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2019–20 Turkish Women's First Football League
The 2019–20 season of the Turkish Women's First Football League is the 24th season of Turkey's premier women's football league. The league season started with the first week matches on 20 October 2019, and the regular season will conclude with the 22nd week matches on 3 May 2020. The number of participating teams was increased from ten to twelve again after eight seasons. Trabzon İdmanocağı was relegated after the previous season due to not show-up. The promoted Women's Second League teams are Adana İdmanyurduspor of Adana, Fomget Gençlik ve Spor from Ankara and Kocaeli Bayan FK of İzmit. Four teams from Istanbul continue to take part in the 2019–20 season. On 19 March 2020, Youth and Sports Minister Mehmet Kasapoğlu announced that following a meeting with the federation presidents all men's and women's football, basketball, volleyball and handball leagues were postponed as part of the precautionary measures taken in context with the COVID-19 pandemic in Turkey. On ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Turkish Women's First Football League
The Turkish Women's Football Super League ( tr, Kadınlar Süper Ligi), formerly the First Women's Football League (also known as the ''Turkcell Women's Football Super League'' for sponsorship reasons), is the top level women's football league of Turkey. In the 2022–23 season, one group of 10 teams and one group of nine teams play a double round robin and finals to decide a champion club, which qualifies for a spot in the UEFA Women's Champions League. On 8 March 2021, the International Women's Day, the Turkish Football Federation signed a sponsorship agreement with the Turkish mobile phone operator Turkcell. Accordingly, the First Women's Football League was named Turkcell Women's Super League ( tr, Turkcell Kadın Süper Ligi) beginning with the 2021–22 season. Format In an effort to increase quality of the league, in the 2009–10 season two teams were relegated and four teams were promoted to the first league. Thus, the 2010–11 season consisted of twelve teams. Fashion ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ankara
Ankara ( , ; ), historically known as Ancyra and Angora, is the capital of Turkey. Located in the central part of Anatolia, the city has a population of 5.1 million in its urban center and over 5.7 million in Ankara Province, making it Turkey's second-largest city after Istanbul. Serving as the capital of the ancient Celtic state of Galatia (280–64 BC), and later of the Roman province with the same name (25 BC–7th century), the city is very old, with various Hattian, Hittite, Lydian, Phrygian, Galatian, Greek, Persian, Roman, Byzantine, and Ottoman archeological sites. The Ottomans made the city the capital first of the Anatolia Eyalet (1393 – late 15th century) and then the Angora Vilayet (1867–1922). The historical center of Ankara is a rocky hill rising over the left bank of the Ankara River, a tributary of the Sakarya River. The hill remains crowned by the ruins of Ankara Castle. Although few of its outworks have survived, there are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amed SFK (women)
Amed Sportif Faaliyetler Kulübü, shortly Amed S.K. is the women's football team of the same-named Diyarbakır-based sports club, formerly known as Diyarbakır Büyükşehir Belediyespor. The team completed the 2016–17 season of Turkish Women's Second Football League as runner-up, and were promoted to the Turkish Women's First Football League. History The club was renamed Amed Sportif Faaliyetler (literally Amed Sportive Activities) from the metropolitan municipality sponsored club Diyarbakır Büyükşehir Belediyespor in August 2015. "Amed" is the name of Diyarbakır in Kurdish language. The team finished the 2016–17 Women's Second League season as division champion and winner after a play-off match, and were promoted to the First League. From 2018 until February 2019 the fans of the club were banned to enter the stadium at away games. Stadium Amed SFK play their home matches at Talaytepe Sports Facility in Talaytepe neighborhood of Kayapınar district in Diyar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2017–18 Turkish Women's First Football League
The 2017–18 season of the Turkish Women's First Football League is the 22nd season of Turkey's premier women's football league. The league season started with the first week matches on 12 November 2017. The regular season concluded with the 18th week matches on 8 April. 2018. Ten teams competed with two promoted teams, Fatih Vatan Spor of Istanbul and Amed Sportif Faaliyetler from Diyarbakır, which replaced the relegated teams Adana İdmanyurduspor and Amasya Eğitim Spor. Four teams from Istanbul took part in the 2017–18 season. Ataşehir Belediyespor became the league champion two matches before the league's end, regaining the title from Konak Belediyespor, who held the title five seasons in a row. This is the third title of the Istanbul-based team in their history. Ataşehir Belediyespor took part at the 2018–19 UEFA Women's Champions League qualifying round. Konak Belediyespor and Beşiktaş J.K. finished the regular season of 2017–18 even on points behind th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Women's Football In Turkey
Women's football in Turkey is the women's branch of football in Turkey and is governed by the Turkish Football Federation (TFF). History Friendship matches Although Turkey is one of the first countries to adapt women's rights, its practical realization in every part of the society took time. Due to differentiation in the society between men's and women's sports, Turkish women fell behind men in sports. The slogan "football is a men's sport" caused that women were not interested in football in the early days. This incorrect assessment and approach hindered that the number of participants in women's football, like women audience, women footballers, women coaches, women managers and women referees, did not reach the desired level. The first recorded involvement of women in football took place when six women played in a mixed-gender match in Izmir on 24 May 1954. The first ever football match of only women was played between the Izmir Women's Football team and Istanbul Women's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Özge Kanbay
Özge Kanbay (4 November 199625 February 2019) was a Turkish women's footballer, and female football referee. She was also a rugby sevens player. The 2019–20 Turkish women's football season and the 2020 Turkish Women's Rugby sevens League season were named in honor of her, after she died in February 2019 from cancer. Private life Kanbay was born in Hamburg, Germany, on 4 November 1996. She has an elder sister Gamze Kanbay Özkan. Kanbay was a final grade student of physical education and sports teaching in the Faculty of Sports Sciences at the Manisa Celal Bayar University (MCBÜ). Playing career Kanbay obtained her footballer license from the İzmir-based club Karşıyaka BESEM Spor on 31 October 2013. She appeared for her team in 14 matches of the 2013-14 Women's Second League and scored four goals. Her team finished the league season as group runner-up. She enjoyed her team's promotion to the Women's First League in the 2014–15 season. She capped in ten matches of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Turkish Football Federation
The Turkish Football Federation (; TFF) is the governing body of association football in Turkey. It was formed on 23 April 1923, and joined FIFA the same year and UEFA in 1962. It organizes the Turkey national football team, the Süper Lig, Turkish Football League and the Turkish Cup. Governed competitions Leagues The Turkish football league system is divided into eight tiers, ranging from the top-tier Süper Lig to local amateur divisions. Cups The Turkish Cup changed its name to the Federation Cup (Turkish: ''Federasyon Kupası'') in the 1980–81 season, then back to Turkish Cup in 1992–93. Hosting bids Turkey has had several unsuccessful bids to host the UEFA European Football Championship, UEFA European Championship. Turkey submitted a joint bid with Greece for UEFA Euro 2008, which failed. Their bid for UEFA Euro 2012 was also unsuccessful, with the competition going to Poland and Ukraine. The federation also submitted a bid to host UEFA Euro 2016, but on Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
COVID-19 Pandemic In Turkey
The COVID-19 pandemic in Turkey is part of the ongoing pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 () caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (). The first case in Turkey was recorded on 11 March, when a local returned home from a trip to Europe. The first death due to COVID-19 in the country occurred on 15 March. Turkey stood out from the rest of Europe by not ordering a legal lockdown until April 2021, when the country enacted its first nationwide restrictions. The government kept many businesses open, and allowed companies to set their own guidelines regarding workers. The Turkish health system has the highest number of intensive care units in the world at 46.5 beds per 100,000 people (compared to 9.6 in Greece, 11.6 in France, and 12.6 in Italy). , Turkey's observed case-fatality rate stands at 0.84%, the 148th highest rate globally. This low case-fatality rate has generated various explanations including the relative rarity of nursing homes, favorable ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Turkish Basketball League System
The Turkish basketball league system or Turkish basketball league pyramid, is a series of League system, interconnected competitions for professional basketball clubs in Turkey. The system has a hierarchical format with a promotion and relegation, promotion and demotion system between competitions at different levels. There are currently five different competitions on the pyramid: the 1st-tier Turkish Basketball Super League (BSL), the 2nd-tier Turkish Basketball First League (TBL), the 3rd-tier Turkish Basketball Second League (TB2L), the 4th-tier Turkish Men's Regional Basketball League (EBBL), and the 5th-tier Men's University League (Ãœnilig). The tier pyramid Other competitions *Turkish Basketball Cup *Turkish Basketball Super Cup, Turkish President's Cup See also *League system *European professional club basketball system *Spanish basketball league system *Greek basketball league system *Italian basketball league system *French basketball league system *Russian basketball l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Football In Turkey
Football is the most popular sport in Turkey, followed by basketball, tracing its roots to the Ottoman Empire. The first matches were played in Ottoman Salonica in 1875. The sport was introduced by English residents. The Turkish football league system comprises five professional leagues, one of which is dedicated to female athletes. History Turkey's first football league was established as the Istanbul Football League in 1904. Regional football leagues were founded in many other cities such as Ankara, İzmir, Adana, Eskişehir, Edirne, and Trabzon. Before the introduction of the professional nationwide league, known as Süper Lig today, there were two top-level national championships: the former Turkish Football Championship and National Division. Fenerbahçe dominated Turkish football in those decades, having won three Turkish Championship titles and six National Division titles, both of them records. They were replaced by the Süper Lig in 1959. League system Süper Lig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mehmet KasapoÄŸlu
Mehmet Muharrem KasapoÄŸlu (born 22 December 1976) is a Turkish civil servant and current Minister of Youth and Sports. Early life Mehmet Muharrem KasapoÄŸlu was born in Istanbul, Turkey in 1976. He studied Business administration at Marmara University's Faculty of Economics and Administrative Science, and graduated with a Bachelor's degree. Later, he earned a Master's degree in Local administrations and Decentralization at the same university. He w carried out works as a researcher, specialist and project coordinator in the field of Management organization at Florida State University's Faculty of Business administration. He earned another Bacholar's degree in Business administration from Palm Beach Atlantic University in Florida. Returned home, KasapoÄŸlu obtained a Doctor title in Local employment from Istanbul University. Career He served in non-governmental organization during his education years in Turkey and abroad. He then worked in the field of international trade in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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