Marked for Yohan Boli
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Match5 Dec 2026
11 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Antalyaspor may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Player ratings7 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match5 Dec 2026
Konyaspor left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Salih Tekdemir after 0‑2, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
Squad7 Dec 2026
A place in the month's best eleven for Salih Malkoçoğlu
Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Salih Malkoçoğlu has come out of that comparison in the side, and Antalyaspor have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
Yohan Boli knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Antalyaspor, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Looking ahead7 Dec 2026
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Hatayspor in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
Georgy Djikia has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Antalyaspor will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
Back issues
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Uneasy
Squad16 Nov 2026
Yohan Boli has done the arithmetic and does not like the answer. Nothing corrodes a squad faster, and no club has ever solved it by explaining the wage structure to a footballer.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
The manager makes Jesper Ceesay a promise
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Antalyaspor. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
Looking ahead16 Nov 2026
Home comforts ahead for Antalyaspor
Adana Demirspor, position 14, come to town on Saturday. Nobody will call it a big game and nobody at the club will be treating it as anything else.
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Crisis
Squad9 Nov 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Muhammed Özkul
14 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Antalyaspor lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match7 Nov 2026
7 matches without a win for Antalyaspor
The run now stands at 7, and the questions being asked around Antalyaspor are no longer polite ones.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
At 33 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 8.02, and nobody on the pitch better.
Match7 Nov 2026
Fatih Karagumruk left with the points after a 1‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Yohan Boli and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad9 Nov 2026
200 games in the shirt. Nobody sets out to build a record like that; it happens to a certain kind of player at a certain kind of club, and this town knows what it has.
Squad9 Nov 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Samet Karakoç and Antalyaspor agree another 4 years.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Salih Tekdemir after 1‑3, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
Market9 Nov 2026
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Antalyaspor has been clear about where Abdullah Yiğiter stands, which is more than many ever get.
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Steady
Match3 Oct 2026
4 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 23. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Match3 Oct 2026
1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Antalyaspor will explain it as a decision about the team, and it may well be one. A dressing room has never once read it that way.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
The view from the dugout
“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Salih Tekdemir chose the glass-half-full version of 1‑1; the supporters left with the other one.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
Soner Dikmen dropped after a run of poor form
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ufuk Akyol, and the manager let it.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Doğukan Sinik moves up the pecking order
Nothing is announced when this happens and everybody knows. He is a bigger part of the plan at Antalyaspor than he was a month ago, and the training ground worked that out before the team sheet said so.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
Soner Dikmen knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Antalyaspor, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Crisis
Market28 Sep 2026
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Fotis Pseftis is 23, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Match26 Sep 2026
No clean sheets in sight for Antalyaspor
4 games now with at least two against. The back line has been rearranged, the goalkeeper has been backed publicly, and the goals keep going in anyway.
Match26 Sep 2026
Gaziantep left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
A performance of 8.12 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Nikola Storm beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 16. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Too much change too quickly at Antalyaspor
7 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Salih Tekdemir after 1‑2, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.