Eight-nil, two defeats, and sixth
Sixteen goals in six league games — nearly three a match — ten points, and sixth in the Super Lig. There is nothing normal about that collection of numbers, and the season is barely a month old. This is a team that has handed out the record's biggest win and, five weeks earlier, opened with a defeat at Gençlerbirliği. The shape of it all is still being argued out, one wildly different afternoon at a time. Start with the twentieth of September, because it is the loudest thing in the file. Eyüpspor at home, the match played at the Şükrü Saracoğlu Stadium, and it finished eight-nil. Eight. No other result in this record comes close to it — the next widest margin in this record is three goals. Thirteen of the sixteen league goals have come at the Şükrü Saracoğlu Stadium, and eight of them came on that one afternoon. Eyüpspor keep turning up in this record and goals keep following them around. Three-nil away on the twentieth of December 2025 — zero-three in the file, the away way round. Three-three at home on the seventeenth of May 2026. And now eight-nil at home. Three meetings, fourteen goals scored, three conceded, and no way to write any of them up as a quiet day. The two defeats are the reason sixteen goals only buy sixth. On the fifteenth of August, the season's first entry, it was two-one to Gençlerbirliği away — one-two in the file. On the fifth of September, Beşiktaş came to the Şükrü Saracoğlu Stadium and won two-one. Between and around them: four-two over Konyaspor at home on the twenty-second of August, and a two-nil win away at Samsunspor on the thirtieth, which reads zero-two. In the middle of September there was also a goalless afternoon — nil-nil away at Gaziantep on the fourteenth, played at the Gaziantep Stadyumu, the one game in front of us with nothing scored at either end. That is the thing about this start: no two afternoons rhyme. Look where the goals actually live and the games split cleanly in two. At the Şükrü Saracoğlu Stadium: home days mean noise — thirteen scored and four conceded there this season, and the eight-nil is not even the only loud one, with four-two over Konyaspor a month earlier. Away from home it is almost a different team: three goals on the road, two conceded, the win at Samsunspor, the goalless draw at the Gaziantep Stadyumu and that opening-day defeat at Gençlerbirliği. Home is where the noise is. Away is where the points have been leaking. Last season's run-in had the same restlessness in it, just with smaller numbers. Three-two at Alanyaspor on the eighteenth of January — reads two-three. Three-two at Trabzonspor on the fourteenth of February — also reads two-three, the same score away from home twice in a month. Three-two over Samsunspor at home on the eighth of March. One-nil over Beşiktaş at home on the fifth of April. Then the twenty-sixth of April, and the one blot: three-nil to Galatasaray, the heaviest defeat in this record. Three-one over İstanbul Başakşehir on the second of May answered it. Three-nil at Konyaspor on the ninth — zero-three in the file — and three-three with Eyüpspor at home on the seventeenth to close. So the season reads sixteen scored, six conceded, ten points, sixth. A team that has scored eight in one afternoon and failed to score at the Gaziantep Stadyumu within the same month. Nothing about the shape of it has settled, and the table is straining to contain it. By the numbers — Super Lig (league only): 6th · 6 played · 3-1-2 · 16-6 · 10 pts · form WWLDW (most recent last). All data from ScoreCrowd's match records, retrieved 24 September 2026.