Halil İbrahim Dervişoğlu (born 8 December 1999) is a professional

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who plays as a

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for club Burnley, on loan from club

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. Born in Netherlands, he represents the Turkey national team. Dervişoğlu began his career in his native Netherlands with

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and transferred to Brentford in 2020.

Club career

Sparta Rotterdam

Dervişoğlu joined the

academy at the age of 10 and broke into the club's reserve team early in the 2017–18

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season. 21 goals in 26 appearances saw him sign a contract extension in May 2018 and he made his maiden first team appearances during the club's unsuccessful Eredivisie relegation playoff campaign. Dervişoğlu was a regular in the first team squad during the 2018–19 Eerste Divisie season and he helped the club to promotion back to the Eredivisie through the end-of-season playoffs. In August 2019, Dervişoğlu signed a pre-contract to depart

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on 1 January 2020. He made 19 appearances and scored five goals during the first half of the 2019–20 season and departed the club having made 58 appearances and scored 16 goals while a member of the first team squad.

Brentford

On 9 August 2019, Dervişoğlu signed a pre-contract to join English Championship club

on 1 January 2020, for a reported €3 million fee. He signed a -year contract and was unveiled as a Brentford player on 3 January 2020. Down the pecking order for the attacking positions, Dervişoğlu made 7 appearances during the remainder of the 2019–20 season, which ended with defeat in the 2020 Championship play-off Final. After making just one

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substitute appearance during the first month of the

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season and well behind Marcus Forss and new signing

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in the centre forward pecking order, Dervişoğlu joined Eredivisie club FC Twente on loan until the end of the

season. After making 10 appearances without scoring, his loan was recalled on the first day of the mid-season transfer window. Dervişoğlu scored his first goal for the club on his first appearance back, with the opener in a 2–1 FA Cup third round win over Middlesbrough on 9 January 2021. It proved to be his only appearance before he departed to join Turkish Süper Lig club Galatasaray on loan two weeks later. After a slow start to his Galatasaray spell due to testing positive for COVID-19, Dervişoğlu broke from his substitute role into the starting lineup late in the season, scoring three goals in the final four matches, though the club ultimately missed out on the Süper Lig title by one goal. He finished his spell with 12 appearances and three goals and in his absence, Brentford won promotion to the Premier League after victory in the 2021 Championship play-off Final. Despite being named in each of head coach Thomas Frank's first four matchday squads of the 2021–22 season, Dervişoğlu made just one appearance, with a start in a 3–1 EFL Cup second round win over Forest Green Rovers. On 1 September 2021, for reasons of it being a "logical progression" for Dervişoğlu "to continue to play and develop", he rejoined Galatasaray on loan until the end of the 2021–22 season. He made 33 appearances and scored five goals during a mid-table season. Dervişoğlu made just one seven-minute substitute cameo during the opening month of the

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Premier League season and well down the attacking pecking order, he joined Championship club Burnley on a season-long loan on the final day of the summer transfer window.

International career

Of Turkish descent, Dervişoğlu was eligible to represent the Netherlands or Turkey at international level. Capped by Turkey at U19 and U21 level, Dervişoğlu was named in Turkey's

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squad and made his senior international debut in a pre-tournament

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versus Azerbaijan on 27 May 2021. He started the match and scored the opening goal in the 2–1 victory. Dervişoğlu made two substitute appearances at Euro 2020, prior to Turkey's group stage exit.

Career statistics

Club

International

: ''Scores and results list Turkey's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Dervişoğlu goal''.

Honours

Sparta Rotterdam * Eerste Divisie promotion playoffs:

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References

External links

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Halil Dervişoğlu
at brentfordfc.com
Halil Dervişoğlu
at burnleyfootballclub.com * {{DEFAULTSORT:Dervişoğlu, Halil 1999 births Living people Footballers from Rotterdam Citizens of Turkey through descent Turkish footballers Turkey international footballers Turkey youth international footballers Turkey under-21 international footballers Dutch footballers Dutch people of Turkish descent Association football forwards Sparta Rotterdam players Brentford F.C. players Tweede Divisie players Eerste Divisie players Eredivisie players English Football League players Turkish expatriate footballers Dutch expatriate footballers Expatriate footballers in England Turkish expatriate sportspeople in England Dutch expatriate sportspeople in England FC Twente players Galatasaray S.K. footballers Süper Lig players UEFA Euro 2020 players Premier League players Burnley F.C. players