Emine Ecem Esen

Emine Ecem Esen — Biography

Emine Ecem Esen is a midfielder who has been in the Turkey senior national team since 2011 and has won titles with Beşiktaş, ALG Spor and Galatasaray at club level. She left Galatasaray in July 2025 and plays for Fomget Gençlik ve Spor.

Her interest in football began at home: she followed a maternal cousin into the game and, encouraged by her aunt, started at Hasköy, which had just formed a women's team; she received her license on June 17, 2009. She moved to Çamlıcaspor in 2010-11 and to Marmara Üniversitesi Spor in 2013-14, then transferred to Ataşehir Belediyespor on January 10, 2014, and finished runner-up twice with the team. At Beşiktaş she won the Women's Second League in 2015-16 and the Women's First League in 2018-19, and played in the 2019-20 UEFA Women's Champions League. In 2019-20 she moved to Gaziantep's ALG Spor and won the 2021-22 Women's Super League.

She signed with Galatasaray on August 9, 2022, wore the number 8 shirt, won the title with the team in 2023-24 and in November 2024 spoke alongside coach Metin Ülgen before the club's Champions League match against Wolfsburg. For the national team she first played on March 8, 2011, in a Kuban Spring Tournament qualifier against Belarus; she was capped 20 times at under-19 level and played in the final tournament of the 2012 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship.