Taner Yalçın (, born 18 February 1990) is a German former professional

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who played as a

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. He manages SC 1960 Hanau.

Club career

1. FC Köln

In 2003, Yalçın moved from

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. There, he won the 2008

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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

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. 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

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, he scored his first professional goal for 1. FC Köln. His first goal in the

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came on 12 September 2010, in a match against

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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

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. Yalçın was finally signed on a permanent basis in June 2012.

Kayserispor

After Istanbul BB was relegated from the

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for the 2013-14 season, Yalçın moved to

club

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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

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. In the summer of the same year, he then moved to

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. In January 2016, he moved to

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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

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on a one-year contract. He played his only 2. Bundesliga game for the club on 4 February 2017, a 2–0 win against

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, when he was on from the bench in the last minute. He also played several games for the second team in the

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. His contract expired in the summer 2017 and was not renewed. After a year without club, Yalçın signed with

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club

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in July 2018. He left the club at the end of the season and then signed with Sivas Belediyespor in August 2019. In March 2020, he ended his contract early and returned to his hometown of

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. Yalçın remained without club until July 2021, when he joined German

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club FC Hürth. He signed with SC Elsdorf of the lower-league

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in July 2023.

International career

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

Managerial career

In February 2024 Yalçın was appointed manager at

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club SC 1960 Hanau.

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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Yalcin, Taner 1990 births Living people Footballers from Cologne German men's footballers Men's association football midfielders Germany men's under-21 international footballers Germany men's youth international footballers Turkish men's footballers Turkey men's youth international footballers German sportspeople of Turkish descent Bundesliga players 2. Bundesliga players Süper Lig players Regionalliga players TFF 1. Lig 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 men's footballers Turkish expatriate sportspeople in Germany Expatriate men's footballers in Germany German expatriate men's footballers German expatriate sportspeople in Turkey Expatriate men's footballers in Turkey 21st-century German sportsmen 21st-century Turkish sportsmen