# 2019–20 İstanbul Başakşehir F.K. season

The 2019–20 season was the 6th consecutive season of İstanbul Başakşehir in the Süper Lig and their 30th year in existence. The season was slated to cover a period from 1 July 2019 to 30 June 2020. It was extended extraordinarily beyond 30 June due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Turkey.
On 19 July 2020, Başakşehir were crowned champions of the Turkish Süper Lig for the first time in the club's history. They also became only the sixth club in the competition's history to win the league title.

## Players
### Current squad

    As of 23 September 2019.
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 1 | GK | TUR | Volkan Babacan |
| 3 | DF | FRA | Gaël Clichy |
| 5 | MF | TUR | Mehmet Topal |
| 6 | DF | MDA | Alexandru Epureanu |
| 7 | MF | BIH | Edin Višća (Vice-captain) |
| 9 | FW | NOR | Fredrik Gulbrandsen |
| 11 | MF | NED | Eljero Elia |
| 13 | GK | TUR | Ahmet Kıvanç |
| 17 | MF | TUR | İrfan Can Kahveci |
| 18 | FW | TUR | Muhammet Arslantaş |
| 19 | FW | SEN | Demba Ba |
| 21 | MF | TUR | Mahmut Tekdemir (Captain) |
| 23 | DF | AUS | Aziz Behich |
| 24 | DF | POR | Miguel Vieira |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 26 | DF | CPV | Carlos Ponck |
| 27 | FW | FRA | Enzo Crivelli |
| 29 | MF | TUR | Kerim Frei |
| 33 | DF | TUR | Uğur Uçar |
| 34 | GK | TUR | Mert Günok |
| 37 | DF | SVK | Martin Škrtel |
| 41 | MF | TUR | Berkay Özcan (on loan from Hamburger SV) |
| 44 | MF | NGA | Azubuike Okechukwu (on loan from Pyramids FC) |
| 53 | GK | TUR | Onur Güney |
| 70 | FW | BRA | Robinho |
| 80 | DF | BRA | Júnior Caiçara |
| 88 | MF | SUI | Gökhan Inler |
| 91 | MF | SRB | Danijel Aleksić |

### Out on loan

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 4 | DF | GHA | Joseph Attamah (at Çaykur Rizespor) |
| 14 | FW | TUR | Muhammet Demir (at Gazişehir Gaziantep) |
| 16 | GK | TUR | Muhammed Şengezer (at Adana Demirspor) |
| 20 | MF | TUR | Soner Aydoğdu (at Göztepe) |
| 25 | DF | TUR | Furkan Soyalp (at Gazişehir Gaziantep) |
| — | MF | TUR | Doğanay Kılıç (at Kastamonuspor) |
| — | MF | TUR | Alican Özfesli (at Hatayspor) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| — | DF | TUR | Berk Nebioğlu (at Yomraspor) |
| — | DF | TUR | Muharrem Öner (at Ümraniyespor) |
| — | MF | TUR | Salim Farsak (at Pendikspor) |
| — | MF | TUR | Cerem Dinçer (at Kahramanmaraşspor) |
| — | FW | TUR | Atabey Çiçek (at Samsunspor) |
| — | FW | TUR | Yusuf Avcılar (at Aksaray Belediyespor) |

## Pre-season and friendlies

Win  Draw  Loss

## Competitions

Win  Draw  Loss

### Overview

| Competition | First match | Last match | Starting round | Final position | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record |
| Competition | First match | Last match | Starting round | Final position | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Win % |
| Süper Lig | 18 August 2019 | 26 July 2020 | Matchday 1 | Winners | 34 | 20 | 9 | 5 | 65 | 34 | +31 | 058.82 |
| Turkish Cup | 4 December 2019 | 21 January 2020 | Fifth Round | Round of 16 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 1 | +3 | 050.00 |
| Champions League | 7 August 2019 | 13 August 2019 | Third qualifying round | Third qualifying round | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | −3 | 000.00 |
| Europa League | 19 September 2019 | 5 August 2020 | Group stage | Round of 16 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 13 | 16 | −3 | 050.00 |
| Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | 50 | 27 | 12 | 11 | 82 | 54 | +28 | 054.00 |
Source: Soccerway

### Süper Lig
#### League table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
| 1 | İstanbul Başakşehir (C) | 34 | 20 | 9 | 5 | 65 | 34 | +31 | 69 | Qualification for the Champions League group stage |
| 2 | Trabzonspor | 34 | 18 | 11 | 5 | 76 | 42 | +34 | 65 | |
| 3 | Beşiktaş | 34 | 19 | 5 | 10 | 59 | 40 | +19 | 62 | Qualification for the Champions League second qualifying round |
| 4 | Sivasspor | 34 | 17 | 9 | 8 | 55 | 38 | +17 | 60 | Qualification for the Europa League group stage |
| 5 | Alanyaspor | 34 | 16 | 9 | 9 | 61 | 37 | +24 | 57 | Qualification for the Europa League third qualifying round |
* ↑ Trabzonspor were banned for 1 season from all UEFA club competitions for either the 2020–21 or 2021–22 seasons by the UEFA Club Financial Control Body on 3 June 2020 due to breaches of the UEFA Financial Fair Play Regulations.

#### Results summary

| Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away |
Source: Süper Lig

#### Result round by round

| Round | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 |
| Ground | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A |
| Result | L | L | W | D | D | W | W | W | D | D | W | W | W | D | D | W | W | W | L | W | D | W | W | W | W | D | W | W | D | W | W | L | W | L |
| Position | 14 | 17 | 14 | 14 | 12 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |

#### Matches
### UEFA Europa League
#### Group stage

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | IBS | ROM | MGB | WLB |
| 1 | İstanbul Başakşehir | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 9 | −2 | 10 | Advance to knockout phase | — | 0–3 | 1–1 | 1–0 |
| 2 | Roma | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 12 | 6 | +6 | 9 | Advance to knockout phase | 4–0 | — | 1–1 | 2–2 |
| 3 | Borussia Mönchengladbach | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 9 | −3 | 8 | | 1–2 | 2–1 | — | 0–4 |
| 4 | Wolfsberger AC | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 8 | −1 | 5 | | 0–3 | 1–1 | 0–1 | — |