Ezelî Rekabet

Players of Galatasaray and  Fenerbahçe (in stripes) mingle in 1913. 
Unthinkable as it may seem now there were plans at the time to merge the 2 clubs . The new club was to be called Türkkulübü. The plans fizzled out during the Balkan Wars and the Transcontinental neighbours have now enjoyed their fierce rivalry for 107 years. 

Football...seems to rouse him as nothing else can.

The Lancashire Daily Post 06.06.34

23.02.34: Fenerbahçe v Galatasaray. Nominally a friendly, the match descended into chaos.

Billy Hunter

Scottish outside left Billy Hunter played 150 games for Southern League Millwall Athletic before joining Bolton Wanderers in 1908. Hunter made 55 first team appearances for Bolton over the next 4 seasons.
In 1912 Hunter became manager of Football Club Dordrecht in the Netherlands, and ran the Dutch national side for 4 matches:

15.03.14	Belgium	2	4	Netherlands	Beerschot A.C. Stadion, Antwerp
05.04.14	Netherlands	4	4	Germany	Het Oude Stadion, Amsterdam
26.04.14	Netherlands	4	2	Belgium	Het Oude Stadion, Amsterdam
17.05.14	Denmark	4	3	Netherlands	Copenhagen

P	W	D	L	F	A
4	2	1	1	15	12

He interrupted his career in 1914 to enlist in the British Army.
After the war Hunter coached Lausanne in Switzerland and was involved with  Hakoah Wien in 1923 when they famously beat West Ham United at The Boleyn Ground .
In 1924 Hunter became manager of SK Galatasaray in Istanbul. He managed the Turkish national side in their Olympic debut in 1924. In all he was in charge of the Turkish side for 12 matches:

25.05.24	Czechoslovakia	5	2	Turkey	Stade de Bergeyre, Paris
17.06.24	Finland	2	4	Turkey	Helsinki
19.06.24	Estonia	1	4	Turkey	Tallin
22.06.24	Latvia	1	3	Turkey	Riga
29.06.24	Poland	2	0	Turkey	Łódź
16.11.24	Soviet Union	3	0	Turkey	Moscow
10.04.25	Turkey	2	1	Bulgaria	Istanbul
01.05.25	Romania	1	2	Turkey	Bucharest
15.05.25	Turkey	1	2	Soviet Union	Ankara
02.10.25	Turkey	1	2	Poland	Istanbul
07.05.26	Turkey	1	3	Romania	Istanbul
12.09.26	Poland	6	1	Turkey	Lviv

P	W	D	L	F	A
12	5	0	7	21	29

Turkey-The Istanbul Sunday League

HMS Imogene FC 1904-05

 Cadi-keuy FC 1905-06

Cadi-keuy FC 1906-07

 

 Moda FC 1907-1908

Galatasaray SK 1908-09

Galatasaray SK 1909-10

 

Galatasaray SK 1910-11

 Fenerbahçe SK 1911-12

 

 Fenerbahçe SK 1913-14

The Istanbul Sunday League was started in 1904 and was the first football league in Turkey. With Turks legally barred from playing football, foreign influence, particularly British and Greek, was great. In fact, the first ever winners of the Istanbul Sunday League were HMS Imogene FC, drawn from the crew of a British naval vessel. By 1906 more familiar names were appearing: Galatasaray won 3 titles in a row up to 1911, followed by the first triumph of their arch rivals Fenerbahçe. 

Turkey

When on a military posting to Izmir  in 1898 Fuat Hüsnü Kayacan (above) became the first Turkish man to play football.
 Football was played in  Thessaloniki and Izmir as early as 1875. F.C. Smyrna (Izmir) was the first football  club in Turkey. The game appeared in Istanbul in 1895. As The Ottoman Empire prohibited Turkish people from playing, these early sides were made up of wealthy English, Greek and Armenian expats.
In 1901 Fuat Hüsnü Kayacan was instrumental in forming a club called  Black Stockings FC  for Turkish players, but the police curtailed their activities and their one and only fixture, against Greek opposition, was abandoned.
Historians of Fenerbahçe identify Black Stockings FC as their predecessors. Fuat Hüsnü Kayacan had connections with all the major clubs in Istanbul at the time, being influential at both Fenerbahçe and Galatasary.

In 1908 football for Turkish subjects was decriminalised.