Fatoş Yıldırım

Fatoş Yıldırım — Biography

Fatoş Yıldırım is a Turkish women's midfielder who played in many Turkish cities before joining Süper Lig side Fenerbahçe in the summer of 2024. She was called up to the senior national team in 2013 and finished the 2025-26 season at Fenerbahçe as a champion. In August 2026 she was announced as a new signing of Siverek Kadın Futbol Takımı in Şanlıurfa.

She started playing as a child in her neighborhood and took out her first license in 2008 with the municipal club of her hometown, Turgutlu. After a season at Gölcükspor in 2010-11, she spent six seasons at Trabzon İdmanocağı from November 2011, finishing third in the Women's First League in 2011-12 and 2014-15. In August 2017 she moved to Konak Belediyespor in İzmir, played three matches in Tbilisi in the Women's Champions League qualifying round and again finished third. At ALG Spor in Gaziantep she was runner-up in 2018-19; she then joined Ataşehir Belediyespor in Istanbul for the second half of 2019-20 and Ankara's Fomget Gençlik ve Spor for the 2021-22 Süper Lig season.

Her international path began on June 27, 2009, with the Turkey under-17 side in a friendly against Bulgaria. She made three appearances at that level and twenty for the under-19s, scoring in a friendly against Hungary. In interviews with the Turkish Football Federation she said she gives everything on the pitch, and in 2019 that her team was determined to make up for its mistakes.