Sevgi Çınar (born 15 January 1994) is a Turkish women's football midfielder who plays for Beylerbeyi in the Turkish Super League. She was part of the Turkey women's U-19 national football team before she entered the Turkey women's national team. She studied physical education and sports at the Dokuz Eylül University in İzmir.

Early life Çınar was born on 15 January 1994 in Seyhan district of Adana Province to Murat Çınar, who played football in Adana Demirspor. She became interested in football as she accompanied her father to futsal games. At the age of 13, she was discovered by Tevfik Işık, coach of Adana İdmanyurduspor, while she was playing football in the school. In the beginning, her father complied with Sevgi's devotion to football, but her mother objected. She was persuaded by coach Işık. Following her achievements, the parents supported her more and more.

Club career

In January 2012, Çınar left Adana İdmanyurduspor, where she began her football career, and accepted an offer of Konak Belediyespor. She joined the team in İzmir, and appeared in her new team's play-off matches already in the 2012–13 season of Women's First League. She played in three matches of the 2015–16 UEFA Women's Champions League qualifying round, and scored one goal.

At the end of the 2015–16 season, she enjoyed her team's champion title. She played in three matches of the Group 9 of the 2016–17 UEFA Women's Champions League qualifying round. Following the play-off round, the 2016–17 season ended for her team as the champion fifth time in a row, and she became "top scorer" for the second time.

By October 2017, she transferred to the Istanbul-based club Ataşehir Belediyespor.

Çınar took part at the 2018–19 UEFA Women's Champions League qualifying round. She played in all three matches of the qualification round, and scored one goal.

In October 2018, she joined the recently to the Women's First League promoted club ALG Spor in Gaziantep.

She was transferred by the 2018–19 Women's First League champion Beşiktaş J.K. to play in the 2019–20 UEFA Women's Champions League – Group 9 matches. She scored one goal against the Armenian Alashkert. She could not play in the entire 2020-21 Turkcell Women's Football League season due to a cruciate ligament rupture on her left leg, she contracted during a national team camp before the beginning of the regular league season. She underwent a surgery late January 2021. Recovering from her injury, she appeared in a friendly match before the beginning of the 2021–22 Super League season. In December 2021, before the beginning of the 2021–22 Women's Super League, she underwent a surgery on her left knee due to the repeated anterior cruciate ligament injury.

End August 2023, she transferred to Beylerbeyi, which play for the first time in the Super League

+International goalsDate Venue Opponent Competition Result ScoredKonak BelediyesporAugust 8, 2013 Asim Ferhatović Hase Stadium Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina NSA Sofia 2013–14 UEFA Women's Champions League W 2–0 1October 10, 2013 İzmir Alsancak Stadium İzmir, Turkey Unia Racibórz W 2–1 1August 13, 2015 Otoka Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina KF Vllaznia Shkodër 2015–16 UEFA Women's Champions League qualifying round W 5–1 1August 23, 2016 Sportpark Vondersweijde, Oldenzaal, Netherlands Hibernians F.C. 2016–17 UEFA Women's Champions League qualifying round W 5–0 1August 22, 2017 Mikheil Meskhi Stadium Tbilisi, Georgia WFC Martve 2017–18 UEFA Women's Champions League qualifying round W 5–0 2August 25, 2017 David Petriashvili Stadium Tbilisi, Georgia Partizán Bardejov W 5–1 1August 13, 2018 III. Kerületi TVE Stadion, Budapest, Hungary KFF Mitrovica 2018–19 UEFA Women's Champions LeagueW 6–1 1Beşiktaş J.K.August 13, 2019 Sportpark Heeckeren, Enschede, Netherlands Alashkert W 3–0 1

International career

She debuted in the Turkey Girls' U-17 national team playing in the friendly match against Bulgaria on 1 July 2009. Çınar scored a total of five goals in two friendly matches against Moldova in August 2009. At the 2011 UEFA Women's U-17 Championship – Group 6 matches in Belgium, she scored three goals in the match against the Armenian nationals that ended 7–0 for the Turkish side.

After appearing twelve times for the U-17 national team, she played in the U-19 team for the first time in the 2011 UEFA Women's U-19 Championship Second qualifying round – Group 3 match against Germany on 2 April 2011. In the friendly match against the U-19 team from Wales, Sevgi Çınar scored the only goal for Turkey in September 2012.

She scored a goal for Konak Belediyespor in the preliminary group match of 2013–14 UEFA Women's Champions League against the Bulgarian team FC NSA Sofia. Çınar shot also a goal against RTP Unia Racibórz from Poland in the Round-32 of the same championship. On 28 November 2013, Çınar scored the first goal for Turkey in the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification – UEFA Group 6 match against Montenegron team that ended with 3–1.

Çınar took part in three matches of the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification – UEFA preliminary round.

+International goalsDate Venue Opponent Competition Result ScoredTurkey girls' U-17August 22, 2009 Stadionul Dinamo Chișinău, Moldova Friendly W 6–0 2August 24, 2009 Stadionul Dinamo Chișinău, Moldova Friendly W 8–0 3October 8, 2010 Marcel De Kerpel Stadium, Wetteren, Belgium 2011 UEFA Women's U-17 Championship – Group 6 W 7–0 3Turkey women's U-19September 28, 2012 Mudanya, Bursa, Turkey Friendly D 1–1 1Turkey women'sNovember 28, 2013 Buca Arena İzmir, Turkey 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification – UEFA Group 6 W 3–1 1March 5, 2017 GoldCity Stadium Antalya, Turkey GoldCity Women's Cup 2017 W 4–2 2

Career statistics . ClubSeasonLeagueContinentalNationalTotalDivision Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps GoalsAdana İdmanyurduspor 2008–09 Second League8 16 – – 3 5 11 212009–10 First League16 9 – – 9 9 25 182010–11 First League22 26 – – 15 7 37 332011–12 First League5 4 – – 7 3 12 6Total51 55 – – 34 24 85 79Konak2011–12 First League10 4 – – 0 0 10 42012–13 First League17 3 – – 7 1 24 42013–14 First League11 8 7 2 5 1 23 112014–15 First League3 5 – – 2 0 5 52015–16 First League16 12 3 1 0 0 19 132016–17 First League22 24 3 1 6 2 31 272017–18 First League0 0 3 3 0 0 3 3Total79 56 16 7 20 4 115 67Ataşehir2017–18 First League17 9 0 0 3 0 20 92018–19 First League0 0 3 1 0 0 3 1Total17 9 3 1 3 0 23 10ALG2018–19 First League15 12 – – 5 0 20 12Beşiktaş2019–20 First League12 7 3 1 3 0 18 82020–21 First League0 0 0 0 3 0 3 02021–22 Super League0 0 0 0 0 0 0 02022–23 Super League15 1 0 0 0 0 15 1Total27 8 3 1 6 0 36 9Beylerbeyi2023–24 Super League28 5 0 0 0 0 28 52024–25 Super League3 1 0 0 0 0 3 1Total31 6 0 0 0 0 21 6Career total220 146 22 9 68 28 310 183

Honours Club Turkish Women's First League Konak Belediyespor Winners (5): 2012–13, 2013–14, 2014–15, 2015–16, 2016–17

Ataşehir Belediyespor Winners (1): 2017–18

ALG Spor Runners-up (1): 2018–19

Individual Top scorer 2010–11 Women's First League with Adana İdmanyurduspor Top scorer 2016–17 Women's First League with Konak Belediyespor

References

External links

Sevgi Çınar at Turkish Football Federation