Galatasaray S.K.

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

In 2000, they became the first Turkish club to win both the UEFA Cup and the UEFA Super Cup in the same year. The team's colors are red and yellow. Turkish people also call it "Cim Bom". Their mascot is a lion. The Turk Telecom Stadium is their stadium, and is also known as Aslantepe; Lion Hill. It is an all-seater stadium. It can hold 52,652 people.

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 22 times and Ziraat Turkish Cup 18 times. As of September 2022, the chairman is Dursun Özbek, and the coach is Okan Buruk.

Squad[change | change source]

As of 11 September 2022^[1]

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	Uruguay	Fernando Muslera (Captain)
2	DF	France	Léo Dubois
3	DF	Netherlands	Patrick van Aanholt
5	MF	Uruguay	Lucas Torreira
6	MF	Norway	Fredrik Midtsjø
7	FW	Turkey	Kerem Aktürkoğlu
9	FW	Switzerland	Haris Seferovic (on loan from Benfica)
10	FW	Belgium	Dries Mertens
11	MF	Turkey	Yunus Akgün
18	FW	France	Bafetimbi Gomis
22	MF	Turkey	Berkan Kutlu
25	DF	Denmark	Victor Nelsson
27	MF	Portugal	Sérgio Oliveira
34	GK	Turkey	Okan Kocuk


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
40	DF	Turkey	Emin Bayram
42	DF	Turkey	Abdülkerim Bardakcı
50	GK	Turkey	Jankat Yılmaz
53	MF	Turkey	Barış Yılmaz
63	MF	Turkey	Baran Aksaka
64	MF	Spain	Juan Mata
81	MF	Turkey	Hamza Akman
88	DF	Turkey	Kazımcan Karataş
90	DF	Turkey	Metehan Baltacı
93	DF	France	Sacha Boey
99	FW	Argentina	Mauro Icardi (on loan from Paris Saint-Germain)
—	MF	Kosovo	Milot Rashica
—	DF	Denmark	Mathias Ross
—	MF	Austria	Yusuf Demir

Out on loan[change | change source]

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


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
-	GK	Turkey	Batuhan Şen (at Karagümrük until 30 June 2023)
-	GK	Turkey	Berk Balaban (at İskenderun until 30 June 2023)
—	DF	Turkey	Alpaslan Öztürk (at Eyüpspor until 30 June 2023)
—	DF	DR Congo	Christian Luyindama (at Antalyaspor until 30 June 2023)
—	DF	Turkey	Kaan Arslan (at Sarıyer until 30 June 2023)
—	DF	Turkey	Süleyman Luş (at Tuzlaspor until 30 June 2023)
—	DF	Turkey	Yiğit Demir (at Adıyaman until 30 June 2023)
—	DF	Turkey	Berkan Keskin (at Bandırmaspor until 30 June 2023)
—	MF	Turkey	Taylan Antalyalı (at Ankaragücü until 30 June 2023)


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
—	MF	Turkey	Atalay Babacan (at Sarıyer until 30 June 2023)
—	MF	Romania	Alexandru Cicâldău (at Al-Ittihad Kalba until 30 June 2023)
—	MF	Romania	Olimpiu Moruțan (at Pisa until 30 June 2023)
—	MF	Turkey	Emre Kılınç (at Ankaragücü until 30 June 2023)
—	MF	Turkey	Oğulcan Çağlayan (at Giresunspor until 30 June 2023)
—	MF	Turkey	Abdussamed Karnuçu (at Tarsus until 30 June 2023)
—	FW	Egypt	Mostafa Mohamed (at Nantes until 30 June 2023)
—	FW	Turkey	Eren Aydın (at Sarıyer until 30 June 2023)