Duygu Yılmaz was born to a footballer father in Keçiören district Ankara Province, Turkey on May 3, 1988. Her older sister played also football.[2]
Club career
Yılmaz obtained her license for Gazi Üniversitesispor in her hometown on March 4, 2003. She began her career in the forward position. However, she accepted her trainers suggestion to play the goalkeeper from then on due to her good reflex she exposed during a training as she was keping the goal. After playing two full seasons between 2008 and 2010, she transferred to the Istanbul-based Ataşehir Belediyespor.[1][2][3] she enjoyed league champion title at the end of the 2009–10 season with Gazi Üniversitesispor.[4]
She was a member of the Turkey women's U-19 team, and took part at three matches of the 2007 UEFA Championship First qualifying round. She capped in total 14 times for the national U-19 team.[1]