What happened in Turkish football today? 12/09/2025

 Galatasaray would seek for confident and early win against Eyupspor.

 

Galatasaray are going to resume Super League after national team break against home game against Eyupspor where it would be aiming to carry on both showing confident performance and carry on its winning run.

 

It also needs to be mentioned that due of Victor Osimhen being currently injured, Baris Alper Yilmaz which had some issues regarding transfer with team would be starting game with whole team and could be expected to show some strong and attacking game. Due of also an away game against Eintracht Frankfurt at Champions League there would be expectations for side to find chances back-to-back and hence to kill game at early moments. Eyupspor on their part didn’t have a good start of the season but due of some good results agains title winners could be coming out with some strong confidence.

 

Galatasaray are being favourites without doubt but Eyupspor could provide some problems to the team at least until it conceeds.

 

Both Besiktas and Basaksehirspor seeing this game as chance to turn around season.

 

Besiktas and Basaksehirspor which does have unstable season so far and did change its head coaches due of that during international team break would be playing against each other with having good new beginning.

 

When looking at quality of team and to some extend to which team game would be more important it could be expected for Besiktas to come out as favourite and also provide some strong and aggrssive game with providing some pressure to Basaksehirspor for most amount of game. Besiktas would also be expected to show more positive game with its head coach Sergen Yalcin with more forward seeking. Basaksehirspor would be aiming to show stronger game compare ot previous ones and might be seen more organised.

 

Besiktas still are favourites and would be able to turn game pressure into positive for 90 minutes for sure.

 

Besiktas loans Jota Silva

 

Besiktas has ended 2025 summer transfer window with an important signing of Nothingham Forest player Jota Silva who would have significant positive impact at attacking midfielding.

 

Besiktas did look for an attacking player during this summer transfer window and it could be mentioned that it did get an important one as Silva tend to be player with forward seeking as he is being loan with transfer option and has all good reasons to show an effective game, Only issue for Besiktas could be that it might him some time to get adapted to new league.

 

Hence, Besiktas did sign an important player who would be expected to show effective attacking game at the field.

Schedule:

Turkish Super League, 5th week:

17:00 Eyupspor - Galatasaray

17:00 Fatih Karagumruk - Kasimpasa

17:00 Samsunspor - Antalyaspor

20:00 Besiktas - Basaksehirspor

20:00 Konyaspor - Alanyaspor

In other news:

TFF has announced that  postponed games between Konyaspor-Besiktas and Rizespor - Basaksehirspor will be played on 22nd October at 20:00

–    Boluspor has loaned Alanyaspor player Arda Usluoglu

–    Kocaelispor has loaned Habib Ali Keita for 1-year.

–    Antalyaspor has transferred Bachir Guaye

–    Rizespor has loaned Vasco de Gama player Loide Augusto.

–    Alanyaspor has loaned Augsburg player Steve Mounie, transferred Portimonense player Ruan Duarte for 5-years and Young Boys player Elias  Meschack for 3-years.

–    Genclerbirligi has transferred Rizespor player Dal Varesanovic

–    IgdirFK has transferred Antalyaspor player Gural Vural.

–    Antalyaspor has signed Samuel Ballet for 2+1 years.

–    Gaziantep has loaned Augsburg player Yusuf Kabadayi and signed Rob Nizet for 1+1 years.

–    Basaksehirspor has signed Dogan Alemdar and Bertug Yildirim for 4-years.

–    Eyupspor has transferred AFEA Academy player Christ Sadia for 3+1 years.

–    Kasimpasa has signed Emre Tasdemir.

–    Antalyaspor has transferred Batman Petrolspor player Samet Karakoc for 3+1 years.

–    Basaksehirspor has transferred Antalyaspor player Jakub Kaluzunski

–    Bodrum has loaned Antalyaspor player Mert Yilmaz.

–    Eyupspor has loaned Galatasaray player Jankat Yilmaz

–    Antalyaspor has transferred US Goree player Mouhamed El Bachir Guaye

–    Samsunspor has loaned Galatasaray player Eyup Aydin and transferred Red Star Belgrade player Cherif N diaye

–    Rizespor has loaned Crystal Palace player Jeserun Rak Sakyi.

–    Istanbulspor has loaned Besiktas player Emrecan Uzunhan

–    Genclerbirligi has loaned Watford player Tom Dele Bashiru.

–    Basaksehirspor has loaned Olympique Marseille player Aminu Harit with transfer option.

–    Eyupspor has loaned Kayserispor player Baran Ali Gezek.

–    YalovaFK has loaned Antalyaspor player Dogukan Ozkan.

Genclerbirligi has transferred Ricardo Velho.

What happened in Turkish football today? 10/09/2025

Besiktas signs Gokhan Sazdagi for 2+1 years.

 

 

 

Besiktas has signed Kayserispor player Gokhan Sazdagi for 2+1 years as it has been good signing for team as it did get well-experienced player at the Super League despite of playing for first time at big 4 side.

 

 

 

During past 5 years Gokhan Sazdagi has managed to become one of the first names which pop up when mentioning Kayserispor as he did show some confident and strong performance with being one of the names which did help side to get some of the achievements. With such experience and also Sergen Yalcin specifically wanted to see player has been without doubt one of the main reasons for signing player. Only question which could be asked is if Sazdagi will be able to show strong performance at the big 4 as it is being actual risky situation for those teams.

 

 

 

Saying that Gokhan Sazdagi has great potential to have good period at Besiktas as long as he would stay focus at the team task.

 

 

 

Fatih Karagumruk signs Sam Larsson for 1-year.

 

 

 

Fatih Karagumruk without doubt has made an important transfer of Sam Larsson who did show some strong and key performances at last  3 seasons and could help team to get an important role to help to team at least to stay at the league.

 

 

 

Without doubt, Sam Larsson has been one of the leading players at Antalyaspor and did show to be in calibre at mediocre Super League side and hence would be expected to take actually key role at Fatih Karagumruk with bringing attacking game of the team into next level due of his attacking type of the game. He would be expected also to take leading role at the team and he would be able to do so in great manner and as been mentioned push team forward with his performance.

 

 

 

This has been an important transfer for Karagumruk and could lead to some good performance in rest of the season.

 

 

 

Kocaelispor terminates contract with Cihat Cihan Yusuf

 

 

 

Kocaelispor which has been actively mentioned during this summer transfer window has terminated contract with its player Cihat Cihan Yusuf as player moves to Sivasspor.

 

 

 

As been mentioned several times at our blog this summer, Kocaelispor has went through high number and important changes and hence it would need to also reduce its current squad and one of those players has ended being Yusuf with who team didn’t consider to give lots of playing time in lots of season and we saw that he has moved to Sivasspor who has been dropped to 1st league.

 

 

 

 

Kocaelispor might be going through some changes in upcoming 2 days until end of summer transfer window and we would follow all developments.

In other news:

–    Fenerbahce administrator Baris Gokturk has resigned from his post.

Besiktas has extended contract with its player Kartal Kayra Yilmaz until 2028

Sakaryaspor has loaned Gaziantep player Mirza Cihan until end of the season.

–    Eyupspor has transferred Mateusz Legowski

Genclerbirligi has transferred Kevin Czoboth

Samsunspor player Emre Kilinc has become injured.

 

–    Goztepe are interested to transfer Galatasaray player Ahmed Kutucu.

–    Samsunspor are interested to transfer Ferencvaros player Barnabas Vargas.

–    Besiktas and Trabzonspor are interested to transfer Monaco player Krepin Diatta.

–    Samsunspor sports director Fuat Capa has stated that current transfer priority is being forward player and club are having talks with 3-4 players.

–    Galatasaray CEO Dursun Ozbek has stated that club doesnt have any past-related debts.

–    Besiktas are interested to transfer Nice player Jeremie Boga.

–    Samsunspor are interested to transfer Eyupspor player Umut Bozok

–    Kayserispor is interested to transfer Copenhagen player German Ounghka

–    RubinKazan has offered 3.5 million euro for Konyaspor player Melih Ibrahimoglu.

What happened in Turkish football today? 31/08/2025

Trabzonspor has lost its first points of season at Black Sea derby.

 

Samsunspor player Marius goal at the 90^th minute has finished Trabzonspor 100% record as it has lost its first 2 points of the season at the Black Sea which did fulfill its all expectations which were given to game.

 

It needs to be mentioned that  Trabzonspor compare to 3 weeks games did actually provide more effective game as Samsunspor would been first team to actual test side capacity to fight for title, and as  game has went through it could be stated that Trabzonspor did become tired and went too much defensive towards end of the game which has led them to lose 2 points but when looking overall it could be mentioned that Trabzonspor did show some positive game with looking for number of the chances with Onuachu getting an important header and to some extend that loss of points did come after he was substituted. Taking account that Samsunspor is being at good form and being dangerous side it could be understood why team went defensive towards end but it could be more productive at attacks.

 

Samsunspor did show in the start of the season did show that it is being team which didn’t lose much from previous season at least and coould be showing some good performance in whole season as it did get that 1 point due of fighting spirit.

 

Despite of losing Trabzonspor losing its first points, it did actually improve compare to previous 3 weeks but it would need to work on to keep focus and providing strong and condident performance an area which is likely would focus in national team break.

 

Besiktas shows similar performance on field despite of change of coach.

 

Besiktas did come to some extend with new blood as it has appointed Sergen Yalcin in place of Ole Gunnar Solskjaer but the team has carried on showing similar ineffective performance once again especially during 1^st half.

 

Besiktas did have some serious issues with getting into game as in similar manner as before Besiktas did show ineffective controllable game and has been slowly at the team which also let them for opponnent to get penalty. Following unsuccessful poor performance during 1^st half, it actually did provide more effective performance in 2^nd half with providing preessure to Alanyaspor goal with getting back-to-back chances but it couldn’t convert and with opponent successful counterattacks has managed to win game with 2:0 scoreline. Besiktas hence carries on having issues with creative aspect at the opponent goal and also converting its important chances which would be main issue for Sergen Yalcin during national team break.

 

Alanyaspor which did win its first league season, has managed to do with provoding patient game with aiming to show organised defensive game and also seeking for chances with counter-attacks and doing that it didi get without doubt an important for them.

 

Besiktas might be changing coach but it does look like performance-wise team continues to have similar issues and hence Sergen Yalcin would mainly focus to find solution to this in national team break.

 

Fenerbahce has showed great bounce back following sacking of Mourinho

 

Fenerbahce has got confident win against Genclerbirligi at away game with 3:1 scoreline at the 1^st game after Jose Mourinho has been sacked as opponent didn’t provide much resistance to Istanbul giants especially during 1^st half.

 

It has been among one of the most anticipated games following Jose Mourinho leaving team and after side has been relegated from Champions League after losing to Benfica at play-off round. It needs to be mentioned that with Zeki Murat Gole taking caretaking role at the position, Fenerbahce did come out with some drastic changes at 1^st half with introducing also new players including Nene who did show some positive performance especially during 1^st half where he provided strong pressure to opponent goal with creating some chances and also some good passes. Fenerbahce hence did get ahead with 3:0 scoreline without much issues and did reduce tempo in 2^nd half during which it has conceded also goal. Stating that, it is hard specifically to state that Fenerbahce has shown specifically strong performance as Genclerbirligi didn’t provide much pressure and has made lots of simple mistakes at defence.

 

As been noted, Genclerbirligi has been pretty passive performance without being too much into game making lots of simple mistakes at defence during 1^st half and does provide some worrying view as it yet to get point during this season.

 

Fenerbahce hence has regained confidence following being relegated from Champions League and also provided some good performance after Jose Mourinho being sacked from his position and does show that it could have reflex strongly after such period and also would enter to national team break with strong confidence.

Results:

Turkish Super League, 4th week:

Basaksehirspor 0:0 Eyupspor

Genclerbirligi 1:3 Fenerbahce

Alanyaspor 2:0 Besiktas

Trabzonspor 1:1 Samsunspor

 In other news:

Konyaspor player Enes Bardhi has been selectedto Norhern Macedonian National Team for World Cup 2026 qualifiers.

Gaziantep has loaned Lille player Muhammed Bayo

KeremAkturkoglu has arrived to Istanbul for one-on-one transfer negotiations with Fenerbahce

–    Sevilla has made loan deal with Trabzonspor player Batista Mendy.

–    ManchesterCity has declined transfer offer of 12 million euro for Ederson from Fenerbahce.

–    NEOMSC has accepted to pay 40 million euro transfer fee for Baris Alper Yilmaz to Galatasaray.

–    Benfica player Kerem Akturkoglu would arrive to Istanbul for one-on-one transfer negotiations with Fenerbahce on 31st August.

–    Fenerbahce are interested to appoint Sergio Conceicao

–    Galatasaray are interested to transfer Manchester United player Altay Bayindir.

–    CorumFK has made principal deal with Kocaelispor player Ogulcan Caglayan.

–    Galatasaray are interested to transfer Manchester United player Andre Onana.