Dilan Ağgül

Dilan Ağgül — Biography

Dilan Ağgül is a midfielder who worked her way from small Bavarian clubs to the 2. Frauen-Bundesliga and the Turkey women's national team. Born in Traunstein, raised in Germany and holding only Turkish citizenship, she has played for FSV Gütersloh 2009 and for the national side.

She came to football at five, inspired by her brother, who played. In 2014-15 she joined her hometown club DJK Traunstein and made two appearances for the team, which played in the sixth level of German football. When it folded she moved to SC Vachendorf as a junior player and in 2015-16 to SV Saaldorf. At Saaldorf she was capped 58 times and scored two goals in three seasons, winning promotion to the Bayernliga in her first year. In 2018-19, at 19, she joined Bayer 04 Leverkusen's under-23 side, scoring four goals in 10 games by April 2019. In 2019-20 she joined FSV Gütersloh 2009 in the 2. Frauen-Bundesliga and played in its northern group the next season.

She made her national-team debut in a friendly against Georgia in Tbilisi on 11 November 2018 and played in one of the Euro 2021 qualifying Group A matches, against the Netherlands. After earning her Fachabitur, the qualification that opens university entry, she began a distance course in nutritional science; she grew up with her parents in Traunstein.