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UEFA EUROPA LEAGUE - 2019/20 SEASON MATCH PRESS KITS Národný futbalový štadión - Bratislava Thursday 19 September 2019 ŠK Slovan Bratislava 21.00CET (21.00 local time) Beşiktaş JK Group K - Matchday 1 Last updated 14/12/2019 01:59CET Previous meetings 2 Match background 3 Team facts 4 Squad list 6 Fixtures and results 8 Match-by-match lineups 11 Match officials 13 Legend 14 1 ŠK Slovan Bratislava - Beşiktaş JK Thursday 19 September 2019 - 21.00CET (21.00 local time) Match press kit Národný futbalový štadión, Bratislava Previous meetings Head to Head No UEFA competition matches have been played between these two teams ŠK Slovan Bratislava - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Hami Mandıralı 1, S. Trabzonspor AŞ - ŠK Slovan 4-1 Arveladze 14, Orhan 20/08/1996 QR Trabzon Bratislava agg: 5-3 Çıkırıkçı 67, Ercan 70; Németh 52 ŠK Slovan Bratislava - Slovák 24, Kinder 64; 06/08/1996 QR 2-1 Bratislava Trabzonspor AŞ S. Arveladze 3 Beşiktaş JK - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Cup Winners' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Formanko 49, Karhan 2-1 01/10/1998 R1 FC Spartak Trnava - Beşiktaş JK Trnava 71; Oktay Derelioğlu agg: 2-4 45 Özdilek 10, Oktay 17/09/1998 R1 Beşiktaş JK - FC Spartak Trnava 3-0 Istanbul Derelioğlu 21, Ohenhen 48 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 2-0 29/09/1993 R1 Beşiktaş JK - MFK Košice Istanbul Tekin 45, 72 agg: 3-2 Danko 72, 77; Sergen 15/09/1993 R1 MFK Košice - Beşiktaş JK 2-1 Košice Yalçın 2 Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA ŠK Slovan Bratislava 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 1 3 5 Beşiktaş JK 2 2 0 0 2 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 4 2 0 2 7 4 2 ŠK Slovan Bratislava - Beşiktaş JK Thursday 19 September 2019 - 21.00CET (21.00 local time) Match press kit Národný futbalový štadión, Bratislava Match background Surprise conquerors of Greek double winners PAOK in the play-offs, Slovan Bratislava will be hoping that their third UEFA Europa League group stage campaign proves more memorable than the first two as they open with a home game against Turkish heavyweights Beşiktaş. Previous meetings • The clubs have never met in UEFA competition. • Slovan's experience of Turkish opposition is limited to two matches – a 2-1 home win and a 1-4 away defeat in a 1996/97 UEFA Cup qualifying tie against Trabzonspor. • Beşiktaş have a similar record against Slovakian opposition, with two home wins and two away defeats – against MFK Košice and Spartak Trnava in the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup during the 1990s. Form guide Slovan • Slovan's ninth Slovakian league title since independence – and 21st national championship in all – was won at a canter in 2018/19, their final margin of victory amounting to 17 points. Their European campaign ended in the third qualifying round of the UEFA Europa League at the hands of Rapid Wien. • This term the club from the Slovakian capital lost a penalty shoot-out against Montenegro's Sutjeska in the UEFA Champions League first qualifying round, but won both legs of their first two UEFA Europa League qualifying ties against Feronikeli and Dundalk before stunning PAOK on away goals (1-0 h, 2-3 a) to reach the group stage for the third time. Their previous two participations, in 2011/12 and 2014/15, yielded just one point. • Defeated in their last nine UEFA Europa League group stage games, since a 0-0 draw at home to Paris Saint- Germain on matchday three of the 2011/12 campaign, Slovan have, however, lost just one of 13 home European qualifying matches (W9 D3) since the 2014/15 group stage. Beşiktaş • Third in the 2018/19 Turkish Süper Lig, Beşiktaş's reward was direct access to the UEFA Europa League group stage; they also participated last season, failing to reach the round of 32. • This is the Istanbul club's sixth participation in the UEFA Europa League group stage, from which they have qualified three times but come up short on each of the last two occasions. Their best season in the competition came in 2016/17 when, after finishing third in their UEFA Champions League group, they went on to reach the quarter-finals, where they succumbed on penalties to Lyon. • Beşiktaş have won half of their 30 matches in the UEFA Europa League group stage (D8 L7). In Istanbul their record is W9 D3 L3, with two of those defeats having occurred in successive home games last season – 2-4 to Genk on matchday three and, decisively, 0-1 to Malmö on matchday six. Links and trivia • Slovan's Bulgarian skipper Vasil Bozhikov joined from Turkish club Kasımpaşa in 2017. • Slovan's run of nine successive defeats in the UEFA Europa League, group stage to final, is a competition record. • Slovan's qualification means that Slovakia has a representative in successive UEFA Europa League group stages for the first time – following Spartak Trnava's involvement in 2018/19. The coaches • The assistant coach in Slovan's runaway 2018/19 Slovakian title triumph, his fourth season in the role, Ján Kozák was promoted to the position of head coach in the summer as a replacement for Martin Ševela and duly succeeded in fulfilling his first assignment by steering the club through to the UEFA Europa League group stage. Capped 25 times by Slovakia, and a participant at the 2010 FIFA World Cup, the former midfielder won four Slovakian league titles – one each with Košice and Slovan and the other two with Artmedia Petržalka. • Appointed by Beşiktaş on a three-year contract in May 2019 to replace Şenol Güneş, who had left to take charge of the Turkish national side, Abdullah Avcı moved across the city having just led İstanbul Başakşehir to a runners-up spot in the Süper Lig. That ended the second of his two five-year spells with the club, which was preceded by an unsuccessful two-year sojourn in charge of the Turkish national side. He had previously led the country to victory in the 2005 UEFA European Under-17 Championship in Italy. 3 ŠK Slovan Bratislava - Beşiktaş JK Thursday 19 September 2019 - 21.00CET (21.00 local time) Match press kit Národný futbalový štadión, Bratislava Team facts ŠK Slovan Bratislava Formed: 1919 Nickname: Belasí (Sky blues) UEFA club competition honours • UEFA Cup Winners' Cup (1): 1969 Domestic honours (most recent triumph in brackets) League title: 21 (2019) National Cup: 13 (2018) Ten-year record (UEFA Europa League unless indicated otherwise) 2018/19: third qualifying round 2017/18: second qualifying round 2016/17: second qualifying round 2015/16: third qualifying round 2014/15: group stage (having transferred from UEFA Champions League play-offs) 2013/14: UEFA Champions League second qualifying round 2012/13: second qualifying round 2011/12: group stage (having transferred from UEFA Champions League third qualifying round) 2010/11: play-offs 2009/10: play-offs (having transferred from UEFA Champions League third qualifying round) Records UEFA club competition • Biggest home win 8-1: Slovan v HPS Helsinki 19/10/63, European Cup Winners' Cup preliminary round second leg • Biggest away win 0-6: Europa v Slovan 02/07/15, UEFA Europa League first qualifying round first leg • Heaviest home defeat 0-3 twice, most recently v Sparta Praha 23/10/14, UEFA Europa League group stage • Heaviest away defeat 6-0: Tottenham Hotspur v Slovan 14/03/63, European Cup Winners' Cup quarter-finals second leg UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League • Biggest home win 6-0: Slovan v Vojvodina 13/09/72, first round first leg • Biggest away win 0-6: Europa v Slovan (see above) • Heaviest home defeat 0-3 twice, most recently v Sparta Praha (see above) • Heaviest away defeat 5-0 twice, most recently v Young Boys 18/09/14, group stage Beşiktaş JK Formed: 1903 Nickname: Kara Kartal (The Black Eagles) UEFA club competition honours (runners-up in brackets) • None Domestic honours (most recent triumph in brackets) League title: 15 (2017) Turkish Cup: 9 (2011) 4 ŠK Slovan Bratislava - Beşiktaş JK Thursday 19 September 2019 - 21.00CET (21.00 local time) Match press kit Národný futbalový štadión, Bratislava Ten-year European record (UEFA Europa League unless otherwise indicated) 2018/19: group stage 2017/18: UEFA Champions League round of 16 2016/17: quarter-finals (having transferred from UEFA Champions League group stage) 2015/16: group stage 2014/15: round of 16 (having transferred from UEFA Champions League play-offs) 2013/14: play-offs (excluded from the group stage) 2012/13: did not participate in UEFA competition 2011/12: round of 16 2010/11: round of 32 2009/10: UEFA Champions League group stage Records UEFA club competition • Biggest home win 6-0: Beşiktaş v B36 Tórshavn 02/08/18, UEFA Europa League second qualifying round second leg • Biggest away win 0-5: Sarajevo v Beşiktaş 03/10/02, UEFA Cup first round second leg • Heaviest home defeat 0-5: Beşiktaş v Dynamo Kyiv 14/03/87, European Champion Clubs' Cup quarter-finals first leg • Heaviest away defeat 8-0: Liverpool v Beşiktaş 06/11/07, UEFA Champions League group stage UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League • Biggest home win 6-0: Beşiktaş v B36 Tórshavn (see above) • Biggest away win 0-5: Sarajevo v Beşiktaş (see above) • Heaviest home defeat 1-4: Beşiktaş v Dynamo Kyiv 17/02/11, round of 32 first leg 0-3: Beşiktaş v Atlético Madrid 15/03/12, round of 16 second leg • Heaviest away defeat 4-0: Dynamo Kyiv v Beşiktaş 24/02/11, round of 32 second leg 5 ŠK Slovan Bratislava - Beşiktaş JK Thursday 19 September 2019 - 21.00CET (21.00 local time) Match press kit Národný futbalový štadión, Bratislava Squad list ŠK Slovan Bratislava Current season All-time UCL QUAL UEL League UEL UEFA No.