Sezer Badur

Sezer Badur — Biography

Sezer Badur is a Turkish-German midfielder, born in Berlin, who made his way in football in both Germany and Turkey. His best-known stop is Trabzonspor, where he won the Turkish Cup in 2010. Now remembered as a former player, he had his real breakthrough earlier, at Sivasspor.

As a youth he played for local clubs in Berlin and moved to Borussia Dortmund's youth ranks in 2002, but left a year later to sign for Manisaspor. He got only a handful of appearances there, and when he was dropped from the squad he returned to Germany and spent two years in the amateur leagues with Berliner AK 07 and SV Yeşilyurt. He came back to Turkey with Karşıyaka, from where he left after a year by applying to the federation over unpaid wages. He joined Sivasspor in 2007, stood out in the years when the team challenged at the top of the table two seasons running, and in January 2010 moved to Trabzonspor for a fee of €330,000.

He lifted the cup in his first season at Trabzonspor, but stayed in the shadow of players such as Selçuk İnan, Gustavo Colman and Didier Zokora and played only 12 matches in four seasons. He then wore the shirts of Gaziantepspor, Elazığspor and Şanlıurfaspor, joined Antalyaspor in 2014 and again in 2015, signed for Gaziantepspor in 2018, and moved to Antalyaspor once more in July 2020.