Original Adidas football shirt Beşiktaş JK

Beşiktaş Jimnastik Kulübü is a Turkish football club from Istanbul.

The club is named after the district of the same name in Istanbul, whose name roughly means: (Beşik) cradle- (taş) stone.

The club has played continuously in the top division since the Süper Lig was founded in 1959. The club was founded in 1903 and plays its home matches in the Vodafone Park stadium (formerly: Vodafone Arena). The club's nickname is Kara Kartallar, which means "The Black Eagles". Beşiktaş is one of the top three clubs in Turkey, along with Fenerbahçe SK and Galatasaray SK. In 2021, the club became sixteen times national champion, ten times winner of the Turkish Cup, eight times winner of the Turkish Super Cup and eleven times winner of the Istanbul competition. In the 2017/18 season, the club qualified for the eighth finals of the Champions League; they finished that season as the first (and only) Turkish club unbeaten in the group stage of the Championship.