Yusuf Demir

Yusuf Demir — Biography

Yusuf Demir was born on 2 June 2003 in Vienna. An Austrian player of Turkish descent, whose family traces its roots to Trabzon, he plays as a right winger.

He signed his first professional contract with Rapid Wien on 26 May 2019 and made his professional debut in December of that year. In September 2020 he became the club's youngest Austrian goalscorer in Champions League qualifying with a strike against Gent. In July 2021 he was loaned to Barcelona for a season, where he became the youngest player to appear in La Liga for the club since Lionel Messi. After returning to Rapid Wien in January 2022, he signed a four-year contract with Galatasaray in September 2022 and won the Süper Lig title with the club in the 2022-23 season. He spent the 2023-24 season on loan at Swiss club Basel before returning to Galatasaray, where he won both the Süper Lig and the Turkish Cup in the 2024-25 season.

Demir left Galatasaray in February 2026 and signed a new three-year contract with Rapid Wien, making headlines in July 2026 for his performance in a European club match for his new side. An Austria international since 2021, he made his senior debut against the Faroe Islands in March 2021.