Selen Altunkulak

Selen Gül Altunkulak (born 2 December 1997) is a French-born Turkish footballer who plays as a midfielder for Division 2 Féminine club Olympique de Marseille and the Turkey women's national team.[2]

Selen Altunkulak
Selen Altunkulak for Turkey national (April 2018)
Personal information
Full name Selen Gül Altunkulak
Date of birth (1997-12-02) 2 December 1997
Place of birth Valence, Drôme, France
Height 1.63 m (5 ft 4 in)[1]
Position(s) Midfielder
Club information
Current team
 Marseille
Number 2
Youth career
2011–2012 Vendenheim
2012–2013 Monteux
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2013–2015 Vendenheim 10 (6)
2015–2019 Metz 23 (1)
2019– Marseille 4 (0)
National team‡
2017– Turkey 12 (8)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 25 January 2020
‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 11 November 2019

Club career

Altunkulak played in the U19 youth team of FC Vendenheim in the 2011–12 season and of FCF Monteux in 2012–13 season. Between 2013 and 2015, she was a member of FC Vendenheim again. In the 2015–16 season, she transferred to FC Metz-Algrange .[3][4]

For the 2019–20 Division 1 Féminine season, she signed with Olympique de Marseille, which was recently promoted from the Division 2 Féminine.[5]

International career
Selen Altunkulak playing for Turkey national against Estonia at TFF Riva Facility on 7 April 2018.

She was admitted to the Turkey women's national team, and debuted internationally in the Goldcity Women's Cup 2017 on 1 March 2017, and scored her first international goal. She took part at the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification – UEFA preliminary round – Group 4 matches.[6][7] In the second match of the tournament, she scored a hat-trick in the match against Luxembourg on 8 April 2017.[8]

International goals
(Friendly matches not included)
DateVenueOpponentCompetitionResultScored
Turkey women's national team
6 April 2017Tórshavn, Faroe Islands Montenegro2019 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA preliminary round - Group 4W 3–01,[6]
8 April 2017 LuxembourgW 9–13,[8]

References
  1. "Selen Altunkulak". Footofeminin.fr (in French). Retrieved 5 September 2020.
  2. "Oyuncular – Futbolcular: Selen Gül Altunkulak" (in Turkish). Türkiye Futbol Federasyonu. Retrieved 2017-04-08.
  3. "Selen Altunkulak" (in French). oGol. Retrieved 2017-02-08.
  4. "Selen Altunkulak" (in French). FC Metz. Retrieved 2017-02-08.
  5. "Selen Gul Altunkulak". FlashScore. Retrieved 1 February 2020.
  6. "Kadın A Milli Takımı, Karadağ'ı 3–0 yendi" (in Turkish). Türkiye Futbol Federasyonu. 2017-04-06. Retrieved 2017-04-08.
  7. "Turkey 3–0 Montenegro". FIFA Women's World Cup. Retrieved 2017-04-08.
  8. "Turkey 9–1 Luxembourg". FIFA Women's World Cup. Retrieved 2017-04-09.


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