Nagehan Akşan

Nagehan Akşan — Biography

Nagehan Akşan is a Turkish women's footballer who has been on the pitch for close to two decades, building a career that began in Trabzon and passed through many clubs of the Women's Super League. Starting out as a midfielder, she later also played in defence. Most recently, in 2025-26, she was with Ünye.

She obtained her licence on 16 November 2007 for her hometown club Trabzonspor. In two seasons she played 32 matches and scored two goals, winning the league title in 2008-09; the team became the first Turkish side in the UEFA Women's Champions League, and she played in its 2009-10 Group D matches. She then moved to Maltepe Yalı and, in 2011, to Trabzon İdmanocağı, with whom she finished third in the league three times. She joined Kdz. Ereğli for 2017-18 and Ataşehir in June 2018, playing all three Champions League qualifying matches and becoming team captain in 2018-19. Later she wore the colours of Çaykur Rize, Ataşehir Belediyespor again, Amed, Gaziantep Asya and ALG, where she wore number 61.

She was called up to the national team in 2009 and played three matches in a UEFA support tournament; in qualifying for the 2011 World Cup she was in the squad but stayed on the bench. By the end of 2010-11 she had received 11 yellow cards and no red card.