Turkey national football team

The Turkish national football team (2016)

Turkish team during the UEFA Euro 2012 qualification.

Nuri Şahin is the youngest player to have made a goal.

The Turkish national football team is the national football team of the Republic of Turkey and is worked by the Turkish Football Federation. They are in association with UEFA.

Turkey has a footballing tradition that has been good and bad. In World Cup competition Turkey has qualified three times for the 1950, 1954, and 2002 editions. Turkey failed to make an appearance for the 1950 World Cup because they withdrew.

Turkey made it to the semi-finals during the UEFA Euro 2008, but then lost to Germany.

Current Squad[change | change source]

2011[change | change source]

Goalkeepers:
- Volkan Demirel, Sinan Bolat, Tolga Zengin

Defenders:
- Servet Çetin, Hakan Balta, Gökhan Zan, İsmail Köybaşı, Egemen Korkmaz, Serkan Balcı, Giray Kaçar, Ömer Toprak, Gökhan Gönül

Midfielders:
- Emre Belözoğlu , Hamit Altıntop, Selçuk İnan, Mehmet Ekici, Arda Turan, Mehmet Topal, Ozan Tufan, Selçuk Şahin, Gökhan Töre, Sabri Sarıoğlu, Yekta Kurtuluş, Mehmet Aurélio

Forwards:
- Umut Bulut, Tunay Torun, Burak Yılmaz, Kazım Kazım, Mevlüt Erdinç

Most appearances[change | change source]

Updated on October 1, 2011

#	Name	Caps	Goals
1	Rüştü Reçber	120	0
2	Hakan Şükür	112	51
3	Bülent Korkmaz	102	2
4	Tugay Kerimoğlu	94	2
5	Alpay Özalan	90	4
6	Tuncay Şanlı	80	22
7	Emre Belözoğlu	78	8
8	Ogün Temizkanoglu	76	5
9	Abdullah Ercan	71	0
10	Oğuz Çetin	70	3

Players in bold are still active.

Top scorers[change | change source]

Updated on October 1, 2011

#	Name	Goals	Caps
1	Hakan Şükür	51	112
2	Tuncay Şanlı	22	80
3	Lefter Küçükandonyadis	21	46
4	Metin Oktay	19	36
5	Cemil Turan	19	44
6	Nihat Kahveci	19	69
7	Zeki Rıza Sporel	15	16
8	Arda Turan	12	46
9	Ertuğrul Sağlam	11	26
10	Arif Erdem	11	60

Players in bold are still active.

Recent Games[change | change source]

Date	Home Team	Result	Away Team
November 15, 2012	Croatia	0 – 0	Turkey
February 29, 2012	Turkey	1 – 2	Slovakia
May 24, 2012	Georgia	1 – 3	Turkey
May 29, 2012	Bulgaria	0 – 2	Turkey
June 2, 2012	Portugal	1 – 3	Turkey
June 5, 2012	Turkey	2 – 0	Ukraine
August 15, 2012	Austria	2 – 0	Turkey