Selçuk Şahin (soccer player, 1981)

Selçuk Şahin
Selçuk Şahin (August 2012)
Personnel
Surname	Selçuk Şahin
birthday	January 31, 1981
place of birth	Tunceli ,  Turkey
size	189 cm
position	Defensive Midfield
Juniors
Years	station
1995-1998	Silifkespor
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1998-1999	Silifkespor	31 0(1)
1999-2001	Hatayspor	40 0(3)
2001-2003	İstanbulspor	65 0(7)
2003-2015	Fenerbahçe Istanbul	230 (12)
2015-2016	FC Wil	10 0(0)
2016-2017	Gençlerbirliği Ankara	44 0(4)
2017-2018	Goztepe Izmir	27 0(2)
2018-2019	Gençlerbirliği Ankara	28 0(2)
2019–	Bursaspor	16 0(2)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
2001	Turkey U20	3 0(0)
2001-2003	Turkey U-21	19 0(2)
2004	Turkey A2	3 0(0)
2003-2011	Turkey	25 0(0)
1 Only league games are given. As of March 14, 2020

Selçuk Şahin (born January 31, 1981 in Tunceli ) is a Turkish football player .

Career

In the club

Şahin worked as a waiter before he became a professional footballer. In 1999 he signed his first professional contract with the second division club Hatayspor . After seven appearances in his first season, he became a regular in 2000/01 and scored three goals in 33 games. In 2001 he moved to Istanbulspor, where he started 31 times in the 2001/02 season. In the following season he played 32 missions from the start. 2003/04 Selçuk hired at Fenerbahçe Istanbul , completed 25 league games, scored one goal and won the Turkish championship with the team. In the 2004/05 season you could defend the title.

With the end of his contract in the summer of 2015, he received no contract extension from Fenerbahçe and then left this club after 15 years of service.

For the 2015/16 season, Şahin left Fenerbahçe after twelve years and moved to the Swiss club FC Wil .

In the spring of 2016, he returned to Turkey and joined the first division club Gençlerbirliği Ankara . After one and a half seasons with the capital city, he moved on to the new first division club Göztepe Izmir in the summer of 2017 . His contract with Göztepe was not renewed and Şahin returned to Gençlerbirliği Ankara after one season. With this club he became runner-up in the TFF 1st Lig at the end of the season and thus managed to return to the Süper Lig . After a failed contract extension, he signed on for the new season at the second division side Bursaspor .

In the national team

After strong performances at İstanbulspor , he became a regular in the Turkish U21 national team , for which he completed 19 appearances and scored two goals. At the FIFA Confederations Cup , he played for the senior team and took third place with them.

successes

National team

• FIFA Confederations Cup : Third place in 2003 in France (5 appearances)

Fenerbahçe Istanbul

• 5 × Turkish champions : 2004 , 2005 , 2007 , 2011 , 2014
• 2 × Turkish Supercup winner: 2007, 2009
• 2 × Turkish Cup Winner : 2012 , 2013

Gençlerbirliği Ankara

• Vice-champion of the TFF 1st Lig and promotion to the Süper Lig : 2018/19

Web links

Commons : Selçuk Şahin  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Selçuk Şahin in the database of weltfussball.de
• Selçuk Şahin in the database of kicker.de
• Selçuk Şahin in the database of EU-Football.info (English)
• Selçuk Şahin in the Türkiye Futbol Federasyonu database (English)
• Selçuk Şahin in the database of mackolik.com (Turkish)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ trtspor.com.tr: "FLAŞ! F.Bahçe'de 5 isimle yollar ayrıldı" (accessed on June 18, 2015)
2. ↑ Selçuk Şahin in the FIFA database (accessed April 11, 2014)