Serdar Saatçı (14 February 2003) is a Turkish professional

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who plays as a

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for

Süper Lig The Süper Lig (, ''Super League''), also known as Trendyol Süper Lig for sponsorship reasons, is a professional association football league in Turkey and the highest level of the Turkish football league system. In the 2023–2024 season, twen ...

club

Trabzonspor Trabzonspor Kulübü is a Turkish professional sports club located in the city of Trabzon, located in Black Sea region, northeastern Turkey. Established in 1967 through the merger of several local clubs, Trabzonspor is one of the most prominent A ...

Career

Early years

Saatçı started his career at

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-based club Bayrampaşaspor in the

TFF Third League The TFF 3. Lig (), currently referred to as Nesine 3. Lig for sponsorship reasons, is the fourth level in the Turkish football league system. It was founded in the 2001–02 season as a continuation of then third level division Turkish Third Foot ...

Beşiktaş

He joined

Beşiktaş J.K. Beşiktaş Jimnastik Kulübü (, ), abbreviated as BJK, is a Turkish professional 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 2014, where he played at various youth levels until 2020. He signed a professional contract with Beşiktaş on 27 February 2020. He was on the bench as an unused substitute player in 2021 Turkish Cup final, won by Beşiktaş 2–0 on 18 May 2021. Saatçı made his Süper Lig debut on week 7 of

2021–22 Süper Lig The 2021–22 Süper Lig, officially called the Spor Toto Süper Lig Ahmet Çalık season, was the 64th season of the Süper Lig, the highest tier football league of Turkey. Trabzonspor clinched their 7th league title, and first since 1983-84 se ...

season against

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, on 24 September 2021. On 12 July 2022, Saatçı was dropped from the senior team by the club following "behavioural issues" during a friendly game against

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as part of Beşiktaş' pre-season camp in

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. He continued training individually in Ümraniye Nevzat Demir Facilities in Istanbul.

Braga

On 1 September 2022, Saatçı signed a five-year contract with

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club

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for €1.5 million.

Trabzonspor

On 13 September 2024, Saatçı signed a four-year contract with

club

Career statistics

Honours

Beşiktaş *

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Turkish Cup The Turkish Cup () 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 Kupası''. Now Ziraat Bankası is ...

Turkish Super Cup The Turkish Super Cup, known as Turkcell Super Cup () for sponsorship reasons, is a super cup tournament in Turkish football. Founded in 1966 as a two-team competition, the current version has been contested since 2025 by four teams: the winners ...

2021 Like the year 2020, 2021 was also heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, due to the emergence of multiple Variants of SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19 variants. The major global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, which began at the end of 2020, continued ...

Braga *

Taça da Liga The Taça da Liga (), known outside Portugal as Portuguese League Cup, is an annual club football competition organised by the Liga Portuguesa de Futebol Profissional (LPFP) for teams competing in the top two tiers of Portuguese football – the ...

: 2023–24

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Saatci, Serdar 2003 births Living people Footballers from Istanbul Men's association football central defenders Turkey men's youth international footballers Turkey men's under-21 international footballers Beşiktaş J.K. footballers S.C. Braga B players S.C. Braga players Trabzonspor footballers Süper Lig players Liga 3 (Portugal) players Primeira Liga players Turkish men's footballers Turkish expatriate men's footballers Turkish expatriate sportspeople in Portugal Expatriate men's footballers in Portugal 21st-century Turkish sportsmen