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In 2002 the Turkish Football Federation revisited two Federation Cup titles Beşiktaş had won in 1957 and 1958, more than four decades earlier, and ruled them equivalent to league championships. The decision still splits the record books: some counts credit the club with 14 Süper Lig titles since the league's modern era began in 1959, others add those two retroactive titles and reach 16.

The club took shape in the Istanbul district it's named after, founded on 3 March 1903, and settled early on black and white as its colours. Supporters know the team as Kara Kartallar, the Black Eagles; the more descriptive Siyah Beyazlılar, the Black and Whites, gets used almost as often but never displaced the eagle as the name that matters.

Fixtures against Fenerbahçe carry the weight of one of the oldest and most fiercely contested derbies in Turkish football. Galatasaray supplies the other half of the city's rivalry, the two matches together forming the backbone of the Istanbul football calendar each season. Alongside the league titles, Beşiktaş have collected 11 Turkish Cups and 10 Turkish Super Cups.

Home games are played at Tüpraş Stadyumu, known to most simply as Beşiktaş Park, on the shore of the Bosphorus. Wikipedia lists its capacity at 42,684; the club's own website rounds that down to 42,000 — a small enough gap that either number gets you close to the black-and-white crowd that fills it.