Galatasaray SK

Galatasaray Spor Kulübü (, Galatasaray Sports Club) is a Turkish sports club based on the European side of the city of Istanbul in Turkey. Most notable for its association football department, the club also consists of various other departments including basketball, wheelchair basketball, volleyball, water polo, handball, athletics, swimming, rowing, sailing, judo, bridge, motorsport, equestrian, esports, and chess. Galatasaray S.K. is among the key members of the Galatasaray Community Cooperation Committee together with Galatasaray University and the prestigious Galatasaray High School. Galatasaray S.K. is one of the most successful and decorated multi-sport clubs in Europe, being the only Turkish club, as well as one of the few European multi-sport clubs to have won as many as 21 international titles. The football branch of Galatasaray has accumulated the most Süper Lig (23), Turkish Cup (18) and Turkish Super Cup (16) titles in Turkey, thus making them the most decorated football club in Turkey, as those competitions are the top nationwide professional leagues and cups within the Turkish football system that is recognized and accounted for in accordance to the regulations set by the Turkish Football Federation and UEFA. In the year 2000 Galatasaray also took claim of the UEFA Cup title by defeating Arsenal F.C. and the UEFA Super Cup, by defeating Real Madrid C.F. These accomplishments makes Galatasaray the only Turkish football club to have reached that level of European success in the history of Turkish Football.