Emre Kılınç

Emre Kılınç — Biography

Emre Kılınç is a midfielder and winger who came through the Boluspor academy, went on to play for Süper Lig sides such as Sivasspor and Galatasaray, and reached the Turkey senior national team. He has been part of the Samsunspor squad since 2023 and renewed his contract with the club in July 2025.

He began playing football in his home province of Sakarya, at Sakarya Akademikspor. Boluspor scouts took notice and he moved to their academy in 2009; in the 2010 Coca-Cola U-16 Academy League he finished as the tournament's top scorer and was also voted its most sportsmanlike player. That year he signed a professional contract and joined the first team, making his first official appearance on 4 December 2011 against Denizlispor in the First League. After five seasons at Boluspor he transferred to Sivasspor in 2017; his first match for the new club was a 1-0 Süper Lig defeat to Akhisar Belediyespor on 12 August 2017. On 12 August 2020 he agreed a four-season deal with Galatasaray, spent 2022-23 on loan at Ankaragücü, and on 4 August 2023 joined Samsunspor on a three-year contract.

After playing for Turkey's U-19, U-20 and U-21 sides, he was called up for the first time to the senior squad list that Şenol Güneş announced ahead of the Albania and Moldova matches in the Euro 2020 qualifying campaign. He made his senior international debut on 7 September 2019 in a 1-0 qualifying win over Andorra. He is 1.74 metres tall.