13 April 2023

What happened in Turkish football today? 12/04/2023





TFF announced that Super League next season will start on 11th August

TFF has announced scheduling plan for upcoming season which has been organised due of Euro 2024 which would taking place in Germany and possibly due of some clubs starting season earlier due of European competitions will start and end earlier than usual.

Season is going to start on 11th August and would be entering in one of the most earliest date in the history of the league as it would be completed at 9th May. It needs to be reminded that due of reduction of coefficiency of Turkish clubs at European competitions, qualifying round for clubs would be starting as early as early July, so moving start of the season in such early date could be related to this. Also, it would be among earliest ending of the season and going through some mistake of ending season in very short notice of start of the European competition.  With such scheduling Turkish National Team would have good time for preparation if it gets to Euro 2024.

Only negative aspect could be hot months of August which could have some impact to level of games played.

TFF has provided candidacy for Euro 2028 and Euro 2032.

TFF has provided its candidacy files for Euro 2028 and Euro 2032 to UEFA for Turkey candidacy as it would be giving another try to get main European sporting event as it tend to provide candidacy in previous tournaments.

In fact his would be 6th consecutive bid for the tournaments, as previous bid has been unsuccessful and hence Turkey in recent tournaments has bidded into more tournaments than it has participated in its history. As it is known, Turkey has been developing into making modern stadiums believing that it could be main reason to get eventually European Championships in country, and even through it has impressive stadiums and sporting facilities, there are lots of issues which UEFA doesnt find suitable. Turkey will give its chances but it would be difficult candidacy where it would need to convince UEFA.

Rather than stating that it is best bid publicly and after not being selected blaming "foreign influences", it needs to find its weaknesses and sort them out in this process.

Galatasaray and Fenerbahce continue trash talk towards each other.

On-going fight with Galatasaray and Fenerbahce are continuing as both sides inclining for both clubs influencing both TFF and Central Referee Committee to make decisions against them.

Both due of being two clubs closest for title, historical rivarly and generally dislike between clubs for long time, could be seen for trash talk given to each other. Fenerbahce administrator Burak Kizilhan has stated that Galatasaray has always used as Fenerbahce to blame and raise tension but did same thing in same statement going as far as saying that most referees are supporting Galatasaray and stated that for 6 months side players didnt recieve red card. Meanwhile, Galatasaray is not doing much to reduce tension with statements such as that their are documents which would be announced in end of the season as doing so would create lots of tension.

It does look that trash talk between sides would continue taking place between sides until end of the season and possibly beyond it.

In other news:

- Samsunspor has been promoted to Super League after Eyupspor has lost to Genclerbirligi with 2:0 scoreline

- Besiktas has won fundraising game against Atletico Madrid with 2:0, with all profits going towards to people affected by earthquake.

- Fenerbahce player Jayden Oosterwolde has resumed training session after recovering from injury. 
- Galatasaray administrator Erden Timur has stated that club aims to become among top 10 academies in world.
- Besiktas has set transfer fee of its player Gedson Fernandes as 13 million euro.
- Galatasaray has set transfer fee of its player Sacha Boey as 15 million euro.

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