Hakan Özmert (born 3 June 1985) is a professional

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 ...

who plays as a

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for

Süper Lig The Süper Lig (, ''Super League''), officially known as Spor Toto Süper Lig for sponsorship reasons, is a Turkish professional league for association football clubs. It is the top-flight of the Turkish football league system and is run by the ...

club

Antalyaspor Antalyaspor Kulübü is a Turkish professional football club located in the city of Antalya. The club's colours are red and white. They play their home matches at the Antalya Stadium. In Turkey, the club won the First League twice in 1982 and ...

. Born in France, he represents Turkey internationally.

Club career

Özmert began his professional career with

Sakaryaspor Sakaryaspor Kulübü Derneği is a Turkish professional football club, formed in 1965 after the merger of ''Adapazarı Gençlerbirliği'', ''Adapazarı İdman Yurdu'', ''Güneşspor'' and ''Ada Gençlik''. The club is better known as Sakaryaspor ...

, and appeared in 26

matches for the club. In 2005, he was loaned out to

Karşıyaka Karşıyaka () is a district of İzmir Province in Turkey. The district extends for twelve kilometres along the northern and eastern coastline of the tip of the Gulf of İzmir. Its centre is at a distance of to the north from the traditional cen ...

and later made a permanent move to

in July 2007. On 4 July 2015, Özmert signed for

Sivasspor Sivasspor Kulübü, known as Demir Grup Sivasspor due to sponsorship reasons, is a Turkish sports club based in Sivas. The primary department of the club is men's football. Formed in 1967, its football department competes in Süper Lig, as of 201 ...

International career

Despite being born in

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, Özmert has exclusively represented

Turkey Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with a small portion on the Balkan Peninsula in ...

in youth competitions. He has played for the Turkish U16s, U18s, and U19s.

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* 1985 births Living people French footballers Turkish footballers Turkey youth international footballers Association football midfielders FC Nantes players Sakaryaspor footballers Karşıyaka S.K. footballers Antalyaspor footballers Kardemir Karabükspor footballers Orduspor footballers Kasımpaşa S.K. footballers Sivasspor footballers İstanbul Başakşehir F.K. players Süper Lig players French people of Turkish descent {{Turkey-footy-midfielder-stub