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Ranked shortlist · 10 of 25 sport and recreation clubs
Best sport and recreation clubs in Istanbul
The 10 most notable sport and recreation clubs in Istanbul, in rank order. The order is curation quality — how well attested and how complete each record is — not popularity, and no place on this list paid to be on it.
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1
Çengelköy Aikido Akademi
Toros Sk. 18/C
318 m from Bosna Bulvarı, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.384, percentile 100 of 25
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2
Wing Tsun Akademi Cwto Türkiye Merkezi
Agah Efendi Sokak 3
624 m from Bakırköy—İncirli, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.355, percentile 95.83 of 25
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3
Speed Go-Kart
Eski Londra Asfaltı Cd. Kale Outlet Center No:89 D:49
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.354, percentile 91.67 of 25
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4
Ground and Pound İstanbul
Inka Rezidans, Valikonağı Caddesi, Hacı Mansur Sk. No:2 Kat: -3
409 m from Osmanbey, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 2.245, percentile 87.5 of 25
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5
Krav maga
İstiklal Cd. No:108 Kat:5
66 m from Tünel, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 2.203, percentile 83.33 of 25
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6
Katsuninkan Istanbul - Kendo Dojo
Caferağa Mh Istanbul Kadikoy Lisesi
747 m from Kadıköy İDO, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 2.162, percentile 79.17 of 25
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7
Dalan Karate Spor Kulübü
Mehmet Ağa Cd. No:60-b
719 m from Çamlıca Camii, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 2.147, percentile 75 of 25
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8
Carlson Gracie Istanbul
Inka Rezidans, Valikonağı Caddesi, Hacı Mansur Sk. No:2
407 m from Osmanbey, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.96 · rank score 2.097, percentile 70.83 of 25
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9
INDES Akademi
MT Studio, Cumhuriyet Mahallesi, Silahşör Caddesi, Nehir Sk. No: 3
739 m from Osmanbey, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.96 · rank score 2.096, percentile 66.67 of 25
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10
Roger Gracie Jiu Jitsu Istanbul
Roger Gracie Jiu Jitsu Istanbul, Tepecik Yolu Sokak 86
691 m from Etiler, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.96 · rank score 2.093, percentile 62.5 of 25
How this list is made
Every place in this group was scored by the same model, with each term z-normalised inside the group and capped, so a famous chain cannot win by being famous everywhere. The weights, verbatim:
- attestation by independent providers
- +0.35
- record completeness (website, phone, address)
- +0.25
- Overture existence confidence
- +0.20
- Michelin designation (Wikidata, CC0)
- +0.40
- brand fame (Wikidata sitelinks)
- −0.15
- same-name chain collision
- −0.30
Curation quality, not popularity: how well attested and how complete a record is.
No licensable popularity signal; this ranks curation quality, not taste
Independent check: 5,951 places listed in Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA 4.0; validation only, never published or scored) were matched to our records by name within 250 m. Across the 5,651 that fall in groups of at least 10, the median matched place sits at percentile 73 and 24.2% are in the top decile, against 10% by chance; five families have enough anchors to report (arts, food and drink, lodging, shopping, sport), while health care (5), lifestyle services (17), travel (26) have too few and are not validated. A match needs both the guide and the catalogue to name the same place, which favours well-attested places — a term this rank itself rewards — so these are lower bounds; Michelin's 528 in-group anchors have a median percentile of 100, but that is partly circular: across the Wikivoyage matches, the 17 that also carry the designation term this rank scores sit at 99.93, against 72.55 for the 5,934 without it.
The catalogue carries no rating, review count, price or opening hours, so this file has none.
Station locations from Wikidata (CC0-1.0). Nearest station, not service: no frequency, timetable or departures.
Nobody paid for placement: no ads, no sponsored results, no ratings for sale.
Data: AllThePlaces (CC0-1.0), BrightQuery (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), DAC (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Foursquare Open Source Places (Apache-2.0), Meta (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Microsoft (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), PinMeTo (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), RenderSEO (CDLA-Permissive-2.0).