Galatasaray S.K.

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Galatasaray is a sports club in Istanbul, Turkey. They started in 1905.

They became the first Turkish club to win the UEFA Cup and the UEFA Super Cup in 2000. Its colors are red and yellow. Turkish people also call it "Cim Bom". Their symbolic mascot is a lion. The TT Arena (Turk Telecom Arena) is there station, and is also known as Aslan tepe; Lion Hill. It's an all-seater stadion with the capacity of 52.652 fans. Galatasaray is one of the "big five" clubs in Turkey. The other clubs are Fenerbahçe, Beşiktaş, Trabzonspor and Bursaspor. They have won the Spor Toto Super League 19 times and Ziraat Turkish Cup 14 times. The Chairman is Ünal Aysal, and the coach is Fatih Terim.

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As of 26 March 2013

No. Position Player
25 Uruguay GK Fernando Muslera
82 Turkey GK Aykut Erçetin
67 Turkey GK Eray Iscan
86 Turkey GK Ufuk Ceylan
22 Turkey DF Hakan Balta
5 Turkey DF Gökhan Zan
26 Turkey DF Semih Kaya
27 Côte d'Ivoire DF Emmanuel Eboue
30 Czech Republic DF Thomas Ujfalusi
33 Turkey DF Çaglar Birinci
22 Turkey DF Hakan Balta
28 Turkey DF Semih Kaya
13 Cameroon DF Dany Nounkeu
11 Spain DF Albert Riera
4 Turkey MF Hamit Altıntop
7 Turkey MF Aydın Yılmaz
35 Turkey MF Yekta Kurtulus
50 Turkey MF Engin Baytar
53 Morocco MF Nordin Amrabat
8 Turkey MF Selçuk İnan
10 Brazil MF Felipe Melo
23 Turkey MF Furkan Özçal
14 Netherlands MF Wesley Sneijder
19 Turkey FW Umut Bulut
17 Turkey FW Burak Yılmaz
9 Sweden FW Johan Elmander
12 Côte d'Ivoire FW Didier Drogba

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