Taner Yalçın (, born 18 February 1990) is a German professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for FC Hürth.

Career

1. FC Köln

In 2003, the Yalçın moved from SC Fortuna Köln to

1. FC Köln 1. Fußball-Club Köln 01/07 e. V., commonly known as simply FC Köln () or FC Cologne in English, is a German professional football club based in Cologne in North Rhine-Westphalia. It was formed in 1948 as a merger of the clubs ''Kölner Ballspi ...

. There, he won the 2008 Under 19 Bundesliga West (scored 15 goals in 21 games). In may 2008, he signed a professional contract with 1. FC Köln until 2011, running from the summer 2008. Yalçın made his professional debut on Matchday 2 of the

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season in a home game against Eintracht Frankfurt. As the season progressed, he appeared on the pitch a total of 12 times. After a very good pre-season ahead of the 2010–11 season, Yalçın established himself as a regular player in the early stages of the season. In the first round of the

2010–11 DFB-Pokal The 2010–11 DFB-Pokal was the 68th season of the annual German football cup competition. The competition began on 13 August 2010 with the first round and concluded on 21 May 2011 with the final at the Olympiastadion in Berlin. The competition wa ...

, he scored his first professional goal for 1. FC Köln. His first goal in the Bundesliga came on 12 September 2010, in a match against FC St. Pauli.

İstanbul BB

For the 2011–12 season, Yalçın was loaned out to Turkish

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club İstanbul BB. Yalçın got his debut for İstanbul on 11 September 2011 in a match against Galatasaray. Yalçın was finally signed on a permanent basis in June 2012.

Kayserispor

After Istanbul BB was relegated from the Süper Lig for the 2013-14 season, Yalçın moved to

club Kayserispor in July 2013. Yalçın hit the headlines in late April 2014 after he was shot in a shootout in a nightclub in Istanbul with other professional footballers such as

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, Hugo Almeida, and Manuel Fernandes. His club took this incident as an opportunity to terminate Yalçın's ongoing contract.

Later career

On the last day of the 2014/15 winter transfer window, Yalçın moved to Turkish

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club Elazığspor. In the summer of the same year, he then moved to Kayseri Erciyesspor. In January 2016, he moved to Kastamonuspor for the second half of the 2015–16 season. He left the club again at the end of the season. On 12 September 2016, Yalçın returned to Germany and joined

SV Sandhausen Sportverein Sandhausen 1916 e.V., commonly known as simply SV Sandhausen or Sandhausen, is a German association football club that plays in Sandhausen, immediately to the south of Heidelberg in Baden-Württemberg. The club's greatest success ...

on a one-year contract. He played his only

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game for the club on 4 February 2017, a 2–0 win against Erzgebirge Aue, when he was on from the bench in the last minute. He also played several games for the second team in the Oberliga Baden-Württemberg. His contract expired in the summer 2017 and was not renewed. After a year without club, Yalçın signed with

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club İnegölspor in July 2018. He left the club at the end of the season and then signed with

Sivas Belediyespor Sivas Dört Eylül Belediye Spor is a Turkish professional football club located in Sivas. The team currently plays in the TFF Second League. The club was promoted to the TFF Third League after the 2009–10 season. They finally were promoted to ...

in August 2019. In March 2020, he ended his contract early and returned to his hometown of Cologne. Yalçın remained without club until July 2021, where he joined German Mittelrheinliga club FC Hürth.

International career

Taner was born in Germany and is of Turkish descent. He has represented both Turkey and Germany at the youth level.

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* * * 1990 births Living people Footballers from Cologne German footballers Association football midfielders Germany under-21 international footballers Germany youth international footballers Citizens of Turkey through descent Turkish footballers Turkey youth international footballers German people of Turkish descent Bundesliga players 2. Bundesliga players Süper Lig players Regionalliga players TFF First League players TFF Second League players 1. FC Köln players İstanbul Başakşehir F.K. players Kastamonuspor footballers Kayserispor footballers Elazığspor footballers Kayseri Erciyesspor footballers SV Sandhausen players İnegölspor footballers Turkish expatriate footballers Turkish expatriate sportspeople in Germany Expatriate footballers in Germany German expatriate footballers German expatriate sportspeople in Turkey Expatriate footballers in Turkey {{Germany-footy-midfielder-1990s-stub