The Turkish Women's Football Super League ( tr, Kadınlar Süper Ligi), formerly the First Women's Football League (also known as the ''

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Women's Football Super League'' for sponsorship reasons), is the top level women's

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. 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

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. On 8 March 2021, the

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, the

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signed a sponsorship agreement with the Turkish

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. 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.

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TV became the official media sponsor of the league for the 2010–11 season. At this time the league gained little attention in Turkey. After playing two groups with six teams and then having a championship and relegation group, the 2012–13 season was played as a double-round robin with ten teams again. The winner after 18 games was the champion and qualifies for the

, the bottom two teams get relegated. In 2016–17 there again was introduced a championship and relegation round after the regular season. For the 2019-20 league season, the number of participating teams was increased from ten to twelve again after eight seasons. No relegation was planned to take place, so that the planned number of teams would be achieved with two promoted teams from the Women's Second League. However,

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had to be relegated since they did not show up in the entire previous season. To replace them, a third team from the Second League was promoted. All three women's leagues of the 2019-20 season were stopped on 8 March 2020 due to

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. Due to the ongoing pandemic, the 2020-21 season of the Women's First Football League, after renaming the Turkcell Women's Football League, will take start with delay on 17 April 2021. The season was dedicated to

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s, and named 2021 Turkish Turkcell Women's Football League Healthcare Workers' Season ( tr, 2021 Sağlık Çalışanları Futbol Ligi). The league consisted of 16 teams, including all the 12 teams from the previous season and 4 teams promoted from the Second League's previous season. The teams were divided into four groups of four teams each, with one promoted team in each group. Each team in the group played only three matches in a

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. The top two teams of the four groups play quarter-finals and semi-finals in

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. The winner of the final match, on 4 May 2021, represented Turkey at the

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(blue/black) vs

Konak Belediyespor Konak Belediyespor Women's Football ( tr, Konak Belediyespor Bayan Futbol Takımı) is the women's football team of the Turkish multi-sport club of Konak Belediyespor based in Konak district of İzmir, Turkey. The team was established by the d ...

(red) File:AtaşehirAdana2014-15 13.JPG, 2014–15 Women's First League match

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(white/red) vs

Adana İdmanyurduspor Adana (; ; ) is a major city in southern Turkey. It is situated on the Seyhan River, inland from the Mediterranean Sea. The administrative seat of Adana province, it has a population of 2.26 million. Adana lies in the heart of Cilicia, wh ...

(red/blue) File:KireçburnuSvs1207AntalyaS201516 (22).JPG, 2015–16 Women's First League match

Kireçburnu Spor Kireçburnu Spor Women's Football ( tr, Kireçburnu Spor Kulübü Bayan Futbol Takımı) is a women's football team based in Kireçburnu, Sarıyer, Istanbul playing in the Turkish Women's First Football League. It was formed in 2010 as part of t ...

(green/yellow) vs 1207 Antalya Muratpaşa Belediye Spor (orange/black) File:BeşiktaşJKvs1207AntalyaS2016-17Play-off (27).jpg, 2016-17 Women's First League play-off match Beşiktaş J.K. (white) vs 1207 Antalya Döşemealtı Belediye Spor (navy/red/black) File:FatihVatanSvsKdzEreğliS2017-18 (117).jpg, 2017-18 Women's First League match

Fatih Vatan Spor Fatih Vatan Spor Kulübü is a women's football team based in Fatih, Istanbul. The team completed the 2016–17 season of Turkish Women's Second Football League as champion, and were promoted to the Turkish Women's First Football League. Histor ...

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(red) vs

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(white/yellow/green/black) vs Amed S.K. (green/red)

Clubs

Past winners

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( 2015-16) File:AtaşehirBS2017-18 (28).jpg,

( 2017-18) File:BeşiktaşJK2018-19 (3).jpg, Beşiktaş J.K. ( 2018-19) File:AlgS2019-20 (17).jpg,

ALG Spor ALG Spor, formerly known as Güneykent Spor, is a women's football club based in Gaziantep, southeastern Turkey. Founded in 1998. The club is named after its local sponsor ALG Textile. The club's president is Ali Gözcü. It is located in the İn ...

( 2019-20)

Winners by team

League participation (since 2006)

Note: The tallies below include up to the 2022–23 season. Teams denoted in bold are current participants. * 17 seasons:

* 15 seasons:

* 14 seasons: Adana İdman Yurdu, Karadeniz Ereğli Belediyespor * 10 seasons:

* 8 seasons: Kireçburnu * 7 seasons:

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* 6 seasons:

1207 Antalyaspor 1207 Antalya Spor, a.k.a. 1207 Antalyaspor, is a women's football team based in Antalya playing in the Turkish Women's First Football League. Current chairman of the club is Süleyman Türk. History The women's team was founded as Antalya Yeni ...

, Amed Sportif Faaliyetler, Fatih Vatanspor, FOMGET, Gazi Üniversitesi, İlkadım Belediyesi Yabancılar Pazarıspor,

Trabzonspor Trabzonspor Kulübü is a Turkish sports club located in the city of Trabzon. Formed in 1967 through a merger of several local clubs, the men's football team has won seven Süper Lig championships. Trabzonspor also have a women's football team, ...

* 5 seasons: ALG,

Antalyaspor Antalyaspor Kulübü is a Turkish professional football club located in the city of Antalya. The club's colours are red and white. They play their home matches at the Antalya Stadium. In Turkey, the club won the First League twice in 1982 and 1 ...

, Buca Geliştirmespor, Hakkarigücü, Marmara Üniversitesi,

Mersin Camspor Mersin (), also known as İçel, is a large city and a port on the Mediterranean coast of southern Turkey. It is the provincial capital of Mersin (İçel) Province. It is made up of four municipalities and district governorates: Akdeniz, Mezit ...

* 4 seasons:

Kartalspor Kartalspor is a sports club located in the Kartal district of Istanbul, Turkey. The club's football team plays in the Bank Asya First League after finishing 2nd in the Second League Promotion Group in the 2006–2007 season. Kartal SK started the ...

, Lüleburgaz 39spor, Maltepe Yalıspor * 3 seasons: Derincespor, Dudullu,

Eskişehirspor Eskişehirspor Kulübü is a Turkish professional football club located in Eskişehir. Eskisehirspor has a total of six trophies, making them the sixth most trophies holders in Turkey. Founded in 1965, Eskişehirspor competed in the top division ...

, Kocaeli Bayan, Sakarya Yenikent Güneşspor * 2 seasons: Altay, Çamlıcaspor, Elitspor,

Fatih Karagümrük Fatih () is a district of and a municipality (''belediye'') in Istanbul, Turkey, and home to almost all of the provincial authorities (including the governor's office, police headquarters, metropolitan municipality and tax office) but not the co ...

, Fenerbahçe,

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 ...

Gazikentspor Gazikentspor Women's Football Club ( tr, Gazikentspor Bayan Futbol Takımı) is a women's association football, women's football club based in Gaziantep, Turkey. Founded in 2006, the club is located in the Gazikent neighborhood of Şehitkamil dist ...

Hatayspor Hatayspor Kulübü, known as Atakaş Hatayspor due to sponsorship reasons, is a Turkish professional football club located in Antakya, Hatay Province. History Hatayspor was founded on 23 July 1967. In July 2020, the team achieved promotion to t ...

, Karşıyaka BESEMspor,

Kayserispor Kayseri Spor Kulübü, commonly known as Kayserispor, is a Turkish professional football club based in Kayseri. They play their home matches at the Kadir Has Stadium in red and yellow kits. The team has won one Turkish Cup in 2008 and also fini ...

Malatya Gençlikspor Malatya ( hy, Մալաթիա, translit=Malat'ya; Syriac language, Syro-Aramaic ܡܠܝܛܝܢܐ Malīṭīná; ku, Meletî; Ancient Greek: Μελιτηνή) is a large city in the Eastern Anatolia region of Turkey and the capital of Malatya Provi ...

Mersin Gençlerbirliği Mersin (), also known as İçel, is a large city and a port on the Mediterranean coast of southern Turkey. It is the provincial capital of Mersin (İçel) Province. It is made up of four municipalities and district governorates: Akdeniz, Mezit ...

, Mersingücü Cengiz Topelspor,

Zeytinburnuspor Zeytinburnu SK is a Turkish football club established in 1953 and based in the Zeytinburnu district of Istanbul, Turkey. They hold the record for worst performance in First League history during the 96/97 season, when they lost 27 matches out o ...

* 1 seasons: Amasya Eğitimspor, Bursa Sağlıkgücü Gençlikspor,

Çaykur Rizespor Çaykur Rizespor Kulübü is a Turkish professional football club based in Rize. The club play in the TFF First League. The club was founded on May 19, 1953, with green-yellow as club colours, but later changed to blue-green. Since 1990, the team ...

, Dostlukspor, Eskişehirspor Lisesispor,

Gölcükspor Gölcük Spor Kulübü, commonly referred to as Gölcükspor, is a Turkish professional football club based in Gölcük, Kocaeli.The club was incepted in 1984 with the merger of Dumlupınar Youth Club's (Amateur Gölcükspor and Dumlupınar ...

, Hatay Dumlupınarspor,

İzmit Belediyespor İzmit Belediyespor is a Turkish women's basketball club based in İzmit, Turkey. The club was founded in 1995 and currently competing in the Women's Basketball Super League. History The club was invited to the Super League in 2018 after the Ya ...

İzmit Çenesuyu Plajyoluspor İzmit () is a district and the central district of Kocaeli province, Turkey. It is located at the Gulf of İzmit in the Sea of Marmara, about east of Istanbul, on the northwestern part of Anatolia. As of the last 31/12/2019 estimation, the ...

, Orduspor 1967,

Sivasspor Sivasspor Kulübü, known as Demir Grup Sivasspor due to sponsorship reasons, is a Turkish sports club based in Sivas. The primary department of the club is men's football. Formed in 1967, its football department competes in Süper Lig, as of 201 ...

Foreign players

Top goalscorers

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References

External links

Official Site
of the

Turkish league on women.soccerway.com
{{Top level women's association football leagues around the world Turkish Women's Football Super League Top level women's association football leagues in Europe

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