Gizem Gönültaş

Gizem Gönültaş — Biography

Gizem Gönültaş has been in the squad of Beşiktaş's women's team since its founding years, a player who was part of its rise from the third division to a league title. She wears number 10 at the club; sources describe her variously as a midfielder and as a forward.

She started playing at primary school in Ordu; she took her license in 2007 with her hometown club Soyaspor and then played for Orduspor, Çamlıcaspor and Adana İdmanyurduspor. In the second half of 2014-15 she joined Beşiktaş's newly formed women's side: she scored 21 goals in 10 games in the Third League and played a major part in its promotion. With Beşiktaş she won the Second League in 2015-16 and the Women's First League in 2018-19 and 2020-21, finished runner-up in 2016-17 and 2017-18, and played in the UEFA Women's Champions League group games in 2019-20 and the qualifying round in 2021-22. She extended her contract in July 2024. In 2018 she voiced the team's aim of an unbeaten title, and in a 2021 interview she stressed that football is not only a men's sport.

She came through the national set-up from the under-17s to the under-19s and under-21s and into the senior team: four goals in 15 matches at under-17 level and 33 caps for the under-19s. She studied physical education and sports at Marmara University to become a teacher.