Gökhan İnler

Gökhan İnler — Biography

Gökhan İnler is a Swiss midfielder of Turkish descent who captained the Swiss national team and won league titles in Switzerland, England and Turkey and cups in Italy. He was in the Leicester City squad that won the 2015-16 Premier League. After retiring in 2024 he returned to Udinese as sporting director, with a contract extended to 2028.

He never played a match for FC Basel. At Aarau he played professionally, and after moving to FC Zürich in 2006 he won the Swiss Super League twice. At Udinese from 2007 he started every league game in his first season; in the 2008-09 UEFA Cup he scored a long-range goal against Werder Bremen in the quarter-final, and in 2010-11 he was part of the side that reached the Champions League play-off. He joined Napoli in 2011 and won two Coppa Italia and the 2014 Supercoppa Italiana. In 2015 he went to Leicester City, then won the Süper Lig with Beşiktaş in 2016-17 and with İstanbul Başakşehir in 2019-20. In his first season at Adana Demirspor he won promotion to the Süper Lig, and in 2023 he returned to Beşiktaş in a sporting role and won the 2023-24 Turkish Cup.

After playing for the Turkish and Swiss under-21 teams, he chose the Swiss senior side in 2006 and won 89 caps. He played at Euro 2008 and at the 2010 and 2014 World Cups, captaining the team in 2014.