2012–13 Fenerbahçe S.K. season

Fenerbahçe

2012–13 season
President	Aziz Yıldırım
Head coach	Aykut Kocaman
Stadium	Şükrü Saracoğlu Stadium
Süper Lig	2nd
Turkish Cup	Winners
Turkish Super Cup	Runners-up (lost to Galatasaray)
UEFA Champions League	Play-off round (lost to Spartak Moscow)
UEFA Europa League	Semi-finals (lost to Benfica)
Top goalscorer	League: Moussa Sow (15) All: Moussa Sow (19)
Highest home attendance	50,025 vs. Galatasaray (12 May 2013, Süper Lig)
Lowest home attendance	5,000 vs. Sivasspor (19 December 2012, Türkiye Kupası)
Home colours Away colours Third colours
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The 2012–13 season is Fenerbahçe's 55th consecutive season in the Süper Lig and their 106th year in existence. They also competed in the UEFA Champions League starting in the third qualifying round after being second in the 2011–12 domestic season.

Season overview[edit]

• 3 June 2012, Kuyt joined the team 3 years from Liverpool.^[1]
• 6 June 2012, Salih joined to team.^[2]
• 22 June 2012, UEFA sent a letter to the TFF approving Fenerbahçe's participation in the UEFA Champions League, the European football body's topflight club competition.^[3] On the same day Hasan Ali joined the team.^[4]
• 1 July 2012, Mehmet Topal joined the team with a contract of 4 years from Valencia^[5]
• 2 July 2012, Fenerbahçe's chairman Aziz Yıldırım and three other jailed suspects were released after the chief judge of the specially authorized 16th İstanbul High Criminal Court, Mehmet Ekinci, delivered the verdict in a year-long match-fixing case on Monday, but the court stated that Aziz Yıldırım has been sentenced to six years, three months for creating and managing a criminal organization and for rigging several football matches. The decision has been forwarded to the Supreme Court of Appeals for review.^{[6][7][8][9][10][11]}
• 3 July 2012, Fenerbahçe football players all sported T-shirts with Fenerbahçe Chairman Aziz Yıldırım pictured on the front, along with a message he sent them from within prison, at their first pre-season training session on Tuesday. The players unfurled a banner that read “Fenerbahçe forever” and posed for members of the press while holding it.^[12][13]
• 4 July 2012, Egemen joined the team, and on 9 July 2012 Issiar Dia transferred to the Qatars team Lekhwiya with the transfer fee €4 Million.^[14]
• 16 July 2012, for the pre-season camp Fenerbahçe team was going to Austria, here they will play four Friendly games.^[15]
• 20 July 2012, Fenerbahçe get Vaslui from Romania in the draw for the Third qualifying round of the Champions League.^[16][17][18]
• 1 August 2012, in the season's first match the club salvage late draw against Vaslui in the Third qualifying round of the Champions League, with the score being 1-1.^[19]
• 3 August 2012, Krasić transferred for 7M € on a four-year contract.^[20]
• 4 August 2012, Joseph Yobo signs three-year contract with the club.^[21]
• 8 August 2012, the club celebrate its first win of the season in the second leg against Vaslui in the Third Qualifying round of the Champions League, winning 4-1 on the night and 5-2 on aggregate to advance to the play-off round.^[22][23][24]
• 10 August 2012, the club are drawn against Russian side Spartak Moscow in the Play-off roundof the Champions League.^[17][18]
• 12 August 2012 Fenerbahçe lose the Süper Kupa against local rivals Galatasaray 3–2.^[25]
• 18 August 2012, in 2012–13 season's Süper Lig first match Fenerbahçe late a draw against Elazığspor with score 1–1.^[18] On 21 August 2012, Fenerbahçe lose the play-off round's first match against Spartak Moscow with score 2–1 in UEFA Champions League.^[17][18]
• 27 August 2012, defeated southeastern side Gaziantepspor 3–0 in week two of the Süper Lig on Saturday night for its first domestic league of the season and also for its first win in four official matches. But Saturday's victory was eclipsed by the crisis between Brazilian captain and playmaker Alex and young coach Aykut Kocaman, which saw the Brazilian excluded completely from the Saturday roster. For the record: A fit Alex has always been included in the starting XI since he joined the Istanbul club in 2004. Therefore, without the slightest doubt there is something wrong somewhere. The match was played “behind closed doors,” meaning adult men were banned, while women and children were allowed in for free. And even the female spectators took sides, asking, “Say Aykut Kocaman, where is Alex?” And this prompted Fenerbahçe Chairman Aziz Yıldırım to grab the stadium microphone during the match maybe something unprecedented in football history and say the following: “You are mistaken,” he said to the chanting fans. “Respect and support the players on the pitch. No one is greater than Fenerbahçe,” he asserted. Yıldırım further said after the match: “I can give my life for Fenerbahçe. No one is above Fenerbahçe, not even Aziz Yıldırım. Players go, Aziz Yıldırım will, everyone will go, but Fenerbahçe will remain,” he noted. He later said he has invited Alex for talks on Monday.^[26]
• 29 August 2012, Fenerbahçe was eliminated by Spartak Moscow with aggregate score 3–2 and will enter the group stage of the 2012–13 UEFA Europa League.^[17]
• 1 October 2012, Alex's contract was terminated.^[27][28][29]
• 29 October 2012, Antalyaspor ends Fenerbahçe's 47-match unbeaten run in the Süper Lig at Şükrü Saracoğlu Stadium in Kadıköy had to come to an end some day with score 1–3. Fenerbahçe had not lost a single match at home in Kadıköy ever since they were beaten 2–3 by eventual champion Bursaspor in week 22, on 22 February 2010. Fenerbahçe won 38 and drew nine in the 47 matches they played within 980 days since 22 February 2010.^[30] On 3 November 2012, Fenerbahçe peck Akhisar Belediyespor to break 181-day away jinx.^[31]
• 2 May 2013, Fenerbahçe was eliminated by Benfica with aggregate score 3–2 in 2012–13 Europa League in semi-final, and this is the biggest success in Fenerbahçe's history to arrive into the Semi-final in European competitions.^[32][33]

Kits[edit]

Fenerbahçe's 2012–13 kits introduced on 27 July 2012 in Şükrü Saracoğlu Stadium and produced by Adidas. Home kit's name is "2013 Efsane Çubuklu Forma" that means 2013 Legendary Barred Kit, away kit's name is "2013 Arma Forma" that means 2013 Emblem Kit and third kit's name is "2013 Gölge Kanarya Forma" that means 2013 Shadow Canary Kit.^[34]

Transfers[edit]

In[edit]

No.	Pos.	Nat.	Name	Age	Moving from	Type	Transfer window	Ends	Transfer fee	Source
11	FW		Dirk Kuyt	31	Liverpool	Transfer	Summer	2015	€1M	Fenerbahce.org
48	MF		Salih Uçan	18	Bucaspor	Transfer	Summer	2017	€1.55M	Fenerbahce.org
3	DF		Hasan Ali Kaldırım	22	Kayserispor	Transfer	Summer	2017	€3.75M	Fenerbahce.org
5	MF		Mehmet Topal	26	Valencia	Transfer	Summer	2016	€4.5M	Fenerbahce.org
2	DF		Egemen Korkmaz	29	Beşiktaş	Transfer	Summer	2015	Free	Fenerbahce.org
27	MF		Miloš Krasić	27	Juventus	Transfer	Summer	2016	€7M[35]	Fenerbahce.org
6	DF		Joseph Yobo	31	Everton	Transfer	Summer	2015	€2.5M	Fenerbahce.org
14	MF		Raul Meireles	29	Chelsea	Transfer	Summer	2016	€10	Fenerbahce.org
8	MF		Emre Belözoğlu	32	Atlético Madrid	Transfer	Winter	2015	€0.35M	Fenerbahce.org
33	DF		Reto Ziegler	27	Juventus	Loan	Winter	2013	€0.25M	Fenerbahce.org
99	FW		Pierre Webó	31	İstanbul Başakşehir	Transfer	Winter	2015	€3M	Fenerbahce.org

Total spending: €33.9 million

Out[edit]

N	Pos.	Nat.	Name	Age	Moving to	Type	Transfer window	Transfer fee	Source
5	MF		Emre Belözoğlu	31	Atlético Madrid	Sell	Summer	Free	Atleticomadrid.com
17	DF		Okan Alkan	19	Bucaspor	Sell	Summer	Free	Bucaspor.org.tr
22	GK		Ertuğrul Taşkıran	22	Kayserispor	Loan	Summer	Free	Kayserispor.org
58	DF		Bilica	33	Elazığspor	Sell	Summer	Free	Elazigspor.org.tr
92	MF		Issiar Dia	25	Lekhwiya	Sell	Summer	€4M	Lekhwiyaclub.qa
14	MF		Gökay Iravul	19	Manisaspor	Loan	Summer	Free	Manisaspor.org.tr
99	FW		Recep Berk Elitez	20	Bandırmaspor	Loan	Summer	Free	Bandirmaspor.org.tr
35	DF		Hasan Erbey	20	Giresunspor	Loan	Summer	Free	Giresunspor.org.tr
8	MF		Özer Hurmacı	25	Kasımpaşa	Annulled	Summer	Free	Fenerbahce.org
10	MF		Alex	34	Coritiba	Annulled	Summer	Free	Kap.gov.tr
10	MF		Özgür Çek	22	Eskişehirspor	Annulled	Winter	Free	Ligtv.com.tr
15	FW		Henri Bienvenu	24	Zaragoza	Loan	Winter	Free	Henri-bienvenu.com

Total spending: €4 million

Line-up[edit]

As of 22 May 2013

First team squad[edit]

No.	Name	Nationality	Position(s)	Date of Birth (Age)	Signed from	Since
Goalkeepers
1	Volkan Demirel		GK	(1981-10-27)27 October 1981 (aged 31)	Kartalspor	2002
34	Mert Günok		GK	(1989-03-01)1 March 1989 (aged 24)	Youth system	2009
54	Erten Ersu		GK	(1994-04-21)21 April 1994 (aged 19)	Youth system	2011
85	Serkan Kırıntılı		GK	(1985-02-15)15 February 1985 (aged 28)	Ankaragücü	2010
Defenders
2	Egemen Korkmaz		DF	(1982-11-03)3 November 1982 (aged 30)	Beşiktaş	2012
3	Hasan Ali Kaldırım		DF	(1989-12-09)9 December 1989 (aged 23)	Kayserispor	2012
4	Bekir İrtegün		DF	(1984-04-20)20 April 1984 (aged 29)	Gaziantepspor	2009
6	Joseph Yobo		DF	(1980-09-06)6 September 1980 (aged 32)	Everton	2010
33	Reto Ziegler		DF	(1986-01-16)16 January 1986 (aged 27)	Juventus	2013
53	Serdar Kesimal		DF	(1989-01-24)24 January 1989 (aged 24)	Kayserispor	2011
67	Orhan Şam		DF	(1986-06-01)1 June 1986 (aged 26)	Gençlerbirliği	2011
77	Gökhan Gönül		DF	(1985-01-05)5 January 1985 (aged 28)	Hacettepe	2007
Midfielders
5	Mehmet Topal		MF	(1986-03-03)3 March 1986 (aged 27)	Valencia	2012
9	Miroslav Stoch		MF	(1989-10-19)19 October 1989 (aged 23)	Chelsea	2010
14	Raul Meireles		MF	(1983-03-17)17 March 1983 (aged 30)	Chelsea	2012
16	Cristian		MF	(1983-06-25)25 June 1983 (aged 29)	Corinthians	2009
17	Recep Niyaz		MF	(1995-08-02)2 August 1995 (aged 17)	Youth system	2011
20	Sezer Öztürk		MF	(1985-11-03)3 November 1985 (aged 27)	Eskişehirspor	2011
21	Selçuk Şahin		MF	(1981-01-31)31 January 1981 (aged 32)	Istanbulspor	2003
25	Emre Belözoğlu		MF	(1980-09-07)7 September 1980 (aged 32)	Atlético Madrid	2013
27	Miloš Krasić		MF	(1984-11-01)1 November 1984 (aged 28)	Juventus	2012
28	Beykan Şimşek		MF	(1995-01-01)1 January 1995 (aged 18)	Youth system	2013
38	Mehmet Topuz		MF	(1983-09-07)7 September 1983 (aged 29)	Kayserispor	2009
48	Salih Uçan		MF	(1994-01-06)6 January 1994 (aged 19)	Bucaspor	2012
88	Caner Erkin		MF	(1988-10-04)4 October 1988 (aged 24)	CSKA Moscow	2010
Forwards
7	Moussa Sow		FW	(1986-01-19)19 January 1986 (aged 27)	Lille	2012
11	Dirk Kuyt		FW	(1980-06-22)22 June 1980 (aged 32)	Liverpool	2012
23	Semih Şentürk		FW	(1983-04-29)29 April 1983 (aged 30)	Youth system	1999
99	Pierre Webó		FW	(1982-01-20)20 January 1982 (aged 31)	İstanbul Başakşehir	2013

Squad statistics[edit]

As of 22 May 2013

No.	Nat.	Player	Süper Lig		Turkish Cup1		Europe		Total
			Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
1		Volkan Demirel	28	0	3	0	15	0	46	0
2		Egemen Korkmaz	20	0	8	0	14	2	42	2
3		Hasan Ali Kaldırım	25	1	8	0	9	0	42	1
4		Bekir İrtegün	26	1	7	0	11	2	44	3
5		Mehmet Topal	27	3	8	1	16	0	51	4
6		Joseph Yobo	20	0	2	0	12	0	34	0
7		Moussa Sow	31	15	7	1	16	3	54	19
9		Miroslav Stoch	18	0	6	0	9	0	33	0
11		Dirk Kuyt	31	8	8	2	17	7	56	17
14		Raul Meireles	22	2	3	0	8	1	33	3
16		Cristian	31	5	10	3	18	3	59	11
17		Recep Niyaz	2	0	3	1	2	0	7	1
20		Sezer Öztürk	9	2	3	3	0	0	12	5
21		Selçuk Şahin	13	1	8	1	14	0	35	2
23		Semih Şentürk	17	1	8	3	2	0	27	4
25		Emre Belözoğlu	10	2	2	0	0	0	12	2
27		Miloš Krasić	13	0	7	1	7	0	27	1
28		Beykan Şimşek	1	0	2	1	0	0	3	1
33		Reto Ziegler	7	0	2	0	8	0	17	0
34		Mert Günok	6	0	4	0	3	0	13	0
38		Mehmet Topuz	22	1	11	0	13	0	46	1
48		Salih Uçan	10	3	9	0	7	1	26	4
53		Serdar Kesimal	5	0	8	0	2	0	15	0
54		Erten Ersu	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
67		Orhan Şam	5	0	9	0	1	0	15	0
77		Gökhan Gönül	27	3	6	1	17	0	48	4
85		Serkan Kırıntılı	0	0	5	0	0	0	5	0
88		Caner Erkin	30	0	7	1	16	3	53	4
99		Pierre Webó	13	7	3	1	6	2	22	10
Players sold or loaned out after the start of the season
10		Alex	4	0	1	1	4	1	9	2
15		Henri Bienvenu	2	0	0	0	3	0	5	0
60		Özgür Çek	0	0	1	0	1	0	2	0

¹Includes 2012 Turkish Super Cup

Statistics[edit]

Top scorers[edit]

As of 22 May 2013

Place	Position	Nation	Number	Name	Süper Lig	Turkish Cup1	Europe	Total
1	FW		7	Moussa Sow	15	1	3	19
2	FW		11	Dirk Kuyt	8	2	7	17
3	MF		16	Cristian	5	3	3	11
4	FW		99	Pierre Webó	7	1	2	10
5	MF		20	Sezer Öztürk	2	3	0	5
6	DF		77	Gökhan Gönül	3	1	0	4
	MF		5	Mehmet Topal	3	1	0	4
	MF		48	Salih Uçan	3	0	1	4
	MF		23	Semih Şentürk	1	3	0	4
	MF		88	Caner Erkin	0	1	3	4
7	MF		14	Raul Meireles	2	0	1	3
	DF		4	Bekir İrtegün	1	0	2	3
8	MF		25	Emre Belözoğlu	2	0	0	2
	MF		21	Selçuk Şahin	1	1	0	2
	MF		10	Alex 2	0	1	1	2
	DF		2	Egemen Korkmaz	0	0	2	2
9	DF		3	Hasan Ali Kaldırım	1	0	0	1
	MF		38	Mehmet Topuz	1	0	0	1
	MF		17	Recep Niyaz	0	1	0	1
	MF		27	Miloš Krasić	0	1	0	1
	MF		28	Beykan Şimşek	0	1	0	1
Own goals					1	1	0	2
TOTALS					56	22	25	103

¹Includes 2012 Turkish Super Cup

²Players who no longer play for Fenerbahçe's current season

Cards[edit]

As of 22 May 2013

Number	Position	Nation	Name			Total
88	MF		Caner Erkin	14	1	15
14	MF		Raul Meireles	11	2	13
4	DF		Bekir İrtegün	13	0	13
2	DF		Egemen Korkmaz	10	0	10
5	MF		Mehmet Topal	10	0	10
16	MF		Cristian	9	0	9
77	DF		Gökhan Gönül	7	1	8
3	DF		Hasan Ali Kaldırım	6	0	6
23	FW		Semih Şentürk	6	0	6
21	MF		Selçuk Şahin	6	0	6
1	GK		Volkan Demirel	5	1	6
53	DF		Serdar Kesimal	5	0	5
38	MF		Mehmet Topuz	3	1	4
48	MF		Salih Uçan	4	0	4
11	FW		Dirk Kuyt	4	0	4
25	MF		Emre Belözoğlu	4	0	4
10	MF		Alex1	3	0	3
9	MF		Miroslav Stoch	3	0	3
99	FW		Pierre Webó	3	0	3
20	MF		Sezer Öztürk	2	0	2
7	FW		Moussa Sow	2	0	2
33	DF		Reto Ziegler	2	0	2
67	DF		Orhan Şam	2	0	2
27	MF		Miloš Krasić	1	0	1
6	DF		Joseph Yobo	1	0	1
34	GK		Mert Günok	1	0	1

¹Players who no longer play for Fenerbahçe's current season

Club hierarchy[edit]

Board of directors[edit]

President	Aziz Yıldırım
Deputy President	Abdullah Kiğılı
Chief executive officer (CEO)[36]	Hakkı Hasan Yılmaz
Investment and Projects	Nihat Özbağı
Football Department	Ali Yıldırım
Financial and Administrative Restructuring	Ender Alkaya
Social Affairs and The Associations	Mithat Yenigün
The Stadium and Facilities	Ömer Temelli
Departments except Football	İlhan Ekşioğlu
Accountant Member	Tahir Perek
Advertising / Marketing / Fundraising	İsfendiyar Zülfikari
General Secretary	Talat Yılmaz
Legal Affairs	Şekip Mosturoğlu
Legal Affairs	Tolga Aytöre
Football teams except the senior	Ersan Topbaş
Basketball Department	Semih Özsoy

Source: Fenerbahce.org

Management[edit]

Manager	Aykut Kocaman
Administrative Manager	Hasan Çetinkaya
Assistant Coach	İsmail Kartal
Assistant Coach	Fahrudin Omerović
Coach	Turgay Altay
Physical Fitness Coach	Alper Aşçı
Goalkeeper Coach	Murat Öztürk
Match Analyst Coach	Arda Keskin
Match Analyst Coach	Barış Karakoç
Individual Player Coach	Dolu Arslan
Doctor	Burak Kunduracıoğlu
Physiotherapist	Erdem Yörükoğlu
Physiotherapist	Umut Şahin
Physiotherapist	Ata Özgür Ercan

Source: Fenerbahce.org

Pre-season friendlies[edit]

  Win   Draw   Loss   Postponed

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Competitions[edit]

Overall[edit]

Competition	Started round	Current position / round	Final position / round	First match	Last match
Turkish Super Cup	Final	—	Runner-up	12 August 2012
Süper Lig	—	—	2nd	19 August 2012	19 May 2013
Turkish Cup	Fourth round	Semi final		27 November 2012	22 May 2013
UEFA Champions League	Third qualifying round	—	play-off round	1 August 2012	29 August 2012
UEFA Europa League	Group stage	—	Semi finals	20 September 2012	2 May 2013

Super Cup[edit]

  Win   Draw   Loss   Postponed

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Süper Lig[edit]

League table[edit]

Pos	Team v t e	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

Results summary[edit]

Overall								Home						Away
Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
34	18	7	9	56	39	+17	61	12	2	3	35	18	+17	6	5	6	21	21	0

Results by round[edit]

Matches[edit]

  Win   Draw   Loss   Postponed

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Turkish Cup[edit]

  Win   Draw   Loss   Postponed

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Group stage[edit]

8 winners from the fifth and the last qualifying round will be split into two groups of 4 teams. This stage will be a round-robin tournament with home and away matches, in the vein of UEFA European competitions' group stages. The winners and runners-up of the two groups will advance to the semi-finals.

Group A[edit]

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts		FEN	SİV	1461	BUR
1	Fenerbahçe	6	4	1	1	12	5	+7	13			2–0	2–3	3–0
2	Sivasspor	6	3	2	1	6	5	+1	11		0–0		2–1	2–1
3	1461 Trabzon	6	1	2	3	5	9	−4	5		0–2	1–1		0–0
4	Bursaspor	6	1	1	4	5	9	−4	4		2–3	0–1	2–0

Matches[edit]

  Win   Draw   Loss   Postponed