Dilan Ağgül (born 3 August 1998) is a German-born Turkish

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby le ...

who plays as a

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for

2. Frauen-Bundesliga The 2. Frauen-Bundesliga is the second league competition for women's association football in Germany. For its first 14 seasons the league was divided into two groups: Nord and Süd. The winner and the runner-up are promoted to the Bundesliga (unle ...

club

FSV Gütersloh 2009 FSV Gütersloh 2009 (Frauensportverein, e.g. Women's Sports Club) is a German women's football club from Gütersloh. It currently competes in the 2. Bundesliga. It has its origin in the women's team of FC Gütersloh FC may refer to: Busine ...

and the Turkey national team.

Personal life

Dilan Ağgül was born in

Traunstein Traunstein (Central Bavarian: ''Traunstoa'') is a town in the south-eastern part of Bavaria, Germany, and is the administrative center of a much larger district of the same name. The town serves as a local government, retail, health services, ...

Upper Bavaria Upper Bavaria (german: Oberbayern, ; ) is one of the seven administrative districts of Bavaria, Germany. Geography Upper Bavaria is located in the southern portion of Bavaria, and is centered on the city of Munich, both state capital and seat o ...

, Germany on 3 August 1998. Her brother, Diyar, is one year older. After completing her ''Fachabitur'' ( specialized university entrance qualification), she started a

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program for

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. She grew up with her parents in Traunstein. She has the exclusive citizenship of Turkey.

Club career

Inspired by her brother, who played football, Ağgül also started playing football at the age of five. She entered DJK Traunstein in her hometown in the 2014–15 season, which competed in the 6th-level German League of

Bezirksoberliga Bayern The seven Bezirksoberligas Bayern were the third highest level of the Bavarian football league system, below the Bayernliga and the Landesliga Bayern from 1988 to 2012. They were the seventh tier of the German football league system. Until the int ...

(District Upper League of Bavaria), where she collected two caps. After her team was folded, she moved to SC Vachendorf again as junior player. In the 2015–16 season, she went to SV Saaldorf, where she enjoyed her team's promotion to the fourth-level league of Bayernliga (Bavaria Women's League) in her first year. She was capped 58 times and scored two goals in three seasons. In the 2018–19 season at the age of 19, she moved to the U-23 team

Bayer 04 Leverkusen II Bayer 04 Leverkusen II was the reserve team of German football club Bayer 04 Leverkusen. Until 2005, the team played as Bayer 04 Leverkusen Amateure. The team has qualified for the DFB-Pokal, the German Cup, on eight occasions, but never adva ...

, which compete in the Frauen-Mittelrheinliga (Women's League of the

Middle Rhine Between Bingen and Bonn, Germany, the river Rhine flows as the Middle Rhine (german: Mittelrhein) through the Rhine Gorge, a formation created by erosion, which happened at about the same rate as an uplift in the region, leaving the river at ...

). As of 1 April 2019, she has played 10 games and has scored four goals. In the 2019–20 season, she joined

to play in the

. The next season, she appears in the 2. BL Nord.

International career

Ağgül was called up to the Turkey national team, and debuted in a friendly match against

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held in

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on 11 November 2018. She played in one of the UEFA European Championship 2021 qualifying Group A matches against

Netherlands ) , anthem = ( en, "William of Nassau") , image_map = , map_caption = , subdivision_type = Sovereign state , subdivision_name = Kingdom of the Netherlands , established_title = Before independence , established_date = Spanish Netherl ...

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Aggul, Dilan 1998 births Living people Citizens of Turkey through descent Turkish women's footballers Women's association football midfielders Turkey women's international footballers People from Traunstein Footballers from Upper Bavaria German women's footballers German sportspeople of Turkish descent Bayer 04 Leverkusen (women) players FSV Gütersloh 2009 players Expatriate women's footballers in Germany Turkish expatriate sportspeople in Germany