[3] This tournament was conducted under the UEFA Cup system having replaced at the 44th edition a standard knockout competition scheme.

[4] Beşiktaş advanced to the play-off round of the 2011–12 UEFA Europa League and qualified for the 2011 Turkish Super Cup.

Trabzonspor (defending champions), Bursaspor (1st, Süper Lig), Fenerbahçe (2nd), and Galatasaray (3rd), automatically qualified for the group stage.

The draw was conducted by the TFF in the Ataköy Olympic House in Istanbul on 28 January 2011 at 11:00 local time.

[8] The lowest-ranked, and incidentally the only non-Süper Lig team to qualify for this stage of the competition was Gaziantep Büyükşehir Belediyespor, at that time competing in the TFF First League, the 2nd tier of Turkish football.

This was the first time for Kayseri Kadir Has Stadium to host a cup final, which opened its gates in March 2009.