The Turkish Women's Football Super League ( tr, Kadınlar Süper Ligi), formerly the First Women's Football League (also known as the ''

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Women's Football Super League'' for sponsorship reasons), is the top level women's

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league of

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. In the 2022–23 season, one group of 10 teams and one group of nine teams play a double round robin and finals to decide a champion club, which qualifies for a spot in the UEFA Women's Champions League. On 8 March 2021, the

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, the Turkish Football Federation signed a sponsorship agreement with the Turkish

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. Accordingly, the First Women's Football League was named Turkcell Women's Super League ( tr, Turkcell Kadın Süper Ligi) beginning with the 2021–22 season.

Format

In an effort to increase quality of the league, in the 2009–10 season two teams were relegated and four teams were promoted to the first league. Thus, the 2010–11 season consisted of twelve teams.

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TV became the official media sponsor of the league for the 2010–11 season. At this time the league gained little attention in Turkey. After playing two groups with six teams and then having a championship and relegation group, the 2012–13 season was played as a double-round robin with ten teams again. The winner after 18 games was the champion and qualifies for the UEFA Women's Champions League, the bottom two teams get relegated. In 2016–17 there again was introduced a championship and relegation round after the regular season. For the 2019-20 league season, the number of participating teams was increased from ten to twelve again after eight seasons. No relegation was planned to take place, so that the planned number of teams would be achieved with two promoted teams from the Women's Second League. However, Trabzon İdmanocağı had to be relegated since they did not show up in the entire previous season. To replace them, a third team from the Second League was promoted. All three women's leagues of the 2019-20 season were stopped on 8 March 2020 due to COVID-19 pandemic in Turkey. Due to the ongoing pandemic, the 2020-21 season of the Women's First Football League, after renaming the Turkcell Women's Football League, will take start with delay on 17 April 2021. The season was dedicated to healthcare workers, and named 2021 Turkish Turkcell Women's Football League Healthcare Workers' Season ( tr, 2021 Sağlık Çalışanları Futbol Ligi). The league consisted of 16 teams, including all the 12 teams from the previous season and 4 teams promoted from the Second League's previous season. The teams were divided into four groups of four teams each, with one promoted team in each group. Each team in the group played only three matches in a

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. The top two teams of the four groups play quarter-finals and semi-finals in

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. The winner of the final match, on 4 May 2021, represented Turkey at the

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Clubs

Past winners

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( 2019-20)

Winners by team

League participation (since 2006)

Note: The tallies below include up to the 2022–23 season. Teams denoted in bold are current participants. * 17 seasons:

* 15 seasons: Ataşehir Belediyespor * 14 seasons: Adana İdman Yurdu, Karadeniz Ereğli Belediyespor * 10 seasons: Trabzon İdmanocağı * 8 seasons: Kireçburnu * 7 seasons:

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* 6 seasons: 1207 Antalyaspor, Amed Sportif Faaliyetler, Fatih Vatanspor, FOMGET, Gazi Üniversitesi, İlkadım Belediyesi Yabancılar Pazarıspor,

Trabzonspor Trabzonspor Kulübü is a Turkish sports club located in the city of Trabzon. Formed in 1967 through a merger of several local clubs, the men's football team has won seven Süper Lig championships. Trabzonspor also have a women's football team, ...

* 5 seasons: ALG,

Antalyaspor Antalyaspor Kulübü is a Turkish professional football club located in the city of Antalya. The club's colours are red and white. They play their home matches at the Antalya Stadium. In Turkey, the club won the First League twice in 1982 and ...

, Buca Geliştirmespor, Hakkarigücü, Marmara Üniversitesi, Mersin Camspor * 4 seasons: Kartalspor, Lüleburgaz 39spor, Maltepe Yalıspor * 3 seasons: Derincespor, Dudullu,

Eskişehirspor Eskişehirspor Kulübü is a Turkish professional football club located in Eskişehir. Eskisehirspor has a total of six trophies, making them the sixth most trophies holders in Turkey. Founded in 1965, Eskişehirspor competed in the top divisio ...

, Kocaeli Bayan, Sakarya Yenikent Güneşspor * 2 seasons: Altay, Çamlıcaspor, Elitspor, Fatih Karagümrük, Fenerbahçe, Galatasaray, Gazikentspor, Hatayspor, Karşıyaka BESEMspor, Kayserispor, Malatya Gençlikspor, Mersin Gençlerbirliği, Mersingücü Cengiz Topelspor, Zeytinburnuspor * 1 seasons: Amasya Eğitimspor, Bursa Sağlıkgücü Gençlikspor, Çaykur Rizespor, Dostlukspor, Eskişehirspor Lisesispor, Gölcükspor, Hatay Dumlupınarspor, İzmit Belediyespor, İzmit Çenesuyu Plajyoluspor, Orduspor 1967,

Sivasspor Sivasspor Kulübü, known as Demir Grup Sivasspor due to sponsorship reasons, is a Turkish sports club based in Sivas. The primary department of the club is men's football. Formed in 1967, its football department competes in Süper Lig, as of 201 ...

Foreign players

Top goalscorers

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References

External links

Official Site
of the Turkish Football Federation
Turkish league on women.soccerway.com
{{Top level women's association football leagues around the world Turkish Women's Football Super League Top level women's association football leagues in Europe First Sports leagues established in 1994 1993 establishments in Turkey

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