Levent Ayçiçek

Levent Ayçiçek — Biography

Levent Ayçiçek is an attacking midfielder who grew up in Germany and holds both Turkish and German citizenship. He came through the Werder Bremen academy and played in the Bundesliga, then spent later years in Turkey with Adana Demirspor and Bandırmaspor; he no longer plays professionally. The 1.68 m player's older brother, Deniz Ayçiçek, is also a footballer.

He began playing with his brother at RSV Rehburg and passed through the Hannover 96 academy before joining Werder Bremen in 2008. For Bremen's U17 side he produced 11 goals and 12 assists in one season; the team lost the German final 3-2 to Köln, and he scored one of its goals. After a long spell out injured he stepped up to the second team in 2013-14, and on February 8, 2014, he came on against Borussia Dortmund and scored in his first Bundesliga match. He was loaned to 1860 Munich in January 2016, the loan was extended by a season, and in August 2017 he signed a two-year contract with Greuther Fürth.

He played for Germany's youth national teams from 2009. At the 2011 FIFA U-17 World Cup he started every match and added three goals and four assists to Germany's third-place finish. He moved to Adana Demirspor in January 2019 and to Bandırmaspor in June 2021, where his contract was extended by two years in May 2023. His date of birth is also given in some sources as February 12, 1994.