Melike Pekel for Turkey women's national (April 2016)
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Personal information | |||
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Date of birth | 14 April 1995 | ||
Place of birth | Munich, Germany | ||
Playing position | Forward | ||
Club information | |||
Current team
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FC Metz-Algrange | ||
Number | 12 | ||
Youth career | |||
FC Schrobenhausen | |||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2012–2014 | TSV Schwaben Augsburg II | 1 | (0) |
2012–2014 | TSV Schwaben Augsburg | 39 | (20) |
2014–2016 | FC Bayern München II | 42 | (22) |
2014–2016 | FC Bayern München | 1 | (0) |
2017– | FC Metz Algrange | 7 | (3) |
Total | 90 | (44) | |
National team‡ | |||
2015– | Turkey | 13 | (5) |
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 2 April 2017. ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 11 April 2017 |
Melike Pekel (born 14 April 1995) is a Turkish-German footballer who plays as a forward for FC Metz-Algrange and the Turkey women's team.
Melike Pekel was born to Turkish immigrant parents in München, Germany on 14 April 1995. After completing her vocational education in July 2015, she started to work as an optician in Schrobenhausen, Upper Bavaria, where she resides.
Pekel began her career in the youth team of FC Schrobenhausen in her hometown, and displayed her high footballer talent. In the 2012–13 season, she started to play for the second team of TSV Schwaben Augsburg in the German Bezirksoberliga Schwaben. Already after one game in the same season, she was promoted to the first squad of the club, which competed in the Regionalliga Süd. She scored in total 20 goals in 40 matches in two league seasons. Pekel became the topscorer of the Regionalliga Süd in the 2013–14 season.
For the 2014–15 season, FC Bayern München transferred her in the second team of the club to play in the 2. Bundesliga Frauen Süd. In the 12th play day of the season on 7 December 2014, manager Thomas Wörle took her into the first squad in the Bundesliga Frauen match against 1. FFC Frankfurt. She appeared in two games for the first squad until the end of the season. She enjoyed her team's champion title in the 2014–15 Bundesliga season. In the 2015–16 season, Pekel returned to her place in the second squad of the club playing in the 2. Frauen-Bundesliga Süd again. As of 22 November 2015, she scored 15 goals in 26 games for her club.