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The Turkey national football team (Turkish: Türkiye Millî Futbol Takımı) represents Turkey in men's international football matches. The team is controlled by the Turkish Football Federation (Turkish: Türkiye Futbol Federasyonu), the governing body for football in Turkey, which was founded in 1923 and member of FIFA since 1923 and, UEFA since 1962.[6]
Played their first official international game in 1923, the team represented the nation in major competitions since their debut appearance at 1924 Summer Olympics. The team participated in Summer Olympics total of six times at 1924, 1928, 1936, 1948, 1952 and 1960 in those they reached quarter-finals twice in 1948 and 1952.
The team enjoyed their highest achievements in 2000s, most notably reaching semi-finals at 2002 FIFA World Cup, 2003 FIFA Confederations Cup and UEFA Euro 2008. They qualified at FIFA World Cup finals for three times in 1950,[lower-alpha 1] 1954 and 2002 and reached semi-finals in 2002, winning bronze medals as the biggest achievement of Turkish football, as yet. Team qualified for UEFA European Championships for five times. Making their debut at Euro 96, they reached quarter-finals in Euro 2000 and semi-finals in Euro 2008, which was their biggest achievement in the history of tournament. In recent years, Turkey qualified to Euro 2016 and Euro 2020 championships, consecutively.
Since its introduction in 1992, Turkey placed themselves between 5th and 57th place in FIFA World Rankings. Following their success at 2002 World Cup, Turkey managed to stay in top 10 in rankings between 2002 and 2004, with the highest on 5th spot earned in June 2004.[8] Team climbed once again up to 10th place in rankings in December 2008, following their success Euro 2008.[9] Turkey achieved their highest margin victories against Syria in 1949, South Korea in 1954 and San Marino in 1996, all ended by 7–0 scores.[10] The team lost the encounters against Poland in 1968 and England in 1984 and 1987 by 0–8 scores,[11] which set the shared biggest defeat record of their history.[10]
As of 2020 statistics, the most capped player of the Turkey is Rüştü Reçber with 120 senior international caps between 1994 and 2012, the most scoring player is Hakan Şükür with 51 goals scored between 1992 and 2007.[10] The longest serving captain is Turgay Şeren with captaincy of 35 international encounters between 1950 and 1966.[12] Earned his first cap in 2006, Arda Turan is the most capped active player with 100 caps.
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- Milli Takım'da Ersun Yanal dönemi başladı Vatan 26 April 2004
- Milli başarılar Şenol Güneş ile geldi Hürriyet 27 March 2017
- Ersun Yanal yeniden Milli Takım'da Radikal 23 February 2010
- A Milli Futbol takımı kadrosu belli oldu Vatan 7 November 2003
- Türkiye'nin Avrupa Futbol Şampiyonası serüveni BBC Turkish 8 June 2016
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