Turkey women's national football team
The Turkey women's national football team represents Turkey in international women's football. The team was established in 1995, and compete in the qualification for UEFA Women's Championship and the UEFA qualifying of FIFA Women's World Cup.
The Turkish Football Federation is the sports organizing body responsible for forming the women's teams in four age categories as the women's national A team, the women's U-19 national team, the girls' U-17 national team and the girls' U-15 national team.
The women's U-19 national team was formed firstly in 2001, and participate at qualifications for the UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship. The girls' U-17 national team was founded in 2006. They play in the qualifications of the UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship. Established in 2009 with the main objective to develop players for future, the girls' U-15 national team take part at the Youth Olympic Games and various tournaments.
Statistics
World Cup
European Championship
Olympic Games
Players
Current squad
List contains caps and goals scored in the A-team only.Position | Name |
Head coach | Talat Tuncel |
Coach | Aytürk Kıyıcı |
Goalkeeper coach | Fuat Cicimen |
Director of football development | Tolunay Kafkas |
Notable former players
;Goalkeepers;Defenders
- Şevval Alpavut
- Feride Bakır
- Serra Çağan
- Sevinç Çorlu
- Emine Demir
- Sibel Duman
- Medine Erkan
- Esra Erol
- Yaşam Göksu
- Leyla Güngör
- Bahar Güvenç
- İpek Kaya
- Gülcan Koca
- Ayşe Kuru
- Dilara Özlem Sucuoğlu
- Kezban Tağ
- Didem Taş
- Esra Sibel Tezkan
- Büşra Ahlatcı
- Selen Altunkulak
- Büsra Barut
- Hilal Başkol
- Sevgi Çınar
- Hanife Demiryol
- Elif Deniz
- Pakize Gözde Dökel
- Burcu Düner
- Şeyma Erenli
- Emine Ecem Esen
- Helga Nadire İnan Ertürk
- Melisa Ertürk
- Çağla Korkmaz
- Mevlüde Öztürk
- Busem Şeker
- Reyhan Şeker
- Şebnem Taşkan
- Dilara Türk
- Ece Türkoğlu
- Seval Kıraç
- Cansu Yağ
- Aylin Yaren
- Nurhan Çakmak
- Bilgin Defterli
- Yeşim Demirel
- Eylül Elgalp
- Melahat Eryurt
- Emine Gümüş
- Seyhan Gündüz
- Gülbin Hız
- Gamze İskeçeli
- Shirley Kocaçınar
- Ceren Nurlu
- Hatice Bahar Özgüvenç
- Yağmur Uraz
- Pınar Yalçın
- Aycan Yanaç
Managers
All-time records
The following table shows Turkey women's all-time international record:Period | ||||||
1995 – 2019 | 101 | 33 | 11 | 57 | 156 | 264 |
Recent schedule and results
Official competitions
Friendly matches are not included.[Turkish Women's Cup]
Most capped players
Players in bold are still active.# | Name | Position | Career | Caps | Goals |
1 | Esra Erol | DF | 2001– | 54 | 9 |
2 | Bilgin Defterli | FW | 1999–2014 | 52 | 17 |
3 | Çiğdem Belci | DF | 2006– | 48 | 0 |
4 | Fatma Kara | MF | 2009– | 46 | 5 |
5 | Didem Karagenç | DF | 2011– | 45 | 2 |
6 | Ebru Topçu | FW | 2013– | 41 | 10 |
7 | Melahat Eryurt | FW | 1995–2002 | 39 | 18 |
8 | Cansu Yağ | MF | 2006–2016 | 37 | 3 |
9 | Arzu Karabulut | MF | 2011– | 34 | 4 |
10 | Yağmur Uraz | FW | 2006– | 32 | 21 |
Top goalscorers
Goalscorers with an equal number of goals are ranked in chronological order of reaching the milestone. Bold indicates still active players.# | Name | Career | Goals | Caps | Rate |
1 | Yağmur Uraz | 2006– | 21 | 32 | 0.66 |
2 | Melahat Eryurt | 1995–2002 | 18 | 39 | 0.46 |
3 | Bilgin Defterli | 1999–2014 | 17 | 52 | 0.33 |
4 | Seyhan Gündüz | 1997–2002 | 12 | 30 | 0.40 |
5 | Reyhan Şeker | 2006–2013 | 10 | 21 | 0.48 |
5 | Ebru Topçu | 2013– | 10 | 41 | 0.24 |
7 | Esra Erol | 2001– | 9 | 54 | 0.17 |
8 | Selen Altunkulak | 2017– | 8 | 12 | 0.67 |
9 | Melike Pekel | 2017– | 7 | 26 | 0.27 |
10 | Fatma Kara | 2009– | 5 | 46 | 0.11 |