Yusuf Yazıcı

Yusuf Yazıcı
Yazıcı playing for Turkey in 2018
Personal information
Full name Yusuf Yazıcı
Date of birth (1997-01-29) 29 January 1997
Place of birth Trabzon, Turkey
Height 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Position(s) Attacking midfielder, forward
Team information
Current team
Olympiacos
Number 97
Youth career
2008–2016 Trabzonspor
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2015–2019 Trabzonspor 87 (20)
2019–2024 Lille 96 (15)
2022CSKA Moscow (loan) 10 (8)
2022–2023Trabzonspor (loan) 13 (3)
2024– Olympiacos 1 (0)
International career
2016 Turkey U19 3 (1)
2016–2017 Turkey U21 3 (0)
2017– Turkey 45 (3)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 18:50, 27 October 2024 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 23:25, 22 June 2024 (UTC)

Yusuf Yazıcı (born 29 January 1997) is a Turkish professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for Super League Greece club Olympiacos and the Turkey national football team.

An academy graduate of Trabzonspor, Yazıcı made his senior debut in December 2015, aged 18, and made over eighty league appearances for the club. In 2019, he joined Lille for €17.5 million, including €1 million of performance criteria, the highest transfer revenue of Trabzonspor's history. He made his senior international debut for Turkey in June 2017, and represented the side at UEFA Euro 2020. In 2022, he then returned to his hometown club on loan.