Cihat Çelik

Cihat Çelik
	Çelik in 2022
Personal information
Full name	Yusuf Cihat Çelik
Date of birth	2 January 1996 (age 28)
Place of birth	Oss, Netherlands
Height	1.84 m (6 ft 0 in)
Position(s)	Midfielder
Team information
Current team	Kocaelispor
Number	8
Youth career
	FC Schadewijk
	TOP Oss
	NEC
Senior career*
Years	Team
2013–2016	NEC
2016–2017	FC Oss
2017–2019	Gazişehir Gaziantep
2018	→ Čelik Zenica
2019–2020	TOP Oss
2020	İstanbulspor
2021–2022	Akhisarspor
2022–	Kocaelispor
International career‡
2012	Netherlands U16
2013	Netherlands U18
2014	Netherlands U19
2015–2016	Netherlands U20
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 11 September 2023; ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 17 June 2018

Cihat Çelik (born 2 January 1996) is a Dutch professional footballer who plays as a winger for Turkish club Kocaelispor.

Club career[edit]

Çelik progressed through the youth academy of NEC and made his professional debut for the club on 3 August 2013 as a starter in a 4–1 loss to FC Groningen.^[1] He was replaced at half-time by Alireza Jahanbakhsh. On 3 April 2015, he won the second-tier Eerste Divisie with NEC after a 1–0 win over Sparta Rotterdam. Çelik, however, failed to make a definitive breakthrough for the team

Çelik joined Eerste Divisie side FC Oss in summer 2016.^[2] In the 2016–17 season, he made 31 appearances for FC Oss in which he scored three goals.^[3] In May 2017, Oss announced the option to extend his contract for another year. In July of the same year, Çelik moved to Turkish club Gazişehir Gaziantep, who competed in the second tier TFF First League.^[4]^[5] In January 2018, he joined Bosnian Premijer Liga side Čelik Zenica on a six-month loan deal.^[6] He also failed to establish himself in the Gazişehir Gaziantep starting eleven in the 2018–19 season, and he returned to TOP Oss in July 2019.

Honours[edit]

NEC

Eerste Divisie: 2014–15

References[edit]

^ Profile - NEC (in Dutch)
^ FC Oss strikt Cihat Celik Archived 24 March 2018 at the Wayback Machine - FC Oss (in Dutch)
^ "C. Çelik - Profile". Soccerway. Perform Group. Retrieved 6 September 2020.
^ Nolles, Jurrian (6 July 2017). "Voormalig NEC-talent Celik naar Turkije: 'Dit is een grote uitdaging'" (in Dutch). De Gelderlander. Retrieved 6 September 2020.
^ Güncelleme, Son (6 July 2017). "Gazişehir Gaziantep'e Cihat'tan imza" (in Turkish). Hürriyet. Retrieved 6 September 2020.
^ van der Doelen, Jaap (1 November 2019). "Voor Çelik voelt alles bij TOP Oss vertrouwd: 'Ik hoef me niet aan te passen aan mijn eigen stad'" (in Dutch). Brabants Dagblad. Retrieved 6 September 2020.

External links[edit]

Voetbal International profile (in Dutch)
Netherlands profile
Cihat Çelik at Soccerway

[1] Profile - NEC (in Dutch)

[2] FC Oss strikt Cihat Celik Archived 24 March 2018 at the Wayback Machine - FC Oss (in Dutch)

[sw-3] "C. Çelik - Profile". Soccerway. Perform Group. Retrieved 6 September 2020.

[4] Nolles, Jurrian (6 July 2017). "Voormalig NEC-talent Celik naar Turkije: 'Dit is een grote uitdaging'" (in Dutch). De Gelderlander. Retrieved 6 September 2020.

[5] Güncelleme, Son (6 July 2017). "Gazişehir Gaziantep'e Cihat'tan imza" (in Turkish). Hürriyet. Retrieved 6 September 2020.

[6] van der Doelen, Jaap (1 November 2019). "Voor Çelik voelt alles bij TOP Oss vertrouwd: 'Ik hoef me niet aan te passen aan mijn eigen stad'" (in Dutch). Brabants Dagblad. Retrieved 6 September 2020.

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