Berkan Kutlu Is Having a Career Season at Kocaelispor

Kocaelispor midfielder Berkan Kutlu, 28, scored his team's second goal in the Week 11 Trendyol Süper Lig match against Eyüpspor at the Esenyurt Necmi Kadıoğlu Stadium. The match ended in a 2-0 win for Kocaelispor.

The experienced player has raised his league goal tally to 5 this season. He is level with Fenerbahçe's İrfan Can Kahveci as the Turkish player who has scored the most goals in the Süper Lig this season. Berkan is also the team's top scorer at Kocaelispor.

Berkan has played in 12 official matches, one of them the Ziraat Turkish Cup, and has scored 5 times in those games. His league goals have come against Amed Sportif Faaliyetler, Gaziantep FK, Göztepe, Corendon Alanyaspor and Eyüpspor. Kocaelispor won 4 of the 5 matches in which Berkan scored and lost one.

At Kocaelispor, Agyei is behind Berkan with 2 goals, while Aye, Baku, Show, Haidara, Maglica and Metehan Altunbaş have one goal each. Berkan has started all 11 league matches this season. Over those games, he has played a total of 919 minutes and received one yellow card.

Berkan came through the youth system of Swiss club Monthey and went on to play for Sion, Alanyaspor, Genoa, Galatasaray and TÜMOSAN Konyaspor. He joined Kocaelispor at the start of the season. He previously worked with Kocaelispor head coach Selçuk İnan at Galatasaray during the 2021-2022 season.