History of Galatasaray S.K. flames shining on our team and dreaming that it would take us to victories. Indeed it did." Ali Sami Yen is the founder of the club, and the first president of club that served until the 1920s. Since the Turkish republic founded in 1923, Ali Sami Yen did a great job, both founding and developing the first Turkish football club and protecting it against the strict rules of the former state of command in Istanbul, the Ottoman Empire. Between 1905 and 1906 Galatasaray just played friendly matches. Since there were not any Turkish teams, Galatasaray joined the Istanbul Football League
Galatasaray S.K. were imagining brightness of yellow - red fire over our team and thinking that it would carry us from one victory to another." While the football in Turkey began to fully develop, Galatasaray won ten more "Istanbul League" titles, six "Sunday League" titles and three "Friday League" titles until 1952. Upon recognition of professional football in 1952, the first professional but non-national league of Turkey, "Istanbul Professional League" played between 1952 and 1959. Galatasaray won three of these seven titles. Turkcell Super League, the top-flight professional league in Turkish nationwide football, and the most popular sporting competition in the country,