Fenerbahce have walked off the pitch and forfeited their Super Cup final with Galatasaray in protest against the Turkish Football Federation.
The club fielded a starting line-up consisting entirely of youth team players for the final against their arch rivals, with their first-team stars training back in Istanbul ahead of Thursday's Europa Conference League quarter-final at Olympiacos.
With only one minute 41 seconds on the clock at the Sanliurfa GAP Stadium, the Fenerbahce players left the field shortly after Mauro Icardi's first-minute strike for Gala.
Galatasaray celebrated wildly with their fans after victory was confirmed, while their opponents did not even acknowledge the final had taken place on Sunday evening on their social media channels.
"Our rebellion today, our stance in the Super Cup, is not only about the date of the match or what happened in the last away match," Fenerbahce president Yildirim Ali Koc said in a statement.
"It is time for a 'reset' for Turkish football. We are in a period when the swamp must be drained and Turkish football must rebuild itself. There's no need to reinvent the wheel.
"I hope that the justified rebellions of our club and the actions we decided to take out of necessity will ignite the cleansing process that needs to be done.
"This is the time when impartiality, fair competition and sporting ethics must come to the fore."
Fenerbahce previously announced their intention to field a team of academy players for the final due to grievances against Turkish football's governing body, the TFF.
The club's players were attacked by Trabzonspor fans after their 3-2 away victory on March 17, which resulted in the hosts receiving a six-match spectator ban and a fine of $145,000.
Trabzonspor appealed against the sanctions following the incident, in which 12 people were arrested, and they were earlier this week reduced to a stadium ban of four games and a $21,000 fine.
As a result, Fenerbahce held an extraordinary general meeting with their members at which they agreed to a request for the Super Cup final to be rearranged once again with a foreign referee, which was rejected by TFF.
The final was originally slated for December 30 last year in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, but was postponed after both teams planned to wear T-shirts of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk - the original founder of Turkey - in the build-up.
The members voted for the club not to participate in the Turkish Cup for the next two seasons, unless fielding an academy line-up, while also calling for action from the sport's world and European governing bodies against the TFF.
Australian Associated Press
