Beşiktaş welcome Başakşehir to Tüpraş Stadium on Monday for a Trendyol Süper Lig week nine fixture, with kick-off set for 19.00 local time, according to Fanatik. Ümit Öztürk will referee the match, assisted on the touchlines by Kerem Ersoy and Candaş Elbil, while Reşat Onur Coşkunses takes the fourth official role.
The video assistant referee appointment is the notable one: Scottish official John Allan Beaton will sit in the VAR chair, with Özer Özden alongside him as assistant VAR, İhlas Haber Ajansı reported. The match will be broadcast live on beIN Sports 2, per Fanatik.
Why it matters
The fixture arrives with Beşiktaş chasing a result that would end a run of mixed home form against their Istanbul rivals. Hürriyet framed the game as an opportunity for the black-and-whites to break a sequence against Başakşehir, and the historical record shows why that framing exists.
The two clubs have met 39 times before across all competitions, with Beşiktaş winning 12, Başakşehir 11 and 16 matches drawn. Goals are almost level too: Beşiktaş have scored 50 in those meetings and conceded 49. Monday's match is the 40th encounter between the sides.
Beaton's presence on VAR also draws attention. Foreign officials working Turkish league matches as video referees have become a familiar arrangement, and his appointment was treated as newsworthy in its own right by the Turkish agency that reported it.
Home record against Başakşehir
In Süper Lig play specifically, the clubs have faced each other 36 times. Beşiktaş have won 11 of those, Başakşehir 10, with 15 draws. The goal split in league games is similarly tight — 45 for Beşiktaş, 44 for Başakşehir.
At home in the league, Beşiktaş have hosted Başakşehir 18 times, recording seven wins, seven draws and four defeats. They have scored 22 goals in those home fixtures and conceded 18.
The pattern has shifted over time. In the first four home league meetings after Başakşehir entered the top flight in the 2007-08 season under the name İstanbul Büyükşehir Belediyespor, Beşiktaş managed two wins, one draw and one loss. Across the last five home meetings, Beşiktaş have won twice, lost twice and drawn once.
Last season's two league meetings both went Beşiktaş's way, by 2-1 and 3-2, per Fanatik.
Probable line-ups
Fanatik published expected starting elevens ahead of the match. Beşiktaş's probable side is listed as Nübel, Murillo, Agbadou, Emirhan, Ouattara, Salih, Olaitan, Ndidi, Cerny, Trossard and Vlahovic.
Başakşehir's probable eleven is given as Muhammed, Karbownik, Emin, Ba, Kharebashvili, Umut, Kemen, Shomurodov, Olsen, Brnic and Umut. These are projections rather than confirmed team sheets, and both clubs were expected to finalise their selections closer to kick-off.
What to watch
The match closes out week nine of the Trendyol Süper Lig on Monday evening. Beyond the result, the home side's ability to convert recent away wins over Başakşehir into a home victory — and Beaton's first interventions from the VAR booth — are the details worth tracking when the teams emerge at Tüpraş Stadium.
