The 2008 Turkish Cup Final was a football match between Gençlerbirliği

Gençlerbirligi

Gençlerbirliği Spor Kulübü is a professional Turkish football club located in the city of Ankara, which is the capital of Turkey. Formed in 1923, Gençlerbirliği are nicknamed Ankara Rüzgârı . The club colours are black and red. They play their home matches at Ankara 19 Mayıs Stadium.Domestically,...

 and Kayserispor

Kayserispor

Kayserispor is a professional Turkish football club located in the city of Kayseri. Formed in 1966, Kayserispor are nicknamed Anadolu Yıldızı . The club colours are red and yellow, and the club play their home matches at Kadir Has Stadium.The club have won one Türkiye Kupası, in 2008...

 and the final of the 2007–08 Turkish Cup

Türkiye Kupası 2007–08

The Fortis Turkey Cup 2007–08 is the 45th edition of the annual Turkish Cup.-First qualifying round:-Second qualifying round:-Group A:-Group B:-Group C:-Group D:-Quarter-finals:-Semi-finals:-Final:-References:...

. Kayserispor won 11–10 on penalties.

Gençlerbirliği

Gençlerbirliği started the tournament in the Second Qualifying Round. They beat Akçaabat Sebatspor

Akçaabat Sebatspor

Akçaabat Sebatspor, also known as A. Sebatspor is a Turkish football club located in the Akçaabat district of Trabzon, Turkey. They play their home games in the Akçaabat Fatih Stadyumu. The club was founded in 1923.-History:...

 4-1, and proceeded to the group stage. Gençlerbirliği was put in Group B with Adana Demirspor

Adana Demirspor

Adana Demirspor is a professional Turkish football club located in the city of Adana. Formed in 1940, Adana Demirspor are nicknamed Mavi Şimşekler...

, Trabzonspor

Trabzonspor

Trabzonspor is a professional Turkish football club located in the city of Trabzon, Turkey. Formed in 1967 through a merger of several local clubs, Trabzonspor won six championships in Turkish Super League. The Club won their first Championship title in 1975 which is also the Club's initiation year...

, Manisaspor and Kırıkkalespor. Gençlerbirliği finished 1st and continued to the Quarter Finals. They beat Adana Demirspor 1-0 at home and 2-2 away. In the Semi Finals, Gençlerbirliği played Galatasaray

Galatasaray S.K. (football team)

Galatasaray Anonim Şirketi is a Turkish football club, part of the Galatasaray S.K. multi-sport club of Istanbul. Galatasaray is a major sports club in Turkey, holding 17 Turkish Super League titles and the highest number of Turkish Cups....

. Gençlerbirliği won 1–0 at home and 1-1 in Istanbul

Istanbul

Istanbul , historically known as Byzantium and Constantinople , is the largest city of Turkey. Istanbul metropolitan province had 13.26 million people living in it as of December, 2010, which is 18% of Turkey's population and the 3rd largest metropolitan area in Europe after London and...

. With the win over Galatasaray, they proceeded to the finals.

Kayserispor

After finishing in second place in group C, Kayserispor played and beat G.Oftaşspor

Hacettepe Spor Kulübü

Hacettepe Spor Kulübü , commonly know has Hacettepe is a Turkish football club located in Ankara.-History:Hacettepe Spor Kulübü was founded as Sanayi Barbarosspor in 1949. The club played in third division in the Turkish League System between the years 1968 and 1972. It was renamed as Asaşspor in...

 2-0. In the Semi Finals, Kayseri beat Çaykur Rizespor

Çaykur Rizespor

Çaykur Rizespor is a Turkish sports club based in Rize. Çaykur Rizespor is currently playing in the TFF First League. The club was founded in 1953 in green-yellow colours and had professionalship status in 1968 as Rizespor and changed its colours to blue-green...

 3-0 away and 4-1 at home. With this win Kayseri proceeded to the Final.

Final

After ending extra time with a 0–0 tie, poth teams competed in a penalty shootout. With the game tied at 10–10, Mehmet Çakır (Gençlerbirliği) missed the shot and Aydın Toscalı

Aydin Toscali

Aydın Toscalı is a Turkish international footballer who currently plays as a center back for MKE Ankaragücü in the Süper Lig. He has made one appearance for the Turkey national football team.-References:...

scored for Kayseri giving them an 11–10 victory giving Kayserispor their first Turkish Cup.