1st Lig 1996/97

1st Lig 1996/97
master	Galatasaray Istanbul
Champions League qualification	Galatasaray Istanbul, Beşiktaş Istanbul
Uefa cup	Fenerbahçe Istanbul
UEFA Cup qualification	Trabzonspor
UI cup	İstanbulspor , Samsunspor , Antalyaspor
Cup winners	Kocaelispor
European Cup Winners' Cup	Kocaelispor
Relegated	Sarıyer GK , Denizlispor , Zeytinburnuspor
Teams	18th
Games	306
Gates	878  (ø 2.87 per game)
Top scorer	Hakan Şükür (Galatasaray Istanbul)
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2nd Lig 1996/97 ↓

The 1st Lig 1996/97 was the 39th season of the highest Turkish league in men's football . It started on August 9, 1996 with the game Trabzonspor against Altay Izmir and ended on May 25, 1997 with the 34th matchday. From December 23, 1996 to January 16, 1997 the season was interrupted by the winter break.

Turkish champion was Galatasaray Istanbul .

Attendees

For the 1st Lig 1996/97, the 15 clubs left from the previous season were joined by the three promoted teams from the last second division season . The climbers were Çanakkale Dardanelspor , Sarıyer GK and Zeytinburnuspor as the play-off winners of the 2nd Lig. While the rise for Çanakkale Dardanelspor meant the first first division participation in the club's history, Sarıyer GK returned after three years and Zeytinburnuspor managed to rise again immediately.

Istanbul Gaziantepspor Trabzonspor Ankaragücü , Gençlerbirliği Ankara Samsunspor Kocaelispor Bursaspor Antalyaspor Altay Izmir Çanakkale Dardanelspor Vanspor Denizlispor Clubs in Istanbul: Beşiktaş Fenerbahçe Galatasaray İstanbulspor Sarıyer Zeytinburnuspor

Clubs of the 1996/97

society	city	Previous year
Fenerbahçe Istanbul	Istanbul	master
Trabzonspor	Trabzon	2.
Beşiktaş Istanbul	Istanbul	3.
Galatasaray Istanbul	Istanbul	4th
Kocaelispor	İzmit	5.
Gaziantepspor	Gaziantep	6th
Antalyaspor	Antalya	7th
Samsunspor	Samsun	8th.
Bursaspor	Bursa	9.
Gençlerbirliği Ankara	Ankara	10.
MKE Ankaragücü	Ankara	11.
Altay Izmir	Izmir	12.
İstanbulspor	Istanbul	13.
Vanspor	Van	14th
Denizlispor	Denizli	15th
Çanakkale Dardanelspor	Çanakkale	Climbers
Sarıyer GK	Sarıyer	Climbers
Zeytinburnuspor	Zeytinburnu	Climbers

Closing table

Pl.	society	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Galatasaray Istanbul (P)	34	25th	7th	2	090:300	+60	82
2.	Beşiktaş Istanbul	34	22nd	8th	4th	088:260	+62	74
3.	Fenerbahçe Istanbul (M)	34	22nd	7th	5	079:250	+54	73
4th	Trabzonspor	34	22nd	6th	6th	073:330	+40	72
5.	Bursaspor	34	17th	8th	9	055:370	+18	59
6th	İstanbulspor	34	16	7th	11	056:440	+12	55
7th	Kocaelispor	34	12	12	10	037:350	+2	48
8th.	Gaziantepspor	34	13	8th	13	038:500	−12	47
9.	Samsunspor	34	12	9	13	049:520	−3	45
10.	Antalyaspor	34	13	6th	15th	038:490	−11	45
11.	Gençlerbirliği Ankara	34	11	6th	17th	037:490	−12	39
12.	MKE Ankaragücü	34	10	8th	16	039:520	−13	38
13.	Vanspor	34	10	7th	17th	031:500	−19	37
14th	Altay İzmir	34	9	10	15th	030:600	−30	37
15th	Çanakkale Dardanelspor (N)	34	10	6th	18th	035:650	−30	36
16.	Sarıyer GK (N)	34	9	7th	18th	041:540	−13	34
17th	Denizlispor	34	5	5	24	036:810	−45	20th
18th	Zeytinburnuspor (N)	34	2	5	27	026:860	−60	11

Placement criteria: 1st points - 2nd goal difference - 3rd goals scored

Turkish champions and participation in the second qualifying round for the 1997/98 UEFA Champions League : Galatasaray Istanbul

Participation in the second qualifying round for the 1997/98 UEFA Champions League: Beşiktaş Istanbul

Participation in the 1997/98 UEFA Cup : Fenerbahçe Istanbul

Participation in the second qualifying round of the 1997/98 UEFA Cup: Trabzonspor

Participation in the UEFA Intertoto Cup 1997 : Samsunspor, Antalyaspor, İstanbulspor

Turkish cup winner and participation in the European Cup Winners' Cup 1997/98 : Kocaelispor

Relegation to the 2nd Ligi 1997/98 : Zeytinburnuspor, Denizlispor, Sarıyer SK

(M)	reigning Turkish champion
(P)	reigning Turkish cup winner
(N)	Newcomers from the 2nd Ligi 1995/96

Crosstab

The cross table shows the results of all games this season. The home team is listed in the left column and the visiting team in the top row.

1996/97									SAM				VAN
Galatasaray Istanbul		2: 2	0: 4	1-0	4: 1	6: 1	0-0	6: 1	3: 1	3: 1	1: 1	5: 1	1: 1	2: 1	1-0	4-0	2-0	4-0
Beşiktaş Istanbul	1: 1		1-0	3-0	2: 2	3-0	1: 1	5: 1	1-0	4-0	2-0	4-0	7-0	3-0	4-0	2-0	2: 1	4: 1
Fenerbahçe Istanbul	3: 2	0: 1		1-0	1-0	3-0	0-0	1-0	4: 1	4-0	2-0	1: 1	5-0	5: 1	4-0	3: 2	7-0	4: 1
Trabzonspor	0-0	3: 3	4: 3		3-0	1: 2	2: 1	5-0	1-0	2-0	1-0	1: 1	4-0	1-0	4-0	2-0	3: 1	6: 1
Bursaspor	2: 3	2-0	0: 1	3: 2		0: 2	1: 2	3: 1	6: 1	0-0	2-0	2: 1	2-0	3-0	3: 1	1-0	2: 2	1: 1
İstanbulspor	2: 3	4: 3	1: 1	2: 2	1: 1		0: 1	3-0	1: 1	1-0	0: 3	1: 2	2: 1	5-0	4: 2	2: 1	5-0	5: 1
Kocaelispor	1: 1	0-0	0: 1	0: 2	0-0	1: 1		3: 1	2: 5	0: 1	3: 2	2: 1	4: 2	0-0	2-0	1-0	1-0	2: 1
Gaziantepspor	0: 3	0-0	2-0	1-0	2: 1	1-0	1: 1		0: 2	1-0	2-0	3: 2	0: 1	2-0	1: 1	2: 1	2-0	3: 1
Samsunspor	0: 2	4: 1	1: 1	0: 2	2: 3	1-0	3-0	2: 1		2: 1	1-0	2: 4	0-0	0-0	2-0	2: 2	3-0	2-0
Antalyaspor	0: 2	3: 2	0: 5	0: 3	0: 1	2: 1	3: 2	2: 1	1: 1		1: 1	1-0	1-0	1: 1	1-0	1: 1	3-0	1-0
Gençlerbirliği Ankara	0: 2	0: 3	4: 1	1: 1	0: 4	1-0	1-0	1: 1	3: 1	0: 1		0: 1	1-0	1: 2	1: 1	2: 1	3: 2	3: 2
MKE Ankaragücü	0: 1	0: 2	0: 2	0: 1	0: 2	0-0	0: 3	0-0	0-0	1: 3	1-0		2: 2	1-0	2: 1	1-0	3: 2	4: 1
Vanspor	1: 2	0-0	2: 2	1: 2	1-0	0: 1	0-0	0: 1	3: 2	1-0	3-0	2-0		3-0	1-0	1-0	0: 2	1: 1
Altay Izmir	1: 8	0: 4	0-0	2: 3	1: 1	0: 2	0-0	2: 2	3: 1	2: 1	1-0	1: 1	2: 1		2: 1	4: 3	2: 1	0-0
Dardanelspor	0: 3	0: 5	1: 1	0: 2	0-0	1: 3	3: 2	1: 1	0-0	3: 2	1: 3	2: 1	2: 1	3: 1		1-0	3-0	4-0
Sarıyer SK	0: 4	1: 6	1: 4	1: 1	1: 2	0: 1	2: 1	0-0	4: 1	1: 1	2: 1	2: 1	2-0	0-0	8-0		2: 1	1-0
Denizlispor	2: 3	0: 4	0: 1	2: 3	2: 3	1: 1	0-0	3: 1	2: 2	1: 5	3: 3	2: 6	0: 1	1-0	0: 1	0: 1		3: 2
Zeytinburnuspor	2: 5	0: 3	1: 5	1: 5	0: 1	1: 2	0: 1	0: 3	1: 3	2: 1	0: 1	1: 1	2: 1	0: 1	0: 2	1: 1	1: 2

Top scorer

Hakan Şükür was the top scorer in the 1996/97 season with 38 goals.

	player	society	Gates
1.	Hakan Şükür	Galatasaray Istanbul	38
2.	Elvir Bolić	Fenerbahçe Istanbul	24
3.	Oktay Derelioğlu	Beşiktaş Istanbul	22nd
4th	Elvir Baljić	Bursaspor	21st
	Hami Mandıralı	Trabzonspor	21st
6th	Ertuğrul Sağlam	Beşiktaş Istanbul	19th
7th	Jay-Jay Okocha	Fenerbahçe Istanbul	16
	Serkan Aykut	Samsunspor	16
9.	Gheorghe Hagi	Galatasaray Istanbul	14th
10.	Saffet Sancaklı	Kocaelispor	13

The championship team Galatasaray Istanbul

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Galatasaray Istanbul

Goal : Hayrettin Demirbaş (11 games, no goal), Volkan Kilimci (14 / -), Mehmet Duymazer (8 / -), Pierre Esser (1 / -) Defense : Bülent Korkmaz (32/2), Feti Okuroğlu (13 / -), Vedat İnceefe (29/2), Ulrich van Gobbel (9 / -), Bekir Gür (19/1), Mert Korkmaz (4 / -) , Iulian Filipescu (23 / -), Ümit Davala (28/3), Ergün Penbe (29/2), Rasim Suksur (- / -), Hakan Ünsal (29/2) Midfield : Gheorghe Hagi (30/14), Tugay Kerimoğlu (33/4), Okan Buruk (17/3), Suat Kaya (25/2), İlyas Kahraman (10 / -), Evren Turhan (9 / -) 1 , Ufuk Talay (1 / -), Ceyhun Eriş (- / -), Emre Belözoğlu (1 / -) Attack : Hakan Şükür (32/38), Adrian Ilie (18/6), Arif Erdem (31/8), Adrian Knup (9/1), Alp Küçükvardar (1 / -) Trainer: Fatih Terim

¹ Evren Turhan left the club during the season in December 1996

Web links

• 1st Lig 1996/97 in the database of mackolik.com (Turkish)