Ece Tekmen

Ece Tekman
Personal information
Date of birth (2002-02-23) 23 February 2002 (age 22)
Place of birth Kocaeli, Turkey
Position(s) Midfielder
Team information
Current team
 Beşiktaş JK
Number 10
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2015–2016 Derince Belediyespor
2016–2018 Kocaeli Harb-İş Spor 30 (23)
2018–2020 Kocaeli Bayan FK 24 (32)
2020– ALG Spor 47 (7)
International career‡
2016 Turkey U-15 2 (4)
2017–2018 Turkey U-17 30 (6)
2019 Turkey U-19 1 (0)
2021– Turkey 13 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 18 March 2023
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 11 APril 2023

Ece Tekmen (born 23 February 2002) is a Turkish women's football midfielder, who plays for Beşiktaş JK and the Turkey women's national football team.

Club career

Tekmen started her football career at the Second League women's football club Harb-İş Spor in Kocaeli.[1]

Ahe played for the Kocaeli Bayan FK. In 2019, she suffered cruciate ligament rupture, which caused a stay off from the pitch for five months in the beginning of the 2019–20 Turkish Women's First Football League season.[2] The team finished the 2018–19 Turkish Second Football League season as runner-up, and was promoted to the First League.[3]

She transferred to ALG Spor in Gaziantep.<[4][5] She enjoyed her team's third place in the 2020–21 Turkcell Women's Football League.[6] She enjoyed the 2021–22 Women's Super League champion title of her team.[7] On 18 August 2022, she debuted in the 2022–23 UEFA Women's Champions League.[8]

International career

Turkey girls' U17

She was called up to the training camp of the national girls'U17 team.[1] She internationally debuted in the friendly match against Russia on 25 January 2017.[9] She took part in five matches of the UEFA Women's U17 Development Tournament in 2017, scoring a goal against Latvia.[10] She played at the 2018 UEFA U17 Championship qualification – Group 7 and Elite round – Group 6 matches. She netted two goals in the friendly game against North Ireland on 6 February 2018.[11][12] She participated at the 29018 UEFA Women's U16 Development Tournament,[13] and the 2019 UEFA U7 Championship qualification – Group 6 matches.[14] She capped 29 timesin total for the Turkey girls' U17 team.

Turkey women's U19

On 10 September 2019, Tekmen played her only match for the Turkey women's U19 team.[15]

Turkey women's

By October 2020, she was called up to the Turkey women's national football team.[16] She played for the national team in July and September 2021.[17][18]

Career statistics

As of 11 April 2023[19]
Club Season League Continental National Total
Division Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Derince Belediyespor 2015–16 Second League – – 2 4 2 4
Total – – 2 4 2 4
Kocaeli Harb-İş Spor 2016–17 Second League 16 5 – – 7 0 23 5
2017–18 Second League 14 18 – – 16 5 30 23
Total 30 23 – – 23 5 53 28
Kocaeli Bayan FK 2018–19 Second League 24 32 – – 7 1 31 33
2019–20 First League 0 0 – – 1 0 1 0
Total 24 32 – – 8 1 32 33
ALG Spor 2020–21 First League 6 2 – – 0 0 6 2
2021–22 Super League 27 3 – – 9 0 36 3
2022–23 Super League 14 2 1 0 0 19 2
Total 47 7 1 0 13 0 61 7
Career total 101 62 1 0 46 10 148 72

Honours

Club

Turkish Women's Second League
Kocaeli Bayan FK
Runner-ups (1): 2018–19
Turkish Women's First League
ALG Spor
Winners (1): 2021–22
Third places (1): 2020–21

Individual

Top goalscorer
Turkish Women's Second League
with Kocaeli Bayan FK (33 goals)

References

  1. ^ a b "Harb-İş'te milli gurur". Büyük Kocaeli (in Turkish). 7 June 2017. Retrieved 31 October 2021.
  2. ^ "İzmitli şampiyonlar için sıkıntı yok!". Kocaeli (in Turkish). 2 October 2019. Retrieved 31 October 2021.
  3. ^ "Kocaeli Bayan Futbol Kulübü'nde Büyük Sevinç! 1. Ligi garantilediler!". Bugün Kocaeli (in Turkish). 6 May 2019. Retrieved 31 October 2021.
  4. ^ "ALG Sporlu oyuncular efor testinden geçti". Gazikent 27 (in Turkish). 25 September 2020. Retrieved 31 October 2021.
  5. ^ "ALG Spor'dan Milli takıma 9 futbolcu". Foto Spor (in Turkish). 11 October 2021. Retrieved 31 October 2021.
  6. ^ "Turkcell Kadınlar Futbol Ligi'nin üçüncüsü ALG Spor". Edirne Gündem (in Turkish). 5 May 2021. Retrieved 31 October 2021.
  7. ^ "Kadın Futbol Süper Ligi'nde şampiyon ALG Spor". TRT Haber (in Turkish). Retrieved 25 August 2022.
  8. ^ "Brann (NOR) 1–0 ALG Spor (TUR)". UEFA Women's Champions League. Retrieved 27 August 2022.
  9. ^ "Özel Maç (Kızlar U-17 Milli) – Türkiye 0–2 Rusya" (in Turkish). Türkiye Futbol Federasyonu. Retrieved 31 October 2021.
  10. ^ "UEFA Gelişim Turnuvası (Kızlar U-17 Milli) Letonya 0–4 Türkiye" (in Turkish). Türkiye Futbol Federasyonu. Retrieved 31 October 2021.
  11. ^ "Özel Maç (Kızlar U-17 Milli) Türkiye 4–0 Kuzey İrlanda" (in Turkish). Türkiye Futbol Federasyonu. Retrieved 31 October 2021.
  12. ^ "Gururumuz Ece Tekmen". Özgür Kocaeli (in Turkish). 7 February 2018. Retrieved 31 October 2021.
  13. ^ "UEFA Kızlar U16 Gelişim Turnuvası (Kızlar U-17 Milli) Avusturya 1–0 Türkiye" (in Turkish). Türkiye Futbol Federasyonu. Retrieved 31 October 2021.
  14. ^ "UEFA WU17 Avrupa Şampiyonası 2019 – Eleme Turu Maçları (Kızlar U-17 Milli) – Türkiye 1–3 Portekiz æ" (in Turkish). Türkiye Futbol Federasyonu. Retrieved 31 October 2021.
  15. ^ "Özel Maç (Kadınlar U-19 Milli) – Portekiz 3–0 Türkiye" (in Turkish). Türkiye Futbol Federasyonu. Retrieved 31 October 2021.
  16. ^ "Gülbin ile Ece milli takımda". Demokrat Kocaeli (in Turkish). 5 October 2020. Retrieved 31 October 2021.
  17. ^ "Özel Maç (Kadınlar Mill) – Arnavutluk 1–2 Türkiye" (in Turkish). Türkiye Futbol Federasyonu. Retrieved 31 October 2021.
  18. ^ "Özel Maç (Kadınlar Milli) – Ukrayna 1–0 Türkiye" (in Turkish). Türkiye Futbol Federasyonu. Retrieved 31 October 2021.
  19. ^ "Ece Tekmen" (in Turkish). Türkiye Futbol Federasyonu. Retrieved 13 April 2023.