Arif Morkaya

Arif Morkaya
Personnel
birthday	May 30, 1989
place of birth	Istanbul ,  Turkey
size	186 cm
position	midfield
Juniors
Years	station
2000-2003	Galatasaray Istanbul
2003-2004	Yıldırım Bosnaspor
2004-2005	Bakırköyspor
2005-2007	İstanbulspor
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2007-2009	İstanbulspor	19 0(0)
2007	→  Bakırköyspor  (loan)	2 0(0)
2009–2012	Darıca Gençlerbirliği	100 (12)
2012-2013	1461 Trabzon	1 0(0)
2013-2017	Altınordu Izmir	135 0(6)
2017-2018	MKE Ankaragücü	35 0(0)
2018-2019	İstanbulspor	16 0(0)
2019–	Fatih Karagümrük SK	3 0(0)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
2008	Turkey U-19	3 0(0)
1 Only league games are given. As of September 14, 2019

Arif Morkaya (born May 30, 1989 in Istanbul ) is a Turkish football player .

Career

society

Morkaya was born in the Istanbul district of Eminönü and began playing club football in the youth of the Turkish top club Galatasaray Istanbul . In the summer of 2003 he left the youth of Galatasaray and played in turn for the youth teams of Istanbul Kartal Belediyespor , Bakırköyspor and İstanbulspor . In spring 2007 he received a professional contract with the latter, but was loaned to the fourth division club Bakırköyspor. For this club he completed two league matches by the end of the season and then returned to İstanbulspor. For İstanbulspor he played the next two seasons and played a total of 19 league games.

For the 2009/10 season he left İstanbulspor and moved to the fourth division team Darıca Gençlerbirliği . Here he immediately established himself as a regular player and played the next three seasons.

After his contract with Darıca Gençlerbirliği had expired in the summer of 2012, he moved to the second division club 1461 Trabzon free of charge . In the spring of 1461 he left Trabzon and moved to the TFF 3rd Lig to Altınordu Izmir . At the end of the season he rose with this club as a fourth division champion in the TFF 2nd Lig. In the first third division season he reached the third division championship with Altınordu two days before the end of the season and thus promotion to the TFF 1. Lig.

In the summer of 2017, he and his teammate Yusuf Abdioğlu moved within the league to the newly promoted MKE Ankaragücü . Here he and his team became champions of the TFF 1st Lig at the end of the season and thus rose to the Süper Lig . For the new season Morkaya left the capital city and moved to his first professional club İstanbulspor. He also stayed here for a season and moved on to city and league rivals Fatih Karagümrük SK in summer 2019 .

National team

Morkaya played three times for the Turkish U-19 youth national team .

successes

With Altınordu Izmir

• Champion of the TFF 3rd Lig and promotion to the TFF 2nd Lig : 2012/13
• Champion of the TFF 2nd Lig and promotion to the TFF 1st Lig : 2013/14

With MKE Ankaragücü

• Champion of the TFF 1st Lig and promotion to the Süper Lig : 2017/18

Web links

• Arif Morkaya in the database of weltfussball.de
• Arif Morkaya in the database of transfermarkt.de
• Arif Morkaya in the Türkiye Futbol Federasyonu database (English)
• Arif Morkaya in the mackolik.com database (Turkish)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 1461trabzon.com.tr: "Arif Morkaya sözleşme imzaladı" ( Memento of the original from May 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on July 5, 2012)