Turkish Women's First Football League


The Turkish Women's First Football League is the top level women's football league of Turkey. Eight teams play a double round robin to decide a champion, which qualifies for a spot in the UEFA Women's Champions League.
The league gains little attention in Turkey, and most matches are watched only by relatives of the team's players.
Fashion One TV became the official media sponsor of the league for the 2010–11 season.

Format

In an effort to increase quality of the league, in the 2009–10 season two teams were relegated and four teams were promoted to the first league. Thus, the 2010–11 season consisted of twelve teams. After playing two groups with six teams and then having a championship and relegation group, the 2012–13 season was played as a double-round robin with ten teams again. The winner after 18 games was the champion and qualifies for the UEFA Women's Champions League, the bottom two teams get relegated. In 2016–17 there again was introduced a championship and relegation round after the regular season.
For the 2019-20 league season, the number of participating teams was increased from ten to ywelve again after eight seasons. No relegation should take place so that the planned number of teams would be achieved with two promoted teams from the Women's Second League. However, Trabzon İdmanocağı had to relegate since they did not show-up in the entire previous season. To replace them, a third team from the Second League was promoted.

2019–20 season

TeamHometownGroundCapacity2017–18 finish
Adana İdmanyurdusporAdanaGençlik Stadium2,0003rd
ALG SporGaziantepBatur Football Field 2nd
Amed Sportif FaaliyetlerDiyarbakırTalaytepe Sports Facility7th
Ataşehir BelediyesporİstanbulYeni Sahra Stadium7004th
Beşiktaş J.K.İstanbulİsmet İnönü Stadium8001st
Fatih Vatan SporİstanbulFatih Mimar Sinan Stadium8009th
Fomget Gençlik ve SporAnkaraBatıkent Stadium1st
Hakkarigücü SporHakkariMerzan City Football Field 6th
Kdz. EreğlisporKaradeniz EreğliBeyçayir Football Field5th
Kireçburnu SporİstanbulÇayırbaşı Stadium5,0008th
Kocaeli Bayan FKİzmit Mehmet Ali Kağıtçı Stadium2nd
Konak BelediyesporİzmirAtatürk Stadyum 1 no'lu Yan Saha3rd

Past winners

Winners by team

After 2007.
ClubTitlesRunners-up
Konak Belediyespor51
Dinarsuspor4–
Ataşehir Belediyespor34
Gazi Üniversitesispor31
Samsungücü2–
Beşiktaş J.K.13
Trabzonspor11
Marshall Boyaspor11
ALG Spor11
Delta Mobilyaspor1–
Kuzeyspor1–
Zara Ekinlispor1–

Foreign players

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