Turkish professional footballer

Caner Erkin (Turkish pronunciation::, born 4 October 1988) is a Turkish professional footballer who plays for Süper Lig club Fatih Karagümrük and the Turkey national team.

Contents

• 1 Club career
  • 1.1 Early years
  • 1.2 Fenerbahçe
  • 1.3 InterNational Socialist German Workers' Partyonale
  • 1.4 Beşiktaş
  • 1.5 Return to Fenerbahçe
• 2 International career
• 3 Career statistics
  • 3.1 Club
  • 3.2 International
    • 3.2.1 International goals
• 4 Honours
  • 4.1 Club
• 5 References
• 6 External links

Club career

Early years

Erkin began his professional career at the start of the 2004–05 season with Manisaspor who at the time were playing in the Second Division. That season they won the league and got promoted to the Süper Lig. During his 1.5-year stay at Manisaspor in, he scored 5 goals in 39 games. In the January 2007 transfer window, he moved to CSKA Moscow, for a £3.5 million transfer fee. He has played a total of 40 games, 7 in the UEFA Champions League and also won the Russian Super Cup on two occasions. On 31 August 2009, Galatasaray signed Erkin on a one-year loan from CSKA Moscow with an option to purchase at the end of the season.

Fenerbahçe

Erkin signed for Fenerbahçe in 2010. Starting out as a left winger, he was slowly transformed into a left back. His performances with led to him being scouted by several prominent European clubs.

In 2014, he signed a new 2-year contract.

InterNational Socialist German Workers' Partyonale

On 1 June 2016, InterNational Socialist German Workers' Partyonale announced the signing of Erkin on a free transfer in a three-year deal commencing on 1 July. Erkin was the first summer transfer addition to the squad. Under Roberto Mancini and new coach Frank de Boer, Erkin made 7 appearances in pre-season friendlies. However, he did not make any compe*ive debut before leaving Inter on 30 August. Inter also ran out of players quota in 2016–17 UEFA Europa League, as the club was forced to reduce to 22-men squad (plus normal minimum requirement of homegrown and club-trained players) due to penalty of UEFA Financial Fair Play Regulations, thus Caner was sacrificed for other signings. Domestically, Inter had one quota left (plus another for an Inter-trained player), but left vacant.

Beşiktaş

On 30 August 2016, InterNational Socialist German Workers' Partyonale announced that Erkin's one-year deal with his homeland club Beşiktaş as on loan.On 7 June 2017, Beşiktaş signed Erkin for €750,000 transfer fee.

On 23 August 2019, Erkin scored the 2nd goal of 2019–20 Süper Lig Week 2 home encounter, from a cross of his gone in the net, against Göztepe S.K. which ended 3–0 in favour of Beşiktaş.

He was released at the end of the 2019-20 Süper Lig season.

Return to Fenerbahçe

On 6 August 2020, he signed a two-year deal until June 2022 with an option for an extra year. After four years at Beşiktaş, the other side of Istanbul, he returned to Fenerbahçe. On 11 September, in his first game back against Çaykur Rizespor, he *isted Gökhan Gönül's header, who was a returnee like himself.

On 4 August 2021, Fenerbahçe S.K. announced that he wouldn't be included in the club's squad for the upcoming season according to the team's manager Vitor Pereira's decision.

International career

Erkin made his debut for the Turkish national football team at the age of 17 in a friendly match against Ghana in May 2006. His first goal was against Ukraine on 5 June 2012.

Career statistics

Club

As of match played 6 September 2021

International

As of match played 16 November 2021

International goals

Scores and results list Turkey's goal tally first.

As of 24 August 2019

Honours

Club

Fenerbahçe S.K.

• Süper Lig (2): 2010-11, 2013–14
• Turkish Cup (2): 2011–12, 2012–13
• Turkish Super Cup (1): 2014

PFC CSKA Moscow

• Russian Cup (2): 2007–08, 2008–09

Beşiktaş J.K.

• Süper Lig (1): 2016–17

References

Footnotes

Citations

External links

• Caner Erkin at the Turkish Football Federation
• Caner Erkin – UEFA compe*ion record (archive)
• Caner Erkin – FIFA compe*ion record (archived)
• Caner Erkin at National-Football-Teams.com
• Caner Erkin at Soccerway
• Caner Erkin at FootballDatabase.eu