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Turkey

Flares, decibels, and a city on two continents

Istanbul derbies register on noise meters used for jet engines. Turkish football is emotional, chaotic and impossible to watch passively, and the city around it is one of the world's great weekend destinations.

Top places to travel

  • IstanbulThree giants, the Bosphorus, and the best breakfast on earth.
  • TrabzonBlack Sea coast and a fanbase that treats every game as a final.
  • IzmirAegean coast, Ephesus an hour away.

Did you know?

Trivia for the pub

Fact 01

Beşiktaş

The Vodafone Park crowd once recorded 132 decibels, a world record.

Fact 02

Galatasaray

'Welcome to Hell' banners for visiting European sides became a genre of their own.

Every club we hold

3 clubs · 2 divisions

Europe UEFA Champions League