Yiğit Arslan

Yiğit Arslan — Biography

Yiğit Arslan is a shooting guard and a well-known name in Turkish basketball who also plays for the national team. In the summer of 2026 he left Beşiktaş, where he had played for three seasons and served as captain, and moved to Trabzonspor, who compete in the Basketbol Süper Ligi and the FIBA Champions League.

He began his professional career at Tofaş in 2014, aged 18. He moved to Galatasaray in 2019, returned to Tofaş in 2021 and signed with Bahçeşehir Koleji in 2022. In June 2023 he agreed terms with Beşiktaş; he made his debut against Darüşşafaka in October 2023. In the club's first EuroCup game of the season, a 63-62 win over Joventut Badalona, he top-scored with 13 points, and against Prometey he scored 24 to set his EuroCup career high. He also put up 14 and 12 points in that season's league wins over Fenerbahçe and Anadolu Efes. In July 2024 he renewed his contract and in time became the team captain.

With the youth national teams he played at the 2014 FIBA U18 European Championship, the 2015 FIBA Under-19 World Cup and the 2016 FIBA U20 European Championship. With the senior national team he appeared at the 2019 FIBA World Cup. In his farewell message on leaving Beşiktaş he said that captaining the club was a source of pride he would never forget.