Galatasaray (also known as Galatasaray S.K.) is a professional Turkish football club based in Istanbul and plays in the highest division of Turkish football; the Super Lig. Galatasaray is the biggest and most successful football club in Turkey. Galatasaray is the only Turkish team that won the UEFA Super Cup and UEFA Cup as wellas the only Turkish team who reached the European Cup semi-final. Galatasaray holds its home matches at the Ali Sami Yen stadium but intends to move to the Turk Telekom Arena stadium in 2010-2011 Super Lig season.
Galatasaray was established in 1905 and was very successful since then; Galatasaray's most remarkable era was towards the end of the 1990s when the team became the first Turkish football club ever to win a European trophy.