Ebru Topçu

Ebru Topçu — Biography

Ebru Topçu is the most-capped player in the history of Turkey's women's national team and captain of Galatasaray's women's side. She plays in midfield for her club and as a center-forward for her country, has won league titles with several clubs, and helped bring Galatasaray the championship in 2023-24.

She began at ten with the newly founded Kdz. Ereğlispor in her home town, stood out for her goals at a young age and moved to Konak Belediyespor in 2014. With that club she played in Champions League qualifying rounds and won the league in 2014-15, 2015-16 and 2016-17. She then won titles with Ataşehir Belediyespor in 2017-18 and with Gaziantep-based ALG Spor in 2019-20 and 2021-22. She joined Galatasaray in August 2022 and in 2023-24, the championship season, she received the Crystal Feet awards for Most Valuable Player and Best Midfielder.

She played her first international at fourteen for the Turkey U15 side, scoring three goals against Russia, and scored her first senior goal on November 28, 2013, in a 3-1 qualifier against Montenegro. At Galatasaray she scored 53 goals in 105 official matches over four seasons and extended her contract by a year on July 3, 2026. The club named her Player of the Year in August 2025. She names İlkay Gündoğan as the player she looks up to.