2012–13 Süper Lig

Süper Lig
Season	2012–13
Champions	Galatasaray; 19th title
Relegated	Mersin İdmanyurdu; Orduspor; İstanbul BB
Champions League	Galatasaray; Fenerbahçe
Europa League	Beşiktaş; Bursaspor; Trabzonspor
Matches	306
Goals	817 (2.67 per match)
Top goalscorer	Burak Yılmaz (24)
Biggest home win	Gençlerbirliği 4–0 Kayserispor; Antalyaspor 4–0 Elazığspor; Eskişehirspor 4–0 Gaziantepspor
Biggest away win	Antalyaspor 0–4 Galatasaray; Belediyespor 0–4 İstanbul BB; Elazığspor 0–4 Kayserispor; Gençlerbirliği 0-4 Trabzonspor
Highest scoring	Antalyaspor 3–5 Beşiktaş; Antalyaspor 3–5 Gençlerbirliği
Longest winning run	7 games; Galatasaray
Longest unbeaten run	11 games; Beşiktaş
Longest winless run	15 games; Mersin İdmanyurdu
Longest losing run	10 games; Orduspor
Average attendance	13,074
	← 2011–12 2013–14 →

The 2012–13 Süper Lig (known as the Spor Toto Süper Lig for sponsorship reasons) was the 55th season of the Süper Lig, the highest football league of Turkey. Galatasaray are the defending champions. The season began on 17 August 2012 and ended on 19 May 2013.

Season2012–13

ChampionsGalatasaray
19th title

RelegatedMersin İdmanyurdu
Orduspor
İstanbul BB

Champions LeagueGalatasaray
Fenerbahçe

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On 5 May, Galatasaray won a record 19th Turkish title after beating Sivasspor 4–2.^[2]

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Team	Home city	Head coach	Captain	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor	Stadium	Capacity
Akhisar Belediyespor	Manisa	Hamza Hamzaoğlu	Emrah Eren	Nike	Köfteci Ramiz	Manisa 19 Mayıs Stadium	16,597
Beşiktaş	Istanbul	Samet Aybaba	İbrahim Toraman	Adidas	Toyota	BJK İnönü Stadium	32,086
Bursaspor	Bursa	Hikmet Karaman	Ömer Erdoğan	Puma	InterCity	Bursa Atatürk Stadium	25,661
Eskişehirspor	Eskişehir	Ersun Yanal	Servet Çetin	Nike	Eti	Eskişehir Atatürk Stadium	13,520
Fenerbahçe	Istanbul	Aykut Kocaman	Emre Belözoğlu	Adidas	Türk Telekom	Şükrü Saracoğlu Stadium	55,526
Galatasaray	Istanbul	Fatih Terim	Sabri Sarıoğlu	Nike	Türk Telekom	Türk Telekom Arena	52,652
Gaziantepspor	Gaziantep	Bülent Uygun	Serdar Kurtuluş	Nike	Riga Boya	Kamil Ocak Stadium	16,981
Gençlerbirliği	Ankara	Fuat Çapa	Cem Can	Lotto	ICK Yapı	Ankara 19 Mayıs Stadium	19,209
İstanbul BB	Istanbul	Bülent Korkmaz	Efe İnanç	Nike	Medipol	Atatürk Olympic Stadium	83,092
Karabükspor	Karabük	Tolunay Kafkas	Muhammet Özdin	Lescon	Kardemir	Dr. Necmettin Şeyhoğlu Stadium	7,593
Kasımpaşa	Istanbul	Shota Arveladze	Fabian Ernst	Lotto	UCZ	Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Stadium	14,234
Kayserispor	Kayseri	Robert Prosinečki	Eren Güngör	Adidas		Kadir Has Stadium	32,864
Medical Park Antalyaspor	Antalya	Mehmet Özdilek	Uğur İnceman	Puma		Akdeniz University Stadium	7,083
Mersin İdmanyurdu	Mersin	Hakan Kutlu	Mert Nobre	Hummel		Tevfik Sırrı Gür Stadium	10,128
Orduspor	Ordu	Cevat Güler	Hasan Kabze	Umbro	Spor Toto	19 Eylül Stadium	11,024
Sanica Boru Elazığspor	Elazığ	Yılmaz Vural	Bülent Ertuğrul	Umbro	Kolin	Elazığ Atatürk Stadium	13,923
Sivasspor	Sivas	Rıza Çalımbay	Hayrettin Yerlikaya	Adidas	Riga Boya	Sivas 4 Eylül Stadium	14,998
Trabzonspor	Trabzon	Mustafa Reşit Akçay	Tolga Zengin	Nike	Türk Telekom	Hüseyin Avni Aker Stadium	24,169

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Replaced by	Date of appointment
İstanbul BB	Arif Erdem	Sacked	14 May 2012^[4]	Carlos Carvalhal^[5]	16 May 2012
Karabükspor	Bülent Korkmaz	Sacked	8 May 2012^[6]	Michael Skibbe^[7]	17 May 2012
Beşiktaş	Tayfur Havutçu	Sacked	20 May 2012^[8]	Samet Aybaba^[9]	16 June 2012
Kasımpaşa	Metin Diyadin	Resignation	23 September 2012^[10]	Shota Arveladze^[11]	8 October 2012
Kayserispor	Shota Arveladze	Resignation	1 October 2012^[12]	Robert Prosinečki	15 October 2012^[13]
Elazığspor	Bülent Uygun	Resignation	8 October 2012^[14]	Yılmaz Vural^[15]	10 October 2012
Karabükspor	Michael Skibbe	Sacked	4 November 2012^[16]	Mesut Bakkal^[17]	6 November 2012
İstanbul BB	Carlos Carvalhal	Resigned	12 November 2012^[18]	Bülent Korkmaz^[19]	13 November 2012
Mersin İdmanyurdu	Nurullah Sağlam	Sacked	15 December 2012^[20]	Giray Bulak	20 December 2012^[21]
Trabzonspor	Şenol Güneş	Resigned	27 January 2013^[22]	Tolunay Kafkas	28 January 2013^[23]
Bursaspor	Ertuğrul Sağlam	Resigned	27 January 2013^[24]	Hikmet Karaman	6 February 2013^[25]
Gaziantepspor	Hikmet Karaman	Sacked	5 February 2013^[26]	Bülent Uygun	8 February 2013^[27]
Mersin İdmanyurdu	Giray Bulak	Sacked	7 March 2013^[28]	Hakan Kutlu	8 March 2013^[29]
Orduspor	Héctor Cúper	Sacked	13 April 2013^[30]	Cevat Güler	13 April 2013^[30]
Karabükspor	Mesut Bakkal	Sacked	6 May 2013^[31]	Tolunay Kafkas	8 May 2013
Elazığspor	Yılmaz Vural	Resignation	19 May 2013^[32]	Vacant	Vacant

Club	Player 1	Player 2	Player 3	Player 4	Player 5	Player 6	Player 7	Player 8	Former Players
Akhisarspor	Luciano Guaycochea	Kerem Bulut	Bruno Mezenga	Severin Bikoko	Theofanis Gekas	Gideon Sani	Ibrahima Sonko		Diego Lima
Antalyaspor	Sammy Ndjock	Nikola Žižić	Petr Janda	Ismaïl Aissati	Isaac Promise	Lamine Diarra			Veselin Minev
Beşiktaş	Dentinho	Tomáš Sivok	Julien Escudé	Roberto Hilbert	Manuel Fernandes	Allan McGregor	Mamadou Niang	Filip Hološko	Hugo Almeida Ricardo Quaresma
Bursaspor	Fernando Belluschi	Pablo Batalla	Sebastián Pinto	Anton Ferdinand	Scott Carson	Michaël Chrétien	Maurice Edu	Stanislav Šesták	Petteri Forsell Teteh Bangura
Elazığspor	Ivan Sesar	Fábio Bilica	Vanja Iveša	Jake Jervis	Marvin Zeegelaar	Roland Alberg	Tidiane Sane	Emir Kujović	Hervé Tum Hrvoje Spahija Amr Zaki Julien Faubert Pascal Feindouno
Eskişehirspor	Ruud Boffin	Dedé	Diego Ângelo	Rodrigo Tello	Jerry Akaminko	Atdhe Nuhiu	Diomansy Kamara	Goran Čaušić	Patryk Małecki
Fenerbahçe	Crsitian	Pierre Webó	Dirk Kuyt	Joseph Yobo	Raul Meireles	Moussa Sow	Miroslav Stoch	Reto Ziegler	Alex Henri Bienvenu Miloš Krasić
Galatasaray	Felipe Melo	Dany Nounkeu	Didier Drogba	Emmanuel Eboué	Nordin Amrabat	Wesley Sneijder	Albert Riera	Fernando Muslera	Cris Tomáš Ujfaluši Johan Elmander
Gaziantepspor	Haris Medunjanin	Wílton Figueiredo	Abdou Traoré	Dorge Kouemaha	Gilles Binya	Darvydas Šernas	Žydrūnas Karčemarskas	Ivan Kecojević	Ismael Sosa Senijad Ibričić Ivan
Gençlerbirliği	Ermin Zec	Björn Vleminckx	Randall Azofeifa	Ante Kulušić	Dejan Lekić	Duško Tošić	Nemanja Tomić	Radosav Petrović	Debatik Curri Ekigho Ehiosun
İstanbul BB	Edin Višća	Doka Madureira	Tom	Kamil Zayatte	'Simon Zenke	Eduardo	Geraldes	Samuel Holmén	Pierre Webó
Karabükspor	Jugurtha Hamroun	Armand Deumi	Anthony Šerić	Vjekoslav Tomić	Larrys Mabiala	Lomana LuaLua	Luton Shelton		Sanel Jahić Florin Cernat
Kasımpaşa	Djalma	Matías Fritzler	Senijad Ibričić	Georgi Sarmov	Fabian Ernst	Andreas Isaksson	Tabaré Viudez		Nikolay Dimitrov Kalu Uche Pablo Pintos Santiago García
Kayserispor	Pablo Mouche	Bobô	Cleyton	Zurab Khizanishvili	Grétar Steinsson	Marko Simić	Diego Biseswar	Cristian Riveros	Franco Cángele Emir Kujović
Mersin İdmanyurdu	Emmanuel Culio	Ivan	David Bičík	Jean-Jacques Gosso	Nduka Ozokwo	Raheem Lawal	Milan Mitrović	Milan Stepanov	Ibrahim Šehić Danilo Bueno Joseph Boum Ibrahim Yattara Wissem Ben Yahia
Orduspor	Javier Umbides	Ayila Yussuf	Miguel Garcia	Bogdan Stancu	Sašo Fornezzi	Agus	David Barral	Jaime Romero	Vicente Monje Rovérsio
Sivasspor	Ricardo Pedriel	Milan Borjan	Jakub Navrátil	Jan Rajnoch	Aatif Chahechouhe	Michael Eneramo	Arkadiusz Piech	Kamil Grosicki	Milan Černý Jacques Faty Štefan Senecký
Trabzonspor	Gustavo Colman	Alanzinho	Emerson	Didier Zokora	Sol Bamba	Adrian Mierzejewski	Marek Čech	Marek Sapara	Marc Janko Paulo Henrique Ondřej Čelůstka Róbert Vittek

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Galatasaray (C)	34	21	8	5	66	35	+31	71	Qualification for the Champions League group stage
2	Fenerbahçe	34	18	7	9	56	39	+17	61	Qualification for the Champions League third qualifying round
3	Beşiktaş	34	16	10	8	63	49	+14	58	Qualification for the Europa League play-off round
4	Bursaspor	34	14	13	7	52	41	+11	55	Qualification for the Europa League third qualifying round
5	Kayserispor	34	15	7	12	48	45	+3	52
6	Kasımpaşa	34	14	8	12	48	37	+11	50
7	Antalyaspor	34	14	5	15	50	52	−2	47
8	Eskişehirspor	34	11	13	10	48	40	+8	46^[a]
9	Trabzonspor	34	13	7	14	39	40	−1	46^[a]	Qualification for the Europa League second qualifying round^[b]
10	Gaziantepspor	34	12	10	12	42	49	−7	46^[a]
11	Gençlerbirliği	34	10	15	9	46	47	−1	45
12	Sivasspor	34	12	8	14	42	46	−4	44
13	Elazığspor	34	10	13	11	31	46	−15	43
14	Akhisar Belediyespor	34	11	9	14	36	44	−8	42
15	Kardemir Karabükspor	34	11	7	16	41	53	−12	40
16	İstanbul B.B. (R)	34	9	9	16	43	50	−7	36	Relegation to TFF First League
17	Orduspor (R)	34	6	11	17	35	51	−16	29
18	Mersin İdman Yurdu (R)	34	4	10	20	31	53	−22	22

Home \ Away	AKH	ANT	BEŞ	BUR	ELZ	ESK	FEN	GAL	GAZ	GEN	İBB	KRB	KSM	KAY	MİY	ORD	SİV	TRA
Akhisar Belediyespor		1–0	4–1	2–2	0–1	1–1	1–2	1–2	0–0	0–0	0–4	1–3	0–2	1–2	1–0	0–0	2–1	1–0
Antalyaspor	4–3		3–5	0–1	4–0	2–1	1–2	0–4	5–2	3–5	1–0	0–0	3–2	3–0	1–0	1–0	4–2	2–1
Beşiktaş	3–1	1–0		3–3	3–0	2–2	3–2	3–3	1–1	3–0	2–2	2–2	1–3	3–1	3–0	2–0	0–1	1–1
Bursaspor	1–1	1–1	3–0		1–0	0–0	1–1	1–1	1–1	0–0	0–1	4–1	1–2	2–1	3–0	1–0	1–0	3–2
Elazığspor	0–0	2–1	1–3	1–1		1–1	1–1	0–1	0–0	1–1	1–0	1–0	0–3	0–4	1–0	1–0	0–0	3–1
Eskişehirspor	0–1	3–1	1–2	2–2	2–2		1–1	0–0	4–0	4–2	1–0	5–2	2–2	0–3	0–0	1–0	2–1	0–1
Fenerbahçe	2–0	1–3	3–0	4–1	2–2	1–0		2–1	3–0	4–1	2–1	1–3	3–1	2–1	2–1	2–1	1–2	0–0
Galatasaray	3–0	2–0	2–1	3–2	3–1	1–1	2–1		1–1	0–1	2–0	1–3	2–1	3–0	3–1	4–2	4–2	2–0
Gaziantepspor	2–2	0–1	3–2	2–1	1–1	2–0	1–2	0–1		2–3	2–1	0–2	2–1	0–1	2–1	3–0	0–1	1–0
Gençlerbirliği	1–0	3–1	1–1	2–2	1–2	0–2	2–0	3–3	2–2		0–0	2–1	0–0	4–0	3–1	1–1	1–1	0–4
İstanbul B.B.	0–2	0–1	1–1	4–1	1–1	2–2	2–0	1–3	1–3	0–2		2–2	1–2	0–0	4–2	1–1	2–0	2–1
Kardemir Karabükspor	0–2	1–0	0–3	0–3	0–1	0–0	3–2	0–1	0–2	0–0	3–1		0–3	3–1	1–0	1–1	1–0	1–1
Kasımpaşa	0–1	1–1	1–3	2–0	0–0	1–2	2–0	2–1	3–0	2–2	0–2	2–1		1–2	2–2	1–1	1–0	2–0
Kayserispor	1–1	2–0	2–0	0–1	4–1	3–2	1–1	1–3	1–1	1–0	0–1	3–0	1–0		2–1	0–0	1–1	2–1
Mersin İdmanyurdu	2–1	1–1	1–2	0–1	0–2	1–3	0–1	1–1	1–2	1–1	2–0	2–1	1–1	1–2		0–0	3–0	0–1
Orduspor	0–2	1–1	1–2	2–4	2–2	2–0	0–2	2–0	2–3	2–1	2–2	3–2	0–2	3–2	1–1		2–0	1–2
Sivasspor	1–2	2–1	0–1	2–2	3–1	1–0	0–0	1–3	0–0	1–1	4–1	2–1	1–0	4–2	3–3	3–2		2–0
Trabzonspor	3–1	2–0	0–0	0–1	2–0	0–3	0–3	0–0	4–1	2–0	4–3	1–3	1–0	1–1	1–1	1–0	1–0

2012–13 Süper Lig

Teams

Team overview

Managerial changes

Foreign players

League table

Positions by round

Results

Statistics

Top goalscorers

Top assists

Yellow cards

Red cards

Hat-tricks

References

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Team ╲ Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34
Team ╲ Round
Galatasaray	2	5	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
Fenerbahçe	6	1	5	4	3	6	5	6	8	6	3	4	2	4	2	3	4	4	3	4	3	2	2	3	3	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2
Beşiktaş	6	12	4	3	5	10	11	12	10	7	8	5	4	3	3	2	2	2	2	3	2	3	3	2	2	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3
Bursaspor	3	11	12	8	9	12	10	11	7	9	11	9	9	8	8	6	6	5	7	7	6	4	4	4	5	5	5	5	4	4	4	4	4	4
Kayserispor	15	17	17	16	15	17	15	15	17	14	12	13	14	14	13	12	15	15	13	13	12	9	8	7	7	9	9	9	6	7	8	6	5	5
Kasımpaşa	14	10	2	2	2	2	4	5	6	5	6	3	6	6	6	7	9	7	5	5	7	6	7	6	4	4	4	4	5	5	5	5	6	6
Antalyaspor	18	9	3	10	12	9	7	2	2	2	2	2	3	2	4	4	3	3	4	2	4	5	5	5	6	7	7	6	8	9	10	8	7	7
Eskişehirspor	15	16	13	9	10	8	9	7	4	3	4	7	5	5	5	5	5	8	6	6	5	7	6	8	8	8	8	7	9	10	9	10	10	8
Trabzonspor	6	2	10	7	7	7	6	8	10	10	9	6	7	7	7	8	7	9	11	9	10	12	10	10	11	13	12	12	10	8	7	9	8	9
Gaziantepspor	15	17	14	14	13	14	14	13	13	13	15	15	13	12	14	15	14	14	15	15	15	15	13	15	16	12	11	10	12	11	12	11	12	10
Gençlerbirliği	1	2	6	11	11	5	3	4	3	8	5	8	10	11	9	10	11	10	8	10	11	8	9	9	9	6	6	8	7	6	6	7	9	11
Sivasspor	3	6	8	12	8	4	8	9	11	11	10	11	8	9	10	13	10	11	12	11	8	10	11	12	10	11	10	11	11	12	11	13	11	12
Elazığspor	6	15	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	17	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	13	14	15	15	13	15	13	12	13	13
Akhisar Belediyespor	3	8	9	13	14	15	16	16	14	15	16	16	17	18	17	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	17	17	17	17	17	17	16	14	15	16	14	14
Kardemir Karabükspor	6	14	16	17	16	13	13	14	15	16	13	12	12	15	12	9	8	6	9	8	9	11	12	13	12	15	13	13	14	13	14	14	15	15
İstanbul B.B.	6	7	11	6	6	11	12	10	12	12	14	14	15	13	15	14	12	12	10	12	14	14	14	14	15	10	14	14	15	16	16	15	16	16
Orduspor	12	4	7	5	4	3	2	3	5	4	7	10	11	10	11	11	13	13	14	14	13	13	15	11	14	16	16	16	17	17	17	17	17	17
Mersin İdmanyurdu	12	13	15	15	17	16	17	17	16	17	17	17	16	16	18	17	17	17	17	17	17	17	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18

Player	For	Against	Result	Date
Kalu Uche	Kasımpaşa	Sanica Boru Elazığspor	3–0	1 September 2012
Pierre Webó	İstanbul BB	Akhisar Belediyespor	4–0	16 September 2012
Hugo Almeida	Beşiktaş	MP Antalyaspor	5–3	18 November 2012
Björn Vleminckx	Gençlerbirliği	MP Antalyaspor	5–3	20 January 2013
Michael Eneramo	Sivasspor	İstanbul BB	4–1	27 April 2013