The 2025-26 Süper Lig season ends today with five matches that will decide the third and final team to go down after Karagümrük and Kayserispor. Galatasaray, Fenerbahçe, Trabzonspor and Beşiktaş have already locked up the top four, but the focus on the last day is firmly on survival.
Four clubs enter the final round still in danger: Antalyaspor with 29 points, Gençlerbirliği with 31, and Kasımpaşa and Eyüpspor on 32 apiece. Any one of them could still drop into the 1. Lig depending on how the day unfolds, and the margin is thin enough that every goal matters. That makes the closing round at 20.00 more than a formality. It is the last chance to turn a full season into one more year in the top flight.
One of the night’s biggest games sends Galatasaray to Kasımpaşa at 20.00 in Istanbul. Kasımpaşa goes into the match with 32 points and only needs to take a point to secure survival, while Galatasaray arrives as the champion in a season that has already settled the title race. A separate final-week meeting between the two sides was also scheduled in Istanbul, underscoring how the last day has become a crossroads for teams with very different goals.
Fenerbahçe also plays at 20.00, hosting ikas Eyüpspor in a match that carries the same kind of pressure for the visitors. Eyüpspor has taken 10 points from its last four matches, a late surge that has kept it alive. If it gets at least a point today, it stays in the league. If it does not, it will have to rely on other results to avoid the drop.
Trabzonspor hosts Gençlerbirliği in a game that adds another layer of tension after the Black Sea club beat the same opponent 2-1 in the Turkish Cup semifinal during the week, scoring in the 90+2 minute. Gençlerbirliği’s fate now depends on its own result and what happens elsewhere. The club cannot control the entire picture, which is exactly what makes the final day so unforgiving.
Antalyaspor, now known as Hesap.com Antalyaspor, faces Kocaelispor at 20.00 and needs three points plus help from other matches to survive. The Mediterranean club’s situation is straightforward in one sense and brutal in another: winning is necessary, but it may not be enough. Zecorner Kayserispor, meanwhile, hosts TÜMOSAN Konyaspor in a match with no stakes for the visitors, who have nothing left to play for in the table.
The arithmetic at the bottom is where the day could turn strange. If Eyüpspor, Kasımpaşa and Antalyaspor all finish on 32 points, Eyüpspor would go down on goal difference. If Kasımpaşa, Gençlerbirliği and Antalyaspor all end level on 32, the decisive factor would come from the results among Antalyaspor, Gençlerbirliği and Kasımpaşa. In other words, the final table may be settled not just by points but by the fine print of the tie-break rules.
That is why today matters so sharply. The championship is already decided, but the relegation race has been reduced to a handful of scorelines and one last night of uncertainty. By the final whistle, one club will have escaped, and another will be left facing the long way back to the 1. Lig.
