Yasin Pehlivan (born 5 January 1989) is an Austrian professional

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who plays as a

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for Turkish club Sakaryaspor. He is also part of the Austria national team. Since his debut in 2009, he was capped 17 times.

Club career

Pehlivan began his career 1998 with Breitensee/Wat 16 (WS Ottakring) and signed in 2000 a loan deal with

First Vienna FC First Vienna FC is an Austrian association football club based in the Döbling district of Vienna. Established on 22 August 1894, it is the country's oldest team and has played a notable role in the history of the game there. It is familiarly ...

. Than after two years turned back for a short stint and moved now on loan to

SK Rapid Wien Sportklub Rapid Wien (), commonly known as Rapid Vienna, is an Austrian football club playing in the country's capital city of Vienna. Rapid has won the most Austrian championship titles (32), including the first title in the season 1911–12, ...

after two seasons with good performance for Rapid sold the club him. His good performance brought him the call to the first team in January 2009 from

and made his debut on 22 February 2009 against Red Bull Salzburg, on 14 March 2009 scored his first goal against

Kapfenberger SV Kapfenberger SV is an Austrian association football club from Kapfenberg. They won the 2007–08 Austrian Football First League and advanced to the Austrian Bundesliga. The club was founded in 1919 as ''Kapfenberger SC''. The club was renamed ...

. He moved to

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side

Gaziantepspor Gaziantepspor was a Turkish Association football, football club located in the city of Gaziantep. Formed in 1969 and dissolved in 2020, Gaziantepspor were nicknamed the ''Şahinler'' (The Falcons). The club colours were black and red, and they pl ...

on 27 May 2011, signing a five-year contract. At the end of the season, he signed a three-year-contract with another

side

Bursaspor Bursaspor Kulübü Derneği (), commonly known as Bursaspor, is a Turkish sports club located in the city of Bursa. Formed in 1963, the club colours are green and white, with home kits usually featuring both colours in a striped pattern. In th ...

on 21 June 2013. On 22 August 2015, Pehlivan signed for

FC Red Bull Salzburg FC Red Bull Salzburg is an Austrian professional football club based in Wals-Siezenheim, that competes in the Austrian Bundesliga, the top flight of Austrian Football. Their home ground is the Red Bull Arena. Due to sponsorship restrictions, ...

on a one-year deal.

International career

Pehlivan received his first call-up for

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in winter 2008–09 but only made his debut against

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on 11 February 2009. He played also his one and only game for Austria U-20 against Germany on 12 October 2008. He made two games in the Year 2009 for the Austria national team with new coach

Didi Constantini Dietmar "Didi" Constantini (born 30 May 1955) is an Austrian football manager and former player. He was appointed as head coach of the Austria national team in March 2009 and was replaced by Marcel Koller in October 2011. In his career as clu ...

Personal life

Pehlivan was born to Turkish parents. He also holds Turkish citizenship.

Honours

Red Bull Salzburg *

Austrian Bundesliga The Austrian Football Bundesliga (german: Österreichische Fußball-Bundesliga, italic=no , "Austrian Football Federal League"), also known as Admiral Bundesliga for sponsorship reasons, is the top level of the Austrian football league system. The ...

: 2015–16 *

Austrian Cup The Austrian Cup (german: ÖFB-Cup), known as UNIQA ÖFB Cup for sponsorship purposes, is an annual football competition held by the Austrian Football Association, the ÖFB. During the 2008–09 season, Austria Wien won the tournament for 27th t ...

: 2015–16 Spartak Trnava *

Slovak Super Liga The Slovak Super Liga is the top level football league in Slovakia, currently known as the Fortuna Liga due to a sponsorship arrangement. It was formed in 1993 following the dissolution of Czechoslovakia. The record for most titles is eleven, h ...

: 2017–18

References

External links

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- Rapid Site * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Pehlivan, Yasin 1989 births Footballers from Vienna Austrian people of Turkish descent Living people Austrian footballers Austria youth international footballers Austria under-21 international footballers Austria international footballers Association football midfielders First Vienna FC players SK Rapid Wien players Gaziantepspor footballers Bursaspor footballers Kayseri Erciyesspor footballers FC Red Bull Salzburg players FC Spartak Trnava players Gençlerbirliği S.K. footballers Çaykur Rizespor footballers Manisa FK footballers Sakaryaspor footballers Austrian Football Bundesliga players Süper Lig players Slovak Super Liga players TFF First League players Austrian expatriate footballers Expatriate footballers in Turkey Austrian expatriate sportspeople in Turkey Expatriate footballers in Slovakia Austrian expatriate sportspeople in Slovakia