page_title: List of foreign Bundesliga players
section_title: Turkey
hierarchical_section_title: List of foreign Bundesliga players / UEFA / Turkey
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Nuri Sahin bei der Saison-Eröffnung im Signal Iduna Park bei Borussia Dortmund am 09.08.2014
context_page_description: This is a list of foreign players in the Bundesliga, which commenced play in 1963. The following players must meet both of the following two criteria:
  Have played at least one Bundesliga game. Players who were signed by Bundesliga clubs, but only played in lower league, cup and/or European games, or did not play in any competitive games at all, are not included. Players of 2. Bundesliga clubs are also not included.
  Are considered foreign, i.e., outside Germany determined by the following:
  A player is considered foreign if he is not eligible to play for the national team of Germany.
  More specifically,
  If a player has been capped on international level, the national team is used; if he has been capped by more than one country, the highest level team is used. These include German players with dual citizenship.
  If a player has not been capped on international level, his country of birth is used, except those who were born abroad from German parents or moved to Germany at a young age, and those who clearly indicated to have switched his nationality to another nation.
context_section_description: Mehmet Akgün – Borussia Dortmund – 2004–05, 2007–08
  Fatih Akyel – VfL Bochum – 2004–05
  Erhan Albayrak – Werder Bremen, Arminia Bielefeld – 1995–96, 2002–03
  Batuhan Altıntaş – Hamburger SV – 2015–16
  Halil Altıntop – 1. FC Kaiserslautern, Schalke 04, Eintracht Frankfurt, FC Augsburg – 2003–11, 2013–17
  Hamit Altıntop – Schalke 04, Bayern Munich, Darmstadt 98 – 2003–11, 2016–17
  Özcan Arkoç – Hamburger SV – 1967–74
  Çağdaş Atan – Energie Cottbus – 2008–09
  Okan Aydın – Bayer Leverkusen – 2012–13
  Kaan Ayhan – Schalke 04, Eintracht Frankfurt, Fortuna Düsseldorf – 2013–16, 2018–20
  Onur Ayık – Werder Bremen – 2009–11
  Deniz Barış – FC St. Pauli – 2001–02
  Yıldıray Baştürk – VfL Bochum, Bayer Leverkusen, Hertha BSC, VfB Stuttgart – 1997–99, 2000–10
  Ferhat Bıkmaz – Hannover 96 – 2007–08
  Erol Bulut – Eintracht Frankfurt – 1999–2001
  Onur Bulut – SC Freiburg – 2016–18
  Hakan Çalhanoğlu – Hamburger SV, Bayer Leverkusen – 2013–17
  Mahmut Çalışkan – 1. FC Köln – 1992–93
  Nizamettin Çalışkan – Borussia Dortmund – 2005–06
  Tolcay Ciğerci – Hamburger SV – 2014–15
  Tolga Ciğerci – VfL Wolfsburg, Borussia M'gladbach, Hertha BSC – 2010–16 
  Ümit Davala – Werder Bremen – 2003–06
  Ersan Doğu – Werder Bremen – 1995–96
  Mehmet Ekici – 1. FC Nürnberg, Werder Bremen – 2010–14
  Mevlüt Erdinç – Hannover 96 – 2015–16
  Berkant Göktan – Borussia M'gladbach, Bayern Munich, Arminia Bielefeld, 1. FC Kaiserslautern – 1998–2001, 2005–06
  Ceyhun Gülselam – Hannover 96 – 2014–16
  Neşat Gülünoğlu – VfL Bochum – 1996–99
  Özkan Gümüş – Hamburger SV – 1997–98
  Ali Güneş – SC Freiburg – 1998–2000
  Sercan Güvenışık – MSV Duisburg – 1999–2000
  Uğur İnceman – FC St. Pauli – 2001–02
  Ozan Kabak – VfB Stuttgart, Schalke 04 – 2018–
  Deniz Kadah – Hannover 96 – 2012–14
  Sinan Kaloğlu – VfL Bochum – 2008–09
  Burak Kaplan – Bayer Leverkusen – 2009–10
  Kenan Karaman – 1899 Hoffenheim, Hannover 96, Fortuna Düsseldorf – 2013–17, 2018–20
  Burhanettin Kaymak – Eintracht Frankfurt – 1995–96, 1998–99
  Erdal Keser – Borussia Dortmund – 1980–84, 1986–87
  Ender Konca – Eintracht Frankfurt – 1971–73
  Oktay Kuday – Karlsruher SC – 1997–98
  Ahmed Kutucu – Schalke 04 – 2018–
  Yunus Mallı – Mainz 05, VfL Wolfsburg – 2011–
  Hami Mandıralı – Schalke 04 – 1998–99
  Ersen Martin – 1. FC Nürnberg – 1998–99
  Emre Mor – Borussia Dortmund – 2016–17
  Erhan Önal – Bayern Munich – 1976–78
  Alpay Özalan – 1. FC Köln – 2005–06
  Ümit Özat – 1. FC Köln – 2008–09
  Berkay Özcan – VfB Stuttgart – 2017–19
  Aykut Özer – Eintracht Frankfurt – 2012–13
  Abdulkadir Özgen – Alemannia Aachen – 2006–07
  Sezer Öztürk – Bayer Leverkusen, 1. FC Nürnberg – 2004–06
  Mahir Sağlık – VfL Wolfsburg, Karlsruher SC, SC Paderborn – 2008–09, 2014–15
  Olcay Şahan – 1. FC Kaiserslautern – 2011–12
  Kenan Şahin – Bayer Leverkusen – 2003–05
  Nuri Şahin – Borussia Dortmund, Werder Bremen – 2005–07, 2008–11, 2012–20
  Tuncay – VfL Wolfsburg – 2010–11
  Sercan Sararer – Greuther Fürth, VfB Stuttgart – 2012–15
  Çağlar Söyüncü – SC Freiburg – 2016–18
  Aytaç Sulu – Darmstadt – 2015–17
  Sinan Tekerci – 1. FC Nürnberg – 2013–14
  Ömer Toprak – SC Freiburg, Bayer Leverkusen, Borussia Dortmund, Werder Bremen – 2009–
  Gökhan Töre – Hamburger SV – 2011–12
  Tunay Torun – Hamburger SV, Hertha BSC, VfB Stuttgart – 2008–13
  Cenk Tosun – Eintracht Frankfurt – 2009–10
  İlyas Tüfekçi – VfB Stuttgart, Schalke 04 – 1980–83
  Volkan Ünlü – Schalke 04 – 2003–04
  Aykut Ünyazıcı – Eintracht Braunschweig – 1963–65
  Ahmet Usman – FC St. Pauli – 1996–97
  Soner Uysal – Hamburger SV – 1997–98, 1999–2000
  Engin Verel – Hertha BSC – 1979–80
  Hasan Vural – Hertha BSC – 1997–98
  Timur Yanyalı – 1860 Munich – 1994–95
  Zafer Yelen – Hansa Rostock – 2007–08
  Deniz Yılmaz – Mainz 05 – 2011–12
  Selçuk Yula – Blau-Weiß 90 Berlin – 1986–87
caption: Nuri Şahin is the youngest player capped in Bundesliga history (16 years, eleven months and one day)
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