With 19 national championships, Fenerbahçe Istanbul is one of the most successful Turkish football clubs. The yellow-navy side have won or finished runners-up six times since 1959, most recently in 2013 when they beat Galatasaray SK 1-0 at home thanks to a goal from Burak Yınalp. The club was founded by students who wanted a club where people dressed in dark could play freely without fear that the color of their skin would get them in trouble because this kind of discrimination existed before, so many years ago!

As the second Turkish football team to win a European title, Fenerbahce has been at the top of football for decades. The first success was winning the Balkan Cup in the 1966/67 season with charismatic playmaker Safet Susic and defender Hristo Stoichkov leading the team from midfield (3-1 against AEK Athens). In UEFA competitions, Fener has not even reached the quarter-finals of the Champions League in this decade (2007), but has twice reached the semi-finals of the Europa League: 2012/2013 with 1 goal887 international goals record player in the senior national team, who until 2006 Represented Bulgaria and then changed the national team.