Kaies Ghodhbane	Template:Flagicon Jobany Rivero						Template:Flagicon Vladimir Vasilj Template:Flagicon Ahmad Belal
Malatyaspor	Template:Flagicon Cris	Template:Flagicon Jiří Homola	Template:Flagicon Jiří Mašek	Template:Flagicon Tomáš Michálek	Template:Flagicon Zdeněk Šenkeřík	Template:Flagicon Balázs Tóth	Template:Flagicon Sebastian Johansson		Template:Flagicon Catatau Template:Flagicon Jean-Emmanuel Owona Template:Flagicon Ibrahim Kargbo
Samsunspor	Template:Flagicon Marciel	Template:Flagicon Rafael Marques	Template:Flagicon Alioum Boukar	Template:Flagicon Ibrahima Gueye	Template:Flagicon Dejan Maksić	Template:Flagicon Anis Ayari			Template:Flagicon Yordan Petkov Template:Flagicon Dejan Rađenović Template:Flagicon Oliver Kovačević

Statistics

Top scorers

• Last updated on May 23, 2008

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Template:Flagicon Gökhan Ünal	Kayserispor	25
2	Template:Flagicon Fatih Tekke	Trabzonspor	22
3	Template:Flagicon Cenk Işler	Kayseri Erciyesspor	20
4	Template:Flagicon Necati Ateş	Galatasaray	18
5	Template:Flagicon Mert Nobre	Fenerbahçe	17
	Template:Flagicon Ümit Karan	Galatasaray
7	Template:Flagicon Umut Bulut	Ankaragücü	16
8	Template:Flagicon Tuncay	Fenerbahçe	15
9	Template:Flagicon Alex	Fenerbahçe	14
	Template:Flagicon Mehmet Çakır	Gençlerbirliği

Hat-tricks

Player	For	Against	Result	Date
Template:Flagicon Ümit Karan	Galatasaray	Malatyaspor	5–2	Template:Dts
Template:Flagicon Semih Şentürk	Fenerbahçe	Denizlispor	6–2	Template:Dts
Template:Flagicon Ümit Karan	Galatasaray	Gaziantepspor	6–0	Template:Dts
Template:Flagicon Sinan Kaloğlu	Manisaspor	Fenerbahçe	5–3	Template:Dts
Template:Flagicon Fatih Tekke	Trabzonspor	Çaykur Rizespor	6–1	Template:Dts
Template:Flagicon Gökhan Ünal	Kayserispor	Manisaspor	7–2	Template:Dts