Fenerbahçe Spor Kulübü (Fenerbahçe Sports Club), also known as Fenerbahçe or just Fener, is a Turkish professional football club based in Istanbul, Turkey. Fenerbahçe was founded as a football club in 1907 in Istanbul, Ottoman Empire, by a group of local men; the club's name comes from Fenerbahçe neighbourhood of Istanbul, which does translate as "Lighthouse in the Garden". Fenerbahçe is a major multi-sports club and competes in football, basketball, volleyball, athletics, swimming, sailing, rowing, boxing and table tennis with many major honours won in each. Fenerbahçe is one of the most successful and best supported football teams in Turkey, having never been relegated to lower divisions, and currently competes in the Süper Lig and the Turkish Cup. It is nicknamed Sarı Kanaryalar (Turkish for "Yellow Canaries") and plays its home games at Şükrü Saracoğlu Stadium in Kadıköy, Istanbul.
Fenerbahçe has won 35 domestic trophies, including 19 Süper Lig titles, seven Turkish Cups and 9 Turkish Super Cups. In international club football, Fenerbahçe has won one Balkans Cup trophy, which is marked as the first ever non-domestic trophy won by a Turkish club. In UEFA competitions, Fenerbahçe has reached the quarter-final in the 1963–64 season of the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup and in the 2007–08 season of the UEFA Champions League, their semi-final performance in the 2012–13 season of the UEFA Europa League is marked as their greatest achievement in European competitions.
Fenerbahçe are one of the best supported clubs in Turkey. They have the longest standing and deepest rivalry with Galatasaray, another major club based in Istanbul, with the rivalry between them is known as The Intercontinental Derby. Fenerbahçe also have rivalries with Beşiktaş.
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