Volkan Babacan (; born 11 August 1988) is a Turkish professional

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who plays as a

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for İstanbul Başakşehir and the

Turkey national football team The Turkey national football team ( tr, Türkiye Millî Futbol Takımı) represents Turkey in men's international Association football, football matches. The team is controlled by the Turkish Football Federation ( tr, Türkiye Futbol Federasyonu ...

. Babacan was a star at the

2005 FIFA U-17 World Championship The 2005 FIFA U-17 World Championship, the eleventh edition of the tournament, was held in the cities of Lima, Trujillo, Chiclayo, Piura and Iquitos in Peru between 16 September and 2 October 2005. Players born after 1 January 1988 could participa ...

, taking Turkey to 3rd place. He made his full international debut on 13 October 2014 in a 1–1 draw away to

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UEFA Euro 2016 qualifying The UEFA Euro 2016 qualifying tournament was a football competition that was played from September 2014 to November 2015 to determine the 23 UEFA member men's national teams joining the automatically qualified host team France in the UEFA Euro 2 ...

International career

Volkan Babacan was used for most of the UEFA Euro 2016 Qualifying matches, replacing

Volkan Demirel Volkan Demirel (; born 27 October 1981) is a Turkish coach, pundit and former professional footballer. He is the manager of the Turkish club Hatayspor. For many years, he was the starting goalkeeper of Fenerbahçe and the Turkish national team. ...

after a dispute with the fans. Out of the 10 matches Babacan played, he got 4 clean sheets. Turkey ended up getting 3rd place and got ranked the best 3rd place team, automatically sending them to the

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finals in France. He was part of the Turkish national team for Euro 2016.

Honours

Fenerbahce *

Turkish Super Cup The Turkish Super Cup ( Turkish: ''TFF Süper Kupa''), as it is currently known, is the annual super cup football match contested between the previous season's Süper Lig champions and the Turkish Cup winners in Turkey. It was originally known a ...

2007 File:2007 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Steve Jobs unveils Apple's first iPhone; TAM Airlines Flight 3054 overruns a runway and crashes into a gas station, killing almost 200 people; Former Pakistani Prime Minister of Pakistan, Pr ...

2009 File:2009 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: The vertical stabilizer of Air France Flight 447 is pulled out from the Atlantic Ocean; Barack Obama becomes the first African American to become President of the United States; 2009 Iran ...

İstanbul Başakşehir *

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: 2019–20

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* 1988 births Living people Turkish footballers Turkey under-21 international footballers Fenerbahçe S.K. footballers İstanbulspor footballers Kayserispor footballers Manisaspor footballers İstanbul Başakşehir F.K. players Association football goalkeepers Süper Lig players Turkey youth international footballers TFF First League players Turkey international footballers Sportspeople from Antalya UEFA Euro 2016 players Mediterranean Games silver medalists for Turkey Mediterranean Games medalists in football Competitors at the 2005 Mediterranean Games {{Turkey-footy-goalkeeper-stub