Greece–Turkey football rivalry

Teams	Greece; Turkey
First meeting	Greece 1–3 Turkey; Friendly; Athens; (23 April 1948)
Latest meeting	Turkey 2–1 Greece; Friendly; Antalya; (30 May 2019)
Next meeting	TBD
Statistics
Meetings total	14
Most wins	Turkey (8)
Largest victory	Greece 1–4 Turkey ; UEFA Euro 2008 qualifying; Athens; (24 March 2007)

The Greece–Turkey football rivalry is one of Europe's major rivalries between two national teams, Greece and Turkey.

History

Greece and Turkey have a long standing tensions throughout history.

The Ottoman Empire conquered Greece at 1453, and throughout its history, Greeks were treated unequal by Turkish Ottoman Government. It had led to the Greek War of Independence at 1821, overthrowing the Ottoman rule and became the first Balkan and European nation to set free themselves from the Turks.^[1]^[2] By that time, the Greek identity was soon strengthened and a number of conflicts occurred between Turkey and Greece existed from 1830s onward.

In 1919, with the collapse of the Ottoman state, Greece attempted to conquered Western Turkey in their accordance to the Megali Idea, which both the Greeks and Turks caused atrocities on each other territories. Greece ended up defeated by the Turks and were expelled back to Greece;^[3] however efforts from Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and Eleftherios Venizelos helped establish the official relations between Greece and Turkey.^[4] The grievance however, returned with the Turkish invasion of Cyprus, as Turkey divided Northern Cyprus, a majority Turkish-populated region, from majority Greek-populated Cyprus.^[5]

Due to historical grievances, Greece and Turkey have a heated rivalry, though less violence than Greece or Turkey's other rivalries. Both teams are also described as "punching above their weights", due to its successes despite lack of competitive history in football.

List of matches

Number	Date	Location	Competition	Game	Results	Home scorers	Away scorers
1	23 April 1948	Athens	Friendly	Greece – Turkey	1–3	Kleanthis Vikelidis -'	Fikret Kırcan 9' Lefter Küçükandonyadis 20' Şükrü Gülesin 74'
2	27 November 1948	Istanbul	Friendly	Turkey – Greece	2–1	Reha Eken 3', 19'	Haralambos Filaktos -'
3	16 May 1949	Athens	Mediterranean Cup	Greece – Turkey	1–2	Nilton Markopoulos -'	Gündüz Kılıç 33' Bülent Esel 44'
4	29 February 1952	Athens		Greece – Turkey	3–1	Georgios Darivas -', -', -'	Şevket Yorulmaz -'
5	16 May 1952	Istanbul		Turkey – Greece	0–1		Ilias Papageorgiou -'
6	24 September 1987	Latakia	Mediterranean Games	Turkey – Greece	1–0 (a.e.t.)	Orhan Görsen 94'
7	21 September 1988	Istanbul	Friendly	Turkey – Greece	3–1	Tanju Çolak 9' (pen.) Oğuz Çetin 41' Rıdvan Dilmen 68'	Nikos Anastopoulos 39'
8	29 March 1989	Athens	Friendly	Greece – Turkey	0–1		Rıdvan Dilmen 38'
9	8 September 2004	Piraeus	2006 FIFA World Cup qualification	Greece – Turkey	0–0
10	4 June 2005	Istanbul	2006 FIFA World Cup qualification	Turkey – Greece	0–0
11	24 March 2007	Athens	UEFA Euro 2008 qualifying	Greece – Turkey	1–4	Sotiris Kyrgiakos 5'	Tuncay 27' Gökhan Ünal 55' Tümer Metin 70' Gökdeniz Karadeniz 81'
12	17 October 2007	Istanbul	UEFA Euro 2008 qualifying	Turkey – Greece	0–1		Ioannis Amanatidis 79'
13	17 November 2015	Istanbul	Friendly	Turkey – Greece	0–0
14	30 May 2019	Antalya	Friendly	Turkey – Greece	2–1	Cengiz Ünder 11' Kenan Karaman 17'	Dimitris Kourbelis 90+3'

References

[1] ttps://www.ahistoryofgreece.com/turkish.htm

[2] ttps://www.ahistoryofgreece.com/revolution.htm

[3] ttps://www.icrc.org/en/doc/resources/documents/misc/5gke3d.htm

[4] ttps://greece.greekreporter.com/2016/03/21/from-ataturk-to-venizelos/

[5] ttps://in-cyprus.com/the-1974-turkish-invasion-and-its-consequences/

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See also

References