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Black Stockings are usually credited with being the first to be composed only of Turkish players. Elpis was a club founded by Istanbul's then-substantial Greek community but never won a title and Moda did not win until 1908.
The 1905 winner was Imogene. Like a lot of other clubs in the early days, it was founded by British people living in Turkey and was named after the British Ambassador's yacht...
The modern football was played in Selanik (now Thessaloníki) in the Ottoman Empire in 1875 by the English people living there. It is also known that the game was played at the meadows of Bornova, İzmir in 1877. The first club was established in İzmir with a name "Football Club Smyrna" - Smyrna was the English name for İzmir. Some of the English man brought the football with them to İstanbul when they moved from İzmir, in 1895. They played the game at Kadıköy and Moda. The first inter-city games were being played by İzmir and İstanbul select teams in 1897, 1898, 1899, and 1904, İzmir select teams winning them all. It is believed that the first Turkish man playing football was Selim Sırrı Tarcan who was in İzmir on an assignment in 1898.
The game was prohibited in the Ottoman Empire at the beginning and it was played by mostly the English families, Greek, Armenian, and Jewish minorities. The first Turkish team played football in 1901 with an English name
"Black Stockings" (Siyah Çoraplılar). However, the police interrupted the team's first game when they were losing 5-1 and arrested the players they could catch. The first club established was Cadi-keu FC (Kadıköy FK) in 1902. Later on Moda FC, Elpis and Imogene FC followed.
The first league games in Turkey was held in İstanbul in 1904. This league was called "The Constantinople Football League" originally. The teams participating were called Kadıköy FC, Moda FC, Elpis, İmojen. These teams were made up of the English, Greek, and Armenian minorities living in Turkey. Later on the teams like Galatasaray SK, Fenerbahçe SK, Rumblers, Progres(Altınordu), Telefoncular SK with Turkish players joined the league. The league games were played on Sundays that’s why the league was called also as the Sunday league.
In 1906, the football was a demonstration sport at the special Olympic Games in Áthina. Two teams from the Ottoman Empire participated. A team from Izmir as "Smyrna" and another from Selanik as "Selanik music Club".
Izmir team was made up of mostly the English players and Selanik team was made up of Greek players.
In the four team tournament, Áthina withdrew from the play-off game for the second place. Denmark won the gold, Smyrna the silver, and Selanik the bronze. The Smyrna team: Edwin Charnaud, Zarek Kuyumcuyan, Edouard Giraud, Jacques Giraud, Henri Joly, Percy de la Fontaine, Donald Whittal, Albert Whittal, Godfrey Whittal, Herbert Whittal, Edward Whittal The Selanik team: Georgios Vaporis, Nicolaos Pindos, A.Tegon, Nicolaos Pentzikis,
Ioannis Kyrou, Georgis Sotiriadis, V.Zarkadis, Dimitrios Michitsopoulos, A.Karangonidis, Ioannis - Saridakis, Ioannis Abbot.
A second league had started in 1912 in İstanbul. The games for this league was played on Fridays and the league was called the Friday league. The teams playing in this league were Darülfünun SK, İstanbul Jimnastik K (later on known as (Türk İdman Ocağı), Anadolu SK, Sanayii FK, Şehremini SK, and Fenerbahçe SK (II). The Pazar league was
still the main league and they refused the promotion requests of the Friday league until 1915-1916 season. In 1915-1916 they combined under the name of the Friday League and played until 1923.
A third league in İstanbul had started in 1919-1920 by Beşiktaş JK, which were denied the to join the Friday league. This league was called "İstanbul Türk İdman Birliği".
The Türkiye İdman Cemiyetleri İttifakı (The Turkish Gymnastics Clubs Union) was established for the Turkey in April 1922 combining the clubs in other cities as well. TICI has setup a temporary committee to set up the
Turkish Football Federation under the name of "Futbol Encümeni". The committee completed its work and the Football Federation was established in the meeting of 23 April 1923 under the name of "Futbol Hey'et-i Müttehidesi". Then the league games became more official. The federation started soccer leagues in several cities like İstanbul, Ankara, İzmir, Adana, Eskişehir and Trabzon. |
