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1962–63 In Turkish Football
The 1962–63 season was the 59th season of competitive association football, football in Turkey. Overview Galatasaray S.K. (football team), Galatasaray won their second title, becoming the first club to win back-to-back league titles. BeÅŸiktaÅŸ J.K., BeÅŸiktaÅŸ finished runners-up, with Fenerbahçe S.K., Fenerbahçe rounding out the top three. The Turkish Cup was held for the first time at the start of the 1962–63 season. Galatasaray defeated Fenerbahçe 4–2 on aggregate.Sivritepe, ErdinÃ1962-1963 Milli Ligturkish-soccer.com, accessed 8 July 2010 In previous years, the league was held with two separate groups. Winners of each group would face each other in a two-legged final. However, the format was changed to a final league table, with the club with the most points crowned champions. The top six clubs from each group qualified for the final group, while the bottom two clubs in each group were relegated (Fatih Karagümrük, Karagümrük, Etimesgut Åžekerspor, Åžeker Hilal, Ve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Association Football
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is to score more goals than the opposition by moving the ball beyond the goal line into a rectangular framed goal defended by the opposing side. Traditionally, the game has been played over two 45 minute halves, for a total match time of 90 minutes. With an estimated 250 million players active in over 200 countries, it is considered the world's most popular sport. The game of association football is played in accordance with the Laws of the Game, a set of rules that has been in effect since 1863 with the International Football Association Board (IFAB) maintaining them since 1886. The game is played with a football that is in circumference. The two teams compete to get the ball into the other team's goal (between the posts and under t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
