Where Does Turkish Football’s Money Come From?

The irony is because of overspending, Turkish national team has failed to live up to its 2002 heritage.

Turkish football is a battlefield of politics, media and businessmen (it would not be wrong to classify some of them as mafia). Clubs are not managed rationally because they have the status of "foundation" according to the law. In other words, when a club president manages the club badly, puts it in millions of euros of debt, and leaves it after 3 years, no one can legally hold him accountable. These people therefore act populist and focus on short-term solutions that will please their supporters and save the day. Fans are not free from responsibility either. This mass of people, perceived as "passionate, enthusiastic fans" in the Western media, is actually motivated not to enjoy football, but to "destroy" those who are not like them. All referee decisions are questionable, and although everyone thinks they are the ones most wronged, the problem is systemic. The country where illegal streaming are most popular is Turkey. This is the main reason for the decline in broadcast revenues mentioned in the video. Because there is no game that will entertain you. Nobody wants to pay for this terrible league. The only period I had hope for Turkish football was the period when debts increased and the government called for regulation. This alone influenced the clubs to make more logical decisions. Salaries dropped. The focus was on young talents, not older players. Thus, profits began to be made from sales. But it looks like this was short lived. Turkish football seems to have returned to the toxic point of the cycle.

How normal people see Trabzonspor: Well stripped claret and blue How Premier League fans see Trabzonspor: Turkish West Ham United aswell Turkish Aston Villa

A few additional points: 1. Yes, star worship is a serious issue in Turkish football. 2. I'd wager it is not that the government "knows" that this much debt is "wrong", it is more about the foreign currency shortage brought on by their expansionist economy policies that relied on runaway inflation. 3. It always amazes me to see how non-Turkish people invent creative ways to mispronounce Turkish names. The "ç" in Koç is read as Ch in Charizard.

The main issue is the significant decline in clubs' earnings following the depreciation of the Turkish Lira, coupled with a decrease in broadcasting revenue. As a result, revenues have considerably diminished compared to the past. However, many clubs foresaw the country's economic trajectory and converted a large portion of their debts into Turkish Lira at more favorable rates. This led to a significant reduction in debts based on the Euro. Fenerbahçe's revenue from player sales and sponsorships has reached a level where it can finance its expenditures. Also, due to successful transfers, they have become one of the teams that other leagues, like Real Madrid, Napoli, and Bayern Munich, are watching. If a talent like Arda Güler were in a country like Portugal, the Netherlands, Germany, or England, his transfer's starting price would not be less than 80 million euros. However, due to fewer examples, such transfers can be done more affordably from Turkey. As these transfers occur and outgoing players perform well, the league's and team's recognition increases, leaving a positive impression for future players. As a viewer, I believe that the current efforts of Fenerbahçe and Galatasaray are much better than in previous years and they are closer to success.

As a fenerbahçe fan, İ can say that the TFF doesnt care about producing youngstars i dont understand why in a country with 85+ millions ppl.

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As a Besiktas fan, i can say there is a serious debate and cultural battle among the fans... One side wants to act like Arabian clubs and the other side wants to act like Central Europe clubs with clever system and youth academy along with clever transfers. We try to explain a good system will be more beneficial in the long run but half of the supporter says "we want everything now and its not my job to care about clubs financial"... As for this season Besiktas is failing now and unsustainable system of acting like arabian clubs has crushed... Maybe this will teach them a lesson you would say but there a still a lot of fans who would disagree and still wanna act like arabian clubs...

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As a Burmese myself, Myanmar used to almost become a lavish spender the same way Turkey and Saudi Arabia are. During our time of reforms and opening up, we used to have a strong belief on our football, especially after successful U-20 World Cup qualification in 2014. Instead, most clubs in Myanmar opted to buy even more and more foreign players to the teams. The 2015-19 era was the time where our money spending increased. It was only put to end, ironically, by the COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent coup, but this severely depleted our football to this point no one wanted to watch clubs playing anymore.

I would love to see this vídeo becoming a series, i am really interested in knowing Where LaLiga/Premier/Ligue1/Serie A money come from, even more than Turkish League.

Also adding up some insight into the topic: 5:24 Before debt restructure all/most debts were based in € as currency type, state owned banks not only restructured debts and its repayment plan at favorable interest rates, they also converted all debt to local currency (Turkish Lira which is losing its value constantly such as: during June 2017->1€ was around 4 Turkish Lira, during June 2020-> 1€ was around 7,69 Turkish Lira and during June 2023 -> 1€ was around 28,4 Turkish Liras.) This way, big clubs are grinding the restructured debt under the inflation. For example, Beşiktaş's debt has increased in terms of Turkish Lira but in recent club meeting, they announced in terms of €, the club is reducing is debt.

Bro Galatasaray vs fernabeche is only European derby where away fans are not allowed in home games this is the madness in super lig

Each Turkish giant clubs have a 15-20 mio supporters only in Türkiye. Maybe only Galatasaray have supporter numbers that combined Portugal and Netherland total population. You would be keep in mind that.

The athletic is home to some of the worlds best sports journalists, yet you still insist on including Lisbon when you talk about Sporting Clube de Portugal (SCP)

Sadly we run football like in a tribal territory. It makes sense why overspending ruined our football now. It will take a drastic measure and sadly our country's football lovers and CEOs are not patient enough to keep everything in check.

Football in Turkey is primarily centered around Istanbul clubs, and referees, as well as banks and the government, provide support to them. Consequently, nobody supports their local teams, which hinders the development of football.

So Galatasaray has 35M annual sponsor income from only 3 main sponsors, excluding other sponsors, CL participation money which is around 30M again, league prize money, local tv deal, shirt sales, match day income, money from sale of players Mostafa Mohamed etc. etc. and they only pay 52 M to wages. Seems pretty healthy to me, they might even profit this year, and they even have assets with young age and worth 10+ millions and even more like Boey, Nelsson, Akturkoglu, Tete. Only one seems to be relying on one-time income seems Fenerbahce, which are player sales, but as mentioned they have a president from richest family in country who can bring in sponsor money any time club needs, even from his own companies. Moreover you failed to mention tax-rates, in Turkey income tax rates are significantly lower than Europe, taxes are collected via secondary sources, such as sales, luxury consumption so they are subject to individuals rather than companies.

This is sad for Turkish league Turkish League and Saudi is compering each other Turkish football has a history not like other ones.

Koç is pronounced Kotch! Not kok