Birkan Kirdar (born 7 February 2002), is an Australian professional footballer who last played as an attacking midfielder for Melbourne Victory in the A-League Men.
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Full name | Birkan Kirdar[1] | |||||||||||||||
Date of birth | (2002-02-07) 7 February 2002 (age 20)[2] | |||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Coolaroo, Victoria, Australia | |||||||||||||||
Height | 1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)[3] | |||||||||||||||
Position(s) | Attacking midfielder[4] | |||||||||||||||
Youth career | ||||||||||||||||
Hume City | ||||||||||||||||
Essendon Royals | ||||||||||||||||
Whittlesea Ranges | ||||||||||||||||
2017–2018 | Melbourne Victory | |||||||||||||||
Senior career* | ||||||||||||||||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||||||
2018–2022 | Melbourne Victory | 30 | (0) | |||||||||||||
2018–2022 | Melbourne Victory NPL | 34 | (7) | |||||||||||||
National team‡ | ||||||||||||||||
2017–2019 | Australia U-17 | 22 | (8) | |||||||||||||
Honours
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 16 September 2022 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 1 November 2019 |
The youngest player chosen in Melbourne Victory's youth squad for the 2017-18 National Youth League season, Kirdar made his debut for Melbourne Victory Youth at the age of 15, coming on in the 76th minute against Perth Glory Youth.[5]
Kirdar made his first-team debut for Melbourne Victory in an AFC Champions League match against Shanghai SIPG F.C., coming on as an 87th-minute substitute for Pierce Waring in an eventual 2–1 win.[6] At 16 years and 70 days, Kirdar became the Victory's youngest ever debutant.[7]
On 1 June 2018, Kirdar signed his first professional contract with Victory, through till the end of the 2019/20 season.[8] On 29 September 2020, Kirdar re-signed with Victory for the 2020/21 season.[9] In September 2022, he left Melbourne Victory.[10]
Kirdar represented Australia at the 2017 AFF U-15 Championship, the 2018 AFC U-16 Championship qualification and the 2018 AFC U-16 Championship.[11][12] [13]
Kirdar is of Turkish descent, and his grandfather helped found the Turkish-Australian club Anadoluspor, also known as Hume City FC.[14]
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