Sevgi Çınar

Sevgi Çınar — Biography

Sevgi Çınar is a Turkish women's football midfielder: she was twice top scorer in the Women's First League, won five straight titles with Konak Belediyespor and has been in the national team since 2012. In November 2025 she agreed a new deal with Beşiktaş and returned to the club.

The daughter of a footballer, she became interested in the game as a child by going with her father to futsal matches; at 13 she was spotted by the coach of Adana İdmanyurduspor while playing at school, and she was top scorer with that club in 2010-11. In January 2012 she joined Konak Belediyespor in İzmir, won five titles from 2012-13 to 2016-17 and was top scorer again in 2016-17, also scoring for the team in UEFA Women's Champions League qualifying. She won one more title with Ataşehir Belediyespor in 2017-18, finished second with ALG Spor in 2018-19, and then joined Beşiktaş, scoring against Alashkert in the Champions League. In August 2023 she moved to Beylerbeyi for the club's first Super League season.

She played for Turkey from the under-17 level: after a debut against Bulgaria in 2009 she scored three goals against Armenia at the 2011 UEFA Women's U-17 Championship, then moved up to the under-19 and senior sides. She had surgery for a cruciate ligament injury in 2021. She studied physical education and sports at Dokuz Eylül University.