2003–04 Süper Lig

Süper Lig

Season	2003–04
Champions	Fenerbahçe 15th title
Relegated	Bursaspor Adanaspor Elazığspor
Champions League	Fenerbahçe Trabzonspor
UEFA Cup	Beşiktaş Gençlerbirliği
Matches played	306
Goals scored	908 (2.97 per match)
Top goalscorer	Zafer Biryol (25 goals)
← 2002–03 2004–05 →

The 2003–04 Süper Lig was the 46th league season, and the third season of Süper Lig. Fenerbahçe won their 15th title, being 4 points ahead Trabzonspor. Since Turkey dropped from eighth to tenth place in the UEFA association coefficient rankings at the end of the 2002–03 season, the league has lost two of its UEFA Cup berths.

An extremely dramatic final fixture took place, because in the relegation places, there were four teams. Bursaspor, with 37 points, İstanbulspor with 38, Çaykur Rizespor and Akçaabat Sebatspor with 39. İstanbulspor, managed by Aykut Kocaman, won 2-0 away at Konya over Konyaspor, Çaykur Rizespor defeated Beşiktaş 1-0, and Akçaabat Sebatspor beaten Ankaragücü 3-2. Bursaspor, defeating 1-0 Samsunspor reached the 40 points, but they were relegated.

Foreign players

Club	Player 1	Player 2	Player 3	Player 4	Player 5	Player 6	Player 7	Player 8	Former players
Adanaspor	Rosen Emilov	Ľubomír Meszároš	Marián Ľalík						Svetlin Simeonov
Akçaabat Sebatspor	Antti Sumiala	Emmanuel Osei	Marek Zając						Emmanuel Kuffour Dumisa Ngobe
Beşiktaş	Ronaldo Guiaro	Zago	Óscar Córdoba	Ahmed Hassan	Federico Giunti	Roman Dąbrowski	Adrian Ilie	Daniel Pancu
Bursaspor	Júnior	Bogdan Vintilă	Cornel Frăsineanu	Iulian Miu	Nenad Grozdić	Milan Osterc			Ionel Ganea
Çaykur Rizespor	Klodian Duro	Nené	Gustavo Victoria	Rubiel Quintana	Raphael Chukwu	Pavol Sedlák			Emmanuel Tetteh
Denizlispor	Paulinho	Souleymanou Hamidou	Miikka Multaharju	Roman Kratochvíl					Janne Hietanen
Diyarbakırspor	Redi Jupi	Gerino Moura	Claude Bakadal	Edmond N'Tiamoah	Goran Stavrevski	Kaies Ghodhbane			Dida
Elazığspor	Robson Carioca	Jean-Emmanuel Effa Owona	Jussi Nuorela	Juraj Czinege	Miroslav König	Ondrej Debnár
Fenerbahçe	Fábio Luciano	Márcio Nobre	Marco Aurélio	Ivaylo Petkov	Stjepan Tomas	Pierre Van Hooijdonk	Serhiy Rebrov		Washington Robert Enke
Galatasaray	Elvir Baljić	César Prates	João Batista	Faryd Mondragón	Richard Kingson	Florin Bratu	Ovidiu Petre		Fábio Pinto Ali Lukunku Frank de Boer Gabriel Tamaș
Gaziantepspor	Zdravko Lazarov	Samuel Johnson	Riadh Bouazizi	Ziad Jaziri					Yaw Preko
Gençlerbirliği	Josip Skoko	Filip Daems	Marcel Mbayo	Souleymane Youla	Mohammed Lawal	Damir Botonjič
İstanbulspor	Alban Bushi	André Paulo Pinto	Aleksandar Aleksandrov	Alioum Saidou	Uche Okechukwu				Ivaylo Petkov Zdravko Zdravkov
Konyaspor	Ernani Pereira	Alioum Boukar	Oumar Dieng						Cacá
Malatyaspor	Johnson Macaba	Pachola	Ayman Abdel-Aziz	Petar Miloševski	Helman Mkhalele				Jacek Ziarkowski
MKE Ankaragücü	Galeano	Amr El Desouki	Ramadan Ragap	Seif Daoud	Stephen Baidoo	Mamadouba Keita	Santiago Salcedo		Axel Smeets
Samsunspor	Eleandro Pema	Adalto	Júlio César	Milton do Ó	Ike Shorunmu	Giani Kiriță			Juninho Cearense
Trabzonspor	Michael Petkovic	Maksim Romaschenko	Hans Somers	Karel D'Haene	Augustine Ahinful	Ibrahim Yattara	Erkan Sulejmani		Kurt Van De Paar Oumar Dieng

Final league table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Fenerbahçe (C)	34	23	7	4	82	41	+41	76	Qualification to Champions League group stage [a]
2	Trabzonspor	34	22	6	6	60	38	+22	72	Qualification to Champions League second qualifying round
3	Beşiktaş	34	18	8	8	65	45	+20	62	Qualification to UEFA Cup first round
4	Gaziantepspor	34	18	3	13	52	51	+1	57
5	Denizlispor	34	17	4	13	52	43	+9	55
6	Galatasaray	34	15	9	10	56	47	+9	54
7	Samsunspor	34	13	7	14	46	47	−1	46
8	Malatyaspor	34	11	12	11	51	40	+11	45 [b]
9	MKE Ankaragücü	34	13	6	15	48	53	−5	45 [b]
10	Gençlerbirliği	34	12	8	14	56	52	+4	44 [c]	Qualification to UEFA Cup second qualifying round [d]
11	Konyaspor	34	10	14	10	53	54	−1	44 [c]
12	Diyarbakırspor	34	12	7	15	44	54	−10	43
13	Akçaabat Sebatspor	34	11	9	14	45	53	−8	42 [e]
14	Çaykur Rizespor	34	13	3	18	37	53	−16	42 [e]
15	İstanbulspor	34	11	8	15	46	45	+1	41
16	Bursaspor (R)	34	10	10	14	40	40	0	40	Relegation to Turkish Second League Category A
17	Adanaspor (R)	34	6	4	24	38	73	−35	22 [f]
18	Elazığspor (R)	34	5	7	22	37	79	−42	22 [f]

Source:
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated
Notes:

1. FC Porto, winner of 2003–04 UEFA Champions League, qualified for the UEFA Champions League group stage by their league position, so the title holder spot couldn't be used and this spot goes to best excluded champions, champions of Turkey, originally qualified for the third qualifying round.
2. Malatyaspor were ahead of Ankaragücü on head-to-head record: Ankaragücü–Malatyaspor 0–0, Malatyaspor–Ankaragücü 1–0.
3. Gençlerbirliği were ahead of Konyaspor on head-to-head goal difference: Gençlerbirliği–Konyaspor 4–0, Konyaspor–Gençlerbirliği 4–1.
4. Trabzonspor, winner of 2003–04 Turkish Cup, qualified for the UEFA Champions League, so loser finalists Gençlerbirliği qualified for the UEFA Cup 2nd qualifying round.
5. Akçaabat Sebatspor were ahead of Çaykur Rizespor on head-to-head record: Akçaabat Sebatspor–Çaykur Rizespor 1–0, Çaykur Rizespor–Akçaabat Sebatspor 0–1.
6. Adanaspor were ahead of Elazığspor on head-to-head away goals scored: Adanaspor–Elazığspor 1–2, Elazığspor–Adanaspor 3–4.

Results

Home \ Away	ADA	AKÇ	BJK	BUR	ÇYR	DEN	DYB	ELA	FNB	GAL	GAZ	GEN	İST	KON	MAL	AGÜ	SAM	TRA
Adanaspor		1–2	1–0	0–3	0–1	4–1	2–1	1–2	1–2	0–2	2–3	2–2	1–1	1–1	0–1	1–3	2–3	0–1
Akçaabat Sebatspor	4–3		1–2	0–1	1–0	0–2	0–1	3–1	1–1	2–1	1–2	0–3	1–3	1–1	2–2	3–2	1–0	0–0
Beşiktaş	2–1	0–2		1–0	5–3	3–1	1–0	5–3	1–3	0–0	4–1	2–2	1–2	1–1	3–1	3–0	0–4	5–0
Bursaspor	6–0	1–1	0–1		4–2	0–1	0–0	4–0	2–2	2–2	0–0	0–0	1–1	2–1	3–2	1–0	1–0	1–2
Çaykur Rizespor	0–2	0–1	1–0	1–0		1–2	2–1	5–4	1–0	0–1	1–2	2–0	1–0	1–1	2–1	2–1	1–2	0–3
Denizlispor	1–1	1–2	2–3	4–0	1–1		1–2	3–0	0–4	2–1	2–0	1–2	2–0	3–2	1–0	0–1	1–0	0–1
Diyarbakırspor	3–1	1–0	3–1	0–3	0–1	0–1		2–0	1–2	0–0	2–1	3–2	1–2	1–1	2–0	1–1	2–2	2–2
Elazığspor	3–4	3–1	1–5	1–0	1–1	2–4	0–1		0–1	2–2	1–2	1–1	1–1	0–0	0–0	1–2	1–0	0–3
Fenerbahçe	3–0	4–2	2–2	3–1	4–1	2–0	2–2	7–1		2–1	3–1	1–0	0–3	5–2	2–4	3–1	1–1	3–1
Galatasaray	3–2	4–3	1–2	0–0	1–2	4–3	2–1	3–1	2–2		3–0	2–1	2–2	2–1	2–2	2–1	1–0	1–2
Gaziantepspor	1–0	2–2	0–3	3–2	2–0	1–2	4–1	3–1	1–5	1–2		2–0	2–1	3–1	1–3	2–1	1–0	1–2
Gençlerbirliği	6–0	3–1	1–2	2–0	1–0	1–3	3–4	2–3	0–1	2–2	1–0		1–0	4–0	2–2	1–2	2–1	2–2
İstanbulspor	1–0	1–3	1–1	3–0	3–0	0–3	1–3	3–1	0–1	3–1	0–1	3–0		2–3	0–0	2–3	0–0	0–2
Konyaspor	4–1	0–0	2–2	1–1	2–1	1–1	3–1	2–0	2–4	1–0	0–3	4–1	0–2		3–3	1–1	0–0	3–3
Malatyaspor	2–0	3–1	0–0	2–1	0–1	0–1	5–0	3–0	2–2	1–2	0–0	1–1	2–1	1–3		1–0	5–0	2–3
MKE Ankaragücü	1–2	1–1	1–1	2–0	4–1	1–1	3–1	1–0	1–4	1–0	1–4	2–3	2–1	1–0	0–0		4–2	1–2
Samsunspor	2–1	1–1	1–3	0–0	2–1	2–1	3–1	2–0	3–0	1–0	1–2	2–1	3–3	2–3	1–0	3–2		1–3
Trabzonspor	2–1	2–1	3–0	2–0	1–0	1–0	2–0	2–2	0–1	2–4	3–0	1–3	2–0	0–3	0–0	3–0	2–1

Source: TFF, Mackolik
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top scorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Zafer Biryol	Konyaspor	25
2	Pierre van Hooijdonk	Fenerbahçe	24
3	Serkan Aykut	Samsunspor	20
4	Tuncay	Fenerbahçe	19
5	Souleymane Youla	Gençlerbirliği	16
	Yunus Altun	Elazığspor
7	Ahmed Hassan	Beşiktaş	14
	Gökdeniz Karadeniz	Trabzonspor
	Necati Ateş	Adanaspor / Galatasaray
	Okan Yılmaz	Bursaspor

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Attendances

#	Football club	Home games	Average attendance [2]
1	Fenerbahçe	17	41,636
2	Beşiktaş	17	28,091
3	Galatasaray	17	24,193
4	Trabzonspor	17	19,333
5	Gençlerbirliği	17	18,583
6	Ankaragücü	17	18,091
7	Bursaspor	17	16,850
8	Konyaspor	17	16,300
9	Gaziantepspor	17	14,764
10	Diyarbakırspor	17	13,833
11	Malatyaspor	17	13,583
12	Adanaspor	17	13,200
13	Denizlispor	17	13,167
14	Samsunspor	17	13,064
15	Elazığspor	17	9,727
16	Akçaabat Sebatspor	17	9,600
17	İstanbulspor	17	9,292
18	Çaykur Rizespor	17	9,227

References

• Extensive data about Turkish Super League can be found at the pages of Alper Duruk.

1. Goal records Archived 2011-09-29 at the Wayback Machine
2. https://www.european-football-statistics.co.uk/attn/archive/tur/avetur04.htm