The Turkish Women's First Football League () is the second-tier league competition for

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. It was the first tier female football competition until the establishment of the

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in 2022.

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 One 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

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, 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 Covid pandemic, the 2020–21 season of the Women's First Football League, after renaming the Turkcell Women's Football League, started 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 (). 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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Konak Belediyespor Konak Belediyespor Women's Football () is the women's association football, women's football team of the Turkey, Turkish multi-sport club Konak Belediyespor based in Konak, Izmir, Konak district of İzmir, Turkey. The team was established by the ...

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

Past winners

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( 2019-20)

Top goalscorers

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Teams promoted to Women's Super League

Format

As of 2024–25 Season, 17 teams (11 teams participated from First League, 3 teams relegated from

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and 3 teams promoted from Second League in the end of 2023–24 season) compete for promoting to Super League.

2024–25 season

The 2024–25 Turkish Women's First Football League consists of 17 teams.

References

External links

Official Site
of the

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Professional sports leagues in Turkey

Format

Past winners

Top goalscorers

Teams promoted to Women's Super League

Format

2024–25 season

See also

References

External links