Attila Yıldırım (born 22 November 1990) is a Turkish-Dutch professional footballer who plays as a striker for Tarsus İdman Yurdu.

Attila Yıldırım
Personal information
Date of birth (1990-11-22) 22 November 1990 (age 34)
Place of birth Bad Mergentheim, Germany
Height 1.82 m (5 ft 11+12 in)
Position(s) Striker
Team information
Current team
Tarsus İdman Yurdu
Number 9
Youth career
1997–2010 Ajax
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2010–2011 Utrecht 2 (1)
2011–2012 Kasımpaşa 19 (4)
2012–2014 Konyaspor 22 (1)
2013–2014Bucaspor (loan) 16 (1)
2014Şanlıurfaspor (loan) 7 (2)
2014–2015 Elazığspor 8 (1)
2015 Kocaeli Birlik Spor 12 (0)
2015–2016 Sivas Belediye Spor 30 (11)
2016–2017 Nazilli Belediyespor 18 (1)
2017–2018 MVV Maastricht 29 (8)
2018–2019 Sumgayit FK 16 (3)
2020 Kirsehir Belediyespor 0 (0)
2020– Tarsus İdman Yurdu 1 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 20 September 2020

Career

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Yıldırım has played club football in the Netherlands and Turkey for Utrecht, Kasımpaşa and Konyaspor.[1][2][3] He signed his first professional contract at FC Utrecht's Paf team and was soon included in the first team squad. He made his first official appearance for the first team in the 2010-11 season on January 19, 2011 in the Eredivisie match against VVV-Venlo. In this first match, he scored his first goal in the Eredivisie. In the following weeks of the season, he took part in two more matches.[4]

On June 18, 2011, it was announced that he would be transferred to Sivasspor, one of the Super League teams.[5] This transfer did not materialize afterwards and he was transferred to Kasımpaşa, a 1st League team. He made his first official appearance for Kasımpaşa in the Ligue 1 match against Denizlispor on September 25, 2011.[6] In August 2012, he was transferred to Torku Konyaspor.

In August 2018, it was announced that he transferred to Sumgayit FK, one of the Azerbaijan Premier League teams.[7]

Personal life

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Yildirim was born in Germany to a Turkish family from Sivas. He moved to the Netherlands at a young age, and joined the AFC Ajax youth academy at the age of 7.[8]

References

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  1. ^ "Profile" (in Dutch). Voetbal International.
  2. ^ "Profile" (in Turkish). Turkish Football Federation.
  3. ^ Attila Yıldırım at Soccerway
  4. ^ "Arşivlenmiş kopya". Archived from the original on 7 November 2012. Retrieved 18 June 2011.
  5. ^ "Sivas Atilla Yıldırım ile anlaştı". www.hurriyet.com.tr (in Turkish). 9 May 2017. Archived from the original on 7 July 2018. Retrieved 22 October 2023.
  6. ^ "Arşivlenmiş kopya". Archived from the original on 1 October 2011. Retrieved 29 September 2011.
  7. ^ ""Sumqayıt"ın "Azərbaycan əsilli" yeni transferi əslində haralıdı?". FootballPress.az. Archived from the original on 24 August 2018. Retrieved 24 August 2018.
  8. ^ "Sivas Atilla Yıldırım ile anlaştı".