Fatma Şahin (born December 15, 1990) is a Turkish

women's football Women's football most often refers to: * Women's association football (hannah jones ). Women's football may also refer to: * Women's gridiron football * Women's Australian rules football * Ladies' Gaelic football * Women's rugby league * Women's ...

goalkeeper currently playing in the Turkish Women's First Football League for

Beşiktaş Beşiktaş () is a district and municipality of Istanbul, Turkey, located on the European shore of the Bosphorus strait. It is bordered on the north by Sarıyer and Şişli, on the west by Kağıthane and Şişli, on the south by Beyoğlu, and ...

with jersey number 1. She was a member of the Turkey women's national team.

Early life

Fatma Şahin was born on December 15, 1990, in Çiğli, İzmir, where her mother is a native of. She is the second child of the family's three daughters. She grew up in Istanbul and Gebze. The family moved to Izmir as their house in Gebze was damaged by the

1999 İzmit earthquake On the 17th of August, 1999 at 3:01 AM local time, a catastrophic magnitude 7.6 earthquake struck the Kocaeli Province of Turkey, causing monumental damage and 17,127–18,373 deaths. Named for the quakes proximity to the northeastern city of Izm ...

. She studies football coaching at the College of Physical Education and Sports of Ege University in İzmir, and will graduate in 2014.

Club career

Şahin began playing football in Elit Çimenspor, a

Balçova Balçova (pronounced Balchova), is a district of Izmir Province in Turkey. It is one of the eleven districts in the Greater Metropolitan Area of Izmir, the smallest in terms of area. Balçova is a fully urbanized at the rate of 100,0 per cent an ...

-based club in her hometown, after receiving her license on October 22, 2004. Some years later, she wanted to leave the club for the newly established Konak Belediyespor due to disagreement with her coach. However, her club did not release her license, and so she had to take part only at training sessions of Konakspor Belediyespor for one-and-half years. In February 2008, she transferred officially to Konak Belediyespor, where she plays since then. She made her first appearance 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 ...

qualifying round match playing against the Bulgarian team FC NSA Sofia on August 8, 2013. Her team managed as the first ever Turkish women's club to make it into the Round of 16. However, the Austrian opponent

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 ...

eliminated Konak Belediyespor in two games while Şahin was not able to save the six goals in total. She took part in her team's three matches at the 2014–15 UEFA Women's Champions League qualifying round. In the 2015–16 season, she transferred to

1207 Antalya Muratpaşa Belediye Spor 1207 Antalya Spor, a.k.a. 1207 Antalyaspor, is a women's football team based in Antalya playing in the Turkish Women's First Football League. Current chairman of the club is Süleyman Türk. History The women's team was founded as Antalya Yeni ...

, which was newly promoted from the Women's Second League. After two seasons, she returned to her former club Konak Belediyespor. Şahin played in three matches of the 2017–18 UEFA Women's Champions League qualifying round in Tbilisi, Georgia. In the 2018–19 league season, she transferred to

Beşiktaş J.K. Beşiktaş Jimnastik Kulübü (), also known simply as Beşiktaş (), is a Turkish sports club founded in 1903 that is based in the Beşiktaş district of Istanbul. The club's football team is one of the Big Three in Turkey and one of the most ...

She enjoyed the champion title of her team in the 2018–19 season. She took part at the 2019–20 UEFA Women's Champions League - Group 9 matches. In the

2020-21 Turkcell Women's Football League The hyphen-minus is the most commonly used type of hyphen, widely used in digital documents. It is the only character that looks like a minus sign or a dash in many character sets such as ASCII or on most keyboards, so it is also used as such. ...

season, she enjoyed the second champion title with her team Beşiktaş J.K. She was honored with the award of ''Best goalkeeper'' of the 2020–21 season. She played in two matches of the

2021–22 UEFA Women's Champions League qualifying rounds The 2021–22 UEFA Women's Champions League qualifying rounds began on 17 August and ended on 9 September 2021. A total of 68 teams competed in the group stage qualifying rounds of the 2021–22 UEFA Women's Champions League, which includes two rou ...

International career

Şahin made her national team debut in the friendly match against Macedonia women's national football team held on January 22, 2006, entering the game on the 82nd minute. After playing one more match with the national U-19 team, she became a member of the senior team in 2009. As of April 7, 2018, she capped 16 times in the national team.

Career statistics

Honours

Club

; Turkish Women's First League :; Konak Belediyespor :: ''Winners'' (3):

2012–13 1 (one, unit, unity) is a number representing a single or the only entity. 1 is also a numerical digit and represents a single unit of counting or measurement. For example, a line segment of ''unit length'' is a line segment of length 1. I ...

, 2013–14, 2014–15 :: ''Runners-up'' (1):

2010–11 1 (one, unit, unity) is a number representing a single or the only entity. 1 is also a numerical digit and represents a single unit of counting or measurement. For example, a line segment of ''unit length'' is a line segment of length 1. I ...

:: ''Third place'' (2): 2009–10, 2017–18 :; Beşiktaş J.K. :: ''Winners'' (2): 2018–19,

2020–21 The dash is a punctuation mark consisting of a long horizontal line. It is similar in appearance to the hyphen but is longer and sometimes higher from the baseline. The most common versions are the endash , generally longer than the hyphen ...

Individual

* ''Best goalkeeper'':

with

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Sahin, Fatma 1990 births Living people Footballers from İzmir Ege University alumni Turkish women's footballers Women's association football goalkeepers Turkey women's international footballers Konak Belediyespor players 1207 Antalya Spor players Turkish Women's Football Super League players Beşiktaş J.K. women's football players 21st-century Turkish sportswomen