Beşiktaş, which will face Spanish representative Athletic Bilbao tomorrow in the 7th week of the UEFA Europa League, will play its 251st match in Europe.
The black-and-white football team experienced 94 wins, 49 draws and 107 defeats in 250 matches played in European cups.
Beşiktaş, which scored 334 times in the European arena, conceded 382 goals.
BEŞİKTAŞ IN EUROPEAN CUP
The performance of the black and white team in the European arena is as follows:
17TH MATCH AGAINST SPANISH TEAMS
Beşiktaş faced Spanish representatives 16 times.
The black-white team competed with Spanish teams Real Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia, Atletico Madrid, Athletic Bilbao, Sevilla and Alaves in European cups.
Beşiktaş had 3 wins and a draw as well as 10 losses in these competitions played in the European Champion Clubs’ Cup, UEFA Cup, UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League.
The black-whites shook the net 16 times in the matches in question and conceded 34 goals.
– Spanish rival for the black-whites after 13 seasons
After 13 seasons, Beşiktaş competed with a Spanish representative in European cups.
The black-whites last played against Atletico Madrid under the management of Diego Simeone in the 3rd round of the UEFA Europa League in the 2011-2012 season.
Beşiktaş said goodbye to the organization by losing the first match 3-1 away and the second leg 3-0 in Istanbul.
The “Black Eagle” will compete again in the UEFA Europa League, this time against Athletic Bilbao.
– 4th appointment with Bilbao
Beşiktaş will face Spanish representative Athletic Bilbao for the 4th time.
In the remaining 3 matches, the Spanish team won 2 matches, while Beşiktaş won 1 match.
In the 1st round first match of the UEFA Cup, as it was known at the time, played in the 1985-1986 season, the black-whites lost 4-1 away to their opponent and lost the match in Istanbul 1-0.
In the 2004-2005 season, Beşiktaş won its first victory against the Spanish team by beating Athletic Bilbao, which it hosted in the UEFA Cup Group B, with a score of 3-1.
– Played in the quarter finals three times
Beşiktaş played in 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, the “Black Eagle” was eliminated by Olimpik Lyon as a result of penalties in this round.
– Different wins
The black-whites achieved their biggest victory in the European cups in the 2018-2019 season.
Beşiktaş won the Faroe Islands representative B36 Torshavn 6-0 in the second leg of the UEFA Europa League 2nd qualifying round, and achieved the biggest victory in Europe.
In the 2002-2003 season, Beşiktaş defeated Bosnia and Herzegovina team Sarajevo 5-0 away in the UEFA Cup 1st round rematch.
– Different defeats
The black-and-whites suffered their biggest defeat in European cups in the 2007-2008 season.
Competing in the Champions League in the said season, Beşiktaş lost 8-0 away to the English representative Liverpool.
In the “Giants League”, Beşiktaş lost to England’s Leeds United team in the 2000-2001 season and to Ukraine’s Dynamo Kiev team in 2016-2017 with scores of 6-0.
On the home field, the black-white team lost 5-0 against Dynamo Kiev in Izmir in the quarter-finals of the European Champion Clubs Cup in the 1986-1987 season.
The “Black Eagle” also lost 5-0 to the Belgian representative Club Brugge, which they hosted in the UEFA Conference League group stage last season.
– Top scorer in Europe Oktay Derelioğlu
Oktay Derelioğlu is in the first place in the list of Beşiktaş’s top scorers in European cups.
Oktay Derelioğlu, who scored 14 goals in the black and white jersey he wore between 1993 and 1999, is followed by Vincent Aboubakar and Cenk Tosun, who scored 13 times each.
In “Black Eagle”, Portuguese winger Ricardo Quaresma and Brazilian striker Bobo scored 12 goals each in the European arena.