Turkey national under-21 football team
Turkey's national Under-21 football team (Turkish: Ümit Milli Futbol Takımı), also known as Turkey Under-21s or Turkey U-21s, is the Under-21 years of age team of the Turkey national football team.
Nickname(s) | Ümit Milli | ||
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Association | Turkish Football Federation | ||
Head coach | Hami Mandıralı | ||
Captain | Abdülkadir Ömür | ||
Most caps | Semih Şentürk (83) | ||
Top scorer | Semih Şentürk (42) | ||
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First international | |||
(Ankara; October 28, 1950) | |||
Biggest win | |||
(Istanbul; November 15, 1983) | |||
Biggest defeat | |||
(October 25, 1983) | |||
UEFA U-21 Championship | |||
Appearances | 1 (first in 2000) | ||
Best result | Groupstage |
History
This team is for Turkish players aged 21 or under at the start of a two-year European Under-21 Football Championship campaign, so players can be, and often are, up to 23 years old. Also in existence are teams for Under-20s (for non-UEFA tournaments), Under-19s and Under 17s. As long as they are eligible, players can play at any level, making it possible to play for the U-21s, senior side and again for the U-21s, as Oğuzhan Özyakup has done recently. It is also possible to play for one country at youth level and another at senior level (providing the player is eligible).
Competitive Record
UEFA European Under-21 Championship Record
Edition | Round | MP | W | D* | L | GF | GA | ||
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No host 1978 | Did Not Qualify | ||||||||
No host 1980 | |||||||||
No host 1982 | |||||||||
No host 1984 | |||||||||
No host 1986 | |||||||||
No host 1988 | |||||||||
No host 1990 | |||||||||
No host 1992 | |||||||||
Group stage | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 11 | |||
Did Not Qualify | |||||||||
- *Draws include knockout matches decided by penalty shoot-out.
Toulon Tournament
- 2002 Toulon Tournament - 8th place
- 2004 Toulon Tournament - 7th place
- 2008 Toulon Tournament - 6th place
- 2012 Toulon Tournament - 2nd place
- 2018 Toulon Tournament - 3rd place
Current squad
The following squad was named for the matches against Andorra on 19 November 2019.[1]
No. | Pos. | Player | Date of birth (age) | Caps | Goals | Club | |||||
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GK | Altay Bayındır | 14 April 1998 | 8 | 0 | |||||||
GK | Mehmet Ataberk Dadakdeniz | 5 August 1999 | |||||||||
GK | İrfan Can Eğribayat | 30 June 1998 | |||||||||
DF | Mert Yılmaz | 8 March 1999 | 4 | 0 | |||||||
DF | Mert Müldür | 3 April 1999 | 5 | 2 | |||||||
DF | Hüseyin Türkmen | 1 January 1998 | |||||||||
DF | Cenk Özkacar | 6 October 2000 | |||||||||
DF | Ravil Tagir | 6 May 2003 | 2 | 0 | |||||||
DF | Cemali Sertel | 6 January 2000 | |||||||||
MF | Berat Ayberk Özdemir | 23 May 1998 | |||||||||
MF | Oğuz Kağan Güçtekin | 6 April 1999 | |||||||||
MF | Ahmed Kutucu | 1 March 2000 | 3 | 0 | |||||||
MF | Hüseyin Atakan Üner | 16 June 1999 | |||||||||
MF | Berkay Özcan | 15 February 1998 | |||||||||
MF | Muhayer Oktay | 28 April 1999 | |||||||||
MF | Rahmetullah Berişbek | 22 March 1999 | |||||||||
MF | Ahmet Canbaz | 27 April 1998 | 8 | 1 | |||||||
MF | Doğukan Sinik | 21 January 1999 | 7 | 1 | |||||||
MF | Yusuf Sarı | 20 November 1998 | 8 | 0 | |||||||
FW | Güven Yalçın | 18 January 1999 | 6 | 0 | |||||||
FW | Halil Dervişoğlu | 8 December 1999 | 7 | 3 |
Former squads
- 2000 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship squads – Turkey
Former players
Former Coaches
- 1957-1959:
Şeref Görkey - 1960-1962:
Şeref Görkey - 1976-1977:
Candan Tarhan - 1981-1982:
Şeref Görkey - 1984-1984:
Yılmaz Gökdel - 1990-1993:
Fatih Terim - 1993-1996:
Erdoğan Arıca - 1996-1998:
Rıza Çalımbay - 1998-2005:
Raşit Çetiner - 2005-2006:
Reha Kapsal - 2006-2006:
Tolunay Kafkas - 2006-2007:
Ünal Karaman - 2007-2008:
Ümit Davala - 2008-2010:
Hami Mandıralı - 2010-2012:
Raşit Çetiner - 2013-2018:
Abdullah Ercan - 2018-2018:
Alpay Özalan - 2018-2020:
Vedat İnceefe - 2020-present:
Hami Mandıralı