Emre Akbaba (born 4 October 1992) is a Turkish 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

midfielder A midfielder is an outfield position in association football. Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in that case known as defensive midfielders. As central midfielders often go across boundarie ...

for the Turkish club

Adana Demirspor Adana Demirspor Kulübü is a sports club based in Adana, Turkey. Founded by railway workers in 1940, the club is competitive in football, watersports, racquet sports and martial arts. Football team's thriving success at the Adana League and the ...

in the

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 career

Emre Akbaba at Antalyaspor vs Alanyaspor 20211127 (cropped)

Galatasaray

2018–19 season

In the statement made by

Galatasaray Galatasaray Spor Kulübü (, ''Galatasaray Sports Club'') is a Turkish sports club based on the European side of the city of Istanbul in Turkey. Most notable for its association football department, the club also consists of various other de ...

on 18 August 2018, an agreement was reached with Emre Akbaba and his club

Alanyaspor Alanyaspor Kulübü is a Turkish professional football club located in the city of Alanya in Antalya Province. Formed in 1948, the club colours are orange and green. Home matches are played at Kırbıyık Holding Stadium. The most recent club ma ...

on the transfer of the player. Accordingly, a transfer fee of 4,000,000 Euros will be paid to the former club of the football player. An agreement has been reached with the player himself for 3 seasons, starting with the 2018–19 football season. Accordingly, a net 1.750.000 Euro fixed transfer fee will be paid to the player for each football season.

2019–20 season

On 11 May 2019, in the 32nd week of the

was the guest of

Çaykur Rizespor Çaykur Rizespor Kulübü is a Turkish professional football club based in Rize. The club play in the TFF First League. The club was founded on May 19, 1953, with green-yellow as club colours, but later changed to blue-green. Since 1990, the team ...

, while the yellow-red team suffered a sad injury in the second half of the match. Akbaba, who was substituted for Ryan Donk in the 61st minute, remained on the ground after Braian Samudio's intervention in the 67th minute. There was a great sadness in the field as the right foot of the football player was broken.

2020–21 season

On 15 January 2020, Galatasaray Technical Director

Fatih Terim Fatih Terim (born 4 September 1953) is a Turkish association football manager and former player. He is the former manager of Galatasaray, a position he previously held four times. Terim has managed several clubs in Italy (Milan and Fiorentina) ...

took Akbaba, who returned to the field after 8 months, to the field as the captain in the

match. The Turkish national player brought the score to 1–1 with the goal he scored in the 39th minute of the fight.

2021–22 season

A new 2-year contract was signed between Akbaba and Galatasaray, whose contract expired on 4 July 2021.

Alanyaspor (loan)

On 4 July 2021, it was announced that an agreement was reached on the temporary transfer of

Akbaba to

until the end of the 2021–22 season.

Adana Demirspor

He signed a 2+1 year contract with

on 8 September 2022. It has been announced that a transfer fee of 500,000 Euros will be paid to the

club for this transfer.

International career

Emre was born in

Montfermeil Montfermeil () is a commune in the eastern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located from the center of Paris. Montfermeil is famous as the location of Thénardiers' inn in ''Les Misérables''. It has made the headlines due to troubles in its so ...

within a French family of Turkish descent. Emre made one appearance for the

Turkey national football B team The Turkey national football B team, also known as the Turkey A2 national football team is a reserve team for the Turkey national football team. It features players from the A2 Ligi. The team played their first match in 2002 at the 2003 Future Cu ...

in a 2–2 (3–5) win over the Italy U21s.

Career statistics

Club

International

International goals

:''Scores and results list Turkey's goal tally first.''

Honours

;Galatasaray *

: 2018–19 *

Turkish Cup The Turkish Cup ( Turkish: ''Türkiye Kupası'') is a football cup competition in Turkish football, run by the Turkish Football Federation since 1962. During a brief sponsorship period with Fortis, its sponsored name was ''Fortis Türkiye Kupas� ...

: 2018–19 *

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 ...

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Personal life

Akbaba married Yasemin İnce in November 2016.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Akbaba, Emre 1992 births Living people People from Montfermeil Turkish footballers Turkey B international footballers Turkey international footballers Association football midfielders French footballers French people of Turkish descent Süper Lig players TFF First League players Alanyaspor footballers Antalyaspor footballers Galatasaray S.K. footballers Footballers from Seine-Saint-Denis Adana Demirspor footballers