Cihat Çelik
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Cihat Çelik

Footballer · 30 years old

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Age30
Birth dateJanuary 2, 1996
BirthplaceOss
ProfessionFootballer
Height1.84 m
Zodiac signCapricorn

Cihat Çelik — Biography

Yusuf Cihat Çelik is a 1.84-metre winger of Turkish descent who was born and raised in the Netherlands. He played for the Netherlands under-19 national team as a youngster and has spent his club career in the Netherlands, Turkey and Bosnia and Herzegovina. Since September 2025 he has played for the TFF First League side Sivasspor.

He came up through the NEC academy and began his professional career on August 3, 2013, starting in a 4-1 defeat to Groningen. In 2014-15 he won the Eerste Divisie with NEC, the title coming after a 1-0 win over Sparta Rotterdam on April 3, 2015. In the summer of 2016 he moved to FC Oss and made 31 appearances and scored three goals in 2016-17. In July 2017 he came to Turkey to join the First League side Gazişehir Gaziantep, and in January 2018 he was loaned for six months to Čelik Zenica in the Bosnian Premijer Liga. In July 2019 he returned to the Netherlands, to TOP Oss.

In later years he came back to Turkey and played for Kocaelispor; when he and the club parted ways in September 2025, he moved to Sivasspor from the First League. In 2025-26 he scored for Sivasspor, and in April 2026 he netted his third goal of the season.

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