Feldkamp faces up to Leverkusen

Karl-Heinz Feldkamp will be up against opposition from his native Germany as Galatasaray AS welcome Bayer 04 Leverkusen to Istanbul.

• Feldkamp, the 73-year-old former Rot-Weiss Oberhausen player, was in charge of SG Wattenscheid 09, DSC Arminia Bielefeld, 1. FC Kaiserslautern, BV Borussia Dortmund, Bayer 05 Uerdingen and Eintracht Frankfurt before spending a first spell at Galatasaray in 1992/93. This will be his first European game against a side from his home country.

• Galatasaray boast a number of players with experience of German football. Rigobert Song played at 1. FC Köln, while Lincoln starred for both Kaiserslautern and FC Schalke 04. Algeria defender Ismaël Bouzid also played for Kaiserslautern.

• A number of others were born in Germany to Turkish parents and started their careers there before heading for Istanbul including goalkeeper Aykut Erçetin, Baris Özbek, Serkan Çalik and Ümit Karan.

• Michael Skibbe led Leverkusen to a 2-1 home win against Beşiktaş JK in his only previous game against Turkish opposition in last season's UEFA Cup group stage. This will be his first competitive game on Turkish soil.

• Galatasaray qualified for the Round of 32 by finishing third in Group H. Leverkusen finished top of Group E.

• The two sides have never met in UEFA club competition.

• Galatasaray have played 19 games against German sides, winning five, drawing nine and losing five. At home, they have won two, drawn six and lost one. They are unbeaten, home and away, in their last four games against Bundesliga sides.

• Leverkusen have won all three of their previous games against Turkish sides, with their only previous game on Turkish soil ending in a 2-1 win against Fenerbahçe SK in the 2001/02 UEFA Champions League group stage as they went on to reach the final.

• Leverkusen won 5-0 at FC Zürich in their most recent UEFA Cup game, matching their biggest ever winning margin in an away game in European competition – a 6-1 win at Estonian side JK Tervis Pärnu in the 1995 UEFA Intertoto Cup.

• Leverkusen host the second leg at the BayArena on 21 February. The aggregate winners will meet the victors of the tie between FC Zürich and Hamburger SV in the Round of 16 on 6 and 12/13 March, playing the first leg at home.

• There is thus the possibility of an all-German Round of 16 tie between Leverkusen and Hamburg.

• Winter UEFA Cup registrations
Galatasaray: In - Emre Güngör, Ahmed Apimah Barusso, Hakan Kadir Balta, Harun Temur, Erhan Şentürk, Ilker Cihan.
Out – Özgürcan Özcan.
Leverkusen: In - David Thiel, Kerim Arslan, Fabian Giefer, Oliver Petersch.
Out – Ricardo Faty, Michal Papadopulos, Benjamin Kirsten, Denis Schmidt.