The 2005–06 Süper Lig season began with Turkcell signing a 5-year sponsorship deal with the Turkish Football Federation to name the league Turkcell Süper Lig.
Since Turkey dropped from tenth to eleventh place in the UEFA association coefficient rankings at the end of the 2004–05 season, the champions will not directly be entered into the group stage of the UEFA Champions League any more, but rather have to begin in the third qualification round.
The season also saw a first in Turkish football; for the first time in history the team that entered the last week first, Fenerbahçe, failed to win the title. Fenerbahçe and Galatasaray went into the last week deadlocked at 80 points and Fenerbahçe had a better head-to-head record. Fenerbahçe needed only a win to defend their title and win their third successive championship. However, a 1–1 draw to Denizlispor combined with a 3–0 Galatasaray win against Kayserispor gave Galatasaray their 16th league title. The same day, Gaziantepspor defeated Malatyaspor 1–0 and remained in the Süper Lig. Ankaraspor, with a 1–0 win away to Erciyesspor, managed to remain, but Malatyaspor, Samsunspor and Diyarbakırspor were relegated to TFF First League.
Foreign players Club Player 1 Player 2 Player 3 Player 4 Player 5 Player 6 Player 7 Player 8 Former Players Ankaragücü Elvir Baljić Héverton Robson Ivaylo Petkov Hervé Zengue Ahmad Belal Charles-Édouard Coridon Ali Ghariani Jean Ankaraspor Jabá Tita Wederson Adam Petrouš Dragoslav Jevrić Radoslav Batak Balázs Molnár Beşiktaş Bobô Kléberson Óscar Córdoba Tomáš Jun Ahmed Hassan Aílton Daniel Pancu Çaykur Rizespor Allyson Douglas Zdravko Zdravkov Gustavo Victoria Besheer El-Tabei Pape Ciré Dia Denizlispor Alessandro Cambalhota Alex Alves Souleymanou Hamidou Tomáš Abrahám Miikka Multaharju Roman Kratochvíl Radek Dosoudil Diyarbakırspor Redi Jupi Borislav Mikić Goce Sedloski Goran Maznov Goran Stavrevski Ermin Rakovič Igor Jančevski Sami Gtari Fenerbahçe Alex Fábio Luciano Márcio Nobre Marco Aurélio Nicolas Anelka Stephen Appiah Galatasaray Alioum Saidou Rigobert Song Faryd Mondragón Stjepan Tomas Marek Heinz Saša Ilić Gaziantepspor Kenan Hasagić Zdravko Lazarov Tarik El Taib Abdelilah Fahmi Giani Kiriță Sofiane Melliti Shingayi Kaondera Georgi Ivanov Gençlerbirliği Christophe Lepoint Marcinho David Abwo Isaac Promise Igor Bogdanović Fredrik Risp Christian Järdler Kayserispor Rashad Sadygov Aleksandar Aleksandrov Dimitar Ivankov Samuel Johnson Aleksandar Rodić Kayseri Erciyesspor Júlio César Junivan Lucien Mettomo Serge Dié Victor Agali Khaled Fadhel Riadh Bouazizi Mamadou Seck Konyaspor Gustave Bebbe Kaies Ghodhbane Jobany Rivero Vladimir Vasilj Ahmad Belal Malatyaspor Cris Jiří Homola Jiří Mašek Tomáš Michálek Zdeněk Šenkeřík Balázs Tóth Sebastian Johansson Catatau Jean-Emmanuel Owona Ibrahim Kargbo Samsunspor Marciel Rafael Marques Alioum Boukar Ibrahima Gueye Dejan Maksić Anis Ayari Yordan Petkov Dejan Rađenović Oliver Kovačević
Final league table
Results
Statistics
Top scorers Last updated on May 23, 2008
RankPlayerClubGoals1 Gökhan Ünal Kayserispor252 Fatih Tekke Trabzonspor223 Cenk Işler Kayseri Erciyesspor204 Necati Ateş Galatasaray185 Mert Nobre Fenerbahçe17 Ümit Karan Galatasaray7 Umut Bulut Ankaragücü168 Tuncay Fenerbahçe159 Alex Fenerbahçe14 Mehmet Çakır Gençlerbirliği
Hat-tricks Player For Against Result Date Ümit Karan Galatasaray Malatyaspor 5–2 Semih Şentürk Fenerbahçe Denizlispor 6–2 Ümit Karan Galatasaray Gaziantepspor 6–0 Sinan Kaloğlu Manisaspor Fenerbahçe 5–3 Fatih Tekke Trabzonspor Çaykur Rizespor 6–1 Gökhan Ünal Kayserispor Manisaspor 7–2
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