2019–20 Süper Lig

Süper Lig 2019–20
Season information
Dates	16 August 2019 – 26 July 2020
Winners	İstanbul Başakşehir
Continental cup qualifiers
Champions League	İstanbul Başakşehir Beşiktaş
Europa League	Sivasspor Alanyaspor Galatasaray
Season statistics
Matches played	261
Goals scored	744
Top goalscorer	Alexander Sørloth (24 goals)
Biggest home win	Trabzonspor 6–0 Kasımpaşa (19 January 2020)
Biggest away win	Antalyaspor 0–6 Gençlerbirliği (19 October 2019)
Highest scoring	Trabzonspor 6–2 Kayserispor (28 December 2019)
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The 2019–20 Süper Lig, officially called the Spor Toto Süper Lig Cemil Usta season, was the 62nd season of the Süper Lig, the highest tier football league of Turkey. The season was named after Cemil Usta, a former Turkish national team player and Trabzonspor legend. Galatasaray were the defending champions. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, The Ministry of Youth and Sports announced on 12 March, 2020 that matches would be played behind closed doors until the end of April, before indefinitely suspending matches altogether on 19 March. After a hiatus of nearly three months, the season resumed behind closed doors on 12 June, 2020, with eight rounds still to play.

Teams

A total of 18 teams contest the league, including 15 sides from the 2018–19 season and three promoted from the 2018–19 TFF First League. It includes Denizlispor and Gençlerbirliği, the two top teams from the TFF First League, and Gaziantep F.K., the winners of the 2018–19 TFF First League playoffs. Akhisarspor, Erzurum BB, and Bursaspor were relegated to the 2019–20 TFF First League.

Stadia and locations

Team	Home city	Stadium	Capacity
Alanyaspor	Antalya (Alanya)	Bahçeşehir Okulları Stadium	10,130
Ankaragücü	Ankara (Yenimahalle)	Eryaman Stadium	20,071
Antalyaspor	Antalya (Muratpaşa)	Antalya Stadium	32,537
Beşiktaş	Istanbul (Beşiktaş)	Vodafone Park	41,188
Çaykur Rizespor	Rize	Yeni Rize Şehir Stadı	15,332
Denizlispor	Denizli	Denizli Atatürk Stadium	18,745
Fenerbahçe	Istanbul (Kadıköy)	Şükrü Saracoğlu Stadium	47,834
Galatasaray	Istanbul (Sarıyer)	Türk Telekom Stadium	52,223
Gaziantep F.K.	Gaziantep	Gaziantep Arena	33,502
Gençlerbirliği	Ankara (Yenimahalle)	Eryaman Stadium	20,071
Göztepe	İzmir	Gürsel Aksel Stadium	25,035
İstanbul Başakşehir	Istanbul (Başakşehir)	Başakşehir Fatih Terim Stadium	17,300
Kasımpaşa	Istanbul (Beyoğlu)	Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Stadium	14,234
Kayserispor	Kayseri	Kadir Has Stadium	32,864
Konyaspor	Konya	Konya Büyükşehir Stadium	42,000
Sivasspor	Sivas	4 Eylül Stadium	27,532
Trabzonspor	Trabzon	Şenol Güneş Stadium	40,775
Yeni Malatyaspor	Malatya	Malatya Stadium	27,044

Personnel and sponsorship

Team	Head coach	Captain	Kit manufacturer	Sponsor
Alanyaspor	Erol Bulut	Efecan Karaca	Uhlsport	TAV Airports
Ankaragücü	İbrahim Üzülmez	Sedat Ağçay	Nike	Merkez Ankara
Antalyaspor	Tamer Tuna	Yekta Kurtuluş	Nike	Regnum Carya
Beşiktaş	Sergen Yalçın	Burak Yılmaz	Adidas	Vodafone
Çaykur Rizespor	Ünal Karaman	Orhan Ovacıklı	Nike	Çaykur
Denizlispor	Levent Kartop	Hugo Rodallega	Nike	Yukatel
Fenerbahçe	Tahir Karapınar	Emre Belözoğlu	Adidas	Avis
Galatasaray	Fatih Terim	Selçuk İnan	Nike	Terra Pizza
Gaziantep F.K.	Marius Șumudică	Günay Güvenç	Nike	Sanko
Gençlerbirliği	Hamza Hamzaoğlu	Stéphane Sessègnon	Nike
Göztepe	İlhan Palut	Beto	Puma	Türkerler
İstanbul Başakşehir	Okan Buruk	Mahmut Tekdemir	Macron	Mall Of Istanbul
Kasımpaşa	Fuat Çapa	Ricardo Quaresma	Nike	Ciner
Kayserispor	Robert Prosinečki	Silviu Lung Jr.	Nike	İstikbal
Konyaspor	Bülent Korkmaz	Ali Turan	Lotto	Spor Toto
Sivasspor	Rıza Çalımbay	Ziya Erdal	Adidas	Demir İnşaat
Trabzonspor	Hüseyin Çimşir	José Sosa	Macron	Vestel
Yeni Malatyaspor	Hikmet Karaman	Murat Yıldırım	Macron	Medicana

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Replaced by	Date of appointment
Kasımpaşa	İlyas Öztürk / Erkan Çoker	End of interim period	26 May 2019	Pre-season	İbrahim Üzülmez	1 June 2019
Yeni Malatyaspor	Ali Ravcı		26 May 2019		Sergen Yalçın	9 June 2019
Çaykur Rizespor	Okan Buruk	End of contract	29 May 2019		İsmail Kartal	6 June 2019
Beşiktaş	Şenol Güneş		31 May 2019		Abdullah Avcı	1 June 2019
Gençlerbirliği	İbrahim Üzülmez	Resignation	30 May 2019		Mustafa Kaplan	18 June 2019
İstanbul Başakşehir	Abdullah Avcı	Mutual agreement	30 May 2019		Okan Buruk	10 June 2019
Kasımpaşa	İbrahim Üzülmez		1 June 2019		Kemal Özdeş	13 June 2019
Sivasspor	Hakan Keleş		1 June 2019		Rıza Çalımbay	7 June 2019
Alanyaspor	Sergen Yalçın		4 June 2019		Erol Bulut	6 June 2019
Gaziantep F.K.	Mehmet Altıparmak	End of contract	8 June 2019		Marius Șumudică	13 June 2019
Ankaragücü	Mustafa Kaplan	Resignation	16 June 2019		Aykan Atik	5 August 2019
Ankaragücü	Aykan Atik	End of interim period	3 September 2019	6th	Metin Diyadin	3 September 2019
Kayserispor	Hikmet Karaman	Mutual agreement	7 October 2019	18th	Samet Aybaba	11 October 2019
Denizlispor	Yücel İldiz		8 October 2019	13th	Mehmet Özdilek	11 October 2019
Kayserispor	Samet Aybaba	Resignation	28 October 2019	18th	Bülent Uygun	31 October 2019
Göztepe	Tamer Tuna		29 October 2019	15h	İlhan Palut	4 November 2019
Gençlerbirliği	Mustafa Kaplan	Mutual agreement	29 October 2019	17th	Hamza Hamzaoğlu	31 October 2019
Ankaragücü	Metin Diyadin		11 November 2019	17th	Mustafa Kaplan	12 November 2019
Antalyaspor	Bülent Korkmaz		12 November 2019	15th	Stjepan Tomas	15 November 2019
Kasımpaşa	Kemal Özdeş		1 December 2019	15th	Tayfur Havutçu	4 December 2019
Kayserispor	Bülent Uygun		26 December 2019	18th	Robert Prosinečki	29 December 2019
Trabzonspor	Ünal Karaman		29 December 2019	3rd	Hüseyin Çimşir	2 January 2020
Antalyaspor	Stjepan Tomas		31 December 2019	16th	Tamer Tuna	4 January 2020
Yeni Malatyaspor	Sergen Yalçın		15 January 2020	8th	Kemal Özdeş	23 January 2020
Kasımpaşa	Tayfur Havutçu	Resignation	19 January 2020	15th	Fuat Çapa	5 February 2020
Ankaragücü	Mustafa Kaplan	Mutual agreement	21 January 2020	17th	Mustafa R. Akçay	27 January 2020
Beşiktaş	Abdullah Avcı	Sacked	24 January 2020	7th	Sergen Yalçın	29 January 2020
Konyaspor	Aykut Kocaman	Mutual agreement	9 February 2020	14th	Bülent Korkmaz	12 February 2020
Denizlispor	Mehmet Özdilek		16 February 2020	11th	Bülent Uygun	21 February 2020
Çaykur Rizespor	İsmail Kartal	Resignation	29 February 2020	14th	Ünal Karaman	3 March 2020
Fenerbahçe	Ersun Yanal	Mutual agreement	1 March 2020	7th	Tahir Karapınar (interim)	9 June 2020
Yeni Malatyaspor	Kemal Özdeş			13th	Hikmet Karaman	3 March 2020
Ankaragücü	Mustafa R. Akçay		23 June 2020	18th	İbrahim Üzülmez	24 June 2020
Denizlispor	Bülent Uygun		4 July 2020	12th	Levent Kartop (interim)	5 July 2020
Çaykur Rizespor	Ünal Karaman	Resignation	14 July 2020	15th	Stjepan Tomas	2020–21 season
Trabzonspor	Hüseyin Çimşir	Mutual agreement	20 July 2020	2nd	Eddie Newton (interim)	20 July 2020

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	İstanbul Başakşehir (C)	34	20	9	5	65	34	+31	69	Qualification to Champions League group stage
2	Trabzonspor	34	18	11	5	76	42	+34	65
3	Beşiktaş	34	19	5	10	59	40	+19	62	Qualification to Champions League second qualifying round
4	Sivasspor	34	17	9	8	55	38	+17	60	Qualification for the Europa League group stage
5	Alanyaspor	34	16	9	9	61	37	+24	57	Qualification to Europa League third qualifying round
6	Galatasaray	34	15	11	8	55	37	+18	56	Qualification to Europa League second qualifying round
7	Fenerbahçe	34	15	8	11	58	46	+12	53
8	Gaziantep	34	11	13	10	49	50	−1	46
9	Antalyaspor	34	11	12	11	41	52	−11	45
10	Kasımpaşa	34	12	7	15	53	58	−5	43
11	Göztepe	34	11	9	14	44	49	−5	42
12	Gençlerbirliği	34	9	9	16	39	56	−17	36
13	Konyaspor	34	8	12	14	36	52	−16	36
14	Denizlispor	34	9	8	17	31	48	−17	35
15	Rizespor	34	10	5	19	38	57	−19	35
16	Yeni Malatyaspor	34	8	8	18	44	51	−7	32
17	Kayserispor	34	8	8	18	40	72	−32	32
18	Ankaragücü	34	7	11	16	31	56	−25	32

Source: Süper Lig, Soccerway
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head points; 3) Head-to-head goal difference; 4) Head-to-head goals scored; 5) Goal difference; 6) Goals scored; 7) Play-off.
(C) Champion

Statistics

Top goalscorers

As of matches played 26 July 2020

Rank	Player	Club(s)	Goals
1	Alexander Sørloth	Trabzonspor	24
2	Papiss Cissé	Alanyaspor	22
3	Adis Jahović	Yeni Malatyaspor/Antalyaspor	17
4	Vedat Muriqi	Fenerbahçe	15
5	Bogdan Stancu	Gençlerbirliği	14
6	Demba Ba	İstanbul Başakşehir	13
	Edin Višća	İstanbul Başakşehir
	Mustapha Yatabaré	Sivasspor
	Burak Yılmaz	Beşiktaş
10	Bengali-Fodé Koita	Kasımpaşa	12

Top assists

As of matches played 29 June 2020

Rank	Player	Club(s)	Assists
1	Edin Višća	İstanbul Başakşehir	12
2	Ömer Bayram	Galatasaray	10
3	Caner Erkin	Beşiktaş	9
4	Bernard Mensah	Kayserispor	8
5	Alexander Sørloth	Trabzonspor	7
	Burak Yılmaz	Beşiktaş
7	Soner Aydoğdu	Göztepe	6
	Guilherme	Yeni Malatyaspor/Trabzonspor
	Olarenwaju Kayode	Gaziantepspor
	Max Kruse	Fenerbahçe
	Adem Ljajić	Beşiktaş
	Anthony Nwakaeme	Trabzonspor
	José Ernesto Sosa	Trabzonspor
	Haris Hajradinović	Kasımpaşa

Hat-tricks

Date	Player	For	Against	Result
4 October 2019	Adis Jahović4	Yeni Malatyaspor	Denizlispor	5–1 (H)
19 October 2019	Daniel Candeias	Gençlerbirliği	Antalyaspor	6–0 (A)
30 November 2019	Djalma	Antalyaspor	Ankaragücü	5–0 (H)
19 January 2020	Alexander Sørloth	Trabzonspor	Kasımpaşa	6–0 (H)

⁴ Player scored four goals

External links

• Official website (Turkish) (English)

2019–20 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)
2018–19                                                        2020–21