Seval Kıraç (born April 28, 1988) is a Turkish

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currently playing in the Turkish Women's First Football League for Kpnak Belediyespor with jersey number 7. She made her Champions League debut in August 2011 with her current club. She played in the Turkey women's U-19 national team before joining the Turkish women's national team.

Playing career

Club

Seval Kıraç began football playing in Yalıspor, a club in Maltepe district of

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, by receiving her license on May 5, 2000. She took part in the youth teams until she transferred to Kartalspor on February 28, 2006. At Kartalspor in

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, she played until October 16, 2009, and returned then to her first club Yalıspor. After two seasons, Kıraç signed for Ataşehir Belediyesi on August 5, 2011. Kıraç debuted in the 2011-12 UEFA Women's Champions League match against

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n champion

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on August 11, 2011. In the 2011–12 season, she enjoyed Women's First League championship with her team, and played in the

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qualifying matches for Ataşehir Belediyesi once again. In October 2018, she joined the recently to the Women's First League promoted club

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. In the 2019-20 Women's First League season, she transferred to

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International

She made her debut in the Turkey women's national U-19 team in the UEFA European Women's Under-19 Championship's first qualifying round match against

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junior women on September 26, 2006. Admitted first time to the Turkey women's national team, she played in the match against

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on November 23, 2006, at which she scored also one of the nine goals for Turkey. During the UEFA Support International Tournament in 2008, she netted each one goal in the games against

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and

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. In the

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match against

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team, which ended as a 0–4 defeat for Turkey, she scored an own goal.

Career statistics

Honours

; Turkish Women's First League= :; Ataşehir Belediyespor :: ''Winners'' (1): 2011–12 :: ''Runners-up'' (4):

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, 2013–14, 2014–15, 2015–16 :: ''Third places'' (1): 2016–17 :; ALG Spor :: ''Runners-up'' (1): 2018–19 :; Konak Belediyespor :: ''Third places'' (1): 2019–20

References

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Kirac, Seval Living people 1988 births People from Gebze Sportspeople from Kocaeli Province Turkish women's footballers 21st-century Turkish sportswomen Women's association football forwards Turkey women's youth international footballers Turkey women's international footballers Ataşehir Belediyespor players Trabzon İdmanocağı women's players ALG Spor players Konak Belediyespor players Turkish Women's Football Super League players