Süper Lig 2007-08
| Season | 2007–08 |
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| Champions | Galatasaray |
| Relegated |
Manisaspor Çaykur Rizespor Kasımpaşa |
| Matches played | 306 |
| Goals scored | 786 (2.57 per match) |
| Top goalscorer | Semih Şentürk (17) |
| Biggest home win |
Galatasaray 6–0 Konyaspor (16 September 2007) |
| Biggest away win |
Gaziantepspor 0–5 Fenerbahçe (20 January 2008) |
| Highest scoring | Galatasaray 6–3 Manisaspor (9 February 2008) (9 goals) |
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The 2007–08 Süper Lig season, (also known as the Turkcell Süper Lig for sponsorship reasons), was the 50th anniversary of top-flight professional football in Turkey. It was won by Galatasaray, who won their 17th championship.
Since Turkey had climbed from fifteenth to fourteenth place in the UEFA association coefficient rankings at the end of the 2006–07 season and Champions League-bound Zenit St. Petersburg won the UEFA Cup 2007-08, the domestic cup winner, Kayserispor, which had qualified for the 2nd qualifying round of the UEFA Cup 2008-09, was promoted to the 1st round, filling the unused title holder spot.
The league started on 10 August 2007 with İstanbul Büyükşehir Belediyespor – Fenerbahçe S.K. match in Atatürk Olympic Stadium.
The three relegated clubs would be replaced by 3 promoted clubs from the Bank Asya 1. Lig. Gençlerbirliği OFTAŞ and İstanbul Büyükşehir Belediyespor earned automatic promotion. Altay S.K., Diyarbakırspor, Kasımpaşa S.K., and Malatyaspor played in the play-off tournament, with Kasımpaşa coming out victorious, becoming the third and last club to be promoted to the Turkcell Super League.
The league started with a surprise score. Istanbul Büyükşehir Belediyespor managed to defeat the national powerhouse Fenerbahçe with a clear score of 2–0. Another important event of the first week was the record of Hakan Şükür. By scoring two goals, he managed to reach to the record of the most goals scored domestically. The Trabzonspor-Sivasspor match was suspended due to "player and fan trouble", just minutes before the referee would end it. Federation declared a Sivasspor victory of 0–3 afterwards. This caused a harsh opposition from the Trabzonspor side.
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