| Turkey Under-21 | |
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| Nickname: | Turkish: Ümit Millî (The Youth Team) Turkish: Ay-Yıldızlılar (The Crescent-Stars)[1] Turkish: Bizim Çocuklar (Our Guys) |
| Association: | Turkish Football Federation (TFF) |
| Confederation: | UEFA (Europe) |
| Coach: | Gökhan Gönül[2] |
| Most Caps: | Nihat Kahveci (32) |
| Top Scorer: | Berkant Göktan (11) |
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| First Game: | 3–1 (Ankara; 28 October 1950) |
| Largest Win: | 5–0 (Istanbul; 15 November 1983) |
| Largest Loss: | 7–0 (Berlin; 25 October 1983) |
| Uefau21champ Apps: | 1 |
| Uefau21champ Best: | Group stage |
The Turkey national Under-21 football team (tr|Ümit Millî Futbol Takımı), also known as Turkey Under-21s or Turkey U-21s, is the Under-21 years of age team of the Turkey national football team.
This team is for Turkish players aged 21 or under at the start of a two-year European Under-21 Football Championship campaign, so players can be, and often are, up to 23 years old. Also in existence are teams for Under-20s (for non-UEFA tournaments), Under-19s and Under 17s. As long as they are eligible, players can play at any level, making it possible to play for the U-21s, senior side and again for the U-21s, as Oğuzhan Özyakup has done recently. It is also possible to play for one country at youth level and another at senior level (providing the player is eligible).
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| Edition | Round | M | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | |
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 2000 | Group stage | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 11 | -9 | |
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| Total | 1/24 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 11 | -9 |
| Year | M | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | ||
| 1 | 1972 UEFA European Under-23 Championship | 6 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 8 | -8 | |
| 2 | 1974 UEFA European Under-23 Championship | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 | -3 | |
| 3 | 1976 UEFA European Under-23 Championship | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | -2 | |
| Total | 3/3 | 10 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 16 | -13 |
The following players were called up for the friendly match against on 3 June 2024.[3]
Caps and goals updated as of 3 June 2024, after the match against .
The following players have been called up for the team within the last 12 months and are still eligible to represent.
The following is the top 10 most capped under-21 players:
| Rank | Name | Period | Caps | Goals |
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| 1 | Berkant Göktan | 29 | 10 | |
| Kemal Aslan | 29 | 5 | ||
| 3 | Serkan Aykut | 24 | 12 | |
| Erhan Albayrak | 24 | 7 | ||
| Nihat Kahveci | 24 | 1 | ||
| Feti Okuroğlu | 24 | 0 | ||
| 7 | Serhat Akın | 23 | 12 | |
| Güngör Öztürk | 23 | 2 | ||
| 9 | Mehmet Topuz | 22 | 2 | |
| Hüseyin Çimşir | 22 | 1 | ||
| Ravil Tagir | 22 | 1 | ||
| Metin Uzun | 22 | 1 | ||
| Mehmet Nas | 22 | 0 | ||
| Şenol Yavaş | 22 | 0 |
The following is the top 10 under-21 players goalscorers
| Rank | Player | Period | Goals | Caps | Ratio |
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| 1 | Serhat Akın | 12 | 23 | ||
| Serkan Aykut | 12 | 24 | |||
| 3 | Tuncay Şanlı | 10 | 14 | ||
| Berkant Göktan | 10 | 29 | |||
| 5 | Oktay Derelioğlu | 9 | 14 | ||
| 6 | Halil Dervişoğlu | 8 | 11 | ||
| 7 | Bertuğ Yıldırım | 7 | 11 | ||
| Erhan Albayrak | 7 | 24 | |||
| 9 | Bülent Uygun | 6 | 14 | ||
| Mustafa Özkan | 6 | 15 | |||
| Emrah Başsan | 6 | 17 | |||
| Enis Destan | 6 | 21 | |||
| Semih Şentürk | 6 | 21 |
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