Season trivia for Süper Lig 2017/2018
It's not all about becoming the top scorer or winning matches - there's also a wealth of fascinating information related to goalscorers and other remarkable records. Below, you'll find trivia and interesting facts from the 2017/2018 Süper Lig season in Turkey.
Best scoring couple
The top goal-scoring pair, in other words two players where one scored the goal and the other player assisted to it, were Garry Rodrigues and Bafetimbi Gomis. Together they were behind 9 goals for Galatasaray in the 2017/2018 season.
Fastest goalscorer
These players all scored goals in the first minute of a match during the 2017/2018 season:
Fastest hat-trick
All of these players managed to score a hat-trick, that is, three goals in the same match, within 20 minutes:
Top goalscorer by calendar month
In May 2018, Mbaye Diagne (Kasimpasa) scored 6 goals, which was the most goals in a calendar month of the 2017/2018 season.
Most braces by player
Most braces (at least two goals in a match) were scored 7 times during this season, and the players who managed that were these:
Bafetimbi Gomis (Galatasaray)
Burak Yilmaz (Trabzonspor)
Most first goals in a match
The player who scored the first goal in a match the most times during the 2017/2018 season was Bafetimbi Gomis in Galatasaray, in total he did it 8 times.
Most last goals in a match
In total, there were 2 players who scored the last goal of the match the most times, 8 times to be precise, and the players who did it were these:
Adis Jahovic (Konyaspor/Göztepe)
Bafetimbi Gomis (Galatasaray)
Most penalty goals by player
The best penalty taker in the league during the 2017/2018 season was Adis Jahovic, in total he scored 7 penalties for his Konyaspor/Göztepe.
Most penalty goals by team
Göztepe was the most effective team of all when it came to penalty goals during the 2017/2018 season, in total they scored 8 of their goals from penalties.
Most stoppage time goals by player
Trézéguet was the player who scored the most stoppage time goals during the 2017/2018 season, in total he scored 3 stoppage time goals for his Kasimpasa.
Most stoppage time goals by team
The highest number of goals in added time by a team was 5 goals, which 6 teams managed to do, and these were Fenerbahce, Alanyaspor, Besiktas, Trabzonspor, Kasimpasa and Konyaspor.
Most own goals by player
The unluckiest scorer during the 2017/2018 season was João Pereira, as he held the somewhat dubious honour of scoring the most own goals of any player in Süper Lig, which he did 2 times.
Most own goals by team
Trabzonspor scored 4 own goals in all their matches, making them the "best" at it in the entire league during the 2017/2018 season.
Players with goals in most consecutive matches
Adis Jahovic in Göztepe and Konyaspor scored in 7 consecutive matches during the 2017/2018 season, which was the best in the league.
Players with most goals in the first half
It was Bafetimbi Gomis in Galatasaray who scored the most goals in the first half, with a total of 13 goals in the first half of the match.
Players with most goals in the second half
Bafetimbi Gomis in Galatasaray scored a total of 16 goals in the second half, including stoppage time, which was the best in Süper Lig during the 2017/2018 season.
Most consecutive wins
There were 2 teams that had 5 consecutive wins in the 2017/2018 season, and those teams were Trabzonspor and Fenerbahce.
Most matches in a row without losing
Fenerbahce were the team with the longest unbeaten run during the 2017/2018 season, playing 15 straight matches without losing.
Most consecutive losses
Karabükspor had a streak of 8 consecutive losses, something no other team surpassed in Süper Lig during the 2017/2018 season.
Most matches in a row without a win
Akhisar Belediyespor managed the feat of not winning a single match in 12 consecutive matches during the 2017/2018 season, something they did best among all the teams in the league.
Most comebacks from behind to win
The teams that were best at trailing and then eventually winning the match were Istanbul Basaksehir and Trabzonspor, and these teams turned the game around 5 times in total.
Most blown leads resulting in losses
Alanyaspor, Kasimpasa, Ankaraspor, Antalyaspor and Konyaspor were the teams that struggled most to win despite taking the lead, these teams blew a lead and lost in 4 different matches during the 2017/2018 season.
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