* Karşıyaka Spor Kulübü (Karşıyaka Sports Club), commonly referred to as Karşıyaka is a sports club located in İzmir. They are currently playing in the Turkish 1.League football. The "SK" refers to the sports club, as this club has several other sports branches on-going - basketball (which won the Turkish championship title in 1987, won the President Cup same year by beating Beşiktaş and made it to the finals two other times), volleyball, handball, tennis, swimming, sailing (twice under-21 world champions), billiards, bowling, and motorcycling.