Bartuğ Elmaz

Bartuğ Elmaz — Biography

Bartuğ Elmaz is a young footballer born in Çerkezköy who plays as a defensive midfielder. He came through the Galatasaray academy, moved to Marseille in France and has been under contract with Fenerbahçe since 2023. He has played more than 60 matches for Turkey's under-15, under-16, under-17, under-19 and under-21 sides combined.

He signed his first professional contract with Galatasaray on November 17, 2020, and made his Süper Lig debut on December 22, 2020, in a 3-1 win over Göztepe. In January 2022 he agreed a pre-contract with Marseille and joined officially in June; he made his debut for them in the Coupe de France against Hyères on January 7, 2023. On July 20, 2023, he signed a three-year contract with Fenerbahçe, and began his Süper Lig career at Samsunspor.

At Fenerbahçe he struggled to establish himself: he was loaned to Sivasspor in January 2024 and to the Slovenian club Maribor in January 2025. On January 9, 2025, he scored his first goal for the club, against Kasımpaşa in the Turkish Cup; he was in the squad that won the 2025 Super Cup, and in September 2025 he extended his contract to the end of 2027-28. In January 2026 he was loaned to Fatih Karagümrük until the end of the season, and on March 13 he scored his first Süper Lig goal against his parent club Fenerbahçe. He is described as a box-to-box midfielder with excellent dribbling and ball control who can play a deep-lying playmaking role.