2012–13 TFF First League

1. Lig
Season	2012–13
Champions	Kayseri Erciyesspor
Promoted	Kayseri Erciyesspor; Çaykur Rizespor; Konyaspor
Relegated	Ankaragücü; Kartalspor; Göztepe
Matches played	279
Goals scored	655 (2.35 per match)
Top goalscorer	Gerard Gohou; (19 goals)
Biggest home win	Erc 5–1 ADS; Riz 5–1 Göz
Biggest away win	Ank 1–5 Buc
Highest scoring	ADS 5–5 Buc
	← 2011–12 2013–14 →

The 2012–13 TFF 1. Lig, also known as PTT 1. Lig due to sponsoring reasons,^[1] is the 12th season since the league was established in 2001 and 50th season of the second-level football league of Turkey since its establishment in 1963–64. The start date of the league was 25 August 2012 and end date is 12 May 2013.

Teams

Manisaspor, Ankaragücü and Samsunspor relegated from Süper Lig. Akhisar Belediyespor, Elazığspor and Kasımpaşa promoted to 2012–13 Süper Lig.

1461 Trabzon, Şanlıurfaspor and Adana Demirspor promoted from TFF Second League. İstanbul Güngörenspor, Sakaryaspor and Giresunspor relegated to 2012–13 TFF Second League.

Foreign players

Club	Player 1	Player 2	Player 3	Player 4	Player 5	Former Players
1461 Trabzon	Torric Jebrin	Chikeluba Ofoedu
Adana Demirspor	Juninho	Luiz Eduardo	Guy Toindouba	Karim Alhassan		Javid Huseynov Raheem Lawal
Adanaspor	Marc Mbamba	Mbilla Etame	Chibuzor Nwogbo
Ankaragücü
Boluspor	Wilfried Dalmat	Serge Djiéhoua	Jimmy Dixon			Wilfried Dalmat Kingsley Nwankwo
Bucaspor	Mohamed Dahmane	Luiz Henrique	Tam Nsaliwa
Çaykur Rizespor	Hossam Hassan	David Loriya	Samat Smakov	Florin Cernat	David Depetris	Ousman Jallow Uche Kalu
Denizlispor	Arif İsayev	Rail Malikov	Ariel Ngueukam	Kingsley Nwankwo	Bajram Fetai	Mohamed Sakho Eric Odhiambo
Gaziantep B.B.
Göztepe A.Ş.	Janderson Baiano	Hervé Tum	Theo Lewis Weeks	Paulinho		Bedi Buval
Karşıyaka	Emmanuel Banahene					Wilfried Dalmat Makukula
Kartalspor	Deyvison	Eze Vincent Okeuhie	Ali Zitouni	Zafar Babajanow
Kayseri Erciyesspor	Sofiane Hanni	Gerard Gohou	Insa Sylla
Konyaspor	Sjoerd Ars	Neca				Emil Angelov
Manisaspor	Benjamin Fuchs	Maciej Iwański
Samsunspor	Nikolay Dimitrov	Mahamoudou Kéré	Mazowa N'Sumbu	Darryl Roberts
Şanlıurfaspor	Tonia Tisdell	Alfred Sankoh	Teteh Bangura
TKİ Tavşanlı Linyitspor	Drilon Shala	Akeem Agbetu

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Kayseri Erciyesspor (C, P)	34	19	6	9	59	37	+22	63	Promotion to Süper Lig
2	Çaykur Rizespor (P)	34	17	8	9	53	35	+18	59	Promotion to Süper Lig
3	1461 Trabzon^[a]	34	15	8	11	47	31	+16	53^[b]
4	Manisaspor	34	14	11	9	41	28	+13	53^[b]	Qualification for Promotion Playoffs
5	Bucaspor	34	14	10	10	48	33	+15	52^[c]
6	Konyaspor (O, P)	34	14	10	10	38	35	+3	52^[c]
7	Adana Demirspor^[a]	34	14	9	11	54	53	+1	51
8	Adanaspor	34	13	10	11	42	42	0	49
9	Karşıyaka	34	12	11	11	37	39	−2	47
10	Boluspor	34	13	7	14	41	45	−4	46
11	Denizlispor	34	11	10	13	35	37	−2	43^[d]
12	Şanlıurfaspor	34	10	13	11	32	38	−6	43^[d]
13	Gaziantep B.B.	34	11	8	15	37	43	−6	41
14	Samsunspor	34	7	18	9	38	39	−1	39
15	TKİ Tavşanlı Linyitspor	34	9	11	14	34	47	−13	38
16	Göztepe A.Ş. (R)	34	10	7	17	28	40	−12	37^[e]	Relegation to TFF Second League
17	Kartalspor (R)	34	10	7	17	33	44	−11	37^[e]
18	MKE Ankaragücü (R)	34	7	8	19	31	62	−31	29

Source: TFF First League page
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(C) Champions; (O) Play-off winners; (P) Promoted; (R) Relegated
Notes:

^ ^a ^b Since 1461 Trabzon is Süper Lig side Trabzonspor's reserve team, their play-off spot went to 7th-placed team Adana Demirspor.
^ ^a ^b TRA 0–0 MAN; MAN 1–1 TRA
^ ^a ^b BUC 0–1 KON; KON 0–2 BUC
^ ^a ^b DEN 1–1 ŞUR; ŞUR 1–1 DEN
^ ^a ^b GÖZ 2–0 KRT; KRT 2–1 GÖZ

Positions by round

Team ╲ 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
Team ╲ Round
Kayseri Erciyesspor	5	2	3	4	2	2	1	1	2	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	2	3	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	1	1
Çaykur Rizespor	3	3	1	3	3	1	2	2	1	1	2	2	5	5	6	5	5	4	4	4	3	4	3	3	3	3	2	2	2	2	2	1	2	2
1461 Trabzon	2	1	2	1	4	4	3	3	3	4	4	4	2	3	2	4	4	3	2	3	4	3	4	4	4	4	3	3	4	4	4	3	4	3
Manisaspor	7	5	8	8	8	8	5	10	6	5	5	5	3	2	4	3	1	1	1	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	4	4	3	3	3	4	5	4
Bucaspor	1	8	10	12	13	14	11	7	5	8	8	6	6	8	8	9	7	8	9	8	9	9	7	8	6	6	5	5	5	5	5	5	3	5
Konyaspor	18	18	16	15	10	9	10	5	10	13	12	13	14	13	13	13	11	9	10	12	12	12	10	10	11	12	10	10	8	6	6	6	7	6
Adana Demirspor	10	12	13	17	17	15	13	9	7	6	7	9	8	7	7	6	6	6	6	5	5	5	5	7	9	9	8	7	7	7	9	8	6	7
Adanaspor	11	7	9	9	6	7	8	11	8	10	6	8	7	6	3	2	3	5	5	7	7	6	6	5	5	5	6	6	6	8	7	9	8	8
Karşıyaka	6	4	4	2	1	3	4	4	4	3	3	3	4	4	5	7	8	10	7	9	8	8	9	6	8	8	9	9	9	9	8	7	9	9
Boluspor	12	13	6	5	11	13	9	13	9	12	13	14	10	10	9	8	10	7	8	6	6	7	8	9	8	7	7	8	10	10	11	12	11	10
Denizlispor	14	9	5	6	5	6	7	8	13	14	14	11	11	11	11	11	13	13	12	13	13	14	13	13	12	11	12	13	14	14	13	13	13	11
Şanlıurfaspor	13	14	12	10	7	5	6	6	11	7	10	10	12	12	12	12	12	12	13	11	11	10	12	12	13	13	13	14	12	12	12	11	10	12
Gaziantep B.B.	15	15	15	14	15	12	15	14	12	9	9	7	9	9	10	10	9	11	11	10	10	11	11	11	10	10	11	11	11	11	10	10	12	13
Samsunspor	8	6	7	7	12	10	12	12	15	15	15	15	15	14	16	17	17	17	15	14	14	13	14	14	14	14	14	12	13	13	14	15	14	14
TKİ Tavşanlı Linyitspor	9	11	14	11	14	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	14	15	16	16	17	17	15	16	16	16	16	15	16	16	16	16	16	17	16	15
Göztepe A.Ş.	16	16	18	16	16	18	17	17	17	17	17	17	17	17	15	16	15	14	14	15	16	17	17	17	17	16	15	15	15	15	15	14	15	16
Kartalspor	4	10	11	13	8	11	14	15	14	11	11	12	13	15	17	14	14	15	16	16	17	15	15	15	15	17	17	17	17	17	17	16	17	17
MKE Ankaragücü	17	17	17	18	18	17	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18

Source: TFF First League page

Results

Home \ Away	ADS	ADA	AGÜ	BOL	BUC	ÇYR	DEN	GBB	GÖZ	KSK	KRT	KER	KON	MAN	SAM	ŞAN	TAV
1461 Trabzon	0–1		1–0	1–2	3–1	0–0	3–0	1–1	1–1	3–2	0–1	0–1	3–0	0–0	2–1	1–0	1–0
Adana Demirspor		4–2	4–1	0–1	5–5	2–2	2–1	1–1	1–0	0–2	2–1	1–3	1–2	2–0	0–0	1–1	3–2
Adanaspor	1–1		0–1	0–1	0–0	2–0	2–1	3–0	2–1	3–2	2–1	3–2	2–1	1–2	3–2	0–0	2–2
MKE Ankaragücü	1–4	0–1		1–0	1–5	2–1	0–3	1–4	3–1	1–1	1–0	1–3	0–3	1–1	1–1	0–1	0–1
Boluspor	0–0	2–2	1–1		2–5	1–3	1–1	2–0	3–0	0–1	0–1	2–4	1–3	1–2	2–1	0–1	2–2
Bucaspor	1–0	4–0	0–0	0–1		1–0	1–0	3–1	3–0	1–2	1–0	0–1	0–1	1–1	0–0	1–2	4–2
Çaykur Rizespor	1–2	1–0	3–0	1–0	1–0		0–0	2–1	5–1	2–2	3–0	2–2	2–0	1–1	1–0	1–1	4–0
Denizlispor	2–0	1–0	2–1	0–1	2–0	1–0		2–1	1–0	1–2	1–1	1–2	1–1	1–1	2–1	1–1	0–1
Gaziantep B.B.	1–2	1–1	1–1	2–1	2–1	1–4	0–1		0–2	3–0	1–0	3–2	1–0	0–1	1–2	1–1	3–2
Göztepe A.Ş.	0–2	0–0	1–1	1–2	1–1	1–0	1–1	2–0		3–2	2–0	0–0	0–0	0–1	0–1	4–0	0–1
Karşıyaka	1–4	0–2	2–0	1–0	1–0	0–1	0–0	0–0	2–0		2–2	2–4	1–1	1–1	0–1	1–0	0–0
Kartalspor	3–1	3–0	1–1	2–0	0–1	0–1	1–0	1–0	2–1	4–3		1–3	0–0	0–0	2–2	1–1	2–1
Kayseri Erciyesspor	5–1	1–2	2–1	2–3	0–0	0–1	2–0	1–1	2–0	0–1	1–0		0–2	2–3	2–1	3–1	2–0
Konyaspor	3–3	1–0	1–0	0–1	0–2	1–3	2–0	0–0	2–0	0–0	4–1	0–2		2–1	2–2	0–0	2–0
Manisaspor	3–0	2–1	4–0	2–0	1–1	2–0	0–1	2–1	0–1	1–0	1–0	1–2	1–2		0–0	0–0	4–0
Samsunspor	1–1	1–1	2–4	2–2	0–0	4–0	2–2	0–3	1–0	0–0	3–1	1–1	1–1	2–1		1–1	1–1
Şanlıurfaspor	2–3	0–0	3–2	1–3	1–2	2–2	1–1	0–1	0–2	0–1	1–0	1–0	2–0	2–0	2–1		0–0
TKİ Tavşanlı Linyitspor	1–0	0–0	2–0	2–2	0–0	2–3	4–3	1–0	0–1	1–1	2–0	1–2	0–1	1–0	0–0	1–3

Source: TFF First League page
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Promotion playoffs

The teams ranked fourth through seventh will contest in the promotion playoffs for the 2013–14 Süper Lig. The 4th team and 7th teams will play two matches in their own grounds. Likewise the 5th and 6th teams will play a two match elimination round. This round is named as semi-finals. Winning teams will play one final match at a neutral venue. The winner of the final will be the third team to promote to Süper Lig 2013–2014. 3rd-placed team 1461 Trabzon is Süper Lig side Trabzonspor's reserve team So They Were Ineligible For Promotion And their play-off spot went to 7th-placed team Adana Demirspor.

Semi-finals 4-7

19 May 2013

Sunday, 19:00

Adana Demirspor	0–2	Manisaspor
	Report	Sultan 14' Kahé 60'

5 Ocak, Adana

Referee: Abdullah Yılmaz

23 May 2013

Thursday, 19:00

Manisaspor	1–1	Adana Demirspor
Fuchs 20'	Report	Toindouba 89'

19 Mayıs, Manisa

Referee: Hüseyin Göçek

Semi-finals 5–6

19 May 2013

Sunday, 21:15

Konyaspor	0–1	Bucaspor
	Report	Luiz Henrique 44'

Atatürk, Konya

Referee: Serkan Çınar

23 May 2013

Thursday, 21:15

Bucaspor	1–2 (a)	Konyaspor
Luiz Henrique 61'	Report	Akın 63' Ay 78'

Buca Arena, İzmir

Referee: Halis Özkahya

Final

26 May 2013

Sunday, 19:30

Manisaspor	0–2	Konyaspor
	Report	Recep Aydın 7' Sjoerd Ars 47'

Eskişehir Atatürk Stadium

Referee: Bülent Yıldırım

Season statistics

As of 12 May 2013

Top goalscorers

^[2]

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Gerard Gohou	Erciyesspor	19
2	Kahê	Manisaspor	17
3	Juninho	Adana Demirspor	14
3	Emmanuel Banahene	Karşıyaka	14
5	Emrah Bozkurt	Erciyesspor	13
5	Erdal Kılıçaslan	Konyaspor	13
7	Mbilla Etame	Adanaspor	12
	Serdar Deliktaş	Gaziantep B.B.	12
	Mehmet Batdal	Bucaspor	12
10	Sercan Kaya	Çaykur Rizespor / 1461 Trabzon	11
11	Cenk Ahmet Alkılıç	Çaykur Rizespor	10
	Timur Özgöz	Ankaragücü	10
	Mehmet Uslu	Kartalspor	10

Top assists

^[3]

Rank	Player	Club	Assists
1	Sercan Kaya	1461 Trabzon / Çaykur Rizespor	9
2	Erçağ Evirgen	Adana Demirspor	8
3	Sofiane Hanni	Erciyesspor	7
4	Erman Özgür	Adana Demirspor	6
	Cafercan Aksu	Boluspor	6
	Fatih Şen	Samsunspor	6
7	İzzet Kaya	Şanlıurfaspor	5
	Erkan Taşkıran	Bucaspor	5
	Umut Gündoğan	Bucaspor	5
	Eren Albayrak	Çaykur Rizespor	5
	İsmail Haktan Odabaşı	Denizlispor	5
	Kenan Şahin	Erciyesspor	5
	Ramazan Altıntepe	Gaziantep B.B.	5
	Kaan Kanak	Ankaragücü	5

Yellow cards

^[4]

Rank	Player	Club	Yellow Cards
1	Marc Kibong Mbamba	Adanaspor	15
2	Adnan Güngör	Karşıyaka	14
3	İlhan Şahin	Göztepe / Kartalspor	13
3	Barbaros Barut	Boluspor	13
5	Sedat Ağçay	Adanaspor	12
	Ali Sakal	Gaziantep B.B.	12
	Bekir Yılmaz	Manisaspor	12
	Alfred Sankoh	Şanlıurfaspor	12
9	Sabutay Alper Bayülken	Kartalspor	11
	Ethem Ercan Pülgir	Kartalspor	11
	Bilal Aziz Özer	Konyaspor / Erciyesspor	11

Red cards

^[5]

Rank	Player	Club	Red Cards
1	Veli Kızılkaya	Göztepe	3
2	Timur Bayram Özgöz	Ankaragücü	2
	Burak Keskin	Adana Demirspor	2
	Serdar Deliktaş	Gaziantep B.B.	2
	Kağan Timurcin Konuk	Şanlıurfaspor	2
	Sakıb Aytaç	Tavşanlı Linyitspor	2
	Volkan Koçaloğlu	Tavşanlı Linyitspor	2
	Mustafa Akbaş	1461 Trabzon	2

References

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