Türkiye Kupası

Infobox sports league
current_season=Turkey Cup 2007-08

pixels=200px
sport=Football
founded=1962
teams=72
country=TUR
champion=KayserisporThe Türkiye Kupası (currently known under the terms of a sponsorship deal as the Fortis Türkiye Kupası) is a football cup competition in Turkish football, run by the Turkish Football Federation since 1962. The current holders are Kayserispor, who beat Gençlerbirliği S.K. on penalties in the 2008 final in Bursa.

Overview

All 54 teams playing in Turkey's Super Lig and Second League competitions play in the competition, with all Super League teams receiving a bye until at least round two. In the first round, the 36 teams playing in Second League categories A and B are paired off to play each other in a single-match playoff in round one. The winners proceed to the second stage, where they are joined by the fourteen teams that finished between 5th and 18th position in the previous season's Super League.

Round three in the Turkish Cup is a league system, where the top four teams from last season's Super League and the sixteen winning teams from round two are placed into four groups of five. The four top Super League teams are seeded and cannot be placed into the same group. All teams play each other once, with the top two teams in each group proceeding to the quarter finals, from where the Cup becomes a standard knockout competition.

The winner of the competition qualifies directly for the following year's UEFA Cup. Where the winner has already secured European qualification, the UEFA Cup place goes to first to the cup finalist, then to the highest-ranking Super League team without a European place. This happened in the 2005-06 season, when cup winners Beşiktaş had already guaranteed UEFA Cup placement by finishing third in the league and finalists Fenerbahçe had qualified for the Champions League. The remaining UEFA Cup place went to fourth-placed Trabzonspor.

The competition's name was changed to the "Federation Cup" in 1980, until it was reverted in 1993. In 2005, the Turkish Cup followed the Super League in signing a sponsorship deal with Fortis bank.

The Turkish Football Federation awards a trophy to the winning club and a total of 35 medals to the players, coaches, presidents and the members of the technical boards of the final playing teams.

Cup winners by season

* Altay didn't play second leg.

** Altay won the cup by coin toss.

Number of cups won by clubs