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]

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[13]
60.	2013	Demirhan Şerefhan	President of TBESF	0000[14]
61.	2014	Cüneyt Çakır	Referee	0000[15]
62.	2015	Cüneyt Çakır	Head coach of turkish national football team	0000[16]

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[17]
60.	2013	Fatih Terim	Galatasaray SK	0000[18]
61.	2014	Ersun Yanal	Trabzonspor	0000[19]
62.	2015	Hamza Hamzaoğlu	Galatasaray SK	0000[20]

Footballer Of The Year

No.	Year	Footballer Of The Year	Team	Info
52.	2005	Alex De Souza	Fenerbahçe SK	0000[2]
53.	2006	Tugay Kerimoğlu	Blackburn Rovers FC	0000[3]
54.	2007	Mehmet Aurélio	Fenerbahçe SK	0000[4]
55.	2008	Arda Turan	Galatasaray SK	0000[5]
56.	2009	Arda Turan	Galatasaray SK	0000[6]
57.	2010	Alex De Souza	Fenerbahçe SK	0000[21]
58.	2011	canceled	2011 Turkish sports corruption scandal	0000[8]
59.	2012	Selçuk İnan	Galatasaray SK	0000[22]
60.	2013	Didier Drogba	Galatasaray SK	0000[23]
61.	2014	Arda Turan	Atlético Madrid	0000[24]
62.	2015	Arda Turan	FC Barcelona	0000[25]

Team Of The Year

World Athlete Of the Year

No.	Year	World Athlete of The Year	Branch	Info
52.	2005	Fernando Alonso	Formula One racing driver	0000[32]
53.	2006	Fernando Alonso	Formula One racing driver	0000[3]
54.	2007	Kaká	Football	0000[4]
55.	2008	Michael Phelps	Swimming	0000[33]
56.	2009	Usain Bolt	Sprinter	0000[6]
57.	2010	Mesut Özil	Football	0000[34]
58.	2011	Lionel Messi	Football	0000[8]
59.	2012	Lionel Messi	Football	0000[35]
60.	2013	Cristiano Ronaldo	Football	0000[36]
61.	2014	Cristiano Ronaldo	Football	0000[37]
62.	2015	Lionel Messi	Football	0000[38]

References

External links

• Milli Resmi web sitesi - Temiz spor için el ele. Milliyet Gazetesi Genel Yayın Yönetmeni Sedat Ergin (Turkish)