Hilal Çetinkaya

Hilal Çetinkaya — Biography

Hilal Çetinkaya is a women's footballer from Istanbul. She is best known for her years with Ataşehir Belediyespor in the Women's First League and for finishing as top scorer of the Turkish side that won the world schools futsal title in 2014. She plays as a forward for Tuzla Sahilspor, though some sources describe her as a midfielder.

She began at Kartalspor in the 2009-10 season and received her license on March 26, 2010. From 2012-13 she spent five seasons at Ataşehir Belediyespor, also appearing for the club's youth team; in those years the side finished runner-up four times and third once in the league. In October 2017 she joined Kireçburnuspor, and a season later, in 2018-19, moved to the third-tier İstanbul Defne SK, then to Tuzla Sahilspor in the 2019-20 mid-season window.

She represented Turkey at youth level, debuting for the U-17s in a friendly against Azerbaijan on September 9, 2012, and for the U-19s, again against Azerbaijan, on November 26, 2013. With her school team she won the girls' title at the 2014 ISF World Schools Futsal Championship in Italy and was the tournament's top scorer with 17 goals. She trained in hairstyling at Mevlana Vocational High School in Ataşehir.