Personal information | |||
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Date of birth | 21 May 2001 | ||
Place of birth | Gaziosmanpaşa, Istanbul, Turkey | ||
Height | 1.74 m (5 ft 9 in) [1] | ||
Position(s) | Left-back | ||
Team information | |||
Current team | Rangers | ||
Number | 3 | ||
Youth career | |||
2009–2019 | Beşiktaş | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | ( Gls) |
2019–2022 | Beşiktaş | 52 | (4) |
2022– | Rangers | 31 | (1) |
International career‡ | |||
2016–2017 | Turkey U16 | 10 | (0) |
2017–2018 | Turkey U17 | 14 | (0) |
2018–2019 | Turkey U18 | 15 | (1) |
2019–2020 | Turkey U19 | 6 | (0) |
2020–2021 | Turkey U21 | 5 | (0) |
2021– | Turkey | 7 | (0) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 20:38, 16 March 2024 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 23:18, 22 March 2024 (UTC) |
Rıdvan Yılmaz (born 21 May 2001) is a Turkish professional footballer who plays as a left-back for Scottish Premiership club Rangers and the Turkey national team.
Yılmaz is a graduate of the Beşiktaş youth academy. He made 62 first-team appearances for Beşiktaş, helping them win the domestic league and cup double in the 2020–21 season. In July 2022, he joined Rangers for an initial transfer fee of £3.4 million.
Yılmaz made 50 appearances for Turkey's youth national teams, from under-16 to under-21 level. He made his senior international debut in May 2021, and was a member of Turkey's squad at UEFA Euro 2020.
Yılmaz was born in Gaziosmanpaşa, Istanbul. [2] He spent 10 years of his youth career in the academy of Beşiktaş, [3] which he joined at the age of seven. [2] Yılmaz made his professional debut with Beşiktaş as a late substitute in a 7–2 Süper Lig win over Çaykur Rizespor on 8 April 2019. [2] In the 2020–21 season, he won the Süper Lig and Turkish Cup with Beşiktaş. [4] [5] [6]
On 25 July 2022, Yılmaz joined Scottish club Rangers on a five-year deal for an initial transfer fee of £3.4 million, with the deal containing add-ons that could raise the fee to £5.3 million. [7] He made his debut for the club as a substitute against Belgian team Union Saint-Gilloise, during a UEFA Champions League qualifier loss on 2 August. [8] [9]
Yılmaz suffered a serious hamstring injury in a Scottish Premiership match against Aberdeen in October. [10] After more than four months, he returned to the Rangers first-team as a substitute in a Scottish Cup game against Raith Rovers in March 2023. [11]
Yılmaz played youth international football for Turkey at under-16, under-17, under-18, under-19 and under-21 levels, making 50 appearances in total. [12]
In May 2021, Yılmaz was called up to the senior Turkey national football team's preliminary 30-man squad for UEFA Euro 2020. [13] He made his senior international debut on 27 May 2021, in a warm-up friendly against Azerbaijan. [12] [14] He was included in Turkey's final 26-man squad for Euro 2020. [15]
Club | Season | League | National cup [a] | League cup [b] | Continental | Other | Total | |||||||
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Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
Beşiktaş | 2018–19 | Süper Lig | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 1 | 0 | ||
2019–20 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 7 | 0 | ||||
2020–21 | 18 | 1 | 2 | 0 | — | 1 [c] | 0 | — | 21 | 1 | ||||
2021–22 | 27 | 3 | 3 | 0 | — | 2 [d] | 0 | 1 [e] | 0 | 33 | 3 | |||
Total | 52 | 4 | 6 | 0 | — | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 62 | 4 | |||
Rangers | 2022–23 | Scottish Premiership | 9 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 [d] | 0 | — | 15 | 0 | |
2023–24 | 22 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 [c] | 0 | — | 28 | 2 | |||
Total | 31 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 0 | — | 43 | 2 | |||
Career total | 83 | 5 | 11 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 105 | 6 |
National team | Year | Apps | Goals |
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Turkey | 2021 | 5 | 0 |
2022 | 1 | 0 | |
2024 | 1 | 0 | |
Total | 7 | 0 |
Beşiktaş
Rangers