Deniz Doğan Mehmet (born 19 September 1992) is a professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Scottish Championship club Dunfermline Athletic.
He joined Dunfermline Athletic in June 2021 and kept goal as the club won the Scottish League One title at the end of the 2022–23 season, earning himself a place in the PFA Scotland Team of the Year.
[13] Mehmet was unable to replace first-choice goalkeeper Danny Rogers and departed the club by mutual consent in January 2017, after informing manager Peter Houston that he wanted to play regular matches elsewhere.
[14] Mehmet then signed a short-term contract with EFL League One club Port Vale on 1 March 2017, intending to be the back-up to on loan goalkeeper Leo Fasan.
[21] Mehmet eventually staked his claim as first-team goalkeeper towards the end of that season, as United defeated Dunfermline Athletic in the play-off quarter-finals but had to be substituted for Harry Lewis just under an hour into the second leg, after he injured himself celebrating Scott McDonald's equalising goal.
[22] Mehmet signed a new one-year contract with Dundee United in May 2018,[23] however, the tore cruciate ligament injury he sustained in the play-offs left him unable to feature during the first half of the 2018–19 season.
[26] He rejoined Dundee United on 5 July 2019 signing a two-year contract; sporting director Tony Asghar explained that he was allowed to leave the club in order to prove his fitness, and having done so he was re-signed to provide competition for first-choice goalkeeper Benjamin Siegrist.
[30][31] However, he decided to leave Tannadice after concluding that "it just wasn't happening for me at Dundee United" with manager Micky Mellon settled on playing Siegrist in goal.
[33] Veteran goalkeeper Owain Fôn Williams left East End Park in February, though Jakub Stolarczyk was selected as his replacement as Mehmet was out with a finger injury.