Aslı Canan Sabırlı (born 13 September 1991) is a Turkish women's footballer, who serves as a

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, and played as a defender. She was a member of the Turkey girls' national under-17 and under-19 teams.

Early life

Aslı Canan Sabırlı was born in

Seyhan Seyhan is a district-municipality in the Adana Province of Turkey, core of the Adana urban area. Seyhan is home to 35 percent of the residents of Adana Province and almost half of the residents of the city of Adana. It is the fifth most populous ...

district of

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, southern Turkey on 13 September 1991. She was educated at

Aksaray University Aksaray University ( tr, Aksaray Üniversitesi) is a public higher educational institution established on March 17, 2006, in Aksaray, Central Anatolia in Turkey. Formerly it was a subunit of the Niğde University. The university has seven facult ...

Club career

Sabırlı obtained her license from

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in her hometown on 25 January 2015. She started to play in the team in the 2008–09

Turkish Women's Second Football League The Turkish Women's Second Football League ( tr, Kadınlar 2. Futbol Ligi) is the third tier league competition for women's association football in Turkey. Format Teams promoted to Women's First League Format As of 2021-22 Season, 26 te ...

, and enjoyed her team's promotion to the First League at the end of the season. In the 2011–12 First League season, she transferred to the

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-based

Konak Belediyespor Konak Belediyespor Women's Football ( tr, Konak Belediyespor Bayan Futbol Takımı) is the women's football team of the Turkish multi-sport club of Konak Belediyespor based in Konak district of İzmir, Turkey. The team was established by the d ...

. Her team became champion in the 2012–13 First League season. The next season, she played for Kayseri Gençlik Birliği in the Second League. In the 2014–15 season, Sabırlı joined the Third League-club Yahya Mazlum Halk Eğitim Merkezi Spor in

Osmaniye Osmaniye () is a city on the eastern edge of the Çukurova plain in southern Turkey and the capital of Osmaniye province. Backed by the foothills of the Nur Mountains, Osmaniye lay on one of the old Silk Roads and was always a place of strategic ...

. She scored 42 goals in 15 league games. She netted five goals of a match with 13–0 win, made a

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in a match with 8–0 win, ten goals in a match with 18–0 win, eight goals in a match with 10–0 win, a hat-trick in a match with 12–0 win, and nine goals of a match with 22–0 win. In the next season, she played in the Second League for Osmaniye Demirspor. She left the team after the first half of the 2016–17 season, and returned to her former club Adana İdmanyurduspor, which had troubles to remain in the First League. Despite efforts, Adana İdmanyurduspor was relegated to the Second League. In the second half of the 2016–17 season, she joined the

Gaziantep Gaziantep (), previously and still informally called Aintab or Antep (), is a major city and capital of the Gaziantep Province, in the westernmost part of Turkey's Southeastern Anatolia Region and partially in the Mediterranean Region, approximat ...

-based club

ALG Spor ALG Spor, formerly known as Güneykent Spor, is a women's football club based in Gaziantep, southeastern Turkey. Founded in 1998. The club is named after its local sponsor ALG Textile. The club's president is Ali Gözcü. It is located in the İn ...

in the Second League, which were recently promoted from the Third League. She served as captain of her team. At the end of the season, she enjoyed her team's promotion to the First League. The team became even league leader shortly before the end of the season. At the end of the 2018–19 season, at which she remained on the substitute bench, her team became runner-up losing the champion title in the play-off match.

International career

Sabırlı was admitted to the Turkey women's U-19 team debuting in a friendly match against

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on 22 January 2006, before she became a member of the national girls' U-17 team. With the girls' U-17 team, she took part in two games of the 2008 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship – Group 6, and scored one goal against Moldova girls' U-17 team. She capped in seven matches in total for the U-17 team. She played at the 2007 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship First qualifying round, 2008 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship First qualifying round, 2009 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship – Group 2, 2009 Kuban Spring Tournament, and 2010 UEFA Women's U-19 Championship First qualifying round – Group 7 matches. She capped 24 times in total. In 2007, it was reported that Sabırlı was selected to represent Turkey to play at the Coca-Cola World Women's Football Tournament held in Brazil on 29 July 2007.

Club career statistics

Futsal career

Sabırlı played also

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during her university years at Aksaray University.

Managerial career

Sabırlı was appointed

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of ALG Spor's women's team in the 2018–19 Women's First League season, in addition to her squad membership. By end of 2021, she was tasked with the traner position of Gaziantepgücü Spor youth team. In April 2022, women's club of

Adana İdman Yurdu Adana İdman Yurdu ( tr, Adana İdmanyurdu Kadın Futbol Takımı) was a women's association football team based in Adana, Turkey. The club was merged with Adana Demirspor in August 2022 and the women's football department formed the Adana Demirsp ...

appointed her as technical director and later as trainer in the 2022–23 Super League season.

Honours

; Turkish Women's First League :; Konak belediyespor ::''Winners'' (1):

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:; ALG Spor ::''Runners-up'' (1): 2018–19 ; Turkish Women's Second League :; Adana İdmanyurduspor :: ''Winners'' (1): 2008–09 :; ALG Spor ::''Winners'' (1): 2017–18

References

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