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Türkiye National Football Team will face Italy in the 1st Group of the UEFA Nations A League. The match will be played on Monday, October 5 at the Renato Dall'Ara Stadium in Bologna, Italy.
Our National Football Team has started preparations for the away match against Italy in the UEFA Nations League on Monday, October 5th.
The National Football Team started its preparations in Belgium for the away match against Italy in the UEFA Nations A League Group 1 on Monday, October 5.
According to the statement of the Turkish Football Federation, the football players who started the Belgium-Turkey match played yesterday in the first 11 in the training held at the academy facilities of the Standard Liege Club under the management of coach Vincenzo Montella, did regeneration work in the hall, while other players did field work.
The training, which started with warm-up exercises, ended with a tactical game after passing, agility and final kick exercises.
The national team will complete their preparations for the Italy match tomorrow with a training session, the first 15 minutes of which will be open to the press. Then, Montella and a player from the National Football Team will go to Bologna at 17.30 TSI, and will hold a press conference at the Renato Dall'Ara Stadium, where the match will be played, at 19.45 TSI.
Gündoğdu's lawyer announced that his arrest request for abuse of power and threats was rejected by the Istanbul 5th Criminal Court of Peace, but an arrest warrant was imposed for the crime of recording personal data. The lawyer said that he believed in the innocence of his client and that he would be freed, and announced that he resigned from his post as the President of the Central Referee Board on 03.10.2026 in order to avoid any harm in the investigation of the Turkish Football Federation.
8 matches were played in the third week of the UEFA Nations League. In the 3rd Group of A League, England beat Croatia 7-0 away, and Spain defeated Czech Republic 3-1 at home. In other groups, matches were concluded between Switzerland, Slovenia, Macedonia, Scotland, Finland, Albania, Belarus, San Marino, Estonia, Luxembourg, Iceland and Bulgaria.

At the press conference held before the Irish National Team's UEFA Nations League match with Israel, the meeting was interrupted because an Israeli journalist claimed that Irish players called the opponents 'monkeys'. The Irish federation rejected the claim as completely untrue and only local journalists were briefed in a separate room after the meeting. When an Israeli broadcaster representative wanted to attend this briefing, the meeting was moved to another section. Irish football players won the first match played in Debrecen, Hungary, 3-0, and commemorated the deaths in the conflict in Gaza by protesting by looking at the ground and wearing black armbands while the opponent sang the national anthem. Jack Moylan, who scored the goal, took off his black armband, kissed it and raised it in the air. There was no handshake ceremony before the match and goalkeeper Gavin Bazunu was not included in the match squad.
Eda Sözcügil, an 18-year-old ultramarathon swimmer from Izmir, broke the records for the fastest woman and the youngest Turkish athlete by swimming the Catalina Channel, a distance of 32 kilometers, in 10 hours and 27 minutes, which she chose as the first leg of the Ocean Seven.
Ferhat Gündoğdu resigned from his position as the chairman of the Central Arbitration Board (MHK) after he was arrested for recording personal data. In the statement made by his lawyers, it was stated that he resigned in order not to wear down the TFF and not to harm the functioning of the judicial process.

National swimmer Eda Sözcügil completed the Catalina Channel in 10 hours and 27 minutes, breaking the first course of the Ocean Seven, breaking a double record; She became the fastest female and youngest Turkish swimmer to complete the race.