Umut Bozok
 Bozok with Troyes in 2021 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Umut Dylan Bozok[1] | ||
| Date of birth | 19 September 1996 | ||
| Place of birth | Saint-Avold, France | ||
| Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||
| Position(s) | Striker | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Trabzonspor | ||
| Number | 19 | ||
| 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) |
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*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
[edit]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
[edit]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
[edit]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
[edit]Outside of football, he is a pianist and a black-belt in karate.[18]
Career statistics
[edit]- As of match played 26 May 2024[19]
| 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 | ||
- ^ Five appearances and one goal in UEFA Europa League, two appearances in UEFA Europa Conference League
Honours
[edit]Lorient
Individual
- Championnat National top scorer: 2016–17 (18 goals)[5]
- Ligue 2 top scorer: 2017–18 (24 goals)[9]
- Süper Lig top scorer: 2021–22 (20 goals)
References
[edit]- ^ "JORF n° 0089 du 16 avril 1998 - Légifrance". www.legifrance.gouv.fr. p. 5878. Retrieved 6 November 2023.
- ^ "Umut BOZOK -".
- ^ "JORF n° 0089 du 16 avril 1998 - Légifrance". www.legifrance.gouv.fr. p. 5878. Retrieved 6 November 2023.
- ^ "Umut Bozok, le virtuose - Stadito". 12 November 2017.
- ^ a b Rédaction. "Umut Bozok, meilleur buteur de National, signe à Nîmes".
- ^ "Fédération Française de Football". www.fff.fr.
- ^ "LFP.fr - Ligue de Football Professionnel - Domino's Ligue 2 - Saison 2017/2018 - 1ère journée - Nîmes Olympique / Stade de Reims". www.lfp.fr.
- ^ "Ligue1.com - French Football League - Domino's Ligue 2 - Season 2017/2018 - Week 12 - Nîmes Olympique / Stade Brestois 29". www.ligue1.com.
- ^ a b "LFP.fr - Umut Bozok, meilleur buteur de Domino's Ligue 2 !". www.lfp.fr.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Macedo, Aurélien (1 February 2021). "Umut Bozok prêté à Troyes" [Umut Bozok loaned to Troyes]. Foot Mercato (in French). Retrieved 5 February 2021.
- ^ "Transferts : Umut Bozok (Lorient) prêté à Kasimpasa". L'Équipe.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Gouzerh, Paul-Marie (1 September 2022). "Umut Bozok prend la direction de Trabzonspor". FC Lorient (in French). Retrieved 19 April 2024.
- ^ "Umut Bozok resmen Trabzonspor da". beIN SPORTS (in Turkish). 1 September 2022. Retrieved 19 April 2024.
- ^ "TÜRKİYE AZERBAYCAN - Maç Detayları TFF". www.tff.org.
- ^ "Faroe Islands v Turkey game report". UEFA. 25 September 2022. Retrieved 6 October 2022.
- ^ "Pianiste, karatéka, spécialiste des penalties, qui est Umut Bozok (Marseille Consolat), le meilleur buteur du National ?". France Football.
- ^ Umut Bozok at Soccerway
External links
[edit]- Umut Bozok – French league stats at LFP – also available in French (archived)
- Umut Bozok at the Turkish Football Federation
- 1996 births
- Living people
- People from Saint-Avold
- Footballers from Moselle (department)
- Turkish men's footballers
- Naturalized citizens of France
- French men's footballers
- French sportspeople of Turkish descent
- Men's association football forwards
- Turkey men's international footballers
- Turkey men's youth international footballers
- Turkey men's under-21 international footballers
- Ligue 1 players
- Ligue 2 players
- Championnat National players
- Championnat National 2 players
- Championnat National 3 players
- Süper Lig players
- FC Metz players
- Nîmes Olympique players
- FC Lorient players
- ES Troyes AC players
- Kasımpaşa S.K. footballers
- Trabzonspor footballers
- 21st-century French sportsmen