Ferhat Kaplan

Ferhat Kaplan — Biography

Ferhat Kaplan (born January 7, 1989, in Menemen, İzmir) is a Turkish professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper. He began his career in the Metaspor youth school before moving to Çanakkale Dardanelspor's academy, signing a professional contract there in 2006; he made his first official appearance for the club's first team on November 23, 2006, in a second-tier match against Oyak-Renault.

For his first two seasons he played mainly for the club's reserve side and was occasionally included as backup goalkeeper for the first team, before becoming first-choice keeper from the 2008–09 season, in which the club won a play-off championship and was promoted to the first tier. After one season there the club dropped back to the second tier, and when it fell again to the third tier in 2010–11 his contract lapsed and he moved to Süper Lig side Gençlerbirliği at the start of 2011–12. He later played for Antalyaspor, leaving that club in the summer of 2021 to sign a two-year deal with Adana Demirspor. He joined Giresunspor in 2022 and Göztepe in 2023, then played for Batman Petrolspor in 2024.

Called up to national youth teams 32 times in all, Kaplan made 18 appearances across Turkey's under-18, under-19, under-20 and under-21 sides and scored one goal. Standing 1.90 m tall, he has continued to move between clubs at fairly short intervals throughout his career.