Turkey national football team

Turkey
Nickname(s)	Ay-Yıldızlılar; (The Crescent-Stars);
Association	Türkiye Futbol Federasyonu (TFF)
Confederation	UEFA (Europe)
Head coach	Stefan Kuntz
Captain	Hakan Çalhanoğlu
Most caps	Rüştü Reçber (120)
Top scorer	Hakan Şükür (51)
FIFA code	TUR
First colours	Second colours
FIFA ranking
Current	44 1 (22 December 2022)
Highest	5 (June 2004)
Lowest	67 (October 1993)
First international
	Turkey 2–2 Romania ; (Istanbul, Turkey; 26 October 1923)
Biggest win
	Turkey 7–0 Syria ; (Ankara, Turkey; 20 November 1949) ; Turkey 7–0 South Korea ; (Geneva, Switzerland; 20 June 1954) ; Turkey 7–0 San Marino ; (Istanbul, Turkey; 10 November 1996)
Biggest defeat
	Poland 8–0 Turkey ; (Chorzów, Poland; 24 April 1968) ; Turkey 0–8 England ; (Istanbul, Turkey; 14 November 1984) ; England 8–0 Turkey ; (London, England; 14 October 1987)
World Cup
Appearances	2 (first in 1954)
Best result	Third place (2002)
European Championship
Appearances	5 (first in 1996)
Best result	Semi-finals (2008)
Confederations Cup
Appearances	1 (first in 2003)
Best result	Third place (2003)

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 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.

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

2021[change | change source]

Goalkeepers:
- Mert Günok, Altay Bayındır, Uğurcan Çakır
Defenders:
- Zeki Çelik, Merih Demiral, Çağlar Söyüncü, Umut Meraş, Ozan Kabak, Rıdvan Yılmaz, Kaan Ayhan, Mert Müldür, Caner Erkin, Hasan Ali Kaldırım, Ömer Bayram
Midfielders:
- Okay Yokuşlu, Ozan Tufan, Dorukhan Toköz, Hakan Çalhanoğlu, Yusuf Yazıcı, Taylan Antalyalı, Orkun Kökçü, Abdülkadir Ömür, İrfan Kahveci, Kerem Aktürkoğlu, Mahmut Tekdemir, Deniz Türüç
Forwards:
- Cengiz Ünder, Kenan Karaman, Enes Ünal, Burak Yılmaz , Halil Dervişoğlu, Cenk Tosun

Most appearances[change | change source]

Updated on 16 June 2021

#	Name	Caps	Goals	Career
1	Rüştü Reçber	120	0	1994–2012
2	Hakan Şükür	112	51	1992–2007
3	Bülent Korkmaz	102	3	1990–2005
4	Emre Belözoğlu	101	9	2000–2019
5	Arda Turan	100	17	2006–2017
6	Tugay Kerimoğlu	94	2	1990–2007
7	Alpay Özalan	90	4	1995–2005
8	Hamit Altıntop	82	7	2004–2014
9	Mehmet Topal	81	2	2008–2018
10	Tuncay Şanlı	80	22	2002–2010

* Players in bold are still active.

Top scorers[change | change source]

Updated on 16 June 2021

#	Player	Goals	Caps	Ratio	Career
1	Hakan Şükür	51	112	0.46	1992–2007
2	Burak Yılmaz	29	69	0.42	2006–
3	Tuncay Şanlı	22	80	0.28	2003–2010
4	Lefter Küçükandonyadis	21	46	0.46	1948–1963
5	Metin Oktay	19	36	0.53	1956–1968
	Cemil Turan	19	44	0.43	1969–1979
	Nihat Kahveci	19	68	0.28	2000–2011
8	Cenk Tosun	18	45	0.4	2013–
9	Arda Turan	17	100	0.17	2006–2017
10	Zeki Rıza Sporel	15	16	0.94	1923–1932

Players in bold are still active.

Recent Games[change | change source]

Type of Game	Date	Home Team	Result	Away Team
2022 FIFA World Cup qual.	27 March 2021	Norway	0–3	Turkey
2022 FIFA World Cup qual.	30 March 2021	Turkey	3–3	Latvia
Friendly	27 May 2021	Turkey	2–1	Azerbaijan
Friendly	31 May 2021	Turkey	0–0	Guinea
Friendly	3 June 2021	Turkey	2–0	Moldova
UEFA Euro 2020	11 June 2021	Turkey	0–3	Italy
UEFA Euro 2020	16 June 2021	Turkey	0–2	Wales
UEFA Euro 2020	20 June 2021	Switzerland	3–1	Turkey
2022 FIFA World Cup qual.	1 September 2021	Turkey	2–2	Montenegro
2022 FIFA World Cup qual.	4 September 2021	Gibraltar	0–3	Turkey
2022 FIFA World Cup qual.	7 September 2021	Netherlands	6–1	Turkey
2022 FIFA World Cup qual.	8 October 2021	Turkey	1–1	Norway
2022 FIFA World Cup qual.	11 October 2021	Latvia	0–1	Turkey
2022 FIFA World Cup qual.	13 November 2021	Turkey	v.	Gibraltar
2022 FIFA World Cup qual.	16 November 2021	Montenegro	v.	Turkey

Green means that the team won.
Yellow means the team had a draw.
Red means the team lost.

Related pages[change | change source]

Turkey at the UEFA European Championship

References[change | change source]

↑ "Turkey sneak through as best third-placed team". UEFA. 14 October 2015. Retrieved 13 March 2015.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
↑ "Stefan Kuntz named new Turkey head coach". tff.org. 19 September 2021. Retrieved 19 September 2021.
↑ Jeffree, Iain (6 August 2015). "FIFA Country Codes". RSSSF. Retrieved 10 January 2016.
↑ "The FIFA/Coca-Cola World Ranking". FIFA. 22 December 2022. Retrieved 22 December 2022.
↑ Since the Republic was not formally declared by the time of the event, the game was played between Romania and TFF. The city also was not consistently known as Istanbul in the English speaking world until 1930
↑ Elo rankings change compared to one year ago. "World Football Elo Ratings". eloratings.net. 3 March 2019. Retrieved 3 March 2019.

Other websites[change | change source]

Turkish soccer (football) latest news
(in Turkish) Official Site of Turkish Football Federation
(in Turkish) Turkish Football Statistics Archived 2011-09-29 at the Wayback Machine

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[1] "Turkey sneak through as best third-placed team". UEFA. 14 October 2015. Retrieved 13 March 2015.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)

[2] "Stefan Kuntz named new Turkey head coach". tff.org. 19 September 2021. Retrieved 19 September 2021.

[FIFACode-3] Jeffree, Iain (6 August 2015). "FIFA Country Codes". RSSSF. Retrieved 10 January 2016.

[FIFA_World_Rankings-4] "The FIFA/Coca-Cola World Ranking". FIFA. 22 December 2022. Retrieved 22 December 2022.

[5] Since the Republic was not formally declared by the time of the event, the game was played between Romania and TFF. The city also was not consistently known as Istanbul in the English speaking world until 1930

[World_Football_Elo_Ratings-6] Elo rankings change compared to one year ago. "World Football Elo Ratings". eloratings.net. 3 March 2019. Retrieved 3 March 2019.

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