Galatasaray Spor Kulübü (, ''Galatasaray Sports Club'') is a
Turkish
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*a Turkic language spoken by the Turks
* of or about Turkey
** Turkish language
*** Turkish alphabet
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sports club based on the
European side of the city of
Istanbul
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in Turkey. Most notable for its
association football department, the club also consists of various other departments including
basketball
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,
wheelchair basketball
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,
volleyball
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,
water polo
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,
handball
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,
athletics
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** Track and field, a sub-category of the above sport
* Athletics (physical culture), competiti ...
,
swimming
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,
rowing
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,
sailing
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,
judo
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,
bridge
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,
motorsport
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, equestrian,
esports
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, and chess.
Galatasaray S.K. is among the key members of the
Galatasaray Community
Galatasaray Community ( tr, Galatasaray Topluluğu) is the organization of Galatasaray institutions which were derived from Galatasaray High School, which cooperate under the one umbrella. It was established on 11 October 1988, when the organiza ...
Cooperation Committee together with
Galatasaray University
Galatasaray University ( tr, Galatasaray Üniversitesi, french: Université Galatasaray) is a Turkish university established in İstanbul, Turkey in 1992, following an agreement signed in the presence of President François Mitterrand of France ...
and the prestigious
Galatasaray High School
Galatasaray High School ( tr, Galatasaray Lisesi, french: Lycée de Galatasaray), established in what was then Constantinople and is now Istanbul, in 1481, is the oldest high school in Turkey. It is also the second-oldest Turkish educational in ...
.
The football branch of
Galatasaray
Galatasaray Spor Kulübü (, ''Galatasaray Sports Club'') is a Turkish sports club based on the European side of the city of Istanbul in Turkey. Most notable for its association football department, the club also consists of various other de ...
has accumulated the most
Süper Lig
The Süper Lig (, ''Super League''), officially known as Spor Toto Süper Lig for sponsorship reasons, is a Turkish professional league for association football clubs. It is the top-flight of the Turkish football league system and is run by the ...
(22),
Turkish Cup
The Turkish Cup ( Turkish: ''Türkiye Kupası'') is a football cup competition in Turkish football, run by the Turkish Football Federation since 1962. During a brief sponsorship period with Fortis, its sponsored name was ''Fortis Türkiye Kupası ...
(18) and
Turkish Super Cup
The Turkish Super Cup ( Turkish: ''TFF Süper Kupa''), as it is currently known, is the annual super cup football match contested between the previous season's Süper Lig champions and the Turkish Cup winners in Turkey. It was originally known a ...
(16) titles in Turkey, thus making them the most decorated football club in Turkey, as those competitions are the top nationwide professional leagues and cups within the Turkish football system that is recognized and accounted for in accordance to the regulations set by the
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, Turk ...
and
UEFA
Union of European Football Associations (UEFA ; french: Union des associations européennes de football; german: Union der europäischen Fußballverbände) is one of six continental bodies of governance in association football. It governs f ...
.
In the year 2000 Galatasaray also took claim of the
UEFA Cup
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title by defeating
Arsenal F.C.
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and the
UEFA Super Cup
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, by defeating
Real Madrid C.F.
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Founded in 1902 as Madrid Football Club, the club has traditionally worn ...
These accomplishments makes Galatasaray the only Turkish football club to have reached that level of European success in the history of
Turkish Football
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 ...
.
The club's
wheelchair basketball team won the Champions Cup in 2008, 2009, 2011, 2013 and 2014. They also won the
Kitakyushu Champions Cup
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and became world champions in 2008, 2009, 2011, and 2012.
Galatasaray women's basketball team
Galatasaray is the women's basketball section of Galatasaray S.K., a major sports club in Istanbul, Turkey. Galatasaray women's basketball team play matches in Ahmet Cömert Sport Hall which has a seating capacity for 3,500 spectators.
The team ...
won the
2013–14 EuroLeague Women
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Pots
Defending champions UMMC Ekaterinburg, 2013 Runners-up Fenerbahçe and EuroLeagu ...
and
FIBA Eurocup
FIBA EuroChallenge (called the FIBA Europe League in 2003–05, and FIBA EuroCup in 2005–08) was the 3rd-tier level transnational men's professional continental club basketball competition in Europe, from 2003 to 2015. It was organized and run ...
in 2009 and 2018.
Galatasaray men's basketball team
Galatasaray S.K., is a professional basketball team based in the city of Istanbul in Turkey. It is a part of the Galatasaray Sports Club. The team competes in the Turkish Basketball Super League and Basketball Champions League. The team has won 1 ...
claimed their first
EuroCup championship after defeating Strasbourg in 2016.
Etymology
Galatasaray
Galatasaray Spor Kulübü (, ''Galatasaray Sports Club'') is a Turkish sports club based on the European side of the city of Istanbul in Turkey. Most notable for its association football department, the club also consists of various other de ...
() is a
quarter A quarter is one-fourth, , 25% or 0.25.
Quarter or quarters may refer to:
Places
* Quarter (urban subdivision), a section or area, usually of a town
Placenames
* Quarter, South Lanarkshire, a settlement in Scotland
* Le Quartier, a settlement i ...
in
Karaköy
Karaköy (), the modern name for the old Galata, is a commercial quarter in the Beyoğlu district of Istanbul, Turkey, located at the northern part of the Golden Horn mouth on the European side of Bosphorus.
Karaköy is one of the oldest an ...
in the
Beyoğlu
Beyoğlu (, ota, بكاوغلی, script=Arab) is a district on the European side of İstanbul, Turkey, separated from the old city (historic peninsula of Constantinople) by the Golden Horn. It was known as the region of Pera (Πέρα, meani ...
district of
Istanbul
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, located at the northern shore of the
Golden Horn
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. Its name comes from that of
Galata
Galata is the former name of the Karaköy neighbourhood in Istanbul, which is located at the northern shore of the Golden Horn. The district is connected to the historic Fatih district by several bridges that cross the Golden Horn, most notabl ...
, which may in turn have derived from ''Galatai'' (meaning the "
Galatians Galatians may refer to:
* Galatians (people)
* Epistle to the Galatians, a book of the New Testament
* English translation of the Greek ''Galatai'' or Latin ''Galatae'', ''Galli,'' or ''Gallograeci'' to refer to either the Galatians or the Gauls in ...
"), as the
Celtic
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Sports Fo ...
tribes were thought to have camped at Galata during the Hellenistic period before settling in
Galatia
Galatia (; grc, Γαλατία, ''Galatía'', "Gaul") was an ancient area in the highlands of central Anatolia, roughly corresponding to the provinces of Ankara and Eskişehir, in modern Turkey. Galatia was named after the Gauls from Thrace (c ...
in central
Anatolia
Anatolia, tr, Anadolu Yarımadası), and the Anatolian plateau, also known as Asia Minor, is a large peninsula in Western Asia and the westernmost protrusion of the Asian continent. It constitutes the major part of modern-day Turkey. The re ...
. ''Galatasaray'' translates directly as "Galata Palace" (''saray'' means "palace" in
Persian
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* People and things from Iran, historically called ''Persia'' in the English language
** Persians, the majority ethnic group in Iran, not to be conflated with the Iranic peoples
** Persian language, an Iranian language of the ...
).
Galatasaray High School
Galatasaray High School ( tr, Galatasaray Lisesi, french: Lycée de Galatasaray), established in what was then Constantinople and is now Istanbul, in 1481, is the oldest high school in Turkey. It is also the second-oldest Turkish educational in ...
, established in the area in 1481, was the progenitor of Galatasaray S.K. as well as other institutions of
Galatasaray Community
Galatasaray Community ( tr, Galatasaray Topluluğu) is the organization of Galatasaray institutions which were derived from Galatasaray High School, which cooperate under the one umbrella. It was established on 11 October 1988, when the organiza ...
.
''Galatasaray'' is a compound word and is pronounced as such, with a very brief pause between the two words.
There is no diminutive form of the club's name. Fans refer to the club either by its full name or by its nickname ''Cim-Bom(-Bom)''—pronounced )—of uncertain etymology. However, the shortened form "Gala" is sometimes used by English speakers.
History
Galatasaray SK was founded in October 1905 (the exact day is disputed, but is traditionally accepted as "17 Teşrinievvel 1321
" according to the
Islam
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ic
Rumi calendar
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, which corresponds to 30 October 1905 (according to the
Gregorian calendar
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) by
Ali Sami Yen
Ali Sami Yen, born Ali Sami Frashëri (20 May 1886 – 29 July 1951) was an Albanian-Turkish sports official best known as the founder of the Galatasaray Sports Club. After the enactment of law on family names in 1934, he took the surname Yen, ...
and other students of
Galatasaray High School
Galatasaray High School ( tr, Galatasaray Lisesi, french: Lycée de Galatasaray), established in what was then Constantinople and is now Istanbul, in 1481, is the oldest high school in Turkey. It is also the second-oldest Turkish educational in ...
(a high school in
Istanbul
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which was established in 1481) as a
football
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club. Ali Sami Yen, who became Galatasaray SK's first president and was given the club's membership number "1", was the son of
Şemseddin Sami (Frashëri), an
Ottoman writer, philosopher, and playwright of ethnic
Albanian
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origin, and a prominent figure of the ''
Rilindja Kombëtare
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'', the National Renaissance movement of
Albania
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.
The club's first match was against
Cadi Keuy FRC
Cadi-Keuy FC is a defunct sports club of Istanbul, Ottoman Empire.
History
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and Galatasaray won this game with a score of 2–0. There were discussions about the club's name, in which some suggested ''Gloria'' (victory) and others ''Audace'' (courage), but it was decided that its name would be Galatasaray.
According to researcher Cem Atabeyoğlu, Galatasaray took its name from one of its first matches. In that match, Galatasaray won 2–0 over
Rûm
Rūm ( ar, روم , collective; singulative: Rūmī ; plural: Arwām ; fa, روم Rum or Rumiyān, singular Rumi; tr, Rûm or , singular ), also romanized as ''Roum'', is a derivative of the Aramaic (''rhπmÈ'') and Parthian (''frwm'') te ...
club and the spectators called them "Galata Sarayı Efendileri" (in English: Gentlemen of Galata (City) Palace), and, after this event, they adopted that name and started to call their club "GalataSaray". In 1905, during the era of the
Ottoman Empire
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, there were no laws for associations so the club could not be registered officially, but after the 1912 Law of Association, the club registered legally.
Along with the founder Ali Sami Yen, the co-founders were the ones who were keen to do this sport, such as Asim Tevfik Sonumut, Reşat Şirvani, Cevdet Kalpakçıoğlu, Abidin Daver and Kamil.
At first, the colors of the Galatasaray Sports Club were red and white, which are the colors in the
Turkish flag
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. However, the Turkish Republic was not founded at that time. Therefore, this inspiration caused repressive administration of the day feel uncomfortable and the administration hounded the footballers. For this reason, the colors were changed to yellow and dark blue till 1907. In 1908, new colors were chosen as red and yellow.
Ali Sami Yen
Ali Sami Yen, born Ali Sami Frashëri (20 May 1886 – 29 July 1951) was an Albanian-Turkish sports official best known as the founder of the Galatasaray Sports Club. After the enactment of law on family names in 1934, he took the surname Yen, ...
stated, "We were imagining brightness of yellow – red fire over our team and thinking that it would carry us from one victory to another."
While the football in
Turkey
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began to fully develop, Galatasaray won ten more ''Istanbul League'' titles until 1952. Upon recognition of professional football in 1952, the first professional but non-national league of Turkey, ''Istanbul Professional League'' played between 1952 and 1959. Galatasaray won three of these seven titles.
Turkcell Super League, the top-flight professional league in Turkish nationwide football, and the most popular sporting competition in the country, formed in 1959. Galatasaray joined all seasons and won 22 league titles since then.
The Turkish Football Federation started to organize "Turkish Cup" (today it is organized with the name
Ziraat Turkish Cup) in the 1962–63 season for Turkish clubs to qualify for the
UEFA
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competitions. This is the only national cup competition in Turkey. Galatasaray joined all seasons and won 18 trophies since then.
Crest
![Old logo of Galatasaray SK](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e1/Old_logo_of_Galatasaray_SK.svg)
Galatasaray's first emblem was a figure of a spread-winged
eagle
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with a football in its beak, drawn by 333 (Galatasaray High School student number) Şevki Ege. This was replaced in 1925 by the current "Ghayn-Sin" crest, designed by Ayetullah Emin.
Team colours and kit
Galatasaray wore red and white colours when founded, then played in yellow and black during the 1907–1908 season.
For a match against the football team of the
Royal Navy
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cruiser , played on 8 December 1908, Galatasaray finally settled on playing in red and yellow.
Ali Sami Yen
Ali Sami Yen, born Ali Sami Frashëri (20 May 1886 – 29 July 1951) was an Albanian-Turkish sports official best known as the founder of the Galatasaray Sports Club. After the enactment of law on family names in 1934, he took the surname Yen, ...
, the main founder of Galatasaray, wrote the following in his diaries:
''“Our goalkeeper Asım Tevfik, left-forwarder
Emin Bülent and right midfielder Ali Sami Yen were commissioned for the task of determining the new team colours. After we had been in and out of several shops, we saw two different elegant-looking wool materials in Fat Yanko's store at Bahçekapısı (between
Eminönü
Eminönü is a predominantly commercial waterfront area of Istanbul within the Fatih district near the confluence of the Golden Horn with the southern entrance of the Bosphorus strait and the Sea of Marmara. It is connected to Karaköy (historic G ...
and
Sirkeci
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in Istanbul, now called Bahçekapı). One of them was quite dark red, resembling the cherry colour, and the other a rich yellow with a touch of orange. When the sales clerk made the two fabrics fly together with a twist of his hand they became so bright that it reminded us of the beauty of a
goldfinch. We thought we were looking at the colours flickering in burning fire. We were picturing the yellow-red
flame
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s shining on our team and dreaming that it would take us to victories. Indeed it did."''
The red and yellow colours were also inspired from the
rose
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s which
Gül Baba
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Biography
A native of M ...
offered to Sultan
Bayezid II
Bayezid II ( ota, بايزيد ثانى, Bāyezīd-i s̱ānī, 3 December 1447 – 26 May 1512, Turkish: ''II. Bayezid'') was the eldest son and successor of Mehmed II, ruling as Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1481 to 1512. During his reign, ...
.
Departments
Current departments
Defunct departments
*Wrestling 1887
: İstanbul Championship: ''Winner(8)'' 1945 to 1955
: Turkish Championship: ''Winner(2'')
*Cycling 1898
*Boxing 1904 ''the first club in Turkey.''
''The first boxer in Turkey was Sabri Mahir.''
*Swedish gymnastics 1908
*Hockey 1911
*Field hockey 1915
*Baseball 1925
*Table tennis 1925
*Handball 1926
:
İstanbul Championship
)
, postal_code_type = Postal code
, postal_code = 34000 to 34990
, area_code = +90 212 (European side) +90 216 (Asian side)
, registration_plate = 34
, blank_name_sec2 = GeoTLD
, blank_in ...
: ''Winner (8)'' 1945 to 1955
:
Turkish Championship
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* of or about Turkey
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*** Turkish alphabet
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*** Turkish citizen, a citizen of Turkey
*** Turkish communities and mi ...
: ''Winner (2'')
*Cricket 1926
*Aviation & gliding, 1931
*Skiing & mountaineering, 1931
*Motocross 1931
*Fencing 1931
*Water ballet 1995
*
Superleague Formula
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2008
Reactivated departments
*Tennis 1910
*Gymnastics 1868
Achievements in major competitions
Facilities
Stadia
![Türk Telekom Arena Galatasaray Store](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ef/T%C3%BCrk_Telekom_Arena_Galatasaray_Store.jpg)
Galatasaray played during its first years in different fields, since there were not any stadiums in
Istanbul
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. In 1921, the first stadium,
Taksim Stadium
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opened. Galatasaray played there until 1940. When the historic
Taksim Stadium
Taksim Stadium ( tr, Taksim Stadı) was the first football stadium in Istanbul, Turkey. Originally the 19th century Taksim Artillery Barracks ('' Taksim Topçu Kışlası'') it was transformed into a stadium in 1921 and was located next to today ...
was demolished, Galatasaray decided to build a large, modern stadium. Due to difficulties stemming from
World War II
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, construction was delayed for over two decades. In this period, they played in
İnönü Stadium İnönü may refer to.
People with the surname
* İsmet İnönü (1884–1973), Turkish soldier, statesman and the second President of Turkey
* Erdal İnönü (1926–2007), Turkish physicist and politician, and the son of İsmet
* Mevhibe İnön ...
.
On 20 December 1964,
Ali Sami Yen Stadium
Ali Sami Yen Stadium ( tr, Ali Sami Yen Stadyumu) was the home of the football club Galatasaray S.K. in Istanbul, Turkey, from 1964 to 2010. It is named after the founder of the club, Ali Sami Yen. The stadium had a capacity of 23,477 (all-seater) ...
opened. It was named after the founder of the club,
Ali Sami Yen
Ali Sami Yen, born Ali Sami Frashëri (20 May 1886 – 29 July 1951) was an Albanian-Turkish sports official best known as the founder of the Galatasaray Sports Club. After the enactment of law on family names in 1934, he took the surname Yen, ...
and was in the
Mecidiyeköy
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quarter of the
Şişli
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district at the center of the city. In 1964, the stadium had a capacity of over 35,000. Due to improvements in security and prohibition of standing spectators, it had an
all-seater
An all-seater stadium is a sports stadium in which every spectator has a seat. This is commonplace in professional association football stadiums in nations such as the United Kingdom, Spain, and the Netherlands. Most association football and Ame ...
capacity of 24,990 and was nicknamed "Hell".
After 2002, when
Atatürk Olympic Stadium
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was built for
Istanbul
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's
Olympic Games
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bid, Galatasaray started to play
European Cup
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matches there. The attendance record for a Turkish stadium was broken there, in a Galatasaray–
Olympiacos
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match played in front of 79,414 spectators. But the
Ali Sami Yen Stadium
Ali Sami Yen Stadium ( tr, Ali Sami Yen Stadyumu) was the home of the football club Galatasaray S.K. in Istanbul, Turkey, from 1964 to 2010. It is named after the founder of the club, Ali Sami Yen. The stadium had a capacity of 23,477 (all-seater) ...
had historic importance for Galatasaray fans although it was smaller and older.
The new
Nef Stadium
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was built for Galatasaray in return for the highly valued land of the historic Ali Sami Yen stadium in Mecidiyekoy, and became the new home ground for Galatasaray S.K., replacing the old Ali Sami Yen Stadium. The new stadium has a capacity of 52,695 seats. The Ali Sami Yen Stadium was demolished in 2011 with the contractor revealing that it was on the verge of collapse and that a major stadium disaster would almost certainly have occurred had the stadium remained in use
Since 1998, after every goal scored by Galatasaray, the last part of the song "
I Will Survive
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" by the
Hermes House Band
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is played. Although the song is in English and already adopted by Dutch football team
Feyenoord
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, the part used has no lyrics except "la la la la". This makes it easy for fans to participate.
In addition, before every game the
Florida State Seminoles
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' war chant is played accompanied by what the fans call a "scarf show", where fans display and wave their Galatasaray scarves.
Other facilities
![Nevzat Ozgorkey Facilities inside](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a0/Nevzat_Ozgorkey_Facilities_inside.jpg)
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Galatasaray Islet
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Being situated just north of the Bosphorus Bridge with ...
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Galatasaray Museum
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Florya Metin Oktay Sports Complex and Training Center
Florya Metin Oktay Facilities ( tr, Florya Metin Oktay Tesisleri), is the training ground and academy base of the Turkish football club Galatasaray SK.
The Florya training camp land was brought during the presidency of Suphi Batur, built and open ...
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Galatasaray Beyoğlu Hasnun Galip Club Administrative Center
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Galatasaray Küçükçekmece Rowing Center
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)
, postal_code_type = Postal code
, postal_code = 34000 to 34990
, area_code ...
* Galatasaray Nevzat Özgörkey Equestrian Facilities
* Galatasaray Olympic Aquatic Center
* Galatasaray Gölbaşı Ankara Facilities
* Galatasaray Taçspor Tesisleri
Club officials
; Board of directors:
; Presidents:
Other businesses
![GSStore](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/da/GSStore.jpg)
Galatasaray AŞ owns a chain of 81 Galatasaray Stores, selling club merchandise in Turkey, Azerbaijan, Netherlands, Germany, and Northern Cyprus. The club also owns an online betting company, an insurance company, an Internet service provider company, a travel agency, a
forex
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company, and a search engine company.
References
;Footnotes
;Further reading
* Birand, M. A., & Polat, M. M. (2006). ''Passion that continues for 100 years''. İstanbul: D Yapım.
* Turagay, U., Özgün, G., Gökçin, B., Ahunbay (2006). ''17 May: The story of a championship''. İstanbul: D Yapım.
* Hasol, D. (2004). ''Dreams/realities in Galatasaray''. İstanbul: Yapı Yayın.
* Tuncay, B. (2003). ''Galatasaray with European Success and Notable Players''. Yapı Kredi Kü̈ltü̈r Sanat Yayıncılık.
* Yamak, O. (2001). ''Galatasaray: Story of 95 years''. Sinerji.
* Çakır, A. (1995). ''90 questions about history of Galatasaray SK''. Cağaloğlu, İstanbul: Demir Ajans Yayınları.
* Tekil, S. (1986). ''History of Galatasaray, 1905–1985.'' Galatasaray Spor Kulübü.
* Tekil, S. (1983). ''Galatasaray 1905–1982: Memories''. Arset Matbaacılık Koll. Şti.
* İsfendiyar, F. (1952). ''History of Galatasaray''. İstanbul:
oğan Kardeş yayınları
External links
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Galatasaray Sports Club Official Website
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