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The following is a list of Galatasaray S.K footballers based in Istanbul, Turkey.

Key

• The list is ordered first by date of debut, and then if necessary in alphabetical order.
• Appearances as a substitute are included.
• Statistics are correct up to and including the match played on 20 February 2025. Where a player left the club permanently after this date, his statistics are updated to his date of leaving.

Unless otherwise noted, the nationality of a player is determined by the country/countries which he has played for, or if said person has not played international football, their country of birth.

Playing positions are listed according to the tactical formations that were employed at the time. Thus the change in the names of defensive and midfield positions reflects the tactical evolution that occurred from the 1960s onwards.

Club career is defined as the first and last calendar years in which the player appeared for the club in any of the competitions listed below.

Total appearances and goals comprise those in the Atatürk Cup, Istanbul Football Cup, Istanbul Football League, Istanbul Friday League, Istanbul Shield, Prime Minister's Cup, Süper Lig, Turki

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The changing face of the World Cup

Watching Germany demolish Australia early on Monday morning, it was hard to level the old criticisms at the Germans, grinding out a result in the unattractive manner that became their wont over so many years.

Here was a stylish, attacking, young and pacy team with bags of technique, building on the style that developed at the last World Cup, held on their home turf.

But perhaps most noticeable was how the team had changed in terms of appearances.

Germany is a multicultural nation. But until recently, its national team had not embraced players of non-German heritage.

All of that changed when Lukas Podolski and Miroslav Klose, an attacking duo any nation would be pleased to field, pitted their strengths on behalf of Germany instead of Poland.

Now, in 2010, the side boasts Cacau, of Brazilian heritage, Mario Gomez, with links to Spain, young star Sami Khedira, who has a Tunisian dad, and the mercurial Mesut Oezil, who, despite being one of two million Turkish-Germans, is one of very few Turks to play, let alone star for Germany.

Mehmet Scholl might have chosen Germany as the Vaterland back in the 90s, but Turkish stars such as Halil Altintop and Yildiray Bastuerk were born in Germany, opting for Turkish representation.