Beşiktaş Women's Football () is the women football section of Beşiktaş JK, a major sports club in Istanbul, Turkey.
History In the 2014–15 season, Beşiktaş women's team was allocated to the bottom league, the Turkish Women's Third Football League. They finished the league as the division leader, and were promoted to the Women's Second League after play-offs.
In the 2015–16 season, the team played in the Women's Second League, and secured promotion to the First League already four matches before the season's finish. They became league champion two matches prior to the end of the league. The team completed the 2015–16 season undefeated, and were promoted to the Turkish Women's First Football League.
The team finished the regular season of 2017–18 even on points with Konak Belediyespor behind the champion Ataşehir Belediyespor. The regular time of the play-off match between the two teams ended with 1–1 draw. In the extension time, Beşiktaş J.K. scored three penalty goals, finished the match by 4–1, and became runners-up.
Beşiktaş J.K. finished the 2018–19 Women's First League season as leader equal on points with ALG Spor with goal average that happened only in the last round. ALG Spor was leading with goal average in the previous two rounds. ALG Spor won their last match with 5-1, Beşiktaş J.K. defeated their opponent by 9-0, which enabled them a goal average of four in the final. The Turkish Football Federation set a play-off round between the two teams to be played on 12 May 2019 at a neutral venue, in Manavgat, Antalya. The team became for the first tine Women's First League champion after defeating ALG Spor in the play-off match with 1-0.
By the end of July 2019, the club transferred Kader Hançar, Sevgi Çınar, Sevgi Salmanlı and Yağmur Uraz, the four most experienced forwarders of the Women's football in Turkey, three of them are former top scorers, for the 2019–20 UEFA Women's Champions League - Group 9 matches. The team finished the qualifying round's group matches undefeated with two draws and one win ranking second behind the Dutch Twente, who progressed to the round of 32 as the only team of the group.
In the 2021-22 season, the mobile phone company Vodafone Turkey started sponsoring the women's team. Beşiktaş J.K. won in the 2020-21 Turkcell Women's Football League season their second champion title defeating Fatih Vatan Spor in the play-off final game.
In the 2022-23 season, the team finished the league in 4th place and qualified for the playoffs. The team eliminated 1207 Antalyaspor in the first round. In the quarter finals, the team was eliminated by ALG and said goodbye to the playoffs.
In 2023-24 season, United Payment started sponsoring the women's team. The team, which started the season with Suat Okyar, collected 20 points in 12 matches and remained below the 2 point average. After the Hakkarigücüspor match, Suat Okyar resigned and his assistant-coach Burak Sidar was brought in temporarily. Burak Sidar collected a total of 39 points with an average of 2.2 points. A sudden decision was made not to continue with Burak Sidar and the technical staff whose term of office had expired.
In the 2024-25 season, the team started the season badly and got 1 point from their first 3 matches. But then they won all 3 derbies they played in the first half (Trabzonspor, Galatasaray, Fenerbahçe). The match against Galatasaray was played at Beşiktaş JK Stadium and nearly 12,000 people watched the match at the stadium. In 2024, Losing points in derbies and critical matches in the second half of the season in 6 matches caused them to fall out of the championship race. They finished the league in 3rd place. At the end of the season, before the end of the contract period, Mesut Kır and her staff parted ways.
Stadium
Beşiktaş JK women's team played their home matches at Fulya Hakkı Yeten Stadium of the Beşiktaş J.K. in Şişli district of Istanbul. The team played their home matches until the end of the 2018-19 Women's First League season at İsmet İnönü Stadium, formerly Çilekli Stadium, of Beşiktaş Municipality, in Beşiktaş district.
The team has played its home matches at the İBB GOP Halit Kıvanç City Stadium in the Gaziosmanpaşa district of Istanbul since the 2023-24 Super League season.
Statistics . Season League Rank Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts2014–15 Third League Group 1 1 18 14 2 2 89 18 +71 442015–16 Second League 1 22 19 3 0 88 20 +68 602016–17 First League 2 26 19 1 6 67 22 +45 582017–18 First League 2 19 14 3 2 47 23 +24 452018–19 First League 1 19 14 3 2 62 13 +49 452019–20 First League 2 (1) 15 14 0 1 64 12 +52 422020-21 First League 1 6 60 0 23 3 +20 182021-22 Super League Gr. A 4 (2) 26 21 0 5 110 24 +86 632022-23 Super League Gr. A 4 16 6 6 4 33 18 +15 24Play-offs QF 4 2 1 1 8 4 +4 72023-24 Super League 4 30 19 2 9 71 29 +42 592024-25 Super League 3 26 17 2 7 48 27 +21 532025-26 Super League 6 30 17 5 8 93 32 +61 56Green marks a season followed by promotion, red a season followed by relegation.
(1): Season discontinue due to COVID-19 pandemic in Turkey (2): Finish Gr. A as second, placed 4th after play-offs (3): Season in progress
Players Current squad . Head coach: Didem Karagenç
Former players Former Turkish international and foreign players : Derya Arhan, Ayşe Şevval Ay, Çiğdem Belci, Dilek Enli, Emine Ecem Esen, Seda Nur İncik, Fatma Kara, Safa Merve Nalçacı, Ceren Nurlu, Melike Öztürk, Esra Erol, Sevgi Salman, Gamze Nur Yaman, Şevval Dursun, Sema Polat, Münevver Rençber, Zeynep Gamze Koçer, Birsen Bozbal, Beyza Kara, Berivan İçen, Fatma Şahin, Tuğçe Bayındır, Sibel Duman, Ferda Çevik, Sevgi Çınar, Kevser Kartal, Mesude Alayont, Tülin Kuyucak, Kezban Tağ, Nur Yuntur, Elif Keskin, Gizem Gönültaş, Elife Karabulut, Ezgi Çağlar, Başak Gündoğdu, Didem Karagenç, Beyza Semercioğlu, Defnesu Aldemir, Gülbin Hız, Nehir Zeytünlü, Meryem Cennet Çal, Büşra Kenet : Aïcha Hamidèche : Princess Ibini-Isei : Bilge Su Koyun : Minela Gačanica, Marija Aleksić : Gi Santos : Evdokia Popadinova : Jacquette Ada : Christabel Oduro : Evy Pereira : Yessica Rodríguez, Vanessa Córdoba : Shameeka Fishley : Vivian Adjei : Ioanna Chamalidou : Sára Pusztai : Maryam Yektaei : Elis Nemtsov : Ines Nrehy, Aminata Haidara : Cynthia Musungu : Donjeta Halilaj : Eli Jakovska : Aissata Traoré : Sofia Alvarez : Imane Abdelahad, Chirine Knaidil : Vivian Ikechukwu : Tânia Mateus, Inês Maia, Ana Teles, Lara Pintassilgo : Teodora Nicoară : Ekaterina Ulasevich : Opah Clement : Khrystyna Pereviznyk, Tetyana Kozyrenko : Jessica Lynne Çarmıklı
Staff
Technical staff
International results Event Stage Date Venue Opponent Result Scorers2019–20 UEFA Women's Champions LeagueQRGroup 92ndAug 7, 2019 Enschede, Górnik Łęczna D 1–1 HançarAug 10, 2019 Twente D 2–2 Uraz, KeskinAug 13, 2019 FC Alashkert W 3–0 Hançar, Sakhinova (o.g.), Çınar2021–22 UEFA Women's Champions LeagueQ1Group 83rdAug 18, 2021 Turin, St. Pölten L 0–7 Aug 21, 2021 Kamenica Sasa W 4–0 Uraz, A. Karabulut, İçen, Hançar
Ranking history
Season Rank Points Ref.2019–2079 4.4752020–2185 3.5002021–2283 5.1002022–2390 5.0002023–2488 5.0002024–25104 3.4002025–26109 2.500
Honours Turkish Women's First Football League Champions (2): 2018–19, 2020–21 Runners-up (2): 2016–17, 2017–18 Turkish Women's Second Football League Champions (1): 2015–16 Turkish Women's Third Football League Champions (1): 2014–15
Kit history
Squad history
References
External links Beşiktaş Jimnastik Kulübü Home Page