Super Cup showdown! Here are the possible lineups for Galatasaray and Beşiktaş.

The Galatasaray and Beşiktaş teams will face each other in the Turkcell Super Cup, organized for the 18th time by the Turkish Football Federation. The competition, which has been organized by the TFF since 2006 and played in the format of the former Presidential Cup, will be played between last season's Super Lig champion Galatasaray and the winner of the Ziraat Turkey Cup, Beşiktaş. The Super Cup match will be held at the Atatürk Olympic Stadium in Istanbul. The match will start at 20.45 and will be broadcast live on ATV.

PROBABLE LINE-UPS

Galatasaray: Muslera, Kaan, Nelsson, Abdülkerim, Köhn, Torreira, Berkan, Ziyech, Mertens, Zaha, Icardi.

Beşiktaş: Mert, Svensson, Paulista, Colley, Masuaku, Al-Musrati, Gedson, Rashica, Rafa, Semih, Immobile.

REFEREE ATİLLA KARAOĞLAN

Referee Atilla Karaoğlan will blow the whistle in the big derby between Galatasaray and Beşiktaş. Abdullah Bora Özkara and Volkan Ahmet Narinç will assist Karaoğlan. Mustafa İlker Coşkun will be the VAR and Ceyhun Sesigüzel and Onur Özütoprak will be the AVAR in the match.

GALATASARAY SIDE

Galatasaray, the team that has won the Super Cup the most so far, has experienced this joy 7 times. The yellow-red team won the Super Cup in 2008, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2019, and 2024. Galatasaray, which aims to start the season with the cup, wants to increase its number of Super Cup trophies in its museum to 8.

BEŞİKTAŞ SIDE

Beşiktaş has won the Turkcell Super Cup 2 times. The black and white team faced Galatasaray in the first match of the organization held since 2006. Beşiktaş, which won the match played in Frankfurt, Germany on July 30, 2006, with the goal scored by Mert Nobre, became the first champion of the cup. "Black Eagles" won the championship in the Super Cup for the second and last time in 2022. In the match played against Antalyaspor in Doha, the capital of Qatar, on January 5, 2022, the black and whites became the owner of the cup by winning 4-2 in penalty shootouts after the match ended 1-1 in normal time and extra time with the goals scored by Atiba Hutchinson in his own goal. The black and white team could not reach the cup by losing to their opponents in 2007, 2009, 2016, and 2017 in the organization.

9TH ENCOUNTER IN THE SUPER CUP

The organization, which has been held under the names of Presidential Cup and Super Cup since the 1965-1966 season, brought Galatasaray and Beşiktaş face to face 8 times. Galatasaray won the championship 4 times in the matches played in the Presidential Cup, while Beşiktaş won 2 times. In the two Super Cup matches between the two teams, the teams won the cup once each.

GALATASARAY WON THE MOST

Galatasaray has won the Super Cup the most so far. Although the yellow-red team surrendered to Beşiktaş in the first organization, they reached the happy ending 7 times in the following process. Galatasaray won the Super Cup in 2008, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2019, and 2024. Beşiktaş, on the other hand, won the championship in 2006 and 2022. Fenerbahçe and Trabzonspor won the cup 3 times each, while Konyaspor and Akhisarspor lifted the cup once each.

LAST CUP WAS PLAYED FOR 1 MINUTE

The last Turkcell Super Cup match between Galatasaray and Fenerbahçe lasted for one minute. The Super Cup match, which was supposed to be played in Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia, on December 30, 2023, between the two teams, could not be played after the crisis. The TFF decided to play the match in Şanlıurfa on April 7. Fenerbahçe Club played the match with the Under-19 Team as their demands were not accepted before the match. Galatasaray took the lead 1-0 in the first minute of the match with Mauro Icardi's goal. Fenerbahçe withdrew from the field with a management decision. The TFF Board of Directors declared Galatasaray, who won the match 3-0 by default, as the winner of the cup.