İsyan Erdogan (born 25 September 1982 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia) is an Australian

soccer Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 Football player, players who almost exclusively use their feet to propel a Ball (association football), ball around a rectangular f ...

player who last played for

Geelong SC Geelong Soccer Club (Formerly Geelong Makedonia, West Geelong, East Geelong) is an Australian soccer club based in Geelong, Australia founded in 1958 by Geelong's Macedonian Australian community. In 2019, Geelong SC obtained National Premier L ...

in the

Victorian State League Division 1 The Victorian State League, known as VETO Sports State League for sponsorship purposes is an Australian soccer league based in Victoria that was founded in 1958 and administered by Football Victoria. It consists of five divisions (separated by ...

Club career

Erdogan has been plying his trade with various

Victorian Premier League The Victorian Premier League (VPL) is an Australian soccer league based in Victoria that was founded in 2023 and administered by Football Victoria. It consists of two divisions that were named after the VPL's breakaway of the National Premier L ...

clubs after playing for former NSL clubs

Carlton SC Carlton Soccer Club is a defunct Australian association football (soccer) club. It participated in the National Soccer League from the 1997–98 season until round eight of the 2000–01 season, after which it folded. The club was strongly linke ...

and the

Melbourne Knights Melbourne Knights Football Club is an Australian professional soccer club based in the suburb of Sunshine North, Melbourne. The club currently competes in the National Premier Leagues Victoria, the second-tier of the Australian soccer league ...

before signing with Australian

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club

Adelaide United Adelaide United Football Club is a professional men's soccer club located in Adelaide, South Australia, Australia. The club was one of the eight founding members of the A-League Men and have competed in it concurrently since its formation, u ...

for the 2007–08 season in which he went on to make 13 appearances. After making just 13 senior appearances in two seasons with the Reds', the injury plagued Erdogan was released following the conclusion of the 2008/09 season. On 23 February 2009 he was signed up by

Hume City FC Hume City Football Club is a semi-professional football club based in Broadmeadows, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Established by the local Turkish Australian community, the club competes in the National Premier Leagues Victoria. ...

to play in the 2009 Victorian Premier League. Erdogan was to spend the next six seasons with the Broadmeadows-based club, going on to become the club captain and fan favourite. Upon the conclusion of the 2015 NPL Victoria season, in which Hume City had a strong

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run, going down in the semi-finals to

side

Melbourne Victory Melbourne Victory Football Club is an Australian professional soccer club based in Melbourne, Victoria. Competing in the country's premier men's competition, the A-League Men, under licence from Australian Professional Leagues (APL), Victory ...

, Erdogan dropped three divisions down the Victorian football league ladder to sign with

References

External links

Adelaide United Profile

* 1982 births Living people Australian people of Turkish descent Men's association football defenders Australian men's soccer players A-League Men players National Soccer League (Australia) players Adelaide United FC players Carlton SC players Melbourne Knights FC players Brunswick Juventus FC players Hume City FC players National Premier Leagues players Soccer players from Melbourne 21st-century Australian sportsmen {{Australia-footy-defender-stub