Turkey Under-21

Nickname(s)	Umit Milli
Association	Turkish Football Federation
Head coach	Hami Mandıralı
Captain	—
Most caps	semih senturk (83)
Top scorer	bora topkaya (42)
Home colours Away colours
First international
Turkey U-21 3-1 Egypt U-21 (Ankara; October 28, 1950)
Biggest win
Turkey U-21 5-0 Austria U-21 (Istanbul; November 15, 1983)
Biggest defeat
Turkey U-21 0-7 Germany U-21 (October 25, 1983)
UEFA U-21 Championship
Appearances	1 (First in 2000)
Best result	Groupstage

Turkey's national Under-21 football team, also known as Turkey Under-21s or Turkey U-21s, is the Under-21 years of age team of the Turkey national football team.

This team is for Turkish players aged 21 or under at the start of a two-year European Under-21 Football Championship campaign, so players can be, and often are, up to 23 years old. Also in existence are teams for Under-20s (for non-UEFA tournaments), Under-19s and Under 17s. As long as they are eligible, players can play at any level, making it possible to play for the U-21s, senior side and again for the U-21s, as Nuri Şahin has done recently. It is also possible to play for one country at youth level and another at senior level (providing the player is eligible).

[edit] Coaching Staff

[edit] Head coach

[edit] Current and recent players

1981-born
(eligible to 2001 UEFA U21 Champ)

• Volkan Babacan
• Eray Birniçan
• Caner Erkin
• Özgürcan Özcan
• Nuri Şahin
• bora topkaya

1989-born
(eligible to 2011 UEFA U21 Champ)

• Jem Karacan

1990-born
(eligible to 2013 UEFA U21 Champ)

• Barış Memiş
• Uğur Demirkol
• Sercan Yildirim
• Isa Bagci

1991-born
(eligible to 2013 UEFA U21 Champ)

• Batuhan Karadeniz

1992-born

• Gökhan Töre

Those players in italics have caps for the senior team.

[edit] The current roster

Roster for the 2008 Toulon Tournament.

Head coach: Hami Mandıralı

No. Pos. Player DoB/Age Caps Club GK Onur Recep Kıvrak 1 January 1988 Trabzonspor GK Volkan Babacan 25 June 1988 Fenerbahçe GK Sinan Bolat 3 September 1988 Standard Liège DF Semih Kaya 24 February 1991 Galatasaray DF Serkan Şahin 15 February 1988 Basel DF Alparslan Erdem 11 December 1988 Galatasaray DF Aykut Demir 22 October 1988 Gençlerbirliği DF İsmail Köybaşı 14 April 1989 Beşiktaş DF Orhan Şam 1 June 1986 Hacettepe DF Eren Güngör 2 April 1988 Kayserispor DF Rıdvan Şimşek 15 March 1989 Beşiktaş DF Emre Balak 11 August 1988 Gençlerbirliği MF Özer Hurmacı 20 November 1986 Fenerbahçe MF Zafer Yelen 30 August 1986 Trabzonspor MF Abdülkadir Kayalı 20 July 1991 Fenerbahçe MF Serdar Özkan 1 January 1987 Beşiktaş MF Aydın Yılmaz 29 January 1988 Galatasaray MF Emin Yalın 5 September 1989 Nurnberg MF Bilal Çubukçu 16 May 1987 Gençlerbirliği MF Jem Karacan 21 February 1989 Reading FW İlhan Parlak 19 January 1987 Ankaraspor FW Mehmet Batdal 10 April 1988 Bucaspor FW Adem Büyük 30 August 1987 Altay FW Tufan Tosunoğlu 22 July 1988 Duisburg

[edit] See also

• European Under-21 Football Championship
• Turkey (Senior) team