Serdar Saatçı

Serdar Saatçı — Biography

Serdar Saatçı is a 1.90 m center-back who came through the Beşiktaş academy and played in the Süper Lig and the Champions League at a young age. He was at Beşiktaş when the club won the 2020-21 league title and Turkish Cup and the 2021 Super Cup, and he went on to play in Portugal, for Trabzonspor and in the UAE.

He started out in Bayrampaşa, joined the Beşiktaş academy in 2014 and signed a professional contract in February 2020. He made his Süper Lig debut against Altay on September 24, 2021, and four days later he started and played the full 90 minutes of a Champions League game that Beşiktaş lost 2-0 to Ajax. In December 2021 an assist against Kayserispor, at 18 years and 301 days, made him the youngest Beşiktaş player to set up a goal since 2010-11. In July 2022 he was removed from the first-team squad after a disagreement with manager Valérien Ismaël, and he moved to Braga in September 2022, where he won the Taça da Liga in 2023-24. He transferred to Trabzonspor in September 2024 and in January 2026 was loaned to Al-Nasr in the UAE until the end of the season. In July 2026 he signed a 3+1-year contract with Çorum FK.

For Turkey he made 7 appearances for the under-15s and 4 for the under-17s, scoring once. He first played for the under-21s in a friendly against Serbia on March 30, 2021, and wore the captain's armband for the first time against Austria's under-21s in December 2022.