2003–04 Süper Lig

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.

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 →

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.

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: [1]
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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References

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

1. Goal records 2011-09-29 at the Wayback Machine