The black-and-white football team, which started the season under the management of Italian coach Vincenzo Italiano, successfully passed all three qualifying rounds of the organization and qualified to be among the 36 teams.
Beşiktaş, which will face Olympique Marseille in front of its fans in the first week of the league stage, aims to start the "Cup 2", in which it has previously played in the quarter-finals twice, with 3 points.
Most matches and wins in Europe are in "Cup 2"
Beşiktaş played 139 matches in the number 2 organization of European football at the club level.
The black-and-white team experienced 62 wins, 25 draws and 52 defeats in the tournament, which started to be organized under the name of the Fair Cities Cup in 1955, was named UEFA Cup since the 1971-1972 season, and was organized as the UEFA Europa League since 2009-2010.
Beşiktaş scored 217 times in the "Cup 2" matches and conceded 181 goals.
Competed in groups 11 times
Beşiktaş has appeared in the UEFA Europa League 11 times, in the format formerly known as the group stage and now known as the league stage.
The black-white team passed the qualifiers 9 times in the "Cup 2" and competed directly in the group stage 2 times. Competing in the groups in the 2004-2005, 2005-2006 and 2006-2007 seasons, Beşiktaş finished 4th in the group and was eliminated in 3 consecutive seasons.
The black-whites were in the Europa League groups in 2010-2011 and advanced to the next round as the second. Beşiktaş, which appeared in the group stage again in this organization in the 2011-2012 season, advanced to the 3rd round as the leader.
The black-white team, which competed in the Europa League groups in 2014-2015, earned the right to compete in the upper round as the leader.
Beşiktaş, which finished 3rd in its group in the 2015-2016 and 2018-2019 seasons, took the 4th and last place in 2019-2020.
The black-white team found itself in the 3rd place in 2023-2024 and said goodbye to Europe. Beşiktaş could not be among the top 24 teams in the league stage in which it last competed in the 2024-2025 season and was eliminated from the organization.
Played in the quarter finals twice
Beşiktaş competed in the quarter-finals twice in the UEFA Europa League.
The black-white team made its name among the last 8 teams in the "Cup 2" for the first time in the 2002-2003 season.
Beşiktaş, which eliminated Sarajevo, Alaves, Dinamo Kiev and Slavia Prague respectively in the said season played under the name of UEFA Cup, said goodbye to the organization by losing to Lazio with scores of 1-0 and 2-1 in the quarter-finals.
The black-whites came close to reaching the semi-finals of the UEFA Europa League in the 2016-2017 season. Besiktas, which finished the UEFA Champions League group in 3rd place in the season in question and earned the right to continue in the Europa League, was among the last 8 teams, passing Hapoel Beer Sheva and Olympiacos.
Matched with Olympique Lyon in the quarter-finals, the black-white team lost the first match 2-1, but won the rematch with the same score and took the match to extra time. As the equality remained intact in the extra time, a series of penalty shoot-outs were held, and Beşiktaş was eliminated by losing 7-6 to its opponent in the penalty shoot-out.
Italiano has two finals
Beşiktaş coach Vincenzo Italiano has two finals in European cups.
Italiano, who signed a contract with the black-and-white team at the beginning of the season, succeeded in reaching the finals of the UEFA Conference League for two consecutive seasons while he was coaching the Italian team Fiorentina.
The 48-year-old coach, who reached the finals with the Florence team in the 2022-2023 and 2023-2024 seasons, first lost to the English team West Ham United and the next year to the Greek team Olympiacos and could not reach the cup.
