Doğan Erdoğan

Doğan Erdoğan — Biography

Doğan Erdoğan is a midfielder born in Samsun whose career has run through Turkey, Austria and the Netherlands. He is described as the first player to leave the Samsunspor academy for a club abroad, and won the Turkish Cup with Trabzonspor in 2019-20. Since 2025 he has played for TFF 1. Lig side Iğdır FK.

He started in the Samsunspor academy in 2006, signed a professional contract in 2012 aged 16 and made his first-division debut, playing 25 league games for the club. In 2015, after impressing Oliver Glasner in trial matches, he joined the Austrian side LASK. There he made 64 league appearances in three and a half seasons, played a key part in the 2017 promotion to the Austrian Bundesliga and made his Europa League debut against Beşiktaş. He was loaned to Juniors OÖ in early 2019 and joined Trabzonspor that June.

After the Turkish Cup win at Trabzonspor he signed for Çaykur Rizespor in September 2020 and for Gaziantep in 2021. In July 2022 he agreed terms with Eredivisie club Fortuna Sittard, started his first match there against Ajax, and had his contract ended by mutual consent in June 2023. He signed for Göztepe in September 2023, and the club's option on his contract was taken up after promotion to the Süper Lig. He also played for the Turkey under-15 side.