2009–10 Bursaspor season

Bursaspor
2009–10 season
Chairman İbrahim Yazıcı
Manager Ertuğrul Sağlam
Süper Lig 1st - Champions
Turkish Cup Quarter-finals
Top goalscorer League:
Ozan İpek (8)
Pablo Batalla (8)
All:
Ozan İpek (9)
Highest home attendance ?
Lowest home attendance ?
Home colours
Away colours
Third colours

The 2009–10 season was the 46th season in Bursaspor's existence, and their 4th consecutive year in the top-flight of Turkish football, and covered the period from 1 July 2009 to 16 May 2010. The club, having finished 6th the previous season, missed out on a European place by just three points and hence did not play any competitive European games.

On 16 May 2010 Bursaspor won the Super Lig after beating defending champions Beşiktaş 2–1 at home. They won the league by just one point above second placed Fenerbahçe,[1] although they had an 11 point gap over third placed Galatasaray. Their win ended 26 years of the "Istanbul Big Three" dominance.[2][3]

Bursaspor had the strongest strikeforce and the second strongest defence, of all teams in the league. It was manager Ertuğrul Sağlam's first full season in charge having taken over in January 2009, and it was the first time he has won the league. It was quoted that they had a budget of only €10m, a tenth of the budget of the 'Istanbul Three' in Turkey,[4] with Galatasaray having a budget of €125m.[5][6]

Bursaspor are only the second club based outside of Istanbul to ever win the league title in the history of Turkish top-flight football. The other club was Trabzonspor, who last won the league in 1984.

Season 2009–10

Sağlam set his target for the club to finish the 2009–10 season in the top three and to play European football next season. In December 2009, the club were sitting (temporarily) in the top spot in the Süper Lig table for the first time that season, and the first time ever in their history.

The first half of the season saw a 1–0 home victory against Istanbul giants Galatasaray, and also a 2–3 win away at Besiktas. In late 2009, manager Sağlam was linked with the vacant Turkey managerial position after Fatih Terim's resignation, but he refused to comment on the speculation. Guus Hiddink eventually took up the position. The early part of the season saw a 6–0 win over midtable Istanbul B.B., the largest win in the league in the 2009–10 season, as well as coming from two goals down in the last ten minutes to beat Fenerbahce 2–3 away. In the Turkish Cup Bursaspor reached the quarter-finals but lost 4–3 on aggregate to Fenerbahce, after an injury time winner from Fener.

In April 2010 Bursa sat at the top of the table after floating around the top three since the beginning of the year. At one point during their stay at the summit they were 8 points above the second placed team. After securing a win by coming from behind to win 2–1 against Antalyaspor, after having lost the previous week for the first time in eight league games, Sağlam was quoted as saying that “We (Bursaspor) are on the verge of becoming a great team”, "we had to win, even if it meant coming from behind to do so. That was the important thing”.[7]

Five weeks before the end of the season, Bursaspor fell to second place in the league. They maintained pressure on Fenerbahce who had overtaken them. Going into the final game of the season, Bursaspor were just one point behind Fener. Needing to better Fener's result, they won 2–1 at home against Beşiktaş. Fenerbahçe only managed a 1–1 home draw against Trabzonspor meaning that Bursaspor were crowned Champions, by just one point.

Bursa had the strongest strikeforce in the league as well as the second tightest defence; conceding just one more goal than Besiktas. The league positions of the club saw them outside of the top five on only four occasions and they stayed in the top three consecutively from December 2009 until they were crowned champions in May 2010, for 18 weeks.

They are only the fifth Champion of the Turkish league in its 52-year history.[8]

Team kit

The team kit for the 2009–10 season was produced by Puma and the shirt sponsor is Turkcell. The kit is the traditional green with green and white striped socks.

Technical staff

Name Role
Turkey Ertuğrul Sağlam Manager
Turkey Mutlu Topçu Assistant manager
First team coach
Head of Technical Analysis
Head of Opponent Analysis
Fitness coach
Name Role
Assistant Fitness coach
Goalkeeping coach
Chief scout
Assistant Chief scout
Club doctor
Senior physiotherapist

First-team squad

As of February 1, 2010.[9] Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player
1 Turkey GK Yavuz Özkan
2 Turkey DF Serdar Aziz
4 Turkey DF Ömer Erdoğan (captain)
5 Turkey MF Hüseyin Çimşir
6 Turkey MF Bekir Ozan Has
8 Romania MF Giani Kiriţă
9 Turkey FW Sercan Yıldırım
10 Turkey MF Volkan Şen
11 Turkey MF Eren Albayrak
17 Argentina MF Pablo Batalla
19 Turkey FW Isa Bagci
20 Turkey MF Veli Acar
21 Turkey DF Ali Tandoğan
22 Austria FW Turgay Bahadır
No. Position Player
23 Turkey DF Mustafa Keçeli
25 Serbia MF Ivan Ergić
26 Czech Republic DF Tomáš Zápotočný (on loan from Beşiktaş)
27 Bulgaria GK Dimitar Ivankov
28 Argentina FW Leonardo Iglesias
32 Turkey DF Yenal Tuncer
33 Turkey MF Ozan İpek
35 Turkey DF Tuna Üzümcü
38 Turkey DF İbrahim Öztürk
42 Turkey FW Halil Zeybek
55 Turkey DF Ramazan Sal
67 Turkey FW Muhammet Demir
90 Turkey GK Ceyhun Demircan

Transfers

In

Winter Transfers 09/10

As of February 1, 2010. Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player
Argentina FW Leonardo Iglesias

Out

Winter Departure Players 09/10

As of February 1, 2010. Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player
Turkey DF Ramazan Sal to Giresunspor
Turkey MF Cihan Kaptan to Dortmund II
South Korea FW Shin Young-Rok to Tom Tomsk
Brazil FW Tadeu to Barueri

Loaned in

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

No. Position Player
26 Czech Republic DF Tomáš Zápotočný (on loan from Beşiktaş)

Loaned out

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

No. Position Player
Turkey MF İsmail Özgür Göktaş (to Kasımpaşa)

For recent transfers, see List of Turkish football transfers 2008-09.

Match results

League table

Pos
Team
Pld
W
D
L
GF
GA
GD
Pts
Qualification or relegation
1 Bursaspor (C) 34 23 6 5 65 26+39 75 2010–11 UEFA Champions League Group stage
2 Fenerbahçe 34 23 5 6 61 28+33 74 2010–11 UEFA Champions League Third qualifying round
3 Galatasaray 34 19 7 8 61 35+26 64 2010–11 UEFA Europa League Third qualifying round
4 Beşiktaş 34 18 10 6 47 25+22 64 2010–11 UEFA Europa League Second qualifying round

Results by round

Round12345678910111213141516171819202122232425262728293031323334
GroundHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAH
Result W L W D L W W W W W D L W W L W W W W D D W W W W W L W D W D W W W
Position 5 9 4 6 11 7 4 3 3 2 3 4 4 3 5 4 3 3 3 3 3 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 1

Last updated: 7 April 2010.
Source: 2009–10 Süper Lig#Positions by round
Ground: A = Away; H = Home. Result: D = Draw; L = Loss; W = Win; P = Postponed.

Records

Doubles achieved

Opponent Home result Away result
Beşiktaş 2–1 3–2
Kasımpaşa 2–1 2–0
Sivasspor 3–0 3–1
Diyarbakırspor 4–0 3–0
Manisaspor 2–0 2–0
Denizlispor 2–1 3–2

Biggest winning margin

# Opponent H/A Result Competition
1 Istanbul BB H 6–0 League
2 Diyarbakırspor H 4–0 League
3 Sivasspor H 4–0 Turkish Cup

References

  1. "Historic title for Bursaspor". FIFA.com. Retrieved 2010-05-17.
  2. "Champions defy the odds". FIFA.com. Archived from the original on 23 May 2010. Retrieved 2010-05-18.
  3. "Bursaspor shock Turkey's big three". FIFA.com. Archived from the original on 21 May 2010. Retrieved 2010-05-18.
  4. Lawrence, Amy (2010-05-20). "Bursaspor set Turkey alight as Fenerbahce fans torch own ground". Guardian (London). Archived from the original on 23 May 2010. Retrieved 2010-05-20.
  5. "Season Review: Turkey". UEFA.com. Archived from the original on 10 June 2010. Retrieved 2010-06-07.
  6. "Need for change in Turkish football governance". PlayTheGame.org. Retrieved 2010-06-09.
  7. "Bursa Crocs survive to fight another week". Today's Zaman. Retrieved 2010-04-05.
  8. "Bursaspor takes charge of Turkish football revolution". Hurriyet. Retrieved 2010-05-17.
  9. "2009–2010 SEASON". Bursaspor. Archived from the original on 28 June 2009. Retrieved 2009-08-05.

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