Safa Merve Nalçacı (born 28 July 1993) is çacıa Turkish women's football defender currently playing in the Turkish Women's Football First League for Pendik Çamlıkspor in Istanbul with jersey number 2. She was part of the Turkey women's national team.

Private life

Safa Merve Nalçcacı was born in Van, eastern Turkey on 28 July 1993.

Safa Merve Nalçacı

Playing career

Club

Nalçacı obtained her license from Karşıyaka BESEM Spor in Izmir on 16 November 2007. She then played in the team between 2008 and 2012. During this time, she appeared the |Women's Regional and |Second League, scoring 15 goals in 33 matches. In the |2012–13 season, she transferred to the Istanbul-based club Çamlıcaspor to play in the |Women's First League. After playing 18 matches, she moved to Karşıyaka Koleji Spor in İzmit in the second half of the 2013–14 Second League season. The next season, she joined the new established team Beşiktaş J.K. in Istanbul, which played in the |Third League. At the end of that season, she enjoyed her team's promotion to the Second League, and after one season to the First League. She capped in 58 matches and scored two goals in three seasons with Beşiktaş J.K. For the 2017–18 First League season, she went to the newly promoted Fatih Vatan Spor, where she played 17 matches.

Safa Merve Nalçacı

In July 2018, Nalçacı joined the league champion Ataşehir Belediyespor before the 2018–19 UEFA Women's Champions League qualifying round. She played in all three matches of the qualifying round. In October 2018, she returned to Fatih Vatan Spor for the 2018–19 Women's First League season. The next season, she moved to Kireçburnu Spor

Safa Merve Nalçacı

International

Nalçacı was admitted to the Turkey women's national football team, debuting in the UEFA Women's Euro 2017 qualifying Group 5 match against Russia on 2 June 2016.

Career statistics

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Honours

Turkish Women's First Football League

Beşiktaş J.K. Runners-up (1): 2016–17

Turkish Women's Second Football League

Beşiktaş J.K. Winners (1): 2015–16

Turkish Women's Third Football League

Beşiktaş J.K. Winners (1): 2014–15

Turkish Women's Regional Football League

Karşıyaka BESEM Spor

Runners-up (2): 2009–10, 2010–11

References

Living people

1993 births

Sportspeople from Van, Turkey

Women's association football defenders

Turkey women's international footballers

Turkish women's footballers

Karşıyaka BESEM Spor players

Beşiktaş J.K. (women's football) players

Fatih Vatan Spor players

Fenerbahçe S.K. (women's football) players

Ataşehir Belediyespor players

Kireçburnu Spor players

Turkish Women's Football Super League players

21st-century Turkish sportswomen