Ziya Songülen

Nurizade Ziya Songülen (9 September 1886, Kadıköy, Istanbul – 21 August 1936) was a great-grandson of Damat Gürcü Halil Rifat Pasha and his second wife Saliha Sultan, an Ottoman princess.

When he returned to his country after completing his education in England in 1906, he first contacted his friends and his literature teacher Enver Yetiker at Saint-Joseph’s College, the school he graduated from.

Nurizade Ziya Bey had obtained Fenerbahçe’s first kits from the shop of Frank Sugg, a famous sports goods merchant of the time, located in the Lord Street district of Liverpool, England.

For this reason, the club’s president Nurizade Ziya Bey went to the shop of Baker, an English merchant who sold sports goods, located in the Tünel district of Beyoğlu, Istanbul, in 1908 to order summer kits for the team.

Accepting this offer, Nurizade Ziya Bey purchased all the jerseys from Baker in Istanbul and decided that the team’s colors would be yellow-navy.

A team photo including Ziya Bey during Fenerbahçe 's match against HMS Barham on November 8, 1908 (He is the fourth from the left standing)