Birgül Sadıkoğlu

Birgül Sadıkoğlu — Biography

Birgül Sadıkoğlu is a midfielder for the Turkey women's national team who has stood out for her scoring. She has worked her way from the lower leagues in Anatolia to Ukraine, the Süper Lig and Spain, and in July 2026 it was announced that she had joined Beşiktaş.

She attended a vocational high school in Eskişehir, played for its team and, encouraged by her physical-education teacher, started football at ten. She took out her licence in 2012 and joined Eskişehirspor; she was top scorer at the interschool girls' football championship in 2013 and again in 2014. After Eskişehirspor were relegated from the First League she played Third League football at Bozüyük and Eskişehir Öncü Spor, finishing as league top scorer with 41 goals in 2017-18. She joined Konak Belediyespor in 2019-20 and Zhytlobud-1 Kharkiv in Ukraine in February 2021, then Galatasaray in 2022 and, in August 2023, the champions ABB FOMGET, scoring once each against Valur and Hajvalia in the 2023-24 UEFA Women's Champions League. In 2024 she moved to Huelva in Spain, where she said she wanted to become the "goal queen". She joined Trabzonspor in September 2025.

She began with Turkey's girls' under-15 side, scored 6 goals in 19 matches for the under-17s and 2 in 15 for the under-19s. She made her senior debut on 11 November 2019 and scored once each against Israel in World Cup qualifying and against Georgia, Lithuania and Luxembourg in the Nations League.