Selen Altunkulak

Selen Altunkulak — Biography

Selen Altunkulak is a footballer with both Turkish and French citizenship who was born and raised in France but chose to play for the Turkey women's national team. Her club reputation rests on scoring: in the lower tiers of French football and in the second division she has repeatedly been named best player and top scorer. Standing 1.63 meters tall, she is generally listed as a midfielder, although she has also been described as a forward. She currently plays for Toulouse FC, with whom she won the Seconde Ligue title in 2025-26.

She began in youth football in France, playing for the FC Vendenheim under-19 side in 2011-12 and for FCF Monteux the following season, then returning to Vendenheim between 2013 and 2015 before moving to Metz in 2015-16. On July 1, 2019, she joined Olympique de Marseille, newly promoted to the Division 1 Féminine. She signed for Rodez on January 29, 2022, and stayed two seasons, then transferred to Toulouse on January 12, 2024. She finished the 2023-24 Division 3 Féminine season with 33 goals in 21 matches, the league's top scorer.

For Turkey she made her debut at the 2017 Goldcity Women's Cup on March 1, 2017, and scored her first international goal in the same match. On April 8, 2017, in the qualifiers for the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup, she scored a hat-trick against Luxembourg. The LFFP named her the Seconde Ligue's best player in 2022-23 and 2025-26, and she was also the division's top scorer in both seasons.