Milliyet Sports Awards

The Milliyet Sports Awards (Turkish: Milliyet Spor Ödülleri) are given by the Turkish daily Milliyet annually since 1954 in recognition of highest achievements in sports. The award is determined by a poll of Turkish professional footballers playing, athletes, teams, managers in Turkey and World. From 1954 until 2004, there was only one award "Turkish Athlete of the Year" or "Team of the Year".

Award

Athlete of the Year

No	Year	Athlete / team	Branch	Info
1.	1954	Murat Güler	Swimming	0000[1]
2.	1955	Lefter Küçükandonyadis	Football	0000[1]
3.	1956	Hamit Kaplan	Wrestling	0000[1]
4.	1957	Mustafa Dağıstanlı	Wrestling	0000[1]
5.	1958	Varol Ürkmez	Football	0000[1]
6.	1959	Nazmi Bilge	Football	0000[1]
7.	1960	Mithat Bayrak	Wrestling	0000[1]
8.	1961	Yücel Cavkaytar	Archery	0000[1]
9.	1962	Metin Oktay	Football	0000[1]
10.	1963	Muharrem Dalkılıç	Track and Field	0000[1]
11.	1964	Kazım Ayvaz	Wrestling	0000[1]
12.	1965	Kemal Öncü	Equestrianism	0000[1]
13.	1966	Turgay Şeren	Football	0000[1]
14.	1967	Ahmet Ayık	Wrestling	0000[1]
15.	1968	İsmail Akçay	Track and Field	0000[1]
16.	1969	Necdet Yıldırım	Football	0000[1]
17.	1970	Ali Rıza Alan	Wrestling	0000[1]
18.	1971	Özden Ezinler	Fencing	0000[1]
19.	1972	Cemal Kamacı	Boxing	0000[1]
20.	1973	Yasin Özdenak	Football	0000[1]
21.	1974	Ersin Aydın	Swimming	0000[1]
22.	1975	Cemal Kamacı	Boxing	0000[1]
23.	1976	Veli Ballı	Track and Field	0000[1]
24.	1977	Cemil Turan	Football	0000[1]
25.	1978	Ekrem Özdamar	Track and Field	0000[1]
26.	1979	Şenol Güneş	Football	0000[1]
27.	1980	Eczacıbaşı SK Woman Volleyball Team	Volleyball	0000[1]
28.	1981	Efe Aydan	Basketball	0000[1]
29.	1982	Salih Bora	Wrestling	0000[1]
30.	1983	Yılmaz Helvacıoğlu	Taekwondo	0000[1]
31.	1984	Eyüp Can	Boxing	0000[1]
32.	1985	Galatasaray High School Basketball Team	Basketball	0000[1]
33.	1986	Naim Süleymanoğlu	Weightlifting	0000[1]
34.	1987	Naim Süleymanoğlu & Tennur Yerlisu	Weightlifting & Taekwondo	0000[1]
35.	1988	Naim Süleymanoğlu & Tanju Çolak	Weightlifting & Football	0000[1]
36.	1989	Rıdvan Dilmen	Football	0000[1]
37.	1990	Arzu Ceylan	Taekwondo	0000[1]
38.	1991	Derya Büyükuncu	Swimming	0000[1]
39.	1992	Mehmet Akif Pirim	Wrestling	0000[1]
40.	1993	Naim Süleymanoğlu	Weightlifting	0000[1]
41.	1994	Naim Süleymanoğlu	Weightlifting	0000[1]
42.	1995	Turkey national football team	Football	0000[1]
43.	1996	Naim Süleymanoğlu	Weightlifting	0000[1]
44.	1997	Hamza Yerlikaya	Wrestling	0000[2]
45.	1998	Galatasaray S.K. (football team)	Football	0000[1]
46.	1999	Halil Mutlu	Weightlifting	0000[1]
47.	2000	Halil Mutlu	Weightlifting	0000[1]
48.	2001	Halil Mutlu	Weightlifting	0000[1]
49.	2002	Süreyya Ayhan	Track and field	0000[1]
50.	2003	Süreyya Ayhan	Track and field	0000[1]
51.	2004	Atagün Yalçınkaya	Boxing	0000[1]
52.	2005	Hamza Yerlikaya	Wrestling	0000[2]
53.	2006	Neslihan Darnel	Volleyball	0000[3]
54.	2007	Kenan Sofuoğlu	Motorcycle Racer	0000[4]
55.	2008	Elvan Abeylegesse	Track and field	0000[5]
56.	2009	Bahri Tanrıkulu	Taekwondo	0000[6]
57.	2010	Nevin Yanıt	Track and field	0000[7]
58.	2011	Mete Binay	Weightlifting	0000[8]
59.	2012	Aslı Çakır Alptekin	Track and field	0000[9]
60.	2013	Arda Turan	Football	0000[10]
61.	2014	Şahika Ercümen	Freediving	0000[11]
62.	2015	Kenan Sofuoğlu	Motorcycle Racer	0000[12]
63.	2016	Taha Akgül	Freestyle wrestling	0000[13]
64.	2017	Ramil Guliyev	Track and field	0000[14]
65.	2018	Ramil Guliyev	Track and field	0000[15]
66.	2019	Rıza Kayaalp	Wrestling	0000[16]
67.	2020	İbrahim Çolak	Artistic gymnastics	0000[17]
68.	2021	Mete Gazoz	Archery	0000[18]
69.	2022	Adem Asil	Artistic gymnastics	0000[19]
70.	2023	Melissa Vargas	Volleyball	0000[20]

Sport People of the Year

No.	Year	Executive of the Year	Job	Info
52.	2005	Aziz Yıldırım	Businessperson, President of Fenerbahçe SK	0000[2]
53.	2006	Ahmet Ağaoğlu	Businessperson, Turkey Golf Federation Chairman	0000[3]
54.	2007	Aziz Yıldırım	Businessperson, President of Fenerbahçe SK	0000[4]
55.	2008	Adnan Polat	Businessperson, President of Galatasaray SK	0000[5]
56.	2009	İbrahim Karaosmanoğlu	Politics, Mayors of Kocaeli	0000[6]
57.	2010	Turgay Demirel	Commissioner of Turkish Basketball Federation	0000[6]
58.	2011	Erol Ünal Karabıyık	President of Turkish Volleyball Federation	0000[8]
59.	2012	Ünal Aysal	Businessperson, President of Galatasaray SK	0000[21]
60.	2013	Demirhan Şerefhan	President of TBESF	0000[10]
61.	2014	Cüneyt Çakır	Referee	0000[11]
62.	2015	Fatih Terim	Head coach of Turkish national football team	0000[12]
63.	2016	Fikret Orman	Businessperson, President of Beşiktaş JK	0000[22]
64.	2017	Aziz Yıldırım	Businessperson, President of Fenerbahçe SK	0000[14]

Manager of the Year

No.	Year	Manager of the Year	Team	Info
52.	2005	Abdullah Avcı	Turkey U-17 Football Team	0000[2]
53.	2006	Bogdan Tanjević	Turkey national basketball team	0000[3]
54.	2007	Bülent Uygun	Sivasspor	0000[4]
55.	2008	Fatih Terim	Turkey national football team	0000[5]
56.	2009	Mustafa Denizli	Beşiktaş JK	0000[6]
57.	2010	Bogdan Tanjević	Turkey national basketball team	0000[6]
58.	2011	Şahin Çatma	Turkey girls youth national volleyball team	0000[8]
59.	2012	Fatih Terim	Galatasaray SK	0000[21]
60.	2013	Fatih Terim	Galatasaray SK	0000[10]
61.	2014	Ersun Yanal	Trabzonspor	0000[11]
62.	2015	Hamza Hamzaoğlu	Galatasaray SK	0000[12]
63.	2016	Şenol Güneş	Beşiktaş JK	0000[13]
64.	2017	Željko Obradović	Fenerbahçe Men's Basketball	0000[14]
65.	2018	Željko Obradović	Fenerbahçe Men's Basketball	0000[14]
66.	2019	Şenol Güneş	Beşiktaş	0000[16]
67.	2020	Ergin Ataman	Anadolu Efes	0000[17]
68.	2021	Giovanni Guidetti	Turkey women's national volleyball team	0000[18]
69.	2022	Abdullah Avcı	Trabzonspor	0000[19]
70.	2023	Daniele Santarelli	Turkey women's national volleyball team	0000[20]

Team of the Year

No.	Year	Team of the Year	Branch	Info
33.	1986	Küçükyalı 50th Academy Woman Volleyball Team	Volleyball
34.	1987	Turkish National Military Volleyball Team	Volleyball
35.	1988	Üsküdar Girls Academy Volleyball Team	Volleyball
36.	1989	Galatasaray SK	Football
37.	1990	Turkish National Taekwondo Team	Taekwondo
38.	1991	Beşiktaş JK	Football
39.	1992	Turkey national under-20 football team	Football
40.	1993	Galatasaray SK	Football
41.	1994	Trabzonspor	Football
42.	1995	Beşiktaş JK	Football
43.	1996	Anadolu Efes S.K.	Basketball
44.	1997	Galatasaray SK	Football
45.	1998	Turkey National Basketball Team	Basketball
46.	1999	Galatasaray SK	Football
47.	2000	Galatasaray SK	Football
48.	2001	Anadolu Efes S.K.	Basketball
49.	2002	no award
50.	2003	Beşiktaş JK	Football
51.	2004	Fenerbahçe SK	Football	0000[23]
52.	2005	Turkey U-17 Football Team	Football	0000[2]
53.	2006	Turkey National Basketball Team	Basketball	0000[3]
54.	2007	Fenerbahçe SK	Football	0000[4]
55.	2008	Turkey National Football Team	Football	0000[5]
56.	2009	Beşiktaş JK	Football	0000[6]
57.	2010	Turkey National Basketball Team	Basketball	0000[24]
58.	2011	Turkey girls youth national volleyball team	Volleyball	0000[8]
59.	2012	Galatasaray SK	Football	0000[21]
60.	2013	Vakıfbank SK	Volleyball	0000[10]
61.	2014	Galatasaray S.K. (women's basketball)	Basketball	0000[11]
62.	2015	Turkey National Football Team	Football	0000[12]
63.	2016	Beşiktaş JK	Football	0000[13]
64.	2017	Fenerbahçe SK	Basketball	0000[14]
65.	2018	Vakıfbank SK	Volleyball	0000[15]
66.	2019	Turkey national football team	Football	0000[16]
67.	2020	Turkey women's national volleyball team	Volleyball	0000[17]
68.	2021	Turkey women's national volleyball team	Volleyball	0000[18]
69.	2022	Anadolu Efes	Basketball	0000[19]
70.	2023	Turkey women's national volleyball team	Volleyball	0000[20]

Footballer of the Year

No.	Year	Footballer of the Year	Team	Info
1.	1954	Award not given		0000
2.	1955	Lefter Küçükandonyadis	Fenerbahçe	0000
3.-4.	1956-1957	Award not given		0000
5.	1958	Varol Ürkmez	Beşiktaş	0000
6.	1959	Nazmi Bilge	Beşiktaş	0000
7.-8.	1960-1961	Award not given		0000
9.	1962	Metin Oktay	Galatasaray	0000
10-12.	1963-1965	Award not given		0000
13.	1966	Turgay Şeren	Galatasaray	0000
14-15.	1967-1968	Award not given		0000
16.	1969	Necdet Yıldırım	Eskişehirspor	0000
17-19.	1970-1972	Award not given		0000
20.	1973	Yasin Özdenak	Galatasaray	0000
21-23.	1974-1976	Award not given		0000
24.	1977	Cemil Turan	Fenerbahçe	0000
25.	1978	Award not given		0000
26.	1979	Şenol Güneş	Trabzonspor	0000
27-31.	1980-1984	Award not given		0000
32.	1985	Zoran Simović	Galatasaray	0000
33.	1986	Zoran Simović	Galatasaray	0000
34.	1987	Zoran Simović	Galatasaray	0000
35.	1988	Tanju Çolak	Galatasaray	0000
		Harald Schumacher	Fenerbahçe	0000
36.	1989	Rıdvan Dilmen	Fenerbahçe	0000
		Harald Schumacher	Fenerbahçe	0000
37.	1990	Detlef Müller	Sarıyer SK	0000
38.	1991	Mehmet Özdilek	Beşiktaş	0000
39.	1992	Award not given		0000
40.	1993	Reinhard Stumpf	Galatasaray	0000
41.	1994	Shota Arveladze	Trabzonspor	0000
42.	1995	Award not given		0000
43.	1996	Hakan Şükür	Galatasaray	0000
		Gheorghe Hagi	Galatasaray	0000
44.	1997	Hakan Şükür	Galatasaray	0000
		Uche Okechukwu	Fenerbahçe	0000
45.	1998	Hakan Şükür	Galatasaray	0000
		Elvir Baljić	Fenerbahçe	0000
46.	1999	Hakan Şükür	Galatasaray	0000
		Gheorghe Hagi	Galatasaray	0000
47.	2000	Hakan Şükür	Galatasaray	0000
		Gheorghe Hagi	Galatasaray	0000
48.	2001	Rüştü Reçber	Fenerbahçe	0000
49.	2002	Nihat Kahveci	Real Sociedad	0000
50.	2003	Sergen Yalçın	Beşiktaş	0000
51.	2004	Pierre van Hooijdonk	Fenerbahçe	0000[25]
52.	2005	Alex De Souza	Fenerbahçe	0000[2]
53.	2006	Tugay Kerimoğlu	Blackburn Rovers	0000[3]
54.	2007	Mehmet Aurélio	Fenerbahçe	0000[4]
55.	2008	Arda Turan	Galatasaray	0000[5]
56.	2009	Arda Turan	Galatasaray	0000[6]
57.	2010	Alex De Souza	Fenerbahçe	0000[26]
58.	2011	Award not given		0000[8]
59.	2012	Selçuk İnan	Galatasaray	0000[21]
60.	2013	Didier Drogba	Galatasaray	0000[10]
61.	2014	Arda Turan	Atlético Madrid	0000[11]
62.	2015	Arda Turan	Barcelona	0000[12]
63.	2016	Fernando Muslera	Galatasaray	0000[13]
64.	2017	Cenk Tosun	Beşiktaş	0000[14]
65.	2018	Cengiz Ünder	Roma	0000[15]
66.	2019	Çağlar Söyüncü	Leicester City	0000[16]
67.	2020	İrfan Can Kahveci	İstanbul Başakşehir	0000[17]
68.	2021	Hakan Çalhanoğlu	Inter Milan	0000[18]
69.	2022	Enes Ünal	Getafe	0000[19]
70.	2023	Mauro Icardi	Galatasaray	0000[20]

By player

Rank	Player	wins
1	Hakan Şükür	5
2	Arda Turan	4
3	Gheorghe Hagi	3
3	Zoran Simović	3
4	Alex De Souza	2
4	Harald Schumacher	2

By club

Rank	Club	Wins
1	Galatasaray	22
2	Fenerbahçe	12
3	Beşiktaş	5
4	Trabzonspor	2
5	Eskişehirspor	1
5	Sarıyer	1
5	Real Sociedad	1
5	Blackburn Rovers	1
5	Atlético Madrid	1
5	Barcelona	1
5	Roma	1
5	Leicester City	1
5	Inter Milan	1
5	Getafe	1
5	İstanbul Başakşehir	1

By country

Rank	Country	Wins
1	Turkey	29
2	Germany	4
3	Yugoslavia	3
3	Romania	3
4	Brazil	2
5	Argentina	1
5	Georgia	1
5	Nigeria	1
5	Bosnia and Herzegovina	1
5	Netherlands	1
5	Ivory Coast	1
5	Uruguay	1