Altay S.K.

Formed in 1914, Altay are nicknamed Büyük Altay (Great Altay). The club colors are black and white, and they play their home matches at the Alsancak Mustafa Denizli Stadium.

Domestically, the club has finished third place for the Süper Lig three times and have won the Turkish Cup twice. They hold the record for most İzmir Football League titles with 14. They are the most successful İzmir-based club with 16 championships in various competitions.

Altay was founded in 1914 in İzmir as İstiklal. The initial aim of the club was to unite Turkish youth under sporting activities and to encourage them, because in the 1910s minorities dominated sporting activities in İzmir. Under Ottoman rule, Turkish footballers were unable to compete. Altay was supported by many prominent Turkish politicians of the era. Former Turkish President Celal Bayar worked very hard in founding the club and gave his full support.^{[citation needed]}

Altay has an important place in Turkey's football history. The club had a key role in uniting the Turkish community during the Turkish War of Independence.^{[citation needed]} Many players and supporters of Altay SK lost their lives in the Turkish War.^{[citation needed]} After the Surname Law was adopted, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk gave General Fahreddin Pasha the surname of "Altay". Altay plays in the İzmir Alsancak Stadium first built in 1929 and was rebuilt in 2021.

National Championships

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Süper Lig
- Third place (3): 1956–57, 1969–70, 1976–77
Turkish Football Championship
- Runners-up (2): 1934, 1951
TFF First League
- Winners (1): 2001–02
- Runners-up (2): 1983–84, 1990–91
Turkish Football Federation Cup
- Winners (1): 2006–07
- Runners-up (1): 1963–64

National Cups

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Turkish Cup
- Winners (2): 1966–67, 1979–80
- Runners-up (5): 1963–64, 1967–68, 1971–72, 1978–79, 1985–86
Super Cup
- Runners-up (2): 1967, 1980
Prime Minister's Cup
- Runners-up (3): 1972, 1979, 1986
Organ Doğan Cup
- Runners-up (18): 1936, 1937, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1958, 1961, 1968, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1984, 2004, 2005, 2021
Ayçilek Doğan Cup
- Runners-up (2): 1973, 1978
Tore Doğan Cup
- Runners-up (1): 1976
Aydin Doğan Cup
- Runners-up (3): 1963, 1964, 1986

Regional competitions

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İzmir Professional League
- Winners (2): 1956–57, 1957–58
İzmir Football League
- Winners (14) (record): 1923–24, 1924–25, 1927–28, 1928–29, 1930–31, 1933–34, 1936–37, 1940–41, 1945–46, 1947–48, 1950–51, 1953–54, 1956–57, 1957–58

¹Altay won the championship as『Üçok』(Three arrows), an alliance between Altay, Altınordu, and Bucaspor.

Super League: 1958–83, 1984–90, 1991–2000, 2002–03, 2021–2022
TFF First League: 1983–84, 1990–91, 2000–02, 2003–11, 2018–21, 2022–2023
TFF Second League: 2011–15, 2017–18
TFF Third League: 2015–17

As of 25 July 1998

Competition	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
UEFA Cup Winners' Cup	6	1	2	3	6	12	–6
UEFA Cup	2	1	0	1	5	6	–1
UEFA Intertoto Cup¹	6	3	1	2	10	9	+1
UEFA Total	14	5	3	6	21	27	–6
Inter-Cities Fairs Cup	4	0	1	3	3	14	–11
Intertoto Cup²	6	1	3	2	6	9	–3
Balkans Cup	8	1	1	6	6	23	–17
Non-UEFA Total	18	2	5	11	15	46	–31
Overall Total	32	7	8	17	36	73	–37

¹ UEFA edition.

² non-UEFA edition.

UEFA Cup Winners' Cup:

Season	Round	Club	Home	Away	Aggregate
1967–68	First Round	Standard Liège	2–3	0–0	2–3
1968–69	First Round	Lyn	3–1	1–4	4–5
1980–81	Preliminary Round	Benfica	0–0	0–4	0–4

UEFA Cup:

Season	Round	Club	Home	Away	Aggregate
1977–78	First Round	Carl Zeiss Jena	4–1	1–5	5–6

UEFA Intertoto Cup:

Season	Round	Club	Home	Away	Aggregate
1974¹	Group Stage (Group 10)	CUF	2–1	0–2	3rd
		Landskrona	1–1	1–1
		Hammarby	2–2	0–2
1998	First Round	Shamrock Rovers	3–1	2–3	5–4
	Second Round	Diósgyőr	1–1	1–0	2–1
	Third Round	Bastia	3–2 (aet)	0–2	3–4

¹ The tournament was founded in 1961–62, but was only taken over by UEFA in 1995.

Inter-Cities Fairs Cup:

Season	Round	Club	Home	Away	Aggregate
1962–63	First Round	Roma	2–3	1–10	3–13
1969–70	First Round	Carl Zeiss Jena	0–0	0–1	0–1

Balkans Cup:

Season	Round	Club	Home	Away	Aggregate
1971	Group Stage (Group B)	Panionios	2–1	0–1	3rd
1971	Group Stage (Group B)	Steagul Roșu Brașov	0–0	0–3	3rd
1977	Group Stage (Group A)	Slavia Sofia	0–3	0–6	3rd
1977	Group Stage (Group A)	Politehnica Timișoara	2–4	2–5	3rd

UEFA Ranking history:

As of 1982

Season	Rank	Points	Ref.
1968	168	0.500	^[2]
1969	103	1.500	^[3]
1970	89	2.000	^[4]
1971	86	2.000	^[5]
1972	87	2.000	^[6]
1973	112	1.500	^[7]
1974	203	0.500	^[8]
1978	157	1.000	^[9]
1979	155	1.000	^[10]
1980	155	1.000	^[11]
1981	153	1.000	^[12]
1982	149	1.000	^[13]

Current squad

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As of 3 February 2024^[14]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
1	GK	TUR	Ozan Evrim Özenç
3	DF	TUR	Yusuf Tekin
4	DF	TUR	Hikmet Çolak
5	DF	TUR	Sefa Özdemir
6	MF	TUR	Ceyhun Gülselam
7	FW	TUR	Eren Erdoğan
11	FW	TUR	Murat Uluç
13	GK	TUR	Ulaş Hasan Özçelik
17	DF	TUR	Salih Sarıkaya
20	MF	TUR	Enes Yetkin
21	MF	TUR	Ali Kızılkuyu
23	MF	TUR	Murat Demir
24	FW	TUR	Erdem Özcan


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
25	DF	TUR	Tugay Gündem
26	MF	TUR	Ege Parmaksiz
28	MF	TUR	Mehmet Gündüz
30	MF	TUR	Caner Baycan
32	MF	TUR	Arda Gezer
34	MF	TUR	Enes Öğrüce
44	DF	TUR	Kuban Altunbudak
45	GK	TUR	Mustafa Çalışkan
63	FW	TUR	Deniz Kadah
77	DF	TUR	Onur Efe
88	DF	TUR	Özgür Özkaya
99	FW	TUR	Nurettin Küçükdeniz

Football history in Izmir (in Turkish)

^ "Futbolda İlk Yarı Liderleri ve Şampiyonlar" (in Turkish). []. 5 January 2014. Archived from the original on 27 December 2016. Retrieved 27 December 2016.

^ Bert Kassies. "UEFA Team Ranking 1968". Xs4all.nl. Archived from the original on 20 September 2022. Retrieved 17 September 2022.

^ Bert Kassies. "UEFA Team Ranking 1969". Xs4all.nl. Archived from the original on 20 September 2022. Retrieved 17 September 2022.

^ Bert Kassies. "UEFA Team Ranking 1970". Xs4all.nl. Archived from the original on 20 September 2022. Retrieved 17 September 2022.

^ Bert Kassies. "UEFA Team Ranking 1971". Xs4all.nl. Archived from the original on 20 September 2022. Retrieved 17 September 2022.

^ Bert Kassies. "UEFA Team Ranking 1972". Xs4all.nl. Archived from the original on 20 September 2022. Retrieved 17 September 2022.

^ Bert Kassies. "UEFA Team Ranking 1973". Xs4all.nl. Archived from the original on 20 September 2022. Retrieved 17 September 2022.

^ Bert Kassies. "UEFA Team Ranking 1974". Xs4all.nl. Archived from the original on 20 September 2022. Retrieved 17 September 2022.

^ Bert Kassies. "UEFA Team Ranking 1978". Xs4all.nl. Archived from the original on 20 September 2022. Retrieved 17 September 2022.

^ Bert Kassies. "UEFA Team Ranking 1979". Xs4all.nl. Archived from the original on 28 December 2023. Retrieved 17 September 2022.

^ Bert Kassies. "UEFA Team Ranking 1980". Xs4all.nl. Archived from the original on 20 September 2022. Retrieved 17 September 2022.

^ Bert Kassies. "UEFA Team Ranking 1981". Xs4all.nl. Archived from the original on 9 September 2022. Retrieved 17 September 2022.

^ Bert Kassies. "UEFA Team Ranking 1982". Xs4all.nl. Archived from the original on 20 September 2022. Retrieved 17 September 2022.

^ "A TAKIM". Altay. Archived from the original on 9 August 2020. Retrieved 12 September 2020.

Contents

History

Honours

National Championships

National Cups

Regional competitions

League participations

European record

Players

Current squad

See also

Sources

References

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