UEFA EUROPA LEAGUE - 2019/20 SEASON MATCH PRESS KITS Beşiktaş Park - Istanbul Thursday 3 October 2019 18.55CET (19.55 local time) Beşiktaş JK Wolverhampton Group K - Matchday 2 Wanderers FC Last updated 13/08/2020 00:28CET Previous meetings 2 Match background 4 Team facts 5 Squad list 7 Fixtures and results 9 Match-by-match lineups 13 Match officials 15 Legend 16 1 Beşiktaş JK - Wolverhampton Wanderers FC Thursday 3 October 2019 - 18.55CET (19.55 local time) Match press kit Beşiktaş Park, Istanbul Previous meetings Head to Head No UEFA competition matches have been played between these two teams Beşiktaş JK - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Europa League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 1-0 26/02/2015 R32 Beşiktaş JK - Liverpool FC agg: 1-1 (aet, 5- Istanbul Tolgay Arslan 72 4 pens) 19/02/2015 R32 Liverpool FC - Beşiktaş JK 1-0 Liverpool Balotelli 85 (P) 11/12/2014 GS Beşiktaş JK - Tottenham Hotspur 1-0 Istanbul Cenk Tosun 59 02/10/2014 GS Tottenham Hotspur - Beşiktaş JK 1-1 London Kane 27; Ba 89 (P) UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 1-0 27/08/2014 PO Arsenal FC - Beşiktaş JK London Alexis Sánchez 45+1 agg: 1-0 19/08/2014 PO Beşiktaş JK - Arsenal FC 0-0 Istanbul UEFA Europa League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Manuel Fernandes 59 (P), Mustafa 14/12/2011 GS Beşiktaş JK - Stoke City FC 3-1 Istanbul Pektemek 74, Edu 82; Fuller 29 Crouch 15, Walters 78 29/09/2011 GS Stoke City FC - Beşiktaş JK 2-1 Stoke-on-Trent (P); Hilbert 14 UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Manchester United FC - Beşiktaş 25/11/2009 GS 0-1 Manchester Tello 20 JK Beşiktaş JK - Manchester United 15/09/2009 GS 0-1 Istanbul Scholes 77 FC UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Crouch 19, 89, Benayoun 32, 53, 56, 06/11/2007 GS Liverpool FC - Beşiktaş JK 8-0 Liverpool Gerrard 69, Babel 78, 81 Hyypiä 13 (og), Bobô 24/10/2007 GS Beşiktaş JK - Liverpool FC 2-1 Istanbul 82; Gerrard 85 UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Beşiktaş JK - Tottenham Ghaly 31, Berbatov 19/10/2006 GS 0-2 Istanbul Hotspur 63 2 Beşiktaş JK - Wolverhampton Wanderers FC Thursday 3 October 2019 - 18.55CET (19.55 local time) Match press kit Beşiktaş Park, Istanbul UEFA Cup UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Beşiktaş JK - Bolton Wanderers Aílton Gonçalves 7; 20/10/2005 GS 1-1 Istanbul FC Borgetti 29 UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Hasselbaink 77, 09/12/2003 GS1 Beşiktaş JK - Chelsea FC 0-2 Gelsenkirchen Bridge 85 01/10/2003 GS1 Chelsea FC - Beşiktaş JK 0-2 London Sergen Yalçın 24, 29 UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 18/10/2000 GS1 Beşiktaş JK - Leeds United 0-0 Istanbul Bowyer 7, 90, Viduka 26/09/2000 GS1 Leeds United - Beşiktaş JK 6-0 Leeds 12, Matteo 22, Bakke 65, Huckerby 90 European Champions Clubs' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 0-0 29/09/1982 R1 Beşiktaş JK - Aston Villa FC Istanbul agg: 1-3 Withe 4, Morley 9, 15/09/1982 R1 Aston Villa FC - Beşiktaş JK 3-1 Birmingham Mortimer 29; Eksi 74 Wolverhampton Wanderers FC - Record versus clubs from opponents' country Wolverhampton Wanderers FC have not played against a club from their opponents' country Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA Beşiktaş JK 11 4 4 3 9 2 1 6 0 0 0 0 20 6 5 9 14 30 Wolverhampton Wanderers FC 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 Beşiktaş JK - Wolverhampton Wanderers FC Thursday 3 October 2019 - 18.55CET (19.55 local time) Match press kit Beşiktaş Park, Istanbul Match background Beşiktaş and Wolverhampton Wanderers are both looking to put their first points on the board in Group K as they meet in Istanbul, surprise defeats having befallen both clubs on matchday one. • Wolves' group stage debut did not go to plan as they were beaten 1-0 at home by Braga, while Beşiktaş surrendered a half-time lead and conceded twice in added time to lose 4-2 at Slovan Bratislava. Previous meetings • This is the first time Wolves have come up against a Turkish club in UEFA competition. • Beşiktaş, on the other hand, have played 20 matches against English clubs. They have won only six (D5 L9) but at home (W4 D4 L3) they have recorded victories in all three of their UEFA Europa League encounters, the most recent of which, 1-0 against Liverpool in the 2014/15 round of 32, preceded a 5-4 victory on penalties. Form guide 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's 31 matches in the UEFA Europa League group stage have yielded 15 wins, eight draws and eight defeats. In Istanbul their record is W9 D3 L3, with two of those defeats having occurred in their last two home games last season – 2-4 to Genk on matchday three and, decisively, 0-1 to Malmö on matchday six. Wolves • In their first season after promotion to the Premier League, Wolves finished seventh in 2018/19 to qualify for European competition for the first time since they lost in the 1980/81 UEFA Cup first round to PSV Eindhoven. • The West Midlanders' best European experience by some distance came in the inaugural UEFA Cup of 1971/72, when they went all the way to the final before losing 3-2 on aggregate to English rivals Tottenham Hotspur. • Wolves won all six of their qualifying matches this season, ousting Crusaders of Northern Ireland, Pyunik of Armenia and, in the play-offs, Torino. They scored ten goals in the three away games, conceding just two. Links and trivia • Beşiktaş defender Rebocho has played for Portugal's Under-21s alongside Wolves' Rúben Neves and Diogo Jota. • Douglas (Beşiktaş) was a Benfica team-mate of Wolves striker Raúl Jiménez in 2017/18. • Two Beşiktaş players are currently on loan from English clubs – Loris Karius (Liverpool) and Mohamed Elneny (Arsenal). Another, Georges-Kévin Nkoudou, joined in a permanent deal from Tottenham this summer. • With 54 and 52 UEFA Europa League appearances respectively, Beşiktaş duo Jeremain Lens and Víctor Ruiz are among only seven players to have passed the competition's half-century mark. • Wolves are the third English club to visit the Beşiktaş Park this season, Liverpool and Chelsea having contested the UEFA Super Cup there in August. • Wolves are one of six UEFA Europa League group stage debutants this season; the others are Espanyol, Ferencváros, Olexandriya and two Austrian clubs, LASK and Wolfsberg. The coaches • 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. • A former goalkeeper who was in Portugal's UEFA EURO 2008 squad but never won a senior cap, Nuno Espírito Santo was mostly a back-up during his playing career but as a manager he is very much at the forefront, having emerged as a studious, progressive coach during spells at Valencia, Porto and, since May 2017, Wolves. He first made his mark by taking Portuguese provincial club Rio Ave to two cup finals and into Europe before shining in Spain during an 18-month stint at Mestalla. He led Wolves into the Premier League in his first season and into the UEFA Europa League in his second. 4 Beşiktaş JK - Wolverhampton Wanderers FC Thursday 3 October 2019 - 18.55CET (19.55 local time) Match press kit Beşiktaş Park, Istanbul Team facts 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) 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