Fenerbahçe S.K.
multi-sports club based in Istanbul, Turkey
Fenerbahçe Spor Kulübü (Turkish pronunciation: [feˈnæɾbahtʃe], Fenerbahçe Sports Club), commonly known as Fenerbahçe or colloquially Fener, is a Turkish professional multi-sport club based in Istanbul, Turkey. Fenerbahçe is parent to a number of different competitive departments including football, basketball, volleyball, table tennis, athletics, swimming, sailing, boxing, rowing, and eSports, which have won both international and domestic titles over the club's history. Some departments also have parasports divisions.
Fenerbahçe is one of the oldest and most successful multi-sport clubs in Turkey, having won 20 international titles, including 16 major European titles, one World championship, three regional Balkan titles and numerous Mediterranean titles across five sport departments. It is among the few clubs in Europe to have won titles across multiple departments.
Fenerbahçe is one of the most supported Turkish clubs with millions of fans inside Turkey and all over the world. The club has 309,026 paid members as of 2012 while having 55.000 congress members as of 2025.
In its 101st year of 2008; with a market value of $2 billion, it surpassed Manchester United to become the world's most valuable club. Also, in March 2008, Fenerbahçe's record application was accepted by Guinness World Records, which envisages Fenerbahçe to have the highest number of medal and trophy achievements on the planet with its 9 departments entirely, a total of 1134 cups and medals.
History
Foundation and early history
Fenerbahçe was founded as a football club in 1907 in Istanbul, Ottoman Empire, by Ziya Songülen, Ayetullah Bey, and Necip Okaner.
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