Turkey national football team

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.

### 2011

- 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

- 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

_Updated on 16 June 2021_
|style="width:50px;background:#E30A17;color:#FFFFFF"|#|style="width:175px;background:#E30A17;color:#FFFFFF"|Name|style="width:50px;background:#E30A17;color:#FFFFFF"|Caps|style="width:50px;background:#E30A17;color:#FFFFFF"|Goals|style="width:100px;background:#E30A17;color:#FFFFFF"|Career|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1|align="left"|Rüştü Reçber|120|0||||||
|2|align="left"|Hakan Şükür|112|51|1992–2007|||||
|3|align="left"|Bülent Korkmaz|102|3|1990–2005|||||
|4|align="left"|Emre Belözoğlu|101|9|2000–2019|||||
|5|align="left"|Arda Turan|100|17|2006–2017|||||
|6|align="left"|Tugay Kerimoğlu|94|2|1990–2007|||||
|7|align="left"|Alpay Özalan|90|4|1995–2005|||||
|8|align="left"|Hamit Altıntop|82|7|2004–2014|||||
|9|align="left"|Mehmet Topal|81|2|2008–2018|||||
|10|align="left"|Tuncay Şanlı|80|22|2002–2010|||||

## Top scorers

_Updated on 16 June 2021_
|style="width:50px;background:#E30A17;color:#FFFFFF"|#|style="width:175px;background:#E30A17;color:#FFFFFF""|Player|style="width:50px;background:#E30A17;color:#FFFFFF"|Goals|style="width:50px;background:#E30A17;color:#FFFFFF"|Caps|style="width:50px;background:#E30A17;color:#FFFFFF"|Ratio|style="width:100px;background:#E30A17;color:#FFFFFF"|Career|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1|align="left"|Hakan Şükür|51|112|0.46|||||||
|2|align="left"|**Burak Yılmaz**|29|69|0.42|2006–||||||
|3|align="left"|Tuncay Şanlı|22|80|0.28|2003–2010||||||
|4|align="left"|Lefter Küçükandonyadis|21|46|0.46|1948–1963||||||
|rowspan=3|5|align="left"|Metin Oktay|19|36|0.53|1956–1968|||||
|align="left"|Cemil Turan|19|44|0.43|1969–1979|||||||
|align="left"|Nihat Kahveci|19|68|0.28|2000–2011|||||||
|8|align="left"|**Cenk Tosun**|18|45|0.4|2013–||||||
|9|align="left"|Arda Turan|17|100|0.17|2006–2017||||||
|10|align="left"|Zeki Rıza Sporel|15|16|0.94|1923–1932||||||
- Players in bold are still active.

## Recent Games

|width=224|Type of Game|width=124|Date|width=185|Home Team|width=60|Result|width=185|Away Team|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|align=left|2022 FIFA World Cup qual.|align=right|27 March 2021|align="right"||0–3|align="left"|||
|align=left|2022 FIFA World Cup qual.|align=right|30 March 2021|align="right"||3–3|align="left"|||
|align=left|Friendly|align=right|27 May 2021|align="right"||2–1|align="left"|||
|align=left|Friendly|align=right|31 May 2021|align="right"||0–0|align="left"|||
|align=left|Friendly|align=right|3 June 2021|align="right"||2–0|align="left"|||
|align=left|UEFA Euro 2020|align=right|11 June 2021|align="right"||0–3|align="left"|||
|align=left|UEFA Euro 2020|align=right|16 June 2021|align="right"||0–2|align="left"|||
|align=left|UEFA Euro 2020|align=right|20 June 2021|align="right"||3–1|align="left"|||
|align=left|2022 FIFA World Cup qual.|align=right|1 September 2021|align="right"||2–2|align="left"|||
|align=left|2022 FIFA World Cup qual.|align=right|4 September 2021|align="right"||0–3|align="left"|||
|align=left|2022 FIFA World Cup qual.|align=right|7 September 2021|align="right"||6–1|align="left"|||
|align=left|2022 FIFA World Cup qual.|align=right|8 October 2021|align="right"||1–1|align="left"|||
|align=left|2022 FIFA World Cup qual.|align=right|11 October 2021|align="right"||0–1|align="left"|||
|align=left|2022 FIFA World Cup qual.|align=right|13 November 2021|align="right"||v.|align="left"|||
|align=left|2022 FIFA World Cup qual.|align=right|16 November 2021|align="right"||v.|align="left"|||

- <small> Green means that the team won.</small>
- <small> Yellow means the team had a draw.</small>
- <small> Red means the team lost.</small>

## Related pages

- Turkey at the UEFA European Championship

## Other websites

- Turkish soccer (football) latest news
- Official Site of Turkish Football Federation
- Turkish Football Statistics

## Infobox (national football team)

- **name**: Turkey
- **nickname**:
(The Crescent-Stars)
- **badge**: Türk millî takımlar göğüs arması.png
- **badge size**: 180px
- **association**: _Turkish Football Federation, Türkiye Futbol Federasyonu_ (TFF)
- **confederation**: UEFA (Europe)
- **coach**: Vincenzo Montella
- **captain**: Hakan Çalhanoğlu
- **most caps**: Rüştü Reçber (120)
- **top scorer**: Hakan Şükür (51)
- **fifa trigramme**: TUR
- **fifa max**: 5
- **fifa max date**: June 2004
- **fifa min**: 67
- **fifa min date**: October 1993
- **elo max**: 10
- **elo max date**: 16 October 2002, November 2002
- **elo min**: 72
- **elo min date**: 13 November 1985, 29 October 1986
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- **first game**: 2–2
(Istanbul, Turkey; 26 October 1923)
- **largest win**: 7–0
 (Ankara, Turkey; 20 November 1949)
  7–0
 (Geneva, Switzerland; 20 June 1954)
 7–0
 (Istanbul, Turkey; 10 November 1996)
- **largest loss**: 8–0
 (Chorzów, Poland; 24 April 1968)
  0–8
 (Istanbul, Turkey; 14 November 1984)
  8–0
 (London, England; 14 October 1987)
- **world cup apps**: 2
- **world cup first**: 1954
- **world cup best**: Third place (2002 FIFA World Cup, 2002)
- **regional name**: UEFA European Championship, European Championship
- **regional cup apps**: 5
- **regional cup first**: UEFA Euro 1996, 1996
- **regional cup best**: Semi-finals (UEFA Euro 2008, 2008)
- **confederations cup apps**: 1
- **confederations cup first**: 2003 FIFA Confederations Cup, 2003
- **confederations cup best**: Third place (2003 FIFA Confederations Cup, 2003)