Safa Merve Nalçacı (born 28 July 1993) is a Turkish

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defender currently playing in the Turkish Women's Football Super League for Beylerbeyi S.K. with jersey number 2. She was part of the Turkey women's national team.

Private life

Safa Merve Nalçcacı was born in

Van A van is a type of road vehicle used for transporting goods or people. Depending on the type of van, it can be bigger or smaller than a pickup truck and SUV, and bigger than a common car. There is some varying in the scope of the word across th ...

, eastern Turkey on 28 July 1993.

Club career

Nalçacı obtained her license from

Karşıyaka BESEM Spor Karşıyaka BESEM Spor, short for Karşıyaka Beden Eğitimi ve Spor Eğitim Merkezi Spor Kulübü, is a women's football club based in Karşıyaka district of İzmir İzmir ( , ; ), also spelled Izmir, is a metropolitan city in the western e ...

in Izmir on 16 November 2007. She then played in the team between 2008 and 2012. During this time, she appeared the , Women's Regional and , Second League, scoring 15 goals in 33 matches. In the ,

2012–13 1 (one, unit, unity) is a number representing a single or the only entity. 1 is also a numerical digit and represents a single unit of counting or measurement. For example, a line segment of ''unit length'' is a line segment of length 1. I ...

season, she transferred to the

Istanbul Istanbul ( , ; tr, İstanbul ), formerly known as Constantinople ( grc-gre, Κωνσταντινούπολις; la, Constantinopolis), is the List of largest cities and towns in Turkey, largest city in Turkey, serving as the country's economic, ...

-based club Çamlıcaspor to play in the , Women's First League. After playing 18 matches, she moved to Karşıyaka Koleji Spor in

İzmit İzmit () is a district and the central district of Kocaeli province, Turkey Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a list of transcontinental countries, transcontinental ...

in the second half of the 2013–14 Second League season. The next season, she joined the new established team

Beşiktaş J.K. Beşiktaş Jimnastik Kulübü (), also known simply as Beşiktaş (), is a Turkish sports club founded in 1903 that is based in the Beşiktaş district of Istanbul. The club's football team is one of the Big Three in Turkey and one of the most ...

in Istanbul, which played in the , Third League. At the end of that season, she enjoyed her team's promotion to the Second League, and after one season to the First League. She capped in 58 matches and scored two goals in three seasons with Beşiktaş J.K. For the 2017–18 First League season, she went to the newly promoted

Fatih Vatan Spor Fatih Vatan Spor Kulübü is a women's football team based in Fatih Fatih () is a district of and a municipality (''belediye'') in Istanbul, Turkey, and home to almost all of the provincial authorities (including the governor's office, police ...

, where she played 17 matches. In July 2018, Nalçacı joined the league champion Ataşehir Belediyespor before the

2018–19 UEFA Women's Champions League qualifying round The 2018–19 UEFA Women's Champions League qualifying round was played between 7 and 13 August 2018. A total of 40 teams competed in the qualifying round to decide 12 of the 32 places in the knockout phase of the 2018–19 UEFA Women's Champions L ...

. She played in all three matches of the qualifying round. In October 2018, she returned to Fatih Vatan Spor for the 2018–19 Women's First League season. The next seasn, she moved to Kireçburnu Spor. In the 2021–22 Super League season, she was with Fenerbahçe S.K.. The next season, she transferred to Pendik Çamlıkspor in the First League, shich was promoted to the Sıper League at the end of the season, and was renamed to Beylerbeyi S.K. in the, 2023–24 Super League season.

International career

Nalçacı was admitted to the

Turkey women's national football team The Turkey women's national football team represents Turkey in international women's football. The team was established in 1995, and compete in the qualification for UEFA Women's Championship and the UEFA qualifying of FIFA Women's World Cup ...

, debuting in the UEFA Women's Euro 2017 qualifying Group 5 match against

Russia Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and Northern Asia. It is the largest country in the world, with its internationally recognised territory covering , and encompassing one-eigh ...

on 2 June 2016.

Career statistics

Honours

;Turkish Women's First Football League :;

:: ''Runners-up'' (1): 2016–17 :; Pendik Çamlıkspor :: ''Winers'' (1): 2022–23 ; Turkish Women's Second Football League :;

:: ''Winners'' (1): 2015–16 ; Turkish Women's Third Football League :;

:: ''Winners'' (1): 2014–15 ; Turkish Women's Regional Football League :;

:: ''Runners-up'' (2): 2009–10, 2010–11

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Nalcaci, Safa Merve Living people 1993 births Sportspeople from Van, Turkey 21st-century Turkish sportswomen Women's association football defenders Turkey women's international footballers Turkish women's footballers Karşıyaka BESEM Spor players Beşiktaş J.K. (women's football) players Fatih Vatan Spor players Fenerbahçe S.K. (women's football) players Ataşehir Belediyespor players Kireçburnu Spor players Turkish Women's Football Super League players Beylerbeyi S.K. (women's football) players