Ebru Uzungüney (born 13 May 1997) is a German-born Turkish

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 lea ...

who plays as a defender for

1. FSV Mainz 05 1. Fußball- und Sport-Verein Mainz 05 e. V., usually shortened to 1. FSV Mainz 05 or simply Mainz 05 (), is a German professional sports club, founded in 1905 and based in Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate. Mainz 05 play in the Bundesliga, the top tie ...

and the Turkey women's national team.

Playing career

Club

After playing in the juniors teams of

OSC Vellmar OSC Vellmar is a German sports club based in Vellmar, Hesse which has departments for budō, weight lifting, handball, inline hockey, Taekwondo, dance, table tennis, gymnastics, and winter sports. History The club's football team was establis ...

in 2012–13 and of 1. FFC Frankfurt in 2013–14, Uzungüney became part of 1. FFC Frankfurt II between 2013 and 2016. In the 2015–16 season, she appeared in the top-level team of 1. FFC Frankfurt. In the 2016–17 season, she transferred to

TSV Schott Mainz TSV Schott Mainz is a German multi-sport club from the city of Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate. Apart from association football the club also offers more than 30 other sports like ice hockey, field hockey and American football and has 4,000 members. ...

in the German 2nd Women's Football Bundesliga South. She later joined

Eintracht Frankfurt Eintracht Frankfurt e.V. () is a German professional sports club based in Frankfurt, Hesse. It is best known for its football club, which was founded on 8 March 1899. The club currently plays in the Bundesliga, the top tier of the German footb ...

and

FC Ingolstadt 04 Fußballclub Ingolstadt 04 e. V., commonly known as FC Ingolstadt 04 or FC Ingolstadt, is a German football club based in Ingolstadt, Bavaria. The club was founded in 2004 out of the merger of the football sides of two other clubs: ESV Ingolsta ...

before returning to TSV Schott Mainz in 2022. In 2023, TSV Schott Mainz was acquired by

, and she became their captain.

International

She was admitted to the

Turkey women's national football team The Turkey women's national football team () represents Turkey in international women's football (soccer), women's football. The team was established in 1995, and compete in the qualification for UEFA Women's Championship and the UEFA qualify ...

and debuted in the Goldcity Women's Cup 2017 against

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on 1 March 2017. She played in the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification – UEFA preliminary round – Group 4 match against

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References

1997 births Living people Turkish women's footballers 21st-century Turkish sportswomen Women's association football defenders Turkey women's international footballers Footballers from Kassel German women's footballers German sportspeople of Turkish descent Expatriate women's footballers in Germany 2. Frauen-Bundesliga players Frauen-Bundesliga players Eintracht Frankfurt (women) players Turkish expatriate sportspeople in Germany 21st-century German sportswomen {{Germany-footy-defender-1990s-stub