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Turkey National Football Team

Head coach: Fatih Terim
Captain: Hakan Sükür
Top scorer: Hakan Sükür
FIFA ranking: 21

The Turkey national football team is the national football team of Turkey and is controlled by the Turkish Football Federation. They are affiliated with UEFA.

The team's highest achievement was reaching 3rd place at the 2002 FIFA World Cup. Turkey also reached the quarter-finals at Euro 2000 and reached 3rd place at the 2003 Confederations Cup.

Euro 1996 and 2000

Turkey qualified for the Euro 96, beating both Switzerland and Sweden 2-1, but then they lost all their matches without scoring a single goal. However, they did go home with an award: the fair-play award, given to Alpay Özalan.

Turkey qualified for Euro 2000 after winning a play-off against the Republic of Ireland. Turkey lost their first match 2-1 to Italy, they drew their second match against Sweden 0-0, and beat host nation Belgium 2-0, making it the first time in the history of the European Championship that a host nation had been eliminated in the first round, brought Turkey into the last eight of the tournament where Portugal won the quarter-final match 2-0.

World Cup 2002

The Turkish team started the 2002 World Cup with a 2-1 defeat against Brazil. Turkey passed the group stage with a 3-0 win against China.

Turkey then faced home team Japan, beating them 1-0. The Turkish team continued their run, as they beat Senegal 1-0 on a golden goal to book their place in the semi-finals where a 1-0 defeat against Brazil forced them to play the third place match, and a bronze medal was the prize after a 3-2 victory over South Korea. Hakan Sükür scored Turkey's first goal in 11 seconds, even when the South Koreans started the ball first. It was the fastest goal in World cup history.

Confederations Cup 2003 and Euro 2004

In the summer of 2003, Turkey reached third place at the 2003 Confederations Cup in which they drew 2-2 against Brazil. Turkey lost to eventual tournament winners France 3-2 in the semi-final match. Turkey defeated Colombia 2-1 to win third place.

The Turkish team failed to qualify for Euro 2004 on play-offs due to a loss to Latvia after finishing second in their group.

World Cup 2006

The Turkish team once again narrowly missed out on the finals after failing to win a play-off, this time on away goals against Switzerland, again after finishing second in their group.

Euro 2008 Qualifying

Turkey are included in their qualifying group with Greece, Norway, Malta, Hungary, Moldova and Bosnia & Herzegovina.

Turkey Team
No.	NAME	POS	Height	Weight	Age
-	Serdar Kulbilge	G	6-1	185	26
1	Orkun Usak	G	-	-	26
1	Recber Rustu	G	6-1	172	34
24	Hakan Arikan	G	-	-	24
-	Serdar Kurtulus	D	-	-	-
-	Ibrahim Toraman	D	5-9	161	25
2	Servet Cetin	D	6-3	185	26
4	Gokhan Zan	D	6-4	192	25
6	Volkan Yaman	D	-	-	24
21	Emre Asik	D	6-0	172	33
22	Hamit Altintop	D	5-11	181	24
-	Nuri Sahin	M	5-10	143	18
-	Belozoglu Emre	M	5-7	176	26
-	Mehmet Topuz	M	-	-	23
-	Tumer Metin	M	5-10	150	32
3	Ibrahim Uzulmez	M	5-9	159	33
7	Mehmet Aurelio	M	5-11	168	29
8	Yildiray Basturk	M	5-6	143	28
10	Gokdeniz Karadeniz	M	5-6	141	27
14	Arda Turan	M	-	-	20
15	Huseyin Cimsir	M	6-2	181	28
25	Sabri Sarioglu	M	5-6	135	22
-	Colin Kazim-Richards	S	6-1	150	20
-	Gokhan Unal	S	-	-	24
9	Hakan Sukur	S	6-3	179	35
17	Tuncay Sanli	S	5-11	154	25
20	Umit Karan	S	5-11	172	30
29	Umut Bulut	S	6-0	161	24

Group C
	GP	W	D	L	GS	GA	GD	P
Greece	7	6	0	1	12	5	7	18
Bosnia-Herzegovina	7	4	1	2	14	14	0	13
Turkey	6	4	1	1	16	6	10	13
Norway	7	4	1	2	17	6	11	13
Hungary	7	2	0	5	7	14	-7	6
Malta	7	1	1	5	5	15	-10	4
Moldova	7	0	2	5	4	15	-11	2