Six champions in 68 seasons is probably the most revealing number in Turkish football. Since the league began in 1959, no seventh club has lifted the trophy, and record champions Galatasaray now stand at 26 titles. A table shows where the season stands; these numbers show where the power has always been.

The 2025/26 season delivered fresh data: 812 goals in 306 matches, an average of 2.65 per game, an average attendance of 14,593 and a shared Golden Boot, as Paul Onuachu and Eldor Shomurodov both finished on 22 goals. Figures like these only gain meaning when set alongside earlier seasons.

This overview brings together the Süper Lig statistics people actually search for: the all-time list of champions, goal and points records, the longest unbeaten runs, attendance figures and the head-to-head record of the Istanbul derbies. Historical figures are correct to the end of the 2025/26 season; the table and top-scorer list further down update automatically with TFF data.

• Most titles: Galatasaray, 26
• All-time top scorer: Hakan Şükür, 249 goals in 489 league games
• Single-season record: 39 goals, Tanju Çolak (1987/88)
• Points record: 102 points, Galatasaray (2023/24)
• Average attendance 2025/26: 14,593 per match
• League format 2026/27: 18 clubs, 306 matches
• 2026/27 leaders after matchweek 8: Galatasaray, 19 points, two ahead of Amedspor
• 2026/27 top scorers after matchweek 6: Mohamed Salah (Trabzonspor) and Gift Orban (Amedspor), 7 goals each

Süper Lig champions: the all-time list

Galatasaray top the all-time list with 26 championships, ahead of Fenerbahçe with 19 and Beşiktaş with 16. Together, the three Istanbul clubs hold 61 of the 70 titles awarded. Hardly any major European league comes close to that level of concentration.

The gap has grown recently. The 2025/26 title extended Galatasaray's lead further; the club also holds the record for consecutive championships, with four in a row between 1996 and 2000. Fenerbahçe, by contrast, have been waiting for a title since 2013/14, an unusually long drought for a club with 19 championships.

The exceptions are what make the list interesting. Trabzonspor broke the Istanbul monopoly in the 1970s and now have seven titles. Bursaspor won a championship in 2009/10 that hardly anyone saw coming, and İstanbul Başakşehir became the sixth and so far latest name on the list in 2019/20. Three breakthroughs in almost seven decades.

Goal records and the Golden Boot

Hakan Şükür is the league's all-time top scorer, while Tanju Çolak has the better ratio. The league average has been stable for years at between 2.6 and 3.0 goals per game. The key marks:

• All-time top scorer: Hakan Şükür, 249 goals in 489 league games, most of them for Galatasaray.
• Best ratio: Tanju Çolak, 240 goals in just 282 games.
• Single-season record: Tanju Çolak's 39 goals in 1987/88, in a 30-game season.
• Closest challengers: Metin Oktay (1962/63) and Hakan Şükür (1996/97), both with 38.
• Most Golden Boots: Metin Oktay, six between 1959 and 1968/69.
• Highest-scoring recent seasons: 1,062 goals in 380 matches (2023/24) and 942 in 324 (2024/25).

Comparing old and new records needs a caveat. Çolak scored his 39 goals in a 16-team league; today's strikers get 34 games or more. Victor Osimhen reached 26 goals in 2024/25 and Mauro Icardi 25 in 2023/24, and both figures are already considered exceptional.

Who wins the award has changed, too. Since the 2000s, the Golden Boot has gone almost exclusively to foreign strikers, which is closely linked to the transfer budgets of the top clubs. 2025/26 fitted the pattern: two international forwards shared the award with 22 goals each. The top-scorers tab above shows the current standings.

Points records and the longest unbeaten runs

The points record stands at 102, set by Galatasaray in 2023/24, although in a season with 38 matchweeks and 20 teams. Before that, Fenerbahçe had held the record since 1988/89 with 93 points.

The ratio says more than the total. In 2024/25 Galatasaray took 95 points from 36 games: 30 wins, five draws and one defeat. A team at that level effectively decides a title race on its own, because the chasing side never gets the slip it is hoping for.

The runs are just as clear. Galatasaray went unbeaten in the first 28 matchweeks of 2024/25, while Fenerbahçe managed 27 games without defeat in 2023/24 and 25 in 2025/26. At the other end, Adana Demirspor went 18 games in a row without a win in 2024/25.

The early years put all this into perspective. In the 1960s, 45 to 50 points were often enough to win the title, with far fewer games and two points for a win. Format differences belong in every historical comparison.

Attendance and the gap within the league

2025/26 ended with an average of 14,593 spectators per match and a total of 2,656,087. The trend is clearly upward: the average was 12,360 in 2024/25 and 11,027 in 2023/24.

As expected, the derbies produce the highest figures. The best-attended match of 2025/26 was the 1-1 draw between Galatasaray and Beşiktaş in front of 51,641 spectators. In 2023/24, Galatasaray vs Fenerbahçe led the way with 53,775.

Behind that lies a considerable gap. While the big clubs regularly draw five-figure crowds, some matches involving smaller clubs recorded attendances only in the hundreds. This spread explains a good part of the financial imbalance between the top of the table and mid-table.

The Istanbul derby record

Beşiktaş and Galatasaray had met 360 times as of March 2026. The record: 129 wins for Galatasaray, 116 for Beşiktaş and 115 draws, with the rivalry dating back to the 1920s.

The biggest result in this fixture dates from 1940, a 9-2 win for Galatasaray. Nothing like that happens today: the gap in quality has narrowed and tactical approaches have become much more cautious. Over the past decade, derbies between the big three have very often been decided by one or two goals.

One rule detail matters statistically: in Turkey, when teams are level on points the head-to-head record decides first, not goal difference. Derbies therefore count double in the title race – once as three points and once as a tie-breaker.

Why changes in league size make records hard to compare

What most statistics tables leave out: the number of clubs in the Süper Lig has never stayed the same for long. 2023/24 had 20 teams and 380 matches, 2024/25 had 19 teams and 324 matches, and since 2025/26 the league has run with 18 clubs and 306 matches.

This reduction feeds directly into the data: fewer matchweeks, fewer chances for a striker, a lower points ceiling and fewer goals per season overall. Putting the 812 goals of 2025/26 next to the 1,062 of 2023/24 without this caveat distorts the picture.

The number of relegation places has changed as well: four clubs went down in 2024/25 and three in 2025/26. Both were part of the federation's plan to reduce the league step by step.

When assessing records, one simple rule applies: ratios beat totals. Points per game, goals per 90 minutes and win percentages survive a change of format; cumulative figures only partly do.

Where to follow Süper Lig statistics live

If you would rather follow the numbers in real time than read them afterwards, these sources are the most reliable in practice:

• The official TFF website: tables, fixtures, card statistics and suspensions, updated straight after the final whistle.
• The table on this page: pulls the same TFF data and shows points, goal difference and top scorers for the current season.
• Live broadcasts: possession, shots, expected goals and distance covered are shown during the match.
• Statistics sites such as WorldFootball and Transfermarkt: historical series, squad values and minutes played across decades.
• Club channels: detailed player data, often with figures that are not published anywhere else.
• Sports apps with push notifications: live scores and goal alerts, handy when several matches kick off at the same time.

The combination of live pictures and a data feed works best. For viewers outside Turkey, a legal subscription together with the official TFF tables covers both sides. If you are subscribing just for the league, the sports package is the most direct route, and the free trial lets you test the picture on your own connection for three days first.

A note on data quality: not every source counts the same way. Own goals are attributed differently from site to site, and play-off matches are sometimes listed separately. Where there are big discrepancies, the federation's statistics are the benchmark.

How to read the numbers: form and title chances

Individual figures can easily mislead. Sixty per cent possession means little if the finishing does not follow. Meaning comes from combinations, such as shots relative to goals scored, or goals conceded relative to big chances allowed.

A run says more than a single game. A team that picks up points in eight games in a row is showing stable form, whereas a single thrashing remains a snapshot. Galatasaray's 28 matchweeks unbeaten at the start of 2024/25 were an early and clear signal of the title that followed.

Anyone weighing up title chances should also read the remaining fixtures. Two teams level on points are not in the same position if one still has to play both derbies away, especially as the head-to-head record is decisive.

Refereeing decisions are part of the picture too. VAR reviews can visibly shift season totals for penalties and offside calls, which is worth bearing in mind before drawing conclusions from a single column of data.

In short: the Süper Lig produces plenty of data, but its value only emerges through comparison, and that only works when league size, number of games and format changes are taken into account.