Beşiktaş will face Lithuanian team Kauno Zalgiris at Tüpraş Stadium in the first match of the UEFA Europa League play-off round tomorrow at 20.00. Kartal wants to have an advantage in the away match without losing at home.
Black Eagles will have their 263rd appointment in European cups with the Kauno Zalgiris match.
The black-and-white football team won 101 of 262 matches in European cups, drew 50, and lost to its rivals in 111 matches.
Beşiktaş, which scored 353 goals in the European arena, conceded 395 goals.
The black-whites represented Türkiye abroad 47 times, including the qualifying rounds, in the European cup adventure that started in 1959.
Beşiktaş took part in the European Champion Clubs' Cup and UEFA Champions League 19 times, the European Cup Winners' Cup 7 times, the UEFA Cup and UEFA Europa League 19 times and the UEFA Conference League 2 times.
FIRST APPOINTMENT WITH LITHUANIA REPRESENTATIVES
Beşiktaş, which has left 262 matches in European cups behind, will face a Lithuanian team for the first time.
The match between the black and whites and Kauno Zalgiris will go down in club history in this sense.
138TH MATCH IN CUP 2
Beşiktaş has previously played 137 matches in the "number 2" organization of European football at the club level.
Beşiktaş achieved 61 wins in the organization, which started to be organized under the name of the Fair Cities Cup in 1955, became the UEFA Cup since the 1971-1972 season, and has been organized under the name of the UEFA Europa League since 2009-2010.
The black-whites drew 25 times with their opponents and lost 51 matches.
Beşiktaş scored 214 goals in the "Cup 2" matches and conceded 180 goals.
The black-whites will play their 138th match in this organization against Kauno Zalgiris.
132nd HOME MATCH
The black-whites will play their 132nd home game against Kauno Zalgiris.
Beşiktaş has previously appeared in 131 matches as the host in European cups. The black-whites won 66 of these matches, drew 26 and lost 39 of them.
Beşiktaş, which scored 202 times in the opponent's net, conceded 150 goals.
3 MATCHES THAT CANNOT BE PLAYED IN ISTANBUL
The black-white team had to play 3 of their home matches outside Istanbul in the European cups.
In the 1986-1987 season, Beşiktaş played the match against the Ukrainian representative Dinamo Kiev in the quarter-finals of the Champion Clubs' Cup, which was supposed to be held in Istanbul, in Izmir due to weather conditions. The black-whites lost 5-0 to their opponent in this match.
Due to the terrorist bomb attack in Istanbul, Beşiktaş played a home match in Germany. The black-white team, which took part in the Champions League in 2003-2004, faced Chelsea in Gelsenkirchen and lost 2-0.
In another match where they had to play at home, Beşiktaş faced the Israeli team Maccabi Tel Aviv in Hungary in the 2024-2025 season. According to the statement of the black-and-white club, it was decided that the match in question would be played in a neutral country, "taking into account the possibility of provocative action". In the match at Nagyerdei Stadium, Beşiktaş lost 3-1.
PLAYED IN THE QUARTER FINALS 3 TIMES IN EUROPE
Beşiktaş succeeded in reaching the quarter-finals 3 times in European cups.
The black-whites, who made it to the quarter-finals of the European Champion Clubs' Cup in the 1986-1987 season, were among the last 8 teams in the UEFA Cup in 2002-2003.
While Beşiktaş reached the quarter-finals of the UEFA Europa League in the 2016-2017 season, they were eliminated by Olimpik Lyon as a result of penalties in this round and bid farewell to the organization.
THE MOST DIFFERENT WIN WAS AGAINST B36 TORSHAVN
Beşiktaş had its biggest victory in European cups against Faroe Islands team B36 Torshavn.
The black-white team managed to beat B36 Torshavn 6-0 at home in the 2nd qualifying round of the UEFA Europa League in the 2018-2019 season.
In the 2002-2003 season, Beşiktaş was the guest of Sarajevo, the representative of Bosnia and Herzegovina, in the UEFA Cup 1st round rematch and won 5-0.
The black-whites also defeated Israel's Maccabi Tel Aviv and Switzerland's Lugano team with scores of 5-1 in the UEFA Europa League.
VIOLATIONS
Beşiktaş also has wins by default in European cups that are not included in the news.
The black-and-whites advanced to the European Champion Clubs' Cup by being declared winners by default in the 1958-1959 season after Greece's Olympiakos and Greek Cypriot APOEL teams did not appear on the field in the 1986-1987 season.
THE MOST DIFFERENT DEFEATS
Beşiktaş suffered the defeat with the most different scores in the history of European cups from the English representative Liverpool.
In the 2007-2008 season, the Black-Whites lost to Liverpool away with a score of 8-0 in the UEFA Champions League Group A match.
Beşiktaş lost to the English team Leeds United away in the UEFA Champions League Group H in the 2000-2001 season, and to the Ukrainian representative Dynamo Kiev in the same organization in the 2016-2017 season with a score of 6-0.
EUROPEAN GOALSATORS
Beşiktaş's top scorer in European cups has been Oktay Derelioğlu for nearly 30 years.
Oktay Derelioğlu, who scored 14 goals in Europe between 1993 and 1999 with the black and white jersey, is in the first place, followed by Vincent Aboubakar and Cenk Tosun, who scored 13 times each. Beşiktaş's Ricardo Quaresma and Bobo scored 12 goals each in Europe.
Among the players in Beşiktaş's current squad, Milot Rashica has 4 goals, Semih Kılıçsoy has 3 goals, captain Orkun Kökçü has 2 goals and Vaclav Cerny has 1 goal.
