Ersin Kaya (born 5 July 1993) is an Australian

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who lasted played as a

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for

National Premier Leagues Victoria The National Premier Leagues Victoria, commonly known as NPL Victoria, is a semi-professional soccer league in Victoria, Australia. The league is a part of the National Premier Leagues, and is the highest level within the Victorian soccer leagu ...

club

Hume City The City of Hume is a local government area located within the metropolitan area of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It includes the outer north-western suburbs and a number of rural localities between 13 and 40 kilometres from the Melbourne c ...

Club career

After being a part of the

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set-up in 2009, Ersin Kaya signed for Turkish-backed

Victorian Premier League The National Premier Leagues Victoria, commonly known as NPL Victoria, is a semi-professional soccer league in Victoria, Australia. The league is a part of the National Premier Leagues, and is the highest level within the Victorian soccer leagu ...

club

Hume City FC Hume City Football Club is a semi-professional Australian football club based in Broadmeadows, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria. Established by the local Turkish Australian community, the club competes in the National Premier Leagues Victoria. ...

in 2010. Kaya then moved to

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side

Moreland Zebras Brunswick Juventus FC is an Australian soccer club based in the Melbourne municipality of Merri-bek. The club currently competes in the National Premier Leagues Victoria 2 and is based at CB Smith Reserve in the suburb of Fawkner. The earliest ...

, where he linked up with current coach Domenic Barba. Kaya won promotion to the VPL with the Zebras at the age of 17. After that, Kaya joined the

Melbourne Heart Melbourne City Football Club is an Australian professional soccer club based in the south–eastern Melbourne suburb of Cranbourne East, that plays in the A-League, the top level of Australian soccer, under licence from Australian Profession ...

youth squad in 2012, before returning to play VPL with

Northcote City FC Northcote City Football Club (Iraklis) is a soccer club based on the border of Thornbury and Northcote, Victoria (Australia). Formed in 1960 by local Greek Australians, the club currently competes in the NPL Victoria 2. In 2011, Northcote w ...

and

Werribee City FC Werribee City Football Club is an Australia semi-professional soccer club based in Werribee, Melbourne, currently playing in the National Premier Leagues Victoria 2 competition. The club plays its home games at Galvin Park Reserve (Benlor Grou ...

. He then spent a year in Turkey with Bayrampasaspor before returning to Victoria, joining the newly promoted

FC Bulleen Lions FC Bulleen Lions is an Australian semi-professional football club based in the Melbourne suburb Bulleen. Founded in 1974 by Melbourne's Italian community, the club currently competes in the National Premier Leagues Victoria 2, the second highe ...

in 2016.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Kaya, Ersin Living people 1993 births Men's association football defenders A-League Men players Melbourne City FC players Australian people of Turkish descent Hume City FC players Australian men's soccer players Australia men's youth international soccer players Soccer players from Melbourne Australian expatriate sportspeople in Turkey Australian expatriate men's soccer players Australian Institute of Sport soccer players Expatriate men's footballers in Turkey Bayrampaşa SK footballers