Cansu Yağ (born 22 June 1990) is a

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midfielder A midfielder is an outfield position in association football. Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in that case known as defensive midfielders. As central midfielders often go across boundarie ...

, who last played in the

Turkish Women's First Football League The Turkish Women's Football Super League ( tr, Kadınlar Süper Ligi), formerly the First Women's Football League (also known as the ''Turkcell Women's Football Super League'' for sponsorship reasons), is the top level women's football league of ...

for Bornova Hitab Spor in

İzmir İzmir ( , ; ), also spelled Izmir, is a metropolitan city in the western extremity of Anatolia, capital of the province of the same name. It is the third most populous city in Turkey, after Istanbul and Ankara and the second largest urban agglo ...

. She was admitted to the

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in 2006 after playing for the national U-15, U-17 and U-19 teams.

Early life

Cansu Yağ was born on 22 June 1990 in

Mönchengladbach Mönchengladbach (, li, Jlabbach ) is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located west of the Rhine, halfway between Düsseldorf and the Dutch border. Geography Municipal subdivisions Since 2009, the territory of Mönchengladbac ...

to Turkish parents living in Germany. Her father, a professional football player in Turkey, who continued his sports career also in Germany, took Cansu to football matches since she was two years old. At the age of six, her father registered her in the club he played. The first seven years, Cansu played football in mixed-gender teams. In the first 13 years of her career, she was with four clubs. In Germany, she played in the Fußball-Regionalliga der Frauen, and was lately in the squad of FSC Mönchengladbach.

Club caeer

After graduating from Gymnasium

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in Mönchengladbach, she moved to Turkey to attend university. There, she enrolled in the

Trakya University Trakya University ( tr, Trakya Üniversitesi), was established on July 20, 1982. The university is located in Edirne, at Turkey's European side (Eastern Thrace). Trakya University is a regional university with institutions and schools spread o ...

Edirne Edirne (, ), formerly known as Adrianople or Hadrianopolis (Greek: Άδριανούπολις), is a city in Turkey, in the northwestern part of the province of Edirne in Eastern Thrace. Situated from the Greek and from the Bulgarian borders, ...

to study physical education and sports. She played for

Trabzonspor Trabzonspor Kulübü is a Turkish sports club located in the city of Trabzon. Formed in 1967 through a merger of several local clubs, the men's football team has won seven Süper Lig championships. Trabzonspor also have a women's football team, ...

until its closure, and then became a member of the women's football club

Lüleburgaz 39 Spor Lüleburgaz 39 Spor is a Turkish women's football club based in Lüleburgaz town and district of Kırklareli Province. It was established in 2007. Currently, the club chairman is Cenk Güngör. The club was founded as a high school girls' team, ...

in October 2011, which was promoted to the Turkish Women's First Football League. In August 2012, Yağ was transferred by

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 ...

. At FSC Mönchengladbach, she helped to her team's success by scoring goals many times. Yağ continued scoring at Lüleburgaz 39 Spor, and Konak Belediyespor as well. In the 2012–13 season, at which she scored three goals in total, she experienced the Turkish league championship. Playing in the

2013–14 UEFA Women's Champions League The 2013–14 UEFA Women's Champions League was the 13th edition of the European women's championship for football clubs. The final was held at Estádio do Restelo, Lisbon, Portugal. German team VfL Wolfsburg won the title over Swedish club Tyre ...

, her team completed the qualifying round as group leader, and passed the Round of 32, failed however to reach the quarterfinals by losing the two matches in the Round of 16 against the Austrian side

SV Neulengbach SV Neulengbach is an Austrian association football club from Neulengbach. The club was founded in 1923, and in 1996 expanded to include a women's football section. While the men always played in the lower leagues of Austria, the women are a suc ...

. At the end of the 2015–16 season, she enjoyed her team's champion title. She played in three matches of the Group 9 of the 2016–17 UEFA Women's Champions League qualifying round. At the end of the 2017–18 First League season, she ended her career last played at Konak Belediyespor. However, she played in the play-off matches for the 2022–23 Third League season for Bornova Hitab Spor, where she scored one goal in two matches. , ,

2014–15 UEFA Champions League The 2014–15 UEFA Champions League was the 60th season of Europe's premier club football tournament organised by UEFA, and the 23rd season since it was renamed from the European Champion Clubs' Cup to the UEFA Champions League. The final was pl ...

, , 11–0 , , 1

International career

Already at the age of 14 and still living in Germany, she was selected to the Turkey girls' U-15 national team, and travelled for this reason to Turkey to take part at the training camps and international matches. After playing in the national U-17 and U-19 teams, she was admitted to the Turkish women's national team in 2006. She had preferred to play for the Turkey national rather than for the German. Cansu Yağ played at the 2008 UEFA Women's U-19 Championship First qualifying round matches against the teams from Poland, Austria and Bulgaria, scoring a goal in the last match. In the

UEFA Women's Euro 2009 qualifying Qualifying for UEFA Women's Euro 2009 determined which 11 teams joined Finland, the hosts of the 2009 tournament, to play for the UEFA Women's Championship. Preliminary round 20 teams were divided into 5 groups of 4. The 5 group winners qualified ...

match against Georgia, she shot one of the nine goals. Yağ scored two goals against Malta and one goal against Austria in the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification – UEFA Group 5 matches in April 2010.

Career statistics

Honours

; Turkish Women's First Football League :; Konak Belediyespor :: ''Winners'' (5):

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, 2013–14, 2014–15, 2015–16, 2016–17 :: ''Third places'' (1): 2017–18

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Yag, Cansu Living people 1990 births Sportspeople from Mönchengladbach German people of Turkish descent German women's footballers Turkish women's footballers Konak Belediyespor players Women's association football midfielders Trakya University alumni Turkey women's international footballers Lüleburgaz 39 Spor players Trabzonspor women's players Footballers from North Rhine-Westphalia