Deniz Yılmaz

Deniz Yılmaz (born 26 February 1988) is a professional footballer who last played as a striker for Turkish club Gençlerbirliği. Born in West Germany, Yılmaz is of ethnic Turkish origin.[1] Having represented Turkey internationally at various youth levels he initially sought to play for the Turkey senior national team. After not being nominated for the 2016 European Championship squad, he chose to play for Azerbaijan.[1]

Not to be confused with Deniz Yılmaz (footballer, born 2000).

Deniz Yılmaz
Yılmaz in 2013 with Elazığspor
Personal information
Date of birth (1988-02-26) 26 February 1988
Place of birth Illerkirchberg, West Germany
Height 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)
Position(s) Striker
Youth career
TV Wiblingen
2003–2005 SSV Ulm
2005 Bayern Munich
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2005–2011 Bayern Munich II 115 (33)
2011–2013 Mainz 05 II 16 (10)
2011–2013 Mainz 05 2 (0)
2012–2013 → SC Paderborn (loan) 25 (5)
2013–2014 Elazığspor 28 (12)
2014–2016 Trabzonspor 17 (2)
2016–2017 Bursaspor 36 (10)
2018–2019 Gençlerbirliği 31 (3)
International career‡
2003–2004 Turkey U16 12 (4)
2003–2005 Turkey U17 28 (9)
2006 Turkey U18 3 (1)
2007 Turkey U19 2 (0)
2007–2010 Turkey U21 8 (2)
2016–2019 Azerbaijan 2 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 24 May 2019
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 26 August 2017

Club career

Yılmaz began his career with Bayern Munich, and made his debut for the reserve team in August 2005, as a substitute for Daniel Sikorski in a 0–0 draw with VfR Aalen. From the 2007–08 season, Yılmaz established himself as a regular in Bayern's reserve team, and was named in the first-team squad for the 2008–09 Champions League. He was named on the subs bench for the first time in a Bundesliga game against VfL Wolfsburg in October 2008. This proved to be his last involvement with Bayern's team, however, despite finishing as the top scorer for the second string in 2009–10, with thirteen goals. He was joint top scorer the following year, along with Boy Deul and Steffen Wohlfarth, but each player only managed six goals and Bayern II were relegated from the 3. Liga in last place.[2]

In July 2011, Yılmaz joined 1. FSV Mainz 05, and made his Bundesliga debut six months later, in a 3–2 defeat to Bayer Leverkusen. He made one more appearance for Mainz in the 2011–12 season, and joined 2. Bundesliga side SC Paderborn 07 on loan for the 2012–13 season.[3]

On 15 January 2018, Yılmaz left Bursaspor[4] and joined Gençlerbirliği. He signed a one-and-a-half-year contract with Gençlerbirliği.[5]

International career

Yılmaz was born in West Germany to parents of Turkish descent.[1] Yılmaz won around 50 caps for Turkey at youth level all categories comprised, including 8 for the Turkey U21. In 2016, after years of waiting for a senior Turkish call-up, Yılmaz switched to the Azerbaijan national football team.[6] Yılmaz made his debut for Azerbaijan in a 4-0 2018 World Cup qualification loss to Northern Ireland on 11 November 2016.[7]

Career statistics
As of 26 October 2015
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League Cup Continental Total Ref.
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Bayern Munich II 2005–06 Regionalliga Süd 50——50 [8]
2007–08 227——227 [9]
2008–09 3. Liga 327——327 [10]
2009–10 2913——1913 [11]
2010–11 276——276 [12]
Total 11533——11533 —
Mainz 05 2011–12 Bundesliga 20000020 [13]
Mainz 05 II 2011–12 Regionalliga West 1610——1610 [13]
SC Paderborn 2012–13 2. Bundesliga 25510265 [14]
Elazığspor 2013–14 Süper Lig 281271—3513 [13][15]
Trabzonspor 2014–15 Süper Lig 1320020152 [13][15]
2015–16 40301081 [13][15]
Total 1723130233 —
Career total 20162813021263 —

Honours

Turkey

References
  1. Knehr, Gerold (2017), Ex-Spatzen auf Höhenflug, Südwest Presse, retrieved 27 March 2021, Ein echter Junge aus dem Bezirk ist Deniz Yilmaz... Der in Illerkirchberg geborene Türke kam 1993...Sein Ziel, für die türkische Nationalmannschaft berufen zu werden, schaffte Yilmaz nicht. Nachdem er nicht für den EM-Kader 2016 nominiert wurde, entschied er sich für Aserbaidschan.
  2. "3. Liga 2010/2011 » Zuschauer » Heimspiele". Weltfussball.de. Retrieved 6 March 2014.
  3. "SC Paderborn holt Mainzer Deniz Yilmaz auf Leihbasis" (in German). derwesten.de. 31 July 2012. Retrieved 6 March 2014.
  4. "Deniz'in Sözleşmesi Feshedildi" (in Turkish). Bursaspor. 15 January 2018.
  5. "Yeni transferimiz Deniz Yılmaz" (in Turkish). Gençlerbirliği S.K. 15 January 2018.
  6. "Deniz Yılmaz, Azerbaycan Milli Takımı formasını giyecek!". HTSPOR (in Turkish). 21 August 2016. Retrieved 26 September 2016.
  7. "Northern Ireland-Azerbaijan". FIFA.com. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 13 November 2016.
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