Beşiktaş J.K.

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Beşiktaş
Full name	Beşiktaş Jimnastik Kulübü
Nickname(s)	Kara Kartallar (The Black Eagles)
Founded	1903
Ground	BJK İnönü Stadium, Istanbul, Turkey (Capacity 32,086 [1])
Chairman	Yıldırım Demirören
Manager	Ertuğrul Sağlam
League	Turkcell Süper Lig
2007-08	Süper Lig, 3rd
Home colours 　 Away colours
Current season

Beşiktaş Jimnastik Kulübü (commonly Beşiktaş, pronounced [bɛʃɪktɑːʃ]) (English: Beşiktaş Gymnastics Club) is a professional sports club based in Beşiktaş district in Istanbul, Turkey. Founded in 1903, it is the first registered sports club in Turkey in 13 Jan 1910.^[2] The club competes in numerous branches including football,^[3] basketball,^[4] volleyball,^[5] handball,^[6] athletics,^[7] boxing,^[8] wrestling,^[9] chess,^[10] cards bridge,^[11] gymnastics,^[12] rowing,^[13] table tennis,^[14] and paralympic sports.^[15]

The home ground of Beşiktaş is İnönü Stadium with 32,086^[1] seating capacity after the renovation conducted in 2004.^[16]The stadium is located by the Bosphorus, near the world famous Dolmabahçe Palace.^[17]

Contents 1 History 1.1 Foundation 1.2 Legend of the Black Eagles (Nickname) 1.3 Milne era 2 Records and honours 3 Colours and badge 4 Stadium 5 Supporters 5.1 Notable fans 6 Players 6.1 Current squad 6.2 Out on loan 6.3 2008-09 Transfers In 6.4 2008-09 Transfers Out 6.5 Youth squad 6.6 Notable players 7 Beşiktaş managers 8 Presidents 9 Achievements 10 Notes 11 External links

[edit] History

[edit] Foundation

Beşiktaş is the first modern sports club in Istanbul, established during the late Ottoman period (1903). A group of 22 young individuals gathered on certain days of the week and did bodily exercises in the Serencebey neighborhood of Beşiktaş in the fall of 1902 in the garden of the mansion of Osman Paşa, who was then the Medine Guard. The sports branches that these youths, who included the sons of Osman Pasha, Mehmet Şamil and Hüseyin Bereket and the youths of the neighborhood, Ahmet Fetgeri, Mehmet Ali Fetgeri, Nazımnazif, Cemil Feti and Şevket, were horizontal bar, parallel bar, wrestling, weight lifting and gymnastics. When the men of Abdülhamit the Second, who had secret agents go around fearing any gathering activities because of political actions, heard about this; the exercising youths were taken to the police station after a raid. The tense situation was relaxed as some of these youths were close to palace officers and as they did not play soccer, which was in disfavor in those days, and as it was realized that they only did bodily exercises. In fact, Şeyhzade Abdülhalim, who had relations with the Palace, supported these youths and started to watch the practices frequently. Famous boxer and Wrestler Kenan Bey came to the practices and started to show wrestling and boxing tricks.

Bereket Gymnastic Club was founded under a special permission in 1903. The sporting activities gained some more freedom with the declaration of Constitutional Monarchy in 1908. After the political events of March 31, 1909, Fuat Balkan and Mazhar Kazancı, who were in Edirne, came to Istanbul with the Movement Army. After the political events settled down, Fuat Balkan, who was a good fencing coach and Mazhar Kazancı, who was a good wrestler and weight lifter, found the youths involved in gymnastics in Serencebey and got them to agree to doing sports together. Fuat Balkan made the space under his home in Ihlamur the Club’s headquarters and the title of Bereket Gymnastics Club was changed to Beşiktaş Ottoman Gymnastics Club. Thus, a strong sports club; where gymnastics, wrestling, boxing, fencing and athletics were emphasized, was formed. Refik and Şerafettin Beys, friends of Fuat Bey, were too good fencers.

In the meantime, Beşiktaş Ottoman Gymnastics Club became the first registered Turkish sports club on January 13, 1910 with the encouragement of Beyoğlu Governor Muhittin Bey. The interest among the youths of the neighborhood in the sports club grew and the number of members involved in sports suddenly went up to 150. The headquarters of the club was moved from Ihlamur to the building no. 49 in Akaretler. When this building was too small after a while; the building no. 84, again in Akaretler, became headquarters. The yard behind this building was turned into a sports pitch.

Some of the young patriots from the Beşiktaş district of İstanbul formed two football clubs called "Valideçeşme" and "Basiret", under the leadership of Şeref Bey. Valideçeşme and Basiret football clubs joined under Beşiktaş Ottoman Gymnastics Club in 1911. In a very short time, football became the foremost branch in the club.

The original colors of the team were "red and white", but these were substituted with the present "black and white" as a sign of mourning for the loss of Turkish lands on the Balkan peninsula following the Balkan Wars (1912-1913). Beşiktaş Jimnastik Kulübü was the only sports club in Turkey and the team served as the Turkish national team for some occasions. Therefore, Beşiktaş JK is the only Turkish club which is allowed to carry the Turkish flag on its badge.

[edit] Legend of the Black Eagles (Nickname)

The nickname of Beşiktaş is the Black Eagle. It was first used in 1940s and established among fans and Turkish football history since then.

Beşiktaş, the title holder of the previous two seasons started the 1940-41 season with a young and renewed team. Beşiktaş, which opened up its lead as weeks went by, was the leader in the league. Five weeks remaining to the end, the opponent was Süleymaniye. Beşiktaş had started the game in Şeref Stadium refereed by Semih Turansoy on Sunday January 19, 1941, with the following players: Faruk, Yavuz, İbrahim, Rıfat, Halil, Hüseyin, Şakir, Hakkı, Şükrü, Şeref, Eşref. As in all games of that season, the team played magnificently. Half way through the second half of the game, Beşiktaş attacked endlessly despite being in front. Just then, a voice was heard from Şeref Stadı stands towards which Beşiktaş was attacking where there was an Atatürk panel. "Come on Black Eagles. Attack Black Eagles". Thousands of fans and journalists following the game that filled Şeref Stadium were frozen by the echoing sound. What was done was an extremely correct observation. It was not possible to describe the Beşiktaş players who crushed over their opponents that season as nothing other than “Black Eagles” and the football they played as nothing other than “Attacking like Black Eagles”. The owner of the voice coming from the stands was a fisherman called Mehmet Galin. Beşiktaş closed the game with a 6-0 lead with 3 magnificent goals volleyed in by Şeref Görkey, who was known as volleyer Şeref and one goal each by Captain Hakkı, Şakir and Şükrü.

[edit] Milne era

Beşiktaş had their most successful run in the Turkish League with three consecutive championships under the management of Gordon Milne in the early 90s. Three players of the squad; Metin Tekin, Ali Gültiken, Feyyaz Uçar were notable for significant contributions to the team during this period. These players had been called Metin-Ali-Feyyaz (shorty: MAF) as they formed the front of the team line-up. The supporters composed various chants for the trio devoted to their delighting style on the pitch, their goals and above all for their friendship and modesty. They are regarded by supporters as the best trio and attacking line of the club ever.

This was the only three-in-a-row title term of club history in 1989-90, 1990-91 and 1991-92 seasons. Most notably, Beşiktaş became the first undefeated champion in the Turksh League history. ^[18][19] It is the only team to achieve the honors.

Milne had adopted the 4-4-2 system. By playing down the lines and crossing, the team scored many goals through aerial challenges. On 15 October 1989, Beşiktaş broke the Turkish League record for the biggest margin in a game with a 10-0 victory over Southern Turkey team Adana Demirspor. ^[20] This match was enrolled as one of the 16 biggest matches of the club history.^[21]

[edit] Records and honours

Records and honours include:

• The first undefeated season of the Turkish League.
• Longest streak of undefeated games in the Turkish League (56).Yenilmez Armada,(Unbeaten Armada).
• Won 5 consecutive Istanbul League championships(1939-1943).
• Most games won in row (18).
• Most goals scored in Istanbul League, 90 goals in a season, 599 in 8 seasons.
• The only unbeaten champion in handball.

Achievements as the very first team:

• Sports club founded in Turkey (1903).
• Winner of Turkish Super Cup, first held in 2006, won against Galatasaray, 1-0.
• Champion of Istanbul League, in 1924.
• Team to travel abroad, in USA.
• Volleyball champion in Turkey.

[edit] Colours and badge

Since only individual sports were done at the beginning in the Osman Pasha Mansion, there was no need for any colors for a uniform. However, the number of sportsmen increased with new youths who joined sport teams each passing day. Mehmet Şamil Bey (first president of the Club), who had graduated from the French school gathered the Founders Committee. He removed the pin he used in his school days bearing the colors of his school from his lapel and showed it around. He said “We must have a pin just like this one made and we must force all members who attend sports in our Club to bear this pin”. Those attending the meeting eagerly agreed to Mehmet Şamil Bey’s proposal. At the end of the meeting, the colors of the Club to be shown on the pin were decided. The two principal colors of nature in full contrast to each other were chosen as the Club colors: black and white.

The date Beşiktaş’s first badge was made was written as “1906” in Latin years inspired by the badges in the French school. On top, it said “Beşiktaş” in Arabic letters, the letter “J” was placed on the rights and letter “K” was placed on the left. On the back of the badge, there was a script saying it was made in Constantinople and there was the seal of the craftsmen who made the badge on the inside. It is interesting that the star on the crest on the badge has 6 points. This 6-pointed star was used until the 2nd Constitutional Monarchy (1908). This badge was donated by Iskender Yakak to Süleyman Seba, the Honorary President of Beşiktaş J.K.

The current emblem of Beşiktaş symbolizes the foundation date. There are two white and three black bars on the emblem. It consists of nine parts in total. There is one white bar, three black bars, and another white bar, and there are nine parts in total. Thus: 1319, the year of the club's foundation. (The Islamic calendar was still used in the Ottoman Empire at the time of the club's foundation. 1319 is the equivalent of 1903 in Gregorian Calendar.)

The Turkish flag which appears in Beşiktaş's emblem is a gift from the Turkish Football Federation. Beşiktaş earned the right to incorporate the flag after having its full roster drafted as the Turkish national team playing against the Greek national team on May 16, 1952. Beşiktaş is the only Turkish team with this right.

[edit] Stadium

Main article: BJK İnönü Stadium

BJK İnönü Stadium has been constructed in the period of İsmet İnönü, the 2nd president of Republic of Turkey,and commissioned on May 19, 1947. The first match played in the İnönü Stadium was between Beşiktaş Football Team and Swedish team AIK. Renovation work has been done in 2004 at İnönü Stadium which dimensions had been expanded 105x68 meters that is required by the UEFA. The tartan track was removed within the scope of these activities and the ground was lowered by 4 meters to increase the capacity of the stadium to 32.086^[1] people. It complies with the UEFA standards.

According to the great football legend Pelé, BJK İnönü Stadium has the most beautiful view of any stadium in the world.^[22] While seated on the tribunes of this stadium, one can see the Bosporus, Dolmabahçe Palace, Dolmabahçe Clock Tower, Dolmabahçe Mosque, and the famous Kız Kulesi (Maiden's Tower). It is the only stadium in the world from which a football fan can view two continents, Europe and Asia, which are separated by the Bosporus.

[edit] Supporters

It is generally agreed that Besiktas has one of the highest supporter base in Turkey. It has a dedicated group of local fans self-named Carsi or Carsi Grubu (English: Bazaar Group). Led by Alen Markaryan, they are famous for creative chants and sociopolitical banners. However CARSI no longer exists...

[edit] Notable fans

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Politicians

• Abdullah Gül, current president of the Republic of Turkey
• Ahmet Necdet Sezer, former president of Turkey ^[23]
• Bülent Arınç, former speaker of the Turkish Grand National Assembly
• Bülent Ecevit, leader of the DSP (Democratic Left Party) and former prime minister of Turkey
• Erdal İnönü, former leader of the SHP (Social Democratic People's Party), former prime minister, physicist and the son of the second president of Turkey, İsmet İnönü.
• Hikmet Çetin, former speaker of the Turkish Grand National Assembly, and NATO Secretary General's former senior civilian representative in Afghanistan^[24]
• Pervez Musharraf, president of Pakistan^[25]
• Süleyman Demirel, former president of Turkey^[26]

[edit] Players

[edit] Current squad

According to the official website, as of June 4, 2008:^[27][28]

No. Position Player 1 GK Rüştü Reçber 2 DF Serdar Kurtuluş 3 MF Mehmet Sedef 5 DF Gökhan Zan 7 FW Gökhan Güleç 10 MF Matias Delgado 11 FW Mert Nobre * 13 FW Bobô 14 MF Rodrigo Tello 18 MF Édouard Cissé 19 DF İbrahim Üzülmez 20 MF Aydın Karabulut ** 21 MF Serdar Özkan 22 DF Ali Tandoğan 23 FW Filip Hološko

No. Position Player 33 DF Koray Şanlı 53 MF Fahri Tatan 58 DF İbrahim Toraman 61 DF Ethem Yilmaz 84 GK Hakan Arıkan 87 GK Korcan Çelikay 90 DF Bülent Uzun 99 FW Batuhan Karadeniz - DF Tuna Üzümcü - DF Anthony Šerić - MF Tomáš Sivok - DF Tomáš Zápotočný - MF Ekrem Dağ **

Turkish clubs are limited to 8 foreign players (up to 6 may play simultaneously).^[29][30]

* Starred players also hold Turkish citizenship.

** Two starred Turkish players hold dual citizenship from different countries across Europe.

[edit] Out on loan

No. Position Player FW Can Erdem (Kocaelispor until May 2008) FW Adem Büyük (Altay until May 2008) DF Sezer Sezgin (Karşıyaka S.K. until May 2008) FW Can Gümrükçü (Alanyaspor until May 2008) MF Rıza Şen (Zeytinburnuspor until May 2008) MF Emre Özkan (Zeytinburnuspor until May 2008)

No. Position Player DF Gökhan Çalışır (Zeytinburnuspor until May 2008) FW Nail Tilbaç (Zeytinburnuspor until May 2008) FW Emre İncemollaoğlu (Kartalspor until May 2008) FW Kenan Özer (İstanbulspor until May 2008) MF Ergun Aydın (İstanbulspor until May 2008) MF Mustafa Aşan (İnegölspor until May 2008) DF Zafer Doğan (Aydınspor until May 2008)

[edit] 2008-09 Transfers In

No. Position Player DF Tuna Üzümcü (from Gençlerbirliği) DF Anthony Šerić (from Panathinaikos FC) MF Tomáš Sivok (from Udinese) FW Ekrem Dağ (from Gaziantepspor) DF Tomas Zapotocny (from Udinese)

No. Position Player

[edit] 2008-09 Transfers Out

No. Position Player DF İbrahim Kaş (to Getafe CF) DF Baki Mercimek (to free transfer) DF Gordon Schildenfeld (to Dinamo Zagreb) MF Mehmet Yozgatlı (to Gaziantepspor)

No. Position Player

For recent transfers, see List of Turkish football transfers 2008-09

[edit] Youth squad

Main article: Beşiktaş PAF

[edit] Notable players

Turkey Ahmet Dursun Ali Gültiken Ertuğrul Sağlam Feyyaz Uçar Gürol Arkan Hakkı Yeten İbrahim Üzülmez İlhan Mansız Kemal Batmaz Metin Tekin Nihat Kahveci Oktay Derelioğlu Rasim Kara Recep Çetin Rıza Çalımbay Sadri Usuoğlu Samet Aybaba Sergen Yalçın Süleyman Seba Şükrü Gülesin Tümer Metin tr:Ali İhsan Karayiğit tr:Ali Kemal Denizci tr:Birol Pekel tr:Bülent Aziz Esel tr:Faruk Karadoğan tr:Faruk Sağnak tr:Gökhan Keskin tr:Güven Önüt tr:Hüseyin Saygun tr:Hüsnü Savman tr:Kaya Köstepen tr:Kemal Gülçelik tr:Mehmet Ekşi tr:Nazmi Bilge tr:Necmi Mutlu tr:Recep Adanır tr:Refik Osman Top tr:Sabri Dino tr:Sanlı Sarıalioğlu tr:Şenol Birol tr:Şeref Görkey tr:Şevket Yorulmaz tr:Varol Ürkmez tr:Yusuf Tunaoğlu Argentina Federico Higuaín Matias Delgado Osvaldo Nartallo Francesco Manessero Bosnia and Herzegovina Saed Halilagic Dževad Šećerbegović

Brazil Ailton Amaral Bobo Kleberson Ricardinho Ronaldo Guiaro Zago Bulgaria Yordan Letchkov Zlatko Yankov Chile Rodrigo Tello Colombia Óscar Córdoba Croatia Marijan Mrmić Vedran Runje Czech Republic Tomáš Jun Denmark Peter Kjær Egypt Ahmed Hassan England Les Ferdinand (1988-89) Rob McDonald (1988-99) [1] Alan Walsh France Pascal Nouma Edouard Cisse Guinea Souleymane Youla Germany Raimond Aumann Stefan Kuntz Markus Münch Mustafa Doğan Thomas Hengen Sixten Veit Oliver Schafer Iceland Eyjólfur Sverrisson Italy Federico Giunti Morocco Jamal Sellami

Nigeria Daniel Amokachi Christopher Ohen Ike Shorunmu Norway Arild Stavrum John Carew Ronny Johnsen Thomas Myhre Peru José del Solar Poland Jaroslaw Bako Romania Marius Măldărăşanu Adrian Ilie Daniel Pancu Russia Dmitri Khlestov Scotland Ian Wilson Senegal Lamine Diatta Serbia Mitar Mrkela Slovakia Miroslav Karhan Filip Hološko South Africa Fani Madida Spain Juanfran Sweden Mattias Asper Tunisia Zoubeir Baya Yugoslavia Mirsad Kovaceviç Rade Zalad

[edit] Beşiktaş managers

Beşiktaş has had managers from all over Europe. Şeref Bey is the team's longest serving manager, managing the club for 14 years. The most succesful manager is Gordon Milne, winning the league 3 times in a row and other trophies.

Ertuğrul Sağlam 2007-present Jean Tigana 2005-2007 Rıza Çalımbay 2005-2005 Vicente Del Bosque 2004-2005 Mircea Lucescu 2002-2004 Christoph Daum 2001-2002 Nevio Scala 2000-2001 Hans-Peter Briegel 1999-2000 Karl-Heinz Feldkamp 1999-1999 John Benjamin Toshack 1997-1999 Rasim Kara 1996-1997 Christoph Daum 1993-1996 Gordon Milne 1987-1993 Miloš Milutinović 1986-1987 Branko Stanković 1984-1986 Đorđe Milić 1980-1984 Serpil Hamdi Tüzün 1979-1980

Doğan Andaç 1978-1979 Miloš Milutinović 1977-1978 Gündüz Tekin Onay 1976-1977 Horst Buhtz 1975-1976 Metin Türel 1974-1975 Abdullah Gegić 1972-1974 Gündüz Kılıç 1971-1972 Dumitru Teoderescu 1970-1971 Milovan Ćirić 1969-1970 Krum Milev 1968-1969 Jane Janevski 1967-1968 Ljubiša Spajić 1964-1967 Recep Adanır 1963-1964 Şeref Görkey 1961-1963 Sandro Puppo 1960-1961 Andrea Kutik 1959-1960 Leonardo Remondini 1958-1959

Hüseyin Saygun 1958-1958 Eşref Bilgiç 1957-1958 József Mészaros 1956-1957 Cihat Arman 1955-1956 Sandro Puppo 1954-1955 Hakkı Yeten 1950-1954 Eric Keen 1949-1950 Hakkı Yeten 1948-1949 Giuseppe Meazza 1947-1948 Refik Osman Top 1946-1947 Charles Howard 1944-1946 Refik Osman Top 1935-1944 Imre Zinger 1925-1935 Şeref Bey 1911-1925

[edit] Presidents

According to official web site.^[31]

Mehmet Şamil Osmanoğlu (1903-1908) Şükrü Paşa (1908-1911) Fuat Paşa (1911-1918) Fuat Balkan (1918-1923) Salih Bey (1923-1924) Ahmet Fetgeri Aşeni (1924-1926) Fuat Balkan (1926-1928) Ahmet Fetgeri Aşeni (1928-1930) Emin Şükrü Kurt (1930-1932) Abdülkadir Ziya Karamürsel (1932-1935) Fuat Balkan (1935-1938) Abdülkadir Ziya Karamürsel (1938-1939) Yusuf Ziya Erdem (1939-1941) Abdülkadir Ziya Karamürsel (1941-1942) Abdullah Ziya Kozanoğlu (1942-1950)

Ekrem Amaç (1950) Salih Fuat Keçeci (1950-1952) Abdullah Ziya Kozanoğlu (1952-1955) Tahir Sögütlü (1955-1956) Danyal Akbel (1956-1957) Ferhat Nasır (1957) Nuri Togay (1957-1958) Enver Kaya (1958) Nuri Togay (1959-1960) Hakkı Yeten (1960-1963) Selahattin Akel (1963-1964) Hakkı Yeten (1964-1966) Hasan Salman (1966-1967) Hakkı Yeten (1967-1968) Talat Asal (1968-1969)

Rüştü Erkuş (1969-1970) Nuri Togay (1970) Agasi Şen (1970-1971) Himmet Ünlü (1971-1972) Şekip Okçuoğlu (1972-1973) Mehmet Üstünkaya (1973-1977) Gazi Akınal (1977-1979) Hüseyin Cevahir (1979) Gazi Akınal (1979-1980) Rıza Kumruoğlu (1980-1981) Mehmet Üstünkaya (1981-1984) Süleyman Seba (1984-2000) Serdar Bilgili (2000-2004) Yıldırım Demirören (2004-)

[edit] Achievements

• Turkish League Championships:
  • Winners (12): *1956-1957, *1957-1958, 1959-1960, 1965-66, 1966-67, 1981-82, 1985-86, 1989-90, 1990-91, 1991-92, 1994-95, 2002-03
  • Runners-up (14): 1962-63, 1963-64, 1964-65, 1967-68, 1973-74, 1984-85, 1986-87, 1987-88, 1988-89, 1992-93, 1996-97, 1998-99, 1999-00, 2006-07
• Turkish Cup:
  • Winners (7): 1975, 1989, 1990, 1994, 1998, 2006, 2007
  • Runners-up (6): 1966, 1977, 1984, 1993, 1999, 2002
• Turkish Super Cup:
  • Winners (1): 2006
  • Runners-up (1): 2007

Note: The Beşiktaş total includes the Turkish Federation League, which was played for 2 seasons (1957 and 1958). Beşiktaş won this league both years. This league was accepted like Iequivalent of Turkish Premier Super League in the meeting of Turkish Football Federation which was held on 20 March 2002.

[edit] Notes

[edit] External links

• (Turkish) Beşiktaş official website
• (Turkish) Beşiktaş websites & news
• (Turkish) Beşiktaş blog
• (Turkish) Turkish football federation team profile
• (Turkish) "Çarşı" fan group
• (Turkish) "UNIBJK" University students fan organization
• (Turkish) 100th Anniversary (Centennial) fan site
• (Turkish) Beşiktaş Academy official multimedia
• (Turkish) Beşiktaş basketball fan site
• (Turkish) Besiktas fan site, with news and links

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