2017–18 Süper Lig

Süper Lig 2017–18
Season information
Winners	Galatasaray
Relegated	Karabükspor Gençlerbirliği Osmanlıspor
Continental cup qualifiers
Champions League	Galatasaray Fenerbahçe
Europa League	İstanbul Başakşehir Beşiktaş Akhisar Belediyespor
Season statistics
Matches played	306
Goals scored	906
Top goalscorer	Bafétimbi Gomis (29 goals)
Biggest home win	İstanbul Başakşehir 5–0 Karabükspor (29 January 2018) Beşiktaş 5–0 Karabükspor (10 February 2018) Galatasaray 5–0 Bursaspor (23 February 2018) Göztepe 5–0 Karabükspor (27 April 2018)
Biggest away win	Karabükspor 0-7 Galatasaray (3 March 2018) Karabükspor 0–7 Fenerbahçe (14 May 2018)
Highest scoring	Trabzonspor 3–4 Alanyaspor (22 September 2017) Trabzonspor 1–6 Akhisar (15 October 2017) Karabükspor 0–7 Galatasaray (3 March 2018) Karabükspor 0–7 Fenerbahçe (14 May 2018)
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The 2017–18 Süper Lig (known as the Spor Toto Süper Lig for sponsorship reasons) is the 60th season of the Süper Lig, the highest tier football league of Turkey.

Teams

Stadia and locations

Team	Home city	Stadium	Capacity
Akhisar Belediyespor	Akhisar	Manisa 19 Mayıs Stadium	16,597
Antalyaspor	Antalya	Antalya Arena	33,032
Beşiktaş	Istanbul (Beşiktaş)	Vodafone Arena	43,500
Fenerbahçe	Istanbul (Kadıköy)	Ülker Stadium	50,509
Galatasaray	Istanbul (Şişli)	Türk Telekom Arena	52,652
Gençlerbirliği	Ankara	Ankara 19 Mayıs Stadium	19,209
İstanbul Başakşehir	Istanbul (Başakşehir)	Başakşehir Fatih Terim Stadium	17,801
Kardemir Karabükspor	Karabük	Dr. Necmettin Şeyhoğlu Stadium	14,200
Kasımpaşa	Istanbul (Beyoğlu)	Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Stadium	14,234
Konyaspor	Konya	Konya Büyükşehir Stadium	42,276
Osmanlıspor	Ankara	Osmanlı Stadyumu	19,626
Sivasspor	Sivas	Sivas Arena	27,532
Trabzonspor	Trabzon	Şenol Güneş Stadium	41,513
Yeni Malatyaspor	Malatya	Malatya İnönü Stadium	13,000

Personnel and sponsorship

Team	Head coach	Captain	Kit manufacturer	Sponsor
Akhisar Belediyespor	Okan Buruk	Custódio	Nike	unknown
Antalyaspor	Rıza Çalımbay	Samuel Eto'o	Nike	IATI
Atiker Konyaspor	Aykut Kocaman	Ali Çamdalı	Hummel	Spor Toto
Beşiktaş	Şenol Güneş	Tolga Zengin	Adidas	Vodafone
Fenerbahçe	unknown	Volkan Demirel	Adidas	Nesine.com
Galatasaray	Igor Tudor	Selçuk İnan	Nike	Nef
Gençlerbirliği	Ümit Özat	unknown	Lotto	ARTE
İstanbul Başakşehir	Abdullah Avcı	Emre Belözoğlu	Nike	Makro
Kardemir Karabükspor	Zoran Barisic	Ahmet Şahin	Adidas	Kardemir
Kasımpaşa	Kemal Özdeş	Adem Büyük	Nike	Halley
Osmanlıspor	Hamza Hamzaoğlu	Erdal Kılıçaslan	Nike	ATG
Sivasspor	Samet Aybaba	unknown	unknown	unknown
Trabzonspor	Ersun Yanal	Onur Kıvrak	Nike	QNB
Yeni Malatyaspor	İrfan Buz	unknown	unknown	unknown

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Replaced by	Date of appointment
Gençlerbirliği	Ümit Özat	Mutual agreement	30 August 2017	18th	Mesut Bakkal	31 August 2017
Yeni Malatyaspor	Ertuğrul Sağlam	Resigned	14 September 2017	13th	Erol Bulut	27 September 2017
Osmanlıspor	Bülent Uygun	Resigned	17 September 2017	18th	İrfan Buz	20 September 2017
Antalyaspor	Rıza Çalımbay	Resigned	18 September 2017	16th	Leonardo Araújo	27 September 2017
Kardemir Karabükspor	Erkan Sözeri	Resigned	1 October 2017	16th	Tony Popovic	1 October 2017
Trabzonspor	Ersun Yanal	Sacked	15 October 2017	11th	Rıza Çalımbay	18 October 2017
Gençlerbirliği	Mesut Bakkal	Sacked	20 November 2017	18th	Ümit Özat	20 November 2017
Antalyaspor	Leonardo Araújo	Resigned	6 December 2017	17th	David Badía (caretaker)	6 December 2017
Kardemir Karabükspor	Tony Popovic	Sacked	15 December 2017	18th	Levent Açıkgöz	18 December 2017
Galatasaray	Igor Tudor	Sacked	18 December 2017	2nd	Fatih Terim	21 December 2017
Alanyaspor	Safet Sušić	Sacked	26 December 2017	13th	Hikmet Karaman	3 January 2018
Antalyaspor	David Badía	End of caretaker tenure	4 January 2018	15th	Hamza Hamzaoğlu	4 January 2018
Alanyaspor	Hikmet Karaman	Sacked	26 February 2018	16th	Mesut Bakkal	27 February 2018
Konyaspor	Mehmet Özdilek	Mutual agreement	4 March 2018	16th	Sergen Yalçın	6 March 2018
Kardemir Karabükspor	Levent Açıkgöz	Sacked	21 March 2018	18th	Ünal Karaman	21 March 2018
Bursaspor	Paul Le Guen	Sacked	10 April 2018	13th	Mustafa Er	10 April 2018

League table

Süper Lig 2017-18 League Table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Notes
1	Galatasaray	34	24	3	7	75	33	+42	75	Champions League group stage
2	Fenerbahçe	34	21	9	4	78	36	+42	72	UEFA Champions League Third qualifying round
3	İstanbul Başakşehir	34	22	6	6	62	34	+28	72	Europa League Third qualifying round
4	Beşiktaş	34	21	8	5	69	30	+39	71	Europa League Second qualifying round
5	Trabzonspor	34	15	10	9	63	51	+12	55
6	Göztepe	34	13	10	11	49	50	−1	49
7	Sivasspor	34	14	7	13	45	53	−8	49
8	Kasımpaşa	34	13	7	14	57	58	−1	46
9	Kayserispor	34	12	8	14	44	55	−11	44
10	Yeni Malatyaspor	34	11	10	13	38	45	−7	43
11	Akhisar Belediyespor	34	11	9	14	44	53	−9	42	Qualification to Europa League group stage
12	Alanyaspor	34	11	7	16	55	59	−4	40
13	Bursaspor	34	11	6	17	43	48	−5	39
14	Antalyaspor	34	10	8	16	40	59	−19	38
15	Konyaspor	34	9	9	16	38	42	−4	36
16	Osmanlıspor	34	8	9	17	49	60	−11	33	Relegation to 1. Lig
17	Gençlerbirliği	34	8	9	17	37	54	−17	33
18	Karabükspor	34	3	3	28	20	86	−66	12

Source: Süper Lig
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd goal difference; 3rd number of goals scored.
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round; (Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament

Positions by round

The following table represents the teams' positions after each round in the competition.

Team \ Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34
	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	1	3	2	2	2	2	1	2	1	1	1	1	1	2	1	1	1	1	1	1
	8	13	6	11	8	4	7	5	6	8	7	5	3	3	3	2	3	3	3	3	3	3	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	3	2	2	2
	7	11	4	3	5	6	5	4	5	2	2	2	2	1	2	1	1	1	1	1	2	1	2	2	3	2	2	1	3	3	2	3	3	3
	4	3	2	2	2	2	2	6	7	3	3	3	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	3	3	2	3	3	3	2	2	4	4	4	4
	5	5	8	5	9	9	9	11	13	11	12	11	8	8	7	7	7	5	5	6	6	7	6	7	6	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5
	9	14	9	6	3	3	4	2	2	5	8	8	7	7	6	6	6	7	7	7	7	8	7	8	7	7	8	8	7	6	6	6	6	6
	14	8	14	16	11	15	11	9	9	9	5	6	9	10	9	9	8	8	8	8	8	6	8	6	8	8	6	7	8	7	7	7	7	7
	2	2	7	4	10	10	13	14	14	13	13	12	10	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	9	11	12	11	12	10	9	9	9	9	9	8	8
	18	12	11	7	4	5	3	7	4	4	4	4	5	5	5	5	5	6	6	5	5	5	5	5	5	6	7	6	6	8	8	8	9	9
	3	10	10	13	14	11	12	13	11	10	11	13	13	13	13	10	10	10	9	10	9	10	9	9	9	10	9	10	10	10	11	10	10	10
	6	6	3	8	6	7	6	3	3	6	9	9	11	9	10	12	12	12	13	14	12	12	10	10	10	9	11	11	12	12	12	14	12	11
	15	17	16	12	13	12	8	10	10	12	10	10	12	12	12	13	13	13	12	12	14	16	15	15	13	13	14	14	14	15	13	13	14	12
	13	9	13	9	7	8	10	8	8	7	6	7	6	6	8	8	9	9	10	9	10	11	12	11	12	11	12	13	13	11	10	11	11	13
	17	15	15	15	16	13	15	17	12	15	14	14	14	14	16	16	15	16	16	15	15	14	14	14	15	14	13	12	11	13	14	12	13	14
	12	7	12	14	15	14	14	15	17	14	15	15	15	16	15	14	16	17	17	17	16	15	16	16	17	17	17	16	16	14	15	15	15	15
	16	18	17	17	18	18	17	18	18	18	17	17	16	15	14	15	14	14	15	16	17	17	17	17	16	15	15	17	17	16	16	16	16	16
	10	16	18	18	17	17	18	16	16	17	18	18	18	17	17	17	17	15	14	13	13	13	13	13	14	16	16	15	15	17	17	17	17	17
	11	4	5	10	12	16	16	12	15	16	16	16	17	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18

Source: tff.org (Turkish)

	Leader and 2018–19 Champions League group stage
	2018–19 UEFA Champions League second qualifying round
	2018–19 UEFA Europa League third qualifying round
	2018–19 UEFA Europa League second qualifying round
	Relegation to 2018–19 TFF First League

Statistics

Top goalscorers

Pos.	Player	Team	Goals
1	Bafétimbi Gomis	Galatasaray	29
2	Burak Yılmaz	Trabzonspor	23
3	Adis Jahović	Konyaspor	19
4	Emmanuel Adebayor	İstanbul Başakşehir	15
5	Talisca	Beşiktaş	14
	Emre Akbaba	Alanyaspor
	Umut Bulut	Kayserispor
	Giuliano	Fenerbahçe
9	Arouna Koné	Sivasspor	13
	Trézéguet	Kasımpaşa
	Ryan Babel	Beşiktaş
	Vágner Love	Beşiktaş

Top assists

Pos.	Player	Team	Assists
1	Edin Višća	İstanbul Başakşehir	15
2	Emre Akbaba	Alanyaspor	10
	Garry Rodrigues	Galatasaray
4	Sofiane Feghouli	Galatasaray	9
	Emre Belözoğlu	İstanbul Başakşehir
6	Mathieu Valbuena	Fenerbahçe	8
	Nabil Dirar	Fenerbahçe
	Younes Belhanda	Galatasaray
9	Caner Erkin	Beşiktaş	7
	Ricardo Quaresma	Beşiktaş
	Pablo Batalla	Bursaspor

Hat-tricks

As of 19 May 2018

Date	Player	For	Against	Result
22 September 2017	Vágner Love	Alanyaspor	Trabzonspor	3–4
24 September 2017	Adis Jahović	Göztepe	Sivasspor	2–3
30 September 2017	Hakan Arslan	Sivasspor	Antalyaspor	3–1
18 November 2017	Emmanuel Adebayor	İstanbul Başakşehir	Galatasaray	5–1
19 November 2017	Roberto Soldado	Fenerbahçe	Sivasspor	4–1
17 December 2017	Ryan Babel	Beşiktaş	Osmanlıspor	5–1
23 February 2018	Bafétimbi Gomis	Galatasaray	Bursaspor	5–0
3 March 2018	Bafétimbi Gomis4	Galatasaray	Kardemir Karabükspor	0–7
12 May 2018	Mbaye Diagne	Kasımpaşa	Gençlerbirliği	3–1
19 May 2018	Cyle Larin	Beşiktaş	Sivasspor	5–1

Note

⁴ Player scored 4 goals

External links

• Official website (Turkish) (English)

2017–18 in Turkish football
Domestic leagues
Süper Lig · TFF First League · TFF Second League · TFF Third League
Domestic cups
Turkish Cup · Turkish Super Cup
European competitions
Champions League (Final) · Europa League (Final)
2016–17                                                        2018–19