Abdülkadir Kayalı

Abdülkadir Kayalı — Biography

Abdülkadir Kayalı is a midfielder who came through the youth system, was invited for a Manchester City trial in 2007 and moved to Fenerbahçe at 17. He played more than fifty games for Turkey's youth national teams and was named among the top ten players of the UEFA U-17 Championship in a UEFA article. At club level he played for Fenerbahçe, Orduspor, Boluspor, Gaziantepspor, Giresunspor and Elazığspor.

He came up through the Ankaragücü academy; he impressed in his Manchester City trial, but a deal was not done because he was under 16. When he said he would not renew his contract before turning 18, Ankaragücü took him out of the squad. On January 3, 2009, he moved to Fenerbahçe on a four-and-a-half-year contract and took number 91 after his birth year. He made his first-team debut in the Turkish Cup against Altay on December 23, 2009, and a week later was loaned to İstanbul BB for a year and a half. In 2011-12 he played nine games for Orduspor, who were relegated at the end of 2012-13.

In 2013-14 he joined Boluspor on a free transfer, scored once in 20 games and was one of the team's regulars in attack. In 2014 he signed a two-year contract with Gaziantepspor, then coached by Okan Buruk, and in summer 2018 he joined Giresunspor. On the last day of the January 2019 transfer window he was one of 22 players Elazığspor signed within two hours.