Eda Karataş

Eda Karataş — Biography

Eda Karataş is one of the experienced defenders in Turkish women's football. She wears the number 5 shirt at Galatasaray and is a member of the senior Turkey national team. She came up through the youth national sides and, at club level, has won the Super League title with both ALG Spor and Galatasaray.

She received her licence in 2007 from Marmara Üniversitesi Spor and played there until 2012. She then moved to Trabzon İdmanocağı, stepped away from football for a season and returned at the start of 2014-15. In the years that followed she played for İlkadım Belediyesi, Kireçburnu Spor and Ataşehir Belediyespor. The real step up came in 2021-22 when she joined ALG Spor: her team finished the league as champions, and on 18 August 2022 she made her first appearance in the UEFA Women's Champions League. She signed for Galatasaray on 4 August 2023, won another title with them in 2023-24 and agreed a new contract with the club in the summer of 2025. In remarks made in 2024 she said that competition within the squad had a positive effect on performance.

She first pulled on the national shirt with Turkey U-15 and scored against Georgia at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics. She played 12 times for the U-17s and 16 times for the U-19s, scoring twice at each level. UEFA named her among the 10 most talented players of the 2012 U-19 European Championship. Her senior national team debut came on 21 June 2012 against Spain in the qualifying round for Euro 2013.