Yasin Özcan

Yasin Özcan — Biography

Yasin Özcan is a Turkish international who plays as a center-back or left-back and who reached the Süper Lig, and then Europe, at a very young age. He plays in Beşiktaş's defense; the club agreed a loan with a purchase option with Aston Villa in January 2026 and signed him to a 1+4-year contract running to the end of the 2029-30 season.

His roots are in Sivas, where he spent much of his childhood and played in the youth sides of İl Özel İdaresispor and Karadolap Gençlikspor. In the summer of 2022, aged 16, he signed his first professional contract with Kasımpaşa, and he made his Süper Lig debut against Başakşehir on August 8, 2022. His goal on January 21, 2023, at 16 years and 276 days, made him the league's youngest scorer that season and one of the youngest in Europe; in 2023 The Guardian named him among the best players born in 2006. In February 2025 it was announced that Aston Villa would add him to their squad ahead of 2025-26; in August 2025 he was loaned to Belgium's Anderlecht until the end of the season, and in January 2026 he moved from there to Beşiktaş.

He has played for Turkey at under-16, under-17 and under-21 level, and made his senior debut on June 11, 2025, in a friendly against Mexico.