Umut Bozok

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Umut Bozok
Bozok with Troyes in 2021
Personal information
Full name Umut Dylan Bozok[1]
Date of birth (1996-09-19) 19 September 1996 (age 28)
Place of birth Saint-Avold, France
Height 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Position(s) Striker
Team information
Current team
 Trabzonspor
Number 9
Youth career
2002–2011 Etoile Naborienne
2011–2016 Metz
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2013–2016 Metz B 33 (13)
2016–2017 Consolat 31 (18)
2017–2019 Nîmes 61 (26)
2019–2022 Lorient 21 (2)
2021 → Troyes (loan) 16 (1)
2021–2022 → Kasımpaşa (loan) 38 (20)
2022– Trabzonspor 42 (10)
International career‡
2012–2013 Turkey U17 5 (3)
2013 Turkey U18 1 (0)
2017 Turkey U21 5 (3)
2022– Turkey 1 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 22:15, 23 September 2024 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 16:27, 26 September 2022 (UTC)

Umut Dylan Bozok (born 19 September 1996) is a professional footballer who plays as a striker for Süper Lig club Trabzonspor. Born in France, he plays for the Turkey national team.

Early life

Bozok was born in Saint-Avold, in the east of France, to a Turkish father born in Sorgun, Turkey. He holds both French and Turkish nationalities.[2] He acquired French nationality on 15 April 1998, through the collective effect of his father's naturalization.[3]

Club career

Bozok began playing football with his local club l'Etoile Naborienne Saint-Avold at the age of 6. He began as a defender because of his strong physique.[4] He then moved to the youth academy of FC Metz in 2011. After spending three years in Metz's second team, Bozok moved to GS Consolat in Marseille for first-team football. After a successful season with GS Consolat, becoming the top scorer in the Championnat National with 18 goals in 31 matches, Bozok transferred to Ligue 2 side Nîmes on 9 June 2017 for €150,000.[5][6]

Bozok made his professional debut for Nîmes in a 1–0 Ligue 2 loss to Reims on 28 July 2017.[7] He scored his first professional hattrick in a 4–0 Ligue 2 win over Brest on 20 October 2017.[8] Bozok finished the top scorer of the 2017–18 Ligue 2 with 24 goals in 36 games, and helped promote Nîmes to the Ligue 1 for the 2018–19 season.[9]

On 18 June 2019, Bozok signed with French club Lorient, for three years and one optional.[10] The transfer fee was reported as €1.5 million.[10] On 1 February 2021, Bozok moved to Ligue 2 club Troyes on a loan deal until the end of the season.[11] On 22 July 2021, he was loaned to Kasımpaşa in the Turkish Süper Lig for the 2021–22 season.[12] With 20 goals in 38 games, Bozok was named "Gol Kralı" (top scorer) of the Süper Lig that season.[13]

On 1 September 2022, Bozok signed with Süper Lig club Trabzonspor.[14][15]

International career

Bozok represents Turkey at an international level. In his debut for the Turkey U21 national team, he scored a brace in a 4–0 win over Azerbaijan U21 on 28 March 2017.[16]

Bozok made his debut for the senior national team on 25 September 2022 in a Nations League game against the Faroe Islands.[17]

Personal life

Outside of football, he is a pianist and a black-belt in karate.[18]

Career statistics

As of match played 26 May 2024[19]
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League National cup League cup Europe Total
Division Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Metz B 2013–14 CFA 2 1 0 — — — 1 0
2014–15 CFA 10 0 — — — 10 0
2015–16 CFA 2 22 13 — — — 22 13
Total 33 13 — — — 33 13
GS Consolat 2016–17 National 31 18 3 0 0 0 — 34 18
Nimes 2017–18 Ligue 2 36 24 1 0 1 1 — 38 25
2018–19 Ligue 1 25 2 0 0 2 0 — 27 2
Total 61 26 1 0 3 1 — 65 27
Nîmes B 2018–19 National 2 1 1 — — — 1 1
Lorient 2019–20 Ligue 2 16 2 3 2 1 0 — 20 4
2020–21 Ligue 1 5 0 0 0 0 0 — 5 0
Total 21 2 3 2 1 0 — 25 4
Troyes (loan) 2020–21 Ligue 2 16 1 0 0 0 0 — 16 1
Kasımpaşa (loan) 2021–22 Süper Lig 38 20 3 0 — — 41 20
Trabzonspor 2022–23 Süper Lig 27 8 3 1 — 7[a] 1 37 10
2023–24 Süper Lig 13 1 2 2 — — 15 3
Total 40 9 5 3 — 7 1 52 13
Career total 241 90 15 5 4 1 7 1 267 97
  1. ^ Five appearances and one goal in UEFA Europa League, two appearances in UEFA Europa Conference League

Honours

Lorient

Individual

References

  1. ^ "JORF n° 0089 du 16 avril 1998 - Légifrance". www.legifrance.gouv.fr. p. 5878. Retrieved 6 November 2023.
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  3. ^ "JORF n° 0089 du 16 avril 1998 - Légifrance". www.legifrance.gouv.fr. p. 5878. Retrieved 6 November 2023.
  4. ^ "Umut Bozok, le virtuose - Stadito". 12 November 2017.
  5. ^ a b Rédaction. "Umut Bozok, meilleur buteur de National, signe à Nîmes".
  6. ^ "Fédération Française de Football". www.fff.fr.
  7. ^ "LFP.fr - Ligue de Football Professionnel - Domino's Ligue 2 - Saison 2017/2018 - 1ère journée - Nîmes Olympique / Stade de Reims". www.lfp.fr.
  8. ^ "Ligue1.com - French Football League - Domino's Ligue 2 - Season 2017/2018 - Week 12 - Nîmes Olympique / Stade Brestois 29". www.ligue1.com.
  9. ^ a b "LFP.fr - Umut Bozok, meilleur buteur de Domino's Ligue 2 !". www.lfp.fr.
  10. ^ a b "Transferts : Umut Bozok (Nîmes) à Lorient (officiel)" [Transfers: Umut Bozok (Nîmes) to Lorient (official)]. L'Équipe (in French). 18 June 2019. Retrieved 5 February 2021.
  11. ^ Macedo, Aurélien (1 February 2021). "Umut Bozok prêté à Troyes" [Umut Bozok loaned to Troyes]. Foot Mercato (in French). Retrieved 5 February 2021.
  12. ^ "Transferts : Umut Bozok (Lorient) prêté à Kasimpasa". L'Équipe.
  13. ^ İSTANBUL (İHA), Yunus Kılıç-Samet Yalçın / (23 May 2022). "Süper Lig'in gol kralı Umut Bozok! Burak Yılmaz'dan sonra ilk kez..." www.hurriyet.com.tr.
  14. ^ Gouzerh, Paul-Marie (1 September 2022). "Umut Bozok prend la direction de Trabzonspor". FC Lorient (in French). Retrieved 19 April 2024.
  15. ^ "Umut Bozok resmen Trabzonspor da". beIN SPORTS (in Turkish). 1 September 2022. Retrieved 19 April 2024.
  16. ^ "TÜRKİYE AZERBAYCAN - Maç Detayları TFF". www.tff.org.
  17. ^ "Faroe Islands v Turkey game report". UEFA. 25 September 2022. Retrieved 6 October 2022.
  18. ^ "Pianiste, karatéka, spécialiste des penalties, qui est Umut Bozok (Marseille Consolat), le meilleur buteur du National ?". France Football.
  19. ^ Umut Bozok at Soccerway