The Beşiktaş football team’s sacred Vodafone Park is home to Turkey’s largest and first officially recognized sports museum, which spans two levels and has a space of 1650 m2. The museum features hundreds of one-of-a-kind sports objects, including jerseys, medals, trophies, photos, and videos that depict Beşiktaş’s 119-year history. Free to visit with Istanbul Tourist Pass® and dreamy if you are a football fan!

Football is the most popular and most watched sport branch in Turkey. There are many big sports clubs and there are millions of people supporting them. Besiktas Gymnastics Club is one of the biggest sports clubs of Turkey and is one of the long-established ones of Istanbul. It was found in 1903, when there were no big stadiums that pursue football activities. Besiktas supporters and the members of Besiktas football team liken the stadium with the concept of home and call it by the name “Eagle’s Nest” because Besiktas team is identified with black eagles. It is not hard to guess that the stadium located in the Besiktas district of Istanbul is very significant and valuable to the residents of Besiktas. It has an unstable story but also a glorious one. It witnessed many breath-taking moments in the history of football in Turkey as well as many unbelievable stage performances by globally famous artist. Seeing Besiktas JK Museum and not discovering Besiktas in its entirety would be a shame therefore we prepared you a humble advice on what to do in Besiktas alongside with information on the museum.

A Brief History of Beşiktaş JK Stadium

In 1939, by Turkish architects’ cooperation with invited architects from Italy initiated the project of a stadium, on the area which was used as the Dolmabahce Palace’s horse stables before. These were the groundworks for Inonu Stadium. Unfortunately, the conditions as results of the Second World War, inhibited the construction. In 1943, it was reinitiated. It took 4 years to build the stadium and on 27 November 1947, it was opened. Later the name Inonu, which was the name of Ataturk’s brother-in-arms and the first president of the republic was eliminated because of the political conflicts.

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