Vedat Bora

Vedat Bora — Biography

Vedat Bora is a footballer who can play in midfield or at right-back, turned professional with his hometown club Gebzespor at just 15, and reached the Süper Lig with Konyaspor. He played for Turkey at under-18, under-19, under-20 and under-21 level. Since July 2025 he has been in his second spell at Şanlıurfaspor, where he plays in midfield.

Bora secretly signed up at the Dilovası football school at the age of eight, joined Gebzespor at 12, and turned professional at 15 when a transfer ban left the squad short. In 2012-13 he played 23 Third League matches. For the under-18 national team he made his debut against Belgium on February 21, 2012, and won 9 caps. In 2013 he moved to Konyaspor and was loaned to Anadolu Selçukspor, where he scored 2 goals in 30 matches. He returned to Konyaspor in 2014-15, made his Süper Lig debut against Eskişehirspor on August 30, 2014, and scored his first official goal from about 35 meters in a Turkish Cup tie against Cizre Spor on December 24, 2014.

In later years he played for Giresunspor, Samsunspor and Şanlıurfaspor, joined Isparta 32 Spor in August 2024, and returned to Şanlıurfaspor in July 2025. He was first noticed at national level by under-18 coach Feyyaz Uçar, and in April 2014 he made his under-19 debut against Hungary.