| Fırat Kaya | |
| Birth Date: | 2 January 1995 |
| Birth Place: | Schwäbisch Hall, Germany |
| Position: | Forward (right wing) |
| Youthyears1: | 2010–2013 |
| Youthclubs1: | VfR Mannheim |
| Years1: | 2013 |
| Clubs1: | Eintracht Plankstadt |
| Years2: | 2014–2015 |
| Clubs2: | VfR Mannheim |
| Years3: | 2015 |
| Clubs3: | SF Schwäbisch Hall |
| Years4: | 2015 |
| Clubs4: | TSV Nellmersbach |
| Years5: | 2015–2016 |
| Clubs5: | TSG Giengen |
| Years6: | 2016–2017 |
| Clubs6: | SC 04 Schwabach |
| Years7: | 2017–2018 |
| Clubs7: | TSV Kornburg |
| Years8: | 2018 |
| Clubs8: | SF Schwäbisch Hall |
| Years9: | 2019 |
| Clubs9: | Tokatspor |
| Caps9: | 9 |
| Goals9: | 2 |
| Years10: | 2019–2020 |
| Clubs10: | TSG Öhringen |
| Years11: | 2020–2021 |
| Clubs11: | SV Fellbach |
| Nationalyears1: | 2013 |
| Nationalteam1: | Germany deaf |
| Nationalcaps1: | 5 |
| Nationalgoals1: | 1 |
| Nationalyears2: | 2017– |
| Nationalteam2: | Turkey deaf |
| Nationalcaps2: | 16 |
| Nationalgoals2: | 15 |
Fırat Kaya (born 2 January 1995) is a Germany-born Turkish footballer. He is a member of the Turkey national deaf football team.
Fırat Kaya was born to Turkish-descent parents,Yıldırım and Sevg, as the youngest of two children in Schwäbisch Hall, Germany on 2 January 1995. The hearing loss boy started to play football at a young age.
At age 15, Kaya became an amateur footballer playing as a forward in the youth teams of VfR Mannheim (2010–203). His professional career started with Eintracht Plankstadt (2013–14). He later played for the teams VfR Mannheim (2013–14), SF Schwäbisch Hall (2014–15),TSV Nellmersbach (2015–16), TSG Giengen (2015–16), SC 04 Schwabach (2016–17) and TSV Kornburg (2017–18. While playing again for SF Schwäbisch Hall (2018–19) in Germany, he moved to Turkey and signed a five-month contract with Tokatspor in January 2019. He played in nine matches of the 2018–19 TFF Second League's second half and scored two goals. He became so the first hearing-loss footballer to play in the Turkish professional football leagues. After the end of the Turkish league season, the right-wing forward returned to Germany, and joined TSG Öhringen (2019–20). The next season, he signed a one-year contract with the Verbandsliga Württemberg club SV Fellbach (2020–21) in the beginning of September 2020. In his club career in Germany and Turkey between 2013 and 2021, he scored a total of 15 goals in 48 matches he played in the Bayernliga Süd, Landesliga Bayern-Süd/Oberbayern, Turkish TFF Second League, Verbandsliga Württemberg and Landespokal Württemberg.
He played in two matches of the 2022 Summer Deaflympics qualification round against Czech Republic and France. He scored one goal in the match against Czech Republic, which ended 6-0 for Turkey. Winning over the both teams, the national team qualified for the Games to be held in Caxias do Sul, Brazil.
| Year | Competition | Opponent | Result | Goals | Ref | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Germany national deaf football team | |||||||||
| 2013 | align=left | bgcolor=#cfc | W 3-2 | 1 | |||||
| align=left | bgcolor=#cfc | W 6-5 | 1 | ||||||
 Turkey national deaf football team | |||||||||
| 2017 | Summer Deaflympics | align=left | bgcolor=#cfc | W 3-0 | 1 | ||||
| align=left | bgcolor=#cfc | W 4-3 | 1 | ||||||
| EuroDeaf 2019 Qualification | align=left | bgcolor=#cfc | W 5-0 | 2 | |||||
| 2018 | align=left | bgcolor=#cfc | W 1-0 | 1 | |||||
| 2019 | align=left | bgcolor=#cfc | W 6-1 | 7 | |||||
| align=left | bgcolor=#cfc | W 6-0 | |||||||
| align=left | bgcolor=#cfc | W 8-0 | |||||||
| align=left | bgcolor=#fcc | L 2-4 | |||||||
| align=left | bgcolor=#cfc | W 2-0 | |||||||
| align=left | bgcolor=#cfc | W 2-1 | 2 | ||||||
| 2021 | align=left | 2022 Summer Deaflympics Qualification | align=left | bgcolor=#cfc | W 6-0 | 1 | |||