Handan Kurğa

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Handan Kurğa
Handan Kurğa for Konak Belediyespor (December 2015)
Personal information
Date of birth (1993-09-10) 10 September 1993 (age 30)
Place of birth Digor, Kars, Turkey
Height 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)[1]
Position(s) Goalkeeper
Team information
Current team
 Galatasaray
Number 17
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2007–2011 Ataşehir Belediyespor 28 (2)
2011–2012 Lüleburgaz 39 Spor 11 (0)
2012–2017 Konak Belediyespor 35 (0)
2017–2018 Ataşehir Belediyespor 10 (0)
2019 ALG Spor 9 (1)
2019–2022 Konak Belediyespor 30 (0)
2022– Galatasaray 11 (0)
International career‡
2008 Turkey U-17 2 (0)
2012 Turkey U-19 2 (0)
2017 Turkey 1 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 23 January 2023
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 8 April 2017

Handan Kurğa (born 10 September 1993) is a Turkish women's football goalkeeper currently playing in the Turkish Women's First Football League for Galatasaray in Istanbul with jersey number 17. She is a member of the Turkey women's national team.[2]

Club career[edit]

Ataşehir Belediyespor[edit]

Handan Kurğa obtained her license during her high school education on 11 May 2007. She became part of her high school's team Düvenciler Lisesispor, which played in the Turkish Women's Second Football League. In the 2009–10 season, the team was renamed Ataşehir Belediyespor and was promoted to the First League. The next season, her team won the league.championship.[2]

Lüleburgaz 39 Spor[edit]

After capping 28 times for Ataşehir Belediyespor, Kurğa transferred to Lüleburgaz 39 Spor in the 2011–12 season, where she played one season only because the team folded.[2]

Konak Belediyespor[edit]

From 19 October 2012 she was the substitute goalkeeper at the Izmir-based Konak Belediyespor,[3] where she enjoyed twice consecutive league champion titles.[2] She spent the games of the 2013–14 UEFA Champions League on the bench. She appeared in two of the three matches of the 2014–15 UEFA Women's Champions League qualifying matches.[4][5] She appeared twice at the 2015–16 UEFA Women's Champions League qualifying round.[6][7]

Ataşehir Belediyespor[edit]

In August 2017 she transferred to her former club Ataşehir Belediyespor. At the end of the 2016–17 season, she enjoyed her team's league champion title.[2]

ALG Spor[edit]

In the beginning of the 2018-19 First league season's second half, Kurğa joined the recently promoted Gaziantep-based club ALG Spor. Her team finished the season equal on points with the league leader. They lost the play-off match, and became runners-up.[2]

Konak Belediyespor[edit]

In the 2019-20 Turkish Women's First Football League season, she transferred to her former club Konak Belediyespor.[2]

Galatasaray[edit]

On 10 August 2022, the Turkish Women's Football Super League team was transferred to the Galatasaray club.[8]

International career[edit]

Handan Kurğa became international with the Turkey girls' U-17 team in 2008. She was twice part of the Turkey women's U-19 team.[2]

She debuted in the Turkey women's national football team in the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification – UEFA preliminary round match against Luxembourg on 8 April 2017.[2]

Career statistics[edit]

As of match played 17 December 2022.[2][9]
Club Season League Continental National Total
Division Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Ataşehir Belediyespor 2008–09 Second League 8 1 – – 2 0 10 1
2009–10 First League 14 1 – – 0 0 14 1
2010–11 First League 6 0 – – 0 0 6 0
Total 28 2 – – 2 0 30 2
Lüleburgaz 39 Spor 2011–12 First League 11 0 – – 2 0 13 0
Total 11 0 – – 2 0 13 0
Konak Belediyespor 2012–13 First 11 0 – – 0 0 11 0
2013–14 First League 3 0 – – 0 0 3 0
2014–15 First League 2 0 2 0 0 0 4 0 League
2015–16 First League 9 0 2 0 0 0 11 0
2016–17 First League 10 0 1 0 1 0 12 0
Total 35 0 5 0 1 0 41 0
Ataşehir Belediyespor 2017–18 First League 10 0 - - 0 0 10 0
Total 10 0 0 0 0 0 10 0
ALG Spor 2018–19 First League 9 1 - - 0 0 9 1
Total 9 1 0 0 0 0 9 1
Konak Belediyespor 2019–20 First League 8 0 - - 0 0 8 0
2020–21 First League Gr. D 2 0 - - 0 0 2 0
2021–22 Super League Gr. B 20 0 - - 0 0 20 0
Total 30 0 0 0 0 0 30 0
Galatasaray 2022–23 Super League 8 0 - - 0 0 8 0
Total 8 0 0 0 0 0 8 0
Career total 131 3 5 0 5 0 141 3

Honours[edit]

Turkish Women's First League
Ataşehir Belediyespor
Winners (2): 2010–11, 2017–18
Konak Belediyespor
Winners (5): 2012–13, 2013–14, 2014–15, 2015–16, 2016–17
ALG Spor
Runners-up (1): 2018–19

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Handan Kurğa" (in German). soccerdonna.de. Retrieved 24 February 2024.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j "Oyuncular – Futbolcular-Handan Kurğa". Türkiye Futbol Federasyonun. Retrieved 2014-08-15.
  3. ^ Asker, Serhan (2013-07-25). "Futbolda da kadının adı yok". Hürriyet (in Turkish). Retrieved 2014-08-16.
  4. ^ "UEFA Women's Champions League 2015 Qualifying round Konak-Rīgas". UEFA. Retrieved 2014-08-12.
  5. ^ "UEFA Women's Champions League 2015 Qualifying round Konak-Zurich". UEFA. Retrieved 2014-08-14.
  6. ^ "UEFA Women's Champions League 2015 Qualifying round Minsk-Konak". UEFA. Retrieved 2016-03-29.
  7. ^ "UEFA Women's Champions League 2015–16 Qualifying round Sarajevo-Konak". UEFA. Retrieved 2016-03-29.
  8. ^ "Kulübümüz, milli kaleci Handan Kurğa'yı kadrosuna kattı!". twitter.com. Official Twitter Account of Galatasaray Women's Football Team. Retrieved 10 August 2022.
  9. ^ "UEFA Women's Champions League 2016–17 Qualifying round Konak-Twente". UEFA. Retrieved 2016-08-28.

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