Hasan Yiğit

Hasan Yiğit — Biography

Hasan Yiğit is a retired midfielder who spent seven seasons at Gaziantepspor, where he came to be counted among the club's key players, before going on to play for a long list of Turkish sides. He spent his final season in 2010-11 with Güngören Belediyespor of the TFF First League; the club did not extend his one-year contract.

Yiğit began playing in the Çengelköy youth setup and then joined the senior team of Çengelköyspor in the third tier. His first official match came on September 25, 1993, against İstanbul Özel İdare İhtisas Spor. At the start of the 1994-95 season he moved to Süper Lig side Gaziantepspor. During his time there the team finished sixth in 1995-96, earning a place in the Intertoto Cup, and third in both 1999-2000 and 2000-01, which opened the way into Europe. After Gaziantep he also wore the colors of Kocaelispor, Diyarbakırspor, Ankaraspor, Bursaspor, Denizlispor, Sakaryaspor and Çaykur Rizespor, and was part of the Kocaelispor squad that won the Turkish Cup in 2001-02, a title that also brought a European place.

He was also called up at youth level for Turkey: invited fifteen times in all, he appeared eleven times for the national sides, six for the U-21s and five for the Olympic team. The Olympic team's silver at the 1997 Mediterranean Games is also listed among his honors.