Beşiktaş J.K. (women's football)

Beşiktaş Women's Football (Turkish: beşiktaş Jimnastik Kulübü Vodafone Kadın Futbol Takımı) is the women football section of Beşiktaş JK, a major sports club in Istanbul, Turkey. From 2021 on, the team has been sponsored by the mobile phone company Vodafone Turkey.

Beşiktaş J.K.

Full name	Beşiktaş Jimnastik Kulübü Vodafone Kdın Futbol Takımı
Founded	2014; 9 years ago (2014)
Ground	İsmet İnönü Stadium (– 2018-19) Fulya Hakkı Yeten Facility (2019-20 – )
Chairman	Ahmet Nur Çebi^[1]
Manager	Mesut Kır
League	Turkcell Women's Football League
2020–21	Champion
Home colours Away colours Third colours
Current season

History

In the 2014–15 season, Beşiktaş women's team was allocated to the bottom league, the Turkish Women's Third Football League. They finished the league as the division leader, and after play-offs, they were promoted to the Women's Second League.^[2][3]

In the 2015–16 season, the team played in the Women's Second League, and secured promotion to the First League already four matches before the season's finish.^[4] They became league champion two matches prior to the end of the league.^[5] The team completed the 2015–16 season undefeated, and were promoted to the Turkish Women's First Football League.^[2][3]

The team finished the regular season of 2017–18 even on points with Konak Belediyespor behind the champion Ataşehir Belediyespor. The regular time of the play-off match between the two teams ended with 1–1 draw. In the extension time , Beşiktaş J.K. scored three penalty goals, finished the match by 4–1, and became runners-up.^[6]

Beşiktaş J.K. finished the 2018–19 Women's First League season as leader equal on points with ALG Spor with goal average that happened only in the last round. ALG Spor was leading with goal average in the previous two rounds. ALG Spor won their last match with 5-1, Beşiktaş J.K. defeated their opponent by 9-0, which enabled them a goal average of four in the final. The Turkish Football Federation set a play-off round between the two teams to be played on 12 May 2019 at a neutral venue, in Manavgat, Antalya.^[7][8] The team became for the first tine Women's First League champion after defeating ALG Spor in the play-off match with 1-0.^[9][10]

By the end of July 2019, the club transferred Kader Hançar, Sevgi Çınar, Sevgi Salmanlı and Yağmur Uraz, the four most experienced forwarders of the Women's football in Turkey,, three of them are former top scorers, for the 2019–20 UEFA Women's Champions League - Group 9 matches.^[11] The team finished the qualifying round's group matches undefeated with two draws and one win ranking second behind the Dutch Twente, who progressed to the round of 32 as the only team of the group.^[12]

In 2021, the mobile phone company Vodafone Turkey started sponsoring the women's team.^[13] Beşiktaş J.K. won in the 2020-21 Turkcell Women's Football League season their second champion title defeating Fatih Vatan Spor in the play-off final game.^[14]

Stadium

 

İsmet İnönü Stadium, home ground of Beşiktaş J.K. women's tea until the end of the 2018-19 Women's First League season.

 

Fulya Hakkı Yeten Stadium, home grounf from the 2019-20 Women's First League season on.

Beşiktaş JK women's team play their home matches at Fulya Hakkı Yeten Stadium of the Beşiktaş J.K. in Şişli district of Istanbul. The team played their home matches until the end of the 2018-19 Women's First League season at İsmet İnönü Stadium, formerly Çilekli Stadium, of Beşiktaş Municipality, in Beşiktaş district.^[15][16]

 

Team bus of Beşiktaş J.K.

Statistics

As of 18 December 2022^[update].^[7]

Season	League	Rank	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
2014–15	Third League Group 1	1	18	14	2	2	89	18	+71	44
2015–16	Second League	1	22	19	3	0	88	20	+68	60
2016–17	First League	2	26	19	1	6	67	22	+45	58
2017–18	First League	2	19	14	3	2	47	23	+24	45
2018–19	First League	1	19	14	3	2	62	13	+49	45
2019–20	First League	2 (^1)	15	14	0	1	64	12	+52	42
2020-21	First League	1	6	6	0	0	23	3	+20	18
2021-22	Super League Gr. A	4 (^2)	26	21	0	5	110	24	+86	63
2022-23	Super League Gr. A	4 (^3)	8	3	4	1	19	10	+9	13
Green marks a season followed by promotion, red a season followed by relegation.

• (¹): Season discontinue due to COVID-19 pandemic in Turkey
• (²): Finish Gr. A as second, placed 4th after play-offs
• (³): Season in progress

Players

Current squad

As of 18 December 2022.^[17]

Head coach:   Suat Okyar

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK   TUR Fatma Şahin 99 GK   TUR Tuğçe Bayındır 3 DF   TUR Didem Karagenç 4 DF   TUR Dilan Yeşim Taşkın 13 DF   TUR Sibel Duman 17 DF   TUR Ferda İpek Çevik 23 DF   TUR Esra Erol — DF   MEX Sofía Álvarez 6 MF   TUR Meryem Mas 7 MF   TUR Berivan İçen 8 MF   TUR Seda Nur İncik 11 MF   TUR Mesude Alyont

No. Pos. Nation Player 61 MF   TUR Kevser Kartal 77 MF   TUR Sevgi Çınar 9 FW   TUR Zeynep Koçer 10 FW   TUR Gizem Gönültaş 12 FW   CAN Christabel Oduro 14 FW   TUR Tülin Kuyucak 15 FW   TUR Başak Gündoğdu (C) 19 FW   TUR Esra Manya 29 FW   DEN Natasha Shirazi 70 FW   TUR Beyza Kara

Former players

Former Turkish international and foreign players: 

•   Turkey: Derya Arhan, Ayşe Şevval Ay, Çiğdem Belci, Dilek Enli, Emine Ecem Esen, Fatma Kara, Elif Keskin, Safa Merve Nalçacı, Ceren Nurlu, Melike Öztürk, Sevgi Salman, Gamze Nur Yaman, Berna Yeniçeri

•   Azerbaijan: Bilge Su Koyun
•   Brazil: Gi Santos
•   Cameroon: Jacquette Ada
•   Greece: Ioanna Chamalidou
•   Iran: Maryam Yektaei
•   Ivory Coast: Ines Nrehy
•   Macedonia: Eli Jakovska
•   Mali: Aissata Traoré
•   Morocco: Imane Abdelahad, Chirine Knaidil
•   Russia: Ekaterina Ulasevich
•   United States Jessica Lynne Çarmıklı

International results

Event	Stage	Date	Venue	Opponent	Result	Scorers
2019–20 UEFA Women's Champions League	Group 9	Aug 7, 2019	Enschede,   Netherlands	Górnik Łęczna	D 1–1	Hançar^[18]
		Aug 10, 2019		Twente	D 2–2	Uraz, Keskin^[19]
		Aug 13, 2019		FC Alashkert	W 3–0	Hançar, Sakhinova (o.g.), Çınar^[20]
2021–22 UEFA Women's Champions League	Group 8	Aug 18, 2021	Turin,   Italy	St. Pölten	L 0–7
		Aug 21, 2021		Kamenica Sasa	W 4–0	Uraz, A. Karabulut, İçen, Hançar^[21]

Honours

•   Turkish Women's First Football League
  •   Champions (2): 2018–19, 2020–21
  • Runners-up (2): 2016–17, 2017–18
•   Turkish Women's Second Football League
  •   Champions (1): 2015–16
•   Turkish Women's Third Football League
  •   Champions (1): 2014–15

Kit history

2015–16 home	2015–16 away	2016–17 home	2016–17 away	2017–18 home	2017–18 away
2018–19 home	2018–19 away	2018–19 alt	2019–20 home	2019–20 away	2019–20 alt
2020–21 home	2020–21 away	2021–22 home

Squad history

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  Beşiktaş J.K. team in the play-off home match against 1207 Antalya Spor in the 2016–17 season.

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  Beşiktaş J.K. squad in the 2017–18 Women's First League season's home match against Amed S.K.

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  Beşiktaş J.K. women's team in the 2018–19 First League season's away match against Ataşehir Belediyespor.

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  Beşiktaş J.K. women's team in the 2019–20 First League season's home match against Kocaeli Bayan FK.

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  Beşiktaş J.K. women's team in the 2019–20 First League season's home match against Ataşehir Belediyespor.

References

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15. "Beşiktaş Kadın Futbol Takımı, evinde farklı galip" (in Turkish). Haber 1903. 2016-03-06. Retrieved 2016-07-04.
16. "Kadın Futbol Takımı – Hakkarigücü Spor" (in Turkish). Beşiktaş JK. 2016-03-27. Retrieved 2016-07-04.
17. "Beşiktaş JK Vodafone Kadın Futbol Takımı 2*0 Hakkarigücü Spor" (in Turkish). Türkiye Futbol Federasyonu. Retrieved 26 October 2022.
18. "Beşiktaş (TUR) 1-1 Górnik Leczna (POL)". UEFA. Retrieved 8 August 2019.
19. "Twente (NED) 2-2 Beşiktaş (TUR)". UEFA. Retrieved 10 August 2019.
20. "Alashkert (ARM) 0-3 Beşiktaş (TUR)". UEFA. Retrieved 13 August 2019.
21. "Beşiktaş (TUR) 4-0 Kamenica Sasa (MKD)". UEFA Women's Champions League. Retrieved 21 August 2021.

External links

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