Yiğit Efe Demir

Yiğit Efe Demir — Biography

Yiğit Efe Demir is a right-footed center-back who came up through Fenerbahçe's academy and played his first senior matches for the club in 2025-26; he can also cover at right-back. He was at Fenerbahçe when it won the 2022-23 Turkish Cup and the 2025 Super Cup. Calm on the ball and a good reader of the game, he also stands out for his defensive work rate.

He began in Istanbul at Hürriyet Gücü SK in 2013, spent 2017 to 2020 in the Altınordu academy, and then moved to Fenerbahçe's youth ranks, signing his first professional contract on August 3, 2022. In 2023-24 he was loaned to Gençlerbirliği, playing 13 TFF 1. Lig games and 4 in the Turkish Cup. In 2024-25 he was loaned to Fatih Karagümrük, made 36 league appearances in the second tier and shared in the club's Süper Lig play-off triumph. On July 9, 2025, he signed a four-year extension with Fenerbahçe. He debuted for the senior side on August 12, 2025, as a late substitute in the 5-2 second-leg win over Feyenoord in the Champions League third qualifying round. His first start came in November 2025 in the Europa League against Ferencváros, and on December 6, 2025, he started his first Süper Lig match, a 1-1 draw away at Başakşehir.

He has played once for Turkey's under-19s in 2022 and twice for the under-21s since 2024. In March 2026, while at the under-21 camp, he received an emergency call to the senior team's training squad ahead of the match against Romania.