Cansu Nur Kaya

Cansu Nur Kaya — Biography

Cansu Nur Kaya is a women's footballer from Kartal who plays in defence. In 2020-21, with Fatih Vatanspor, she was named Most Valuable Player of the Women's First League. In December 2025 she joined Beşiktaş again, and she also plays for the Turkey national team.

She took out her licence with Pendik Çamlıkspor on 30 April 2015, made her Third League debut in 2016-17 and scored 38 goals in 58 matches over four seasons at the club. In 2020-21 she moved to Fatih Vatanspor in the Women's First League; the team lost the play-off final to Beşiktaş and finished second, while Kaya received the league's most valuable player award. At the end of June 2021 she transferred to Beşiktaş and played in one match of the 2021-22 UEFA Women's Champions League qualifying rounds. For the 2022-23 Süper Lig season she returned to her former club Fatih Vatanspor; in December 2025 the Beşiktaş women's team signed her again.

Her international path began with the U-17 side in 2017, when she played two matches at the UEFA Development Tournament. The same year she moved to the U-19 team and played all three games of both the group and Elite rounds in the qualification for the 2018 and 2019 UEFA Women's U-19 Championships; she was capped 20 times in total in these years. In 2020 she stepped up to the senior team, playing her first official match against Estonia in UEFA Women's Euro 2022 qualifying on 27 November 2020.