What happened in Turkish football in 2019? 31/12/2019

Turkish National Team without doubt is being team of the year in Turkey.

With this blog entry would be focussing specifically into best teams and clubs of 2019, it would be silly not to talk about Turkish National Team which didnt only get ticket to Euro 2020, but did get this result in very impressive manner including beating France at home and drawing away.

With Turkey being relegated during Nations League with Mircea Lucescu in 2018, there wasnt much expectations for Turkey prior to start of Euro 2020 qualifiers but with them starting and Senol Gunes being appointed as head coach, Turkey has provided one of the strongest performance at qualifies especially at defence with conceding among least at all qualifiers. With domestic clubs not going through best period in its recent history, seen by league quality and European outcomes, the reason why national team provided such historical performance was due of players playing around Europe, which includes Merih Demiral, Caglar Soyuncu, Cengiz Under among many others. Without losing to holding World Cup winners France, Turkey does provide high expectation for Euro 2020 and has gained trust from public since Euro 2016.

Surely, our page and blog would especially focus from spring months into Turkey and Euro 2020 hoping it would be great year for them which would lead to London.

Basaksehirspor has shown great all-round performance despite losing title.

Even through it could be argued that team which was leading for 8 points during last season but still didnt get league title shouldnt be seen among best clubs of the year, it needs to be noted that its did have good performance when looking in the year overall, possibly best in whole Super League,

The fact that its being only Turkish club in European competition to play in February, proves the fact for sure. It needs to be noted that if this article has been written early September, then this would not be considered as team as been mentioned didnt win title with 8 points advantage and had bad start with Okan Buruk. But Basaksehirspor didnt lose 15 weeks in the Super League and provided confident strong performance in the Europa League and currently being among title contenders when season would restart. It does need to be mentioned that in this season it could solve lack of fans with its Europa League campaign with getting some fans as it already got lots of sympathy with its recent results in the team. It is hard to state if it would be strong enough for getting title but Okan Buruk does provide lots of hope for future of the team for sure.

Basaksehirspor could be team to look for 2020 as team carries on moving forward with providing strong successes with raising aims with Okan Buruk.

Galatasaray did have mixture of season but their are title holders.

Even more questionable addition of in this list would be Galatasaray since its very poor performance at league and Champions League this season but it did get league title in the end of the previous season.

It is hard to state that Galatasaray did provide great performance even during 2nd half of the season but it did show strong attitude to win title which has been lacked among Basaksehirpsor among others in the end of the season. Actually there was question if 3rd team should be Sivasspor but again its only season half performance and still didnt get outcome in the end of the season but surely it needs to be praised a lot. Galatasaray did also get Radamel Falcao during summer transfer window which could be seen as success from club administrators but player didnt yet fulfill his expectations but in all fairness he was injured for long period of time. Coming to next year, Galatasaray does aim for league title for next season but it would be much tougher for them for sure as their many contenders.

Galatasaray did have mixture season which performance wise could be seen but winning title naturally does put them among best of 2019.

In other news:

- PFDK referalls:
- Besiktas, Kasimpasa, Galatasaray, Gaziantep,Fenerbahce has been referred for behavior of fans.
- Genclerbirligi player Nadir Ciftci has been referred for swearing and anti-sportmanship behavior.
- Genclerbirligi player Yasin Pehlivan has been referred for breaking rules.
- Ankaragucu and Yeni Malatyaspor has been referred for behaviour of fans and events at field.
- Denizlispor player Modou Barrow has been referred for breaking rule and anti-sportmanship behaviour.
- Trabzonspor has been referred for not following guidelines.
- Yeni Malatyaspor player Adis Jahovic has been referred for breaking rules.
-Rizespor has been referred for behaviour of fans and not following guidelines.

- Antalyaspor has terminated contract with its head coach Stjepan Tomas.

- Galatasaray has announced that it has become again sole owner of Metin Oktay facilities in Florya

- Besiktas has stated that TFF announced limit for 2019-20 to the club of 31.5 from finances spending is being too low for them and would need to be revised.

-Rizespor has transferred Pazarspor player Mithat Pala for 4.5 years

- RBLeipzig sports director Markus Krosche has stated that club made transfer deal but added that some financial documents needs to be sorted.

- Trabzonspor has transferred Stoke City player Badou Ndiaye.

- Konyaspor has stated that it doesnt consider to end contract with its head coach Aykut Kocaman.

- Lazio are interested to transfer Galatasaray player Emre Mor.

- Fenerbahce are interested to transfer Olympique Lyon player Marcelo.

- Fenerbahce has started transfer negotiations Bayern Munich player Jerome Boateng.

- Galatasaray will not sell its player Jean Michael Seri during mid-season transfer window

- Galatasaray are interested to transfer Velez Sarsfield player Luis Abram