2018–19 TFF First League

TFF First League
Season	2018–19
Champions	Denizlispor
Promoted	Denizlispor ; Gençlerbirliği ; Gazişehir Gaziantep
Relegated	Afjet Afyonspor ; Elazığspor ; Kardemir Karabükspor
Matches played	306
Goals scored	804 (2.63 per match)
Top goalscorer	Marco Paixão (29 goals)
Biggest home win	G. Birliği 6–0 Karabük ; (1 December 2018) ; Altınordu 6–0 Karabük ; (2 February 2019); Balıkesir 7–1 Karabük ; (22 April 2019) ; Denizli 6–0 Karabük ; (12 May 2019)
Biggest away win	İstanbul 0–5 Altay ; (25 August 2018) ; Karabük 1–6 Gazişehir ; (18 May 2019)
Highest scoring	Balıkesir 7–1 Karabük ; (22 April 2019)
Longest winning run	Osmanlıspor ; (10 matches)
Longest unbeaten run	Altınordu ; Denizlispor ; (14 matches)
Longest winless run	Kardemir Karabükspor ; (13 matches)
Longest losing run	Kardemir Karabükspor ; (34 matches)
	← 2017–18 2019–20 →

The 2018–19 TFF First League is the 18th season since the league was established in 2001 and 56th season of the second-level football league of Turkey since its establishment in 1963–64.

Teams

Osmanlıspor, Gençlerbirliği and Kardemir Karabükspor relegated from 2017–18 Süper Lig.
Rizespor, Ankaragücü and Erzurum BB promoted to 2018–19 Süper Lig.
Altay, Hatayspor and Afjet Afyonspor promoted from 2017–18 TFF Second League.
Samsunspor, Manisaspor and Gaziantepspor relegated to 2018–19 TFF Second League.

Stadiums and locations

Adana Demirspor
Adanaspor

Gençlerbirliği
Osmanlıspor

Location of teams in TFF First Lig 2018–19

Team	Home city	Stadium	Capacity
Adana Demirspor	Adana (Yüreğir)	Adana 5 Ocak Stadium	14,805
Adanaspor	Adana (Çukurova)	Adana 5 Ocak Stadium	14,805
Afjet Afyonspor	Afyonkarahisar	Afyonkarahisar Stadi	15,450
Altay	İzmir (Gaziemir)	İzmir Atatürk Stadium	51,295
Altınordu	İzmir (Karabağlar)	Doğanlar Stadium	12,500
Balıkesirspor	Balıkesir	Balıkesir Atatürk Stadium	15,800
Boluspor	Bolu	Bolu Atatürk Stadium	9,000
Denizlispor	Denizli	Denizli Atatürk Stadium	15,500
Elazığspor	Elazığ	Elazığ Atatürk Stadium	13,923
Eskişehirspor	Eskişehir	New Eskişehir Stadium	34,930
Gazişehir Gaziantep	Gaziantep	Kalyon Stadium	35,558
Gençlerbirliği	Ankara (Yenimahalle)	Eryaman Stadium	20,000
Giresunspor	Giresun	Giresun Atatürk Stadium	12,191
Hatayspor	Hatay	Antakya Atatürk Stadium	6,015
İstanbulspor	Istanbul (Büyükçekmece)	Necmi Kadıoğlu Stadium	4,491
Kardemir Karabükspor	Karabük	Necmettin Şeyhoğlu Stadium	15,000
Osmanlıspor	Ankara (Sincan)	Osmanlı Stadium	20,000
Ümraniyespor	Istanbul (Ümraniye)	Ümraniye Belediyesi Şehir Stadium	1,601

Foreign Players

Club	Player 1	Player 2	Player 3	Player 4	Player 5	Player 6	Player 7	Player 8	Player 9	Player 10	Former Players
Adana Demirspor	Jonathan Legear	Mickaël Poté	Anderson	Hervé Kage	Hamidou Traoré	Jakub Kosecki	Joher Rassoul	Milan Mitrović	Oleksandr Hladkyi		Boubacar Traoré Djemoussa Traore
Adanaspor	Goran Karačić	Digão	Renan Diniz	Róbert Feczesin	Famoussa Koné	Moussa Bagayoko	Claudiu Bumba				Didi Renan Foguinho
Afjet Afyonspor	Bajram Ajeti	Théo Mendy									Renato Arapi Danilo Alves Oleksandr Rybka
Altay	Anton Putsila	Ivan Ivanov	Hélder Tavares	Andreas Tatos	Leandro Kappel	Marco Paixão					Adnan Aganović Pedro Eugénio Mohamed Daf
Altınordu
Balıkesirspor	Steve Beleck	Foxi Kéthévoama	Andrija Vuković	Tomislav Glumac	Mahatma Otoo
Boluspor	Billal Sebaihi	Daniel Dimov	Chukwuma Akabueze	Mamadou Diarra	Vukadin Vukadinović	Matic Fink					Franck Etoundi
Denizlispor	Marc Mbamba	Bilal Ould-Chikh	Ismaïl Aissati	Lanre Kehinde	Adam Stachowiak						Tonia Tisdell
Elazığspor	Bekamenga	Georgios Georgiadis	Abel Camará	Boubacar Traoré	Idrissa Diarra	Diallo Guidileye	Lamine Diarra	Serge Akakpo			Andreas Tatos Elmar Bjarnason Moussa Bagayoko
Eskişehirspor	Bennett Ofori	Kamal Issah	Ibrahim Sissoko	Jesse Sekidika	Marko Milinković						Bruno Mezenga Erdon Daci Cristian Tănase
Gazişehir Gaziantep	Seifedin Chabbi	Igor	Jefferson	Elmar Bjarnason	Rydell Poepon	Moussa Sow	Prince Segbefia	Yonathan Del Valle			Femi Balogun
Gençlerbirliği	Stéphane Sessègnon	Bady	Jaílton Paraíba	Luccas Claro	Kári Árnason	Bogdan Stancu	Cosmin Matei				Marko Milinković
Giresunspor	Renan Foguinho	Ibrahim Sangaré	Guy-Michel Landel	Cyriac	Djemoussa Traore	Guy-Michel Landel	Adama Ba	Abiola Dauda	Cristian Tănase	Miljan Škrbić	Saïd Idazza Zeni Husmani
Hatayspor	Tom	Joseph Akomadi	Bakary Nimaga	Hamidou Maiga	Sadio Diallo	Samb El-Hadji	Dmytro Korkishko				Oumar Sidibé
İstanbulspor	Aldin Čajić	Wellington	Patrick Etoga	Mohamed Sammmed	Clésio	Slavko Perović					Jerry Akaminko
Kardemir Karabükspor											Mohamadou Sissoko Francis Narh Marius Alexe Andriy Bliznichenko
Osmanlıspor	Tortol Lumanza	Ognjen Todorović	Eric Ayuk	Magaye Gueye	Sloan Privat	Žydrūnas Karčemarskas	Ifeanyi Mathew	Ousmane N'Diaye	Jovan Blagojević	Santiago Mele	Sokol Cikalleshi Payam Sadeghian Cheick Diabaté Adrien Regattin
Ümraniyespor	Leandrinho	Aaron Appindangoyé	Lévy Madinda	Andreas Vasilogiannis	Boubacar Dialiba

League table

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Denizlispor (C, P)	34	21	9	4	67	32	+35	72	Promotion to the Süper Lig
2	Gençlerbirliği (P)	34	22	4	8	50	28	+22	70	Promotion to the Süper Lig
3	Hatayspor	34	19	10	5	57	22	+35	67	Qualification for the Süper Lig Playoffs
4	Osmanlıspor	34	19	5	10	49	26	+23	62
5	Gazişehir Gaziantep (P)	34	17	8	9	60	31	+29	59
6	Adana Demirspor	34	17	7	10	50	36	+14	58
7	Altınordu	34	16	9	9	50	33	+17	57
8	Ümraniyespor	34	14	11	9	44	37	+7	53
9	Boluspor	34	14	7	13	41	41	0	49
10	Altay	34	12	11	11	52	40	+12	47
11	İstanbulspor	34	10	13	11	45	46	−1	43
12	Adanaspor	34	9	10	15	41	49	−8	37
13	Giresunspor	34	8	12	14	32	41	−9	36
14	Eskişehirspor	34	9	8	17	44	66	−22	35
15	Balıkesirspor^[a]	34	11	7	16	36	45	−9	34
16	Afjet Afyonspor (R)	34	7	9	18	38	55	−17	30	Relegation to the TFF Second League
17	Elazığspor (R)	34	6	7	21	38	64	−26	25
18	Kardemir Karabükspor^[b] (R)	34	0	3	31	10	112	−102	0

Source: TFF
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head points; 3) Head-to-head goal difference; 4) Head-to-head goals scored; 5) Goal difference; 6) Goals scored
(C) Champions; (P) Promoted; (R) Relegated
Notes:

^ Balıkesirspor have been deducted 6 points.
^ Kardemir Karabükspor have been deducted 3 points.

Positions by round

The table lists the positions of teams after each week of matches. In order to preserve chronological evolvements, any postponed matches are not included to the round at which they were originally scheduled, but added to the full round they were played immediately afterwards.

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
Denizlispor	13	10	9	13	9	6	4	7	4	3	3	3	2	2	2	2	2	2	1	1	1	1	2	1	1	1	1	1	2	2	2	2	2	1
Gençlerbirliği	7	3	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	2	3	3	3	2	2	2	2	2	1	1	1	1	1	2
Hatayspor	14	7	7	12	14	10	12	10	10	7	8	7	7	9	9	6	5	3	3	5	5	6	5	5	5	4	4	3	3	3	3	3	3	3
Osmanlıspor	16	17	11	15	10	11	9	8	7	10	10	10	9	8	8	7	6	4	4	3	2	2	1	3	3	3	3	4	5	4	4	5	4	4
Gazişehir Gaziantep	6	6	8	6	4	5	7	5	6	5	5	5	4	3	3	3	3	5	6	7	6	7	7	6	6	5	5	5	4	5	5	4	6	5
Adana Demirspor	3	9	5	5	3	3	3	3	3	6	6	6	6	6	7	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	8	8	8	8	8	6	7	7	6	7	7	6
Altınordu	10	15	13	8	12	14	13	14	12	9	7	8	8	7	6	8	8	7	7	6	7	5	6	7	7	6	6	8	8	8	7	6	5	7
Ümraniyespor	17	8	12	7	7	8	6	4	5	4	4	4	5	5	4	4	4	6	5	4	4	4	4	4	4	7	7	7	6	6	8	8	8	8
Boluspor	5	2	3	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	3	4	5	5	7	8	8	8	8	8	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9
Altay	4	5	4	4	5	7	8	11	9	12	13	11	11	13	13	14	14	12	12	12	11	11	11	10	11	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10
İstanbulspor	2	4	10	10	11	13	15	15	14	15	12	13	12	10	11	12	12	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	12	11	12	12	11	11	11
Adanaspor	8	13	15	16	16	17	14	12	13	11	11	12	14	14	14	11	11	11	11	11	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	13	13	13	14	14	12	12
Giresunspor	1	1	2	3	6	4	5	6	8	8	9	9	10	11	12	13	13	14	14	14	15	15	15	15	14	14	14	14	15	15	15	15	15	13
Eskişehirspor	18	16	18	14	15	15	16	16	17	16	15	16	16	17	16	17	16	15	16	15	14	14	14	14	16	16	16	15	14	14	13	13	13	14
Balıkesirspor	11	11	14	9	13	12	10	13	15	14	16	14	13	12	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	11	10	11	11	11	12	11	11	12	14	15
Afjet Afyonspor	12	12	6	11	8	9	11	9	11	13	14	15	15	15	15	16	17	16	15	16	16	16	16	16	15	15	15	16	16	16	16	16	16	16
Elazığspor	9	14	16	17	17	16	17	17	16	17	17	17	17	16	17	15	15	17	17	17	17	17	17	17	17	17	17	17	17	17	17	17	17	17
Kardemir Karabükspor	15	18	17	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18

	Champion, Promotion to Süper Lig
	Promotion to Süper Lig
	Play-off
	TFF Second League

Source: TFF

Results

Home \ Away	ADS	ADA	AFY	ALT	ATO	BAL	BOL	DEN	ELA	ESK	GFK	GEN	GRS	HAT	İST	KRB	OSM	ÜMR
Adana Demirspor	—	1–1	1–0	2–2	3–0	2–0	4–1	0–1	0–1	4–0	3–2	2–3	1–1	3–0	2–2	1–0	0–0	3–1
Adanaspor		—	0–2	2–3	1–2	2–1	1–2	3–4	1–1	2–0	1–1	0–1	1–1	0–0	1–1	4–0	1–4	1–2
Afjet Afyonspor	0–2	0–3	—	1–1	1–3	1–1	0–1	1–3	0–4	2–1	1–4	0–0	3–2	1–2	1–1	5–0	0–0	2–2
Altay	3–0	2–2	1–1	—	1–2	1–0	1–0	1–3	4–0	2–1	1–1	0–1	0–1	1–1	1–1	4–0	0–1	1–0
Altınordu	0–1	2–0	1–1	2–1	—	1–0		4–0	3–2	2–0	1–0	1–2	0–0	2–2	1–1	6–0	0–3	1–2
Balıkesirspor	2–1	1–0	2–1	2–1	0–0	—	0–1	0–0	3–1	3–1	1–2	3–1	1–1	0–3	1–5	7–1	0–3	0–1
Boluspor	2–3	0–1	1–1	0–0	1–1	1–0	—	1–2	3–0	3–2	1–0	0–1	1–1	1–4	2–1	4–0	1–0	3–1
Denizlispor	5–1	4–2	3–0	3–3	1–0	0–0	0–0	—	3–0	4–1	0–1	0–0	3–2	0–0	1–0	6–0	0–2	0–0
Elazığspor	0–2	0–1	0–1	1–1	2–1	1–2	1–2	1–2	—	3–2	0–5	1–2	0–0	0–1	1–1	4–0	1–2	3–3
Eskişehirspor	1–2	0–3	3–1	1–0	2–4	2–2	1–1	1–1	3–1	—	0–0	3–2	0–0	0–3	1–0	2–0	1–0	2–2
Gazişehir Gaziantep	0–1	4–1	1–0	3–0	1–0	0–2	1–0	0–1	2–0	1–1	—		2–2	2–0	1–1	6–1	2–3	0–0
Gençlerbirliği	1–2	0–0	1–0	1–0	0–2	1–0	1–1	0–3	3–1	5–0	2–1	—	1–0	1–0	1–0	6–0	0–2	2–1
Giresunspor	1–0	0–1	0–1	1–2	3–1	0–0	3–1	0–3	2–0	3–1	1–5	0–1	—	0–3	0–0	4–0	0–2	1–1
Hatayspor	1–1	4–1	2–0	1–1	1–1	3–0	2–0	1–1	3–1	4–0	0–1	3–1		—	1–0	3–1	0–0	0–1
İstanbulspor	2–0	1–1	4–3	0–5	0–1	3–0	1–3	2–5	2–2	2–1	2–2	2–0	3–1	0–3	—	1–0	1–0	1–1
Kardemir Karabükspor	0–1	0–1	0–4	0–4	1–1	1–2	0–2	2–3	1–3	0–4	1–6	0–4	0–0	0–2	1–1	—	0–4	0–1
Osmanlıspor	1–0	3–1	3–2	3–1	0–1	1–0	3–1	0–2	1–1	2–4	0–1	0–1	0–1	1–3	1–0	3–0	—	0–0
Ümraniyespor	2–1	2–1	2–1	2–3	0–0	2–0	1–0	3–0	2–1	2–2	1–2	0–2	2–0	0–0	1–3	3–0	0–1	—

Source: TFF (in Turkish)
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
For upcoming matches, an "a" indicates there is an article about the rivalry between the two participants.

Promotion Playoffs

Semifinals

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Adana Demirspor	2–3	Hatayspor	0–0	2–3
Gazişehir Gaziantep	2–2 (9–8 p)	Osmanlıspor	2–0	0–2

Final

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Hatayspor	1–1 (3–5 p)	Gazişehir Gaziantep

Statistics

Top goalscorers

"First League Top Goalscorers". TFF.

Pos.	Player	Team	Goals
1	Marco Paixão	Altay	29
2	Mickaël Poté	Adana Demirspor	16
3	Mehmet Akyüz	Denizlispor	15
4	Oltan Karakullukçu	Afjet Afyonspor	14
5	Recep Niyaz	Denizlispor	12
6	Abiola Dauda	Giresunspor	11
	Nadir Çiftçi	Gençlerbirliği
	İbrahim Yılmaz	İstanbulspor
9	Lanre Kehinde	Denizlispor	10
9	Ziya Alkurt	Denizlispor	10

References

External links

(in Turkish and English) Turkish Football Federation PTT 1. League

[table_note_BAL0.96007910415534-1] Balıkesirspor have been deducted 6 points.

[table_note_KRB0.96007910415534-2] Kardemir Karabükspor have been deducted 3 points.

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