Yiğitcan Saybir

Yiğitcan Saybir — Biography

Yiğitcan Saybir is a 2.01 m forward who came through Anadolu Efes's youth system, took part in championship-winning teams there, and is now one of the power forwards at Tofaş. He decided to stay at Tofaş in June 2026, and has represented Turkey at junior level and with the national team.

He began playing at Efes at the age of six, worked through the youth teams and joined the first team in 2017-18. He made his Basketbol Süper Ligi debut on 4 February 2018 away at Fenerbahçe Doğuş, scoring 11 points. That season he won the Turkish Cup and the first-ever Basketbol Gençler Ligi, where he scored 19 points with 17 rebounds in the final and was named tournament MVP. In 2018-19 he played 19 games and won the league title and the Presidential Cup, while Efes finished second in the Euroleague. Over the following years he played for Bursaspor (2022) and Türk Telekom (June 2023) before moving to Tofaş.

With the junior national teams he won silver at the 2016 FIBA Under-17 World Championship, losing the final to the United States, and in 2019 he won the Turgut Atakol Tournament with the Under-20 side, again as the MVP. He was born in the Şişli district of Istanbul; his father is Ömer Saybir.