The 2010–11 season will be the 47th season in Bursaspor's existence, and their fourth consecutive year in the top-flight of Turkish football, and will cover the period from 1 July 2010 to 30 June 2011. The club qualified for the UEFA Champions League after being crowned champions in the 2009–10 domestic season. They will enter at the group stage. Their previous encounters in Europe have come in the 1986–87 European Cup Winners' Cup and the 1995 UEFA Intertoto Cup, where they went out in the quarter-finals.[1]
Team kit
The team kit for the 2010–11 season is produced by Puma and the shirt sponsor is Digiturk. The home kit will be in the traditional green colour and the away kit will be all white.
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
Source: tff.org(in Turkish) Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored. (C) Champions Notes:
^Originally, Fenerbahçe qualified for the group stage and Trabzonspor qualified for the third qualifying round. Despite being eliminated in the third qualifying round and passed to the UEFA Europa League play-off round, Trabzonspor replaced Fenerbahçe after the Turkish Football Federation withdrew Fenerbahçe from the UEFA Champions League one day before the group stage draw due to match-fixing allegations. UEFA would then select Trabzonspor as their replacement.
^Beşiktaş have won the 2010–11 Turkish Cup competition and thus are qualified for the play-off round of the UEFA Europa League.
Bursaspor finished third in their Group D of the Turkish Cup, winning and drawing one game and losing two games. They did not qualify for the knockout rounds.
By virtue of winning the 2009–10 Süper Lig, Bursaspor have automatically qualified for the group stage of the tournament. The draw for the group stage was held on the 26 August 2010 in Monaco; Bursaspor have been drawn in Group C alongside Manchester United, Valencia and Rangers.