Bülent Uygun
Personal information | |||
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Date of birth | 1 August 1971 | ||
Place of birth | Sakarya, Turkey | ||
Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||
Position(s) | Attacking midfielder, forward | ||
Team information | |||
Current team | Sivasspor (head coach) | ||
Youth career | |||
1985–1989 | Sakaryaspor | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1989–1993 | Kocaelispor | 34 | (15) |
1993–1996 | Fenerbahçe | 107 | (39) |
1996–1998 | Kocaelispor | 19 | (13) |
1998–1999 |
Çanakkale Dardanelspor | 28 | (9) |
1999–2000 | Trabzonspor | 16 | (10) |
2000–2001 | Göztepe | 11 | (5) |
2001–2002 | Sivasspor | 20 | (9) |
2002–2004 |
Üsküdar Anadolu | 24 | (16) |
Total | 256 | (116) | |
International career | |||
1992–1996 | Turkey | 18 | (7) |
Managerial career | |||
2005–2009 | Sivasspor | ||
2010 | Bucaspor | ||
2010–2011 | Eskişehirspor | ||
2012 | Elazığspor | ||
2013 | Gaziantepspor | ||
2013–2016 | Umm Salal | ||
2017 |
Osmanlispor | ||
2017–2018 |
Al-Gharafa | ||
2018–2019 | Al-Rayyan | ||
2019 | Kayserispor | ||
2020 | Denizlispor | ||
2021 | Çaykur Rizespor | ||
2023– | Sivasspor | ||
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Bülent Uygun (born 1 August 1971) is a Turkish football manager and former player. He's the current head coach of Sivasspor. He played as an attacking midfielder after starting his career as a striker, and was the captain of Fenerbahçe. His nickname is The Soldier.
Playing career
He began his career with
Managerial career
Sivasspor
Bülent took the job as manager of Sivasspor in 2006, with the club having just completed their first ever season in the top flight, after promotion from Turkey’s second tier in May 2005. The club, based in Central Anatolia, have a small stadium with a capacity of just 18,000 people. At the age of 35, this was Bülent's first ever managerial role, having retired from playing professional football two years earlier.
2006–07 season
In 2006–07, Bülent’s first season in charge, he led them to an over-achieving 7th-place finish, finishing on 48 points. He also led Sivas to the group stage of the Turkish Domestic Cup, also known as the Fortis Cup.
2007–08 season
The
2008–09 season
The Sivas Fairytale continued to grow in the 2008–09 season when they led at the top of the table for the majority of the season. It was thought that Sivasspor would be the first team in 25 years to win the league, outside of the 'Istanbul Big Three', when Trabzonspor won at the end of the 1983–84 season. However, late April 2009 saw Beşiktaş overtake them to the top spot, and eventually they had to settle for second place, coming in five points behind Beşiktaş. They qualified for the Champions League entering the third round as the best-placed path for non-champions, and were drawn against Anderlecht of Belgium. Uygun relishes the fact that minnows Sivasspor, with a budget of just $12 million, will be playing in the Champions League this coming season.[4]
Sivasspor’s continued success in the 2008–09 season, saw UEFA study the team, along with José Mourinho and experts from the Netherlands and Brazil analyzing the team and also Uygun’s methods.[5]
2009–10 season
After having lost seven players from their first 11 during the summer 2009 transfer window,[6] Sivasspor began the pre-season slowly. While away at their Netherlands training camp, they lost three of their five pre-season friendly's managing only one win and a draw.[7]
For the first time in Sivas's 42-year history, the 2009–10 season saw
Having been eliminated at the third round, Sivas were drawn to face
Sivas' poor start to the season saw them second from bottom of the Turkish Süper Lig with just one points from seven games. Their first victory of the season came on matchday 8 against Antalyaspor, in a 1–0 home win. However, shortly after this match on 4 October 2009, Uygun announced he was stepping down as manager, believing he had taken the club as far as he could.[10][11]
Umm Salal SC
On 15 December 2013, Bülent was appointed new head coach of Umm Salal SC in Qatar Stars League.[12]
Management style
Bülent has stated that his managerial influence has come from
“My father was a wrestling coach. He told me that my career as a soccer player would end in 15 years. He advised me to think like a coach at all times. So when I was a player, I always looked at the game with the eyes of a coach. I took the good bits from Parreira, Osieck, Fatih Terim and all of the other coaches with whom I had worked. I viewed every training session as an experiment. After I quit playing, I watched more than 100 matches in Europe. I attended the training courses and read the best books about it. And I developed my own system, which I call "TürBülent"” [5]
The computer program he devised called "TürBülent", is a training system sees players alternate between performance-enhancing fitness binges and prolonged rests, the idea being that form-sapping fatigue can be meticulously scheduled against breaks in the fixture calendar.
He is known to be very strict with his players, and has previously spoken of banning his players from drinking alcohol and partying at nightclubs. He credits some of Sivasspor's success down to this.[4]
Managerial statistics
- As of 14 March 2015
Nation | Team | From | To | Record | ||||
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Pld | W | D | L | Win% | ||||
Sivasspor | June 2006 | October 2009 | 132 | 64 | 25 | 43 | 48.48 | |
Bucaspor | December 2009 | March 2010 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 14.29 | |
Eskişehirspor | July 2010 | January 2011 | 27 | 12 | 8 | 7 | 44.44 | |
Elazığspor | November 2011 | May 2012 | 14 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 21.43 | |
Gaziantepspor | November 2012 | February 2013 | 26 | 11 | 6 | 9 | 42.31 | |
Umm Salal | December 2013 | December 2016 | 53 | 23 | 17 | 13 | 43.40 | |
Total | 225 | 102 | 52 | 71 | 45.33 |
See also
References
- ^ "Fenerbahce's top scorers". fenerbahcecumhuriyeti.org. Archived from the original on 2008-12-06. Retrieved 2008-12-17.
- ^ "Profile with Turkish Football Federation". tff.org (Turkish). Retrieved 2007-11-23.
- ^ Anthony, Scott (2008-01-24). "Turkish Delights continue to delight". Guardian.co.uk. London. Retrieved 2008-01-24.
- ^ a b "Just kebabs and tea in Sivas – hence the team's success". Reuters. 2009-03-31. Archived from the original on 2009-03-20. Retrieved 2009-03-31.
- ^ a b "Bülent Uygun: Our success is unique". Sunday’s Zaman. 2009-06-12. Archived from the original on 2011-07-16. Retrieved 2009-06-14.
- ^ "Super League transfers pre 2009–10". Zaman. Archived from the original on 2009-07-30. Retrieved 2009-07-29.
- ^ "Sivasspor bite the dust in Brussels". Today's Zaman. Archived from the original on 2009-08-03. Retrieved 2009-07-30.
- ^ "Anderlecht stumble but march on". UEFA.com. Retrieved 2009-08-04.
- ^ "Shakhtar face Sivasspor test". UEFA.com. Retrieved 2009-08-07.
- ^ "Uygun calls it quits". Todayszaman. Archived from the original on 2012-09-14. Retrieved 2009-10-04.
- ^ "Uygun quits as Sivasspor coach". Hurriyet Daily News. Retrieved 2009-10-05.
- ^ "www.qsl.com.qa/users/newsen/NewsDetails.aspx?pid=1735". Qatar Stars League. Archived from the original on 2013-12-17. Retrieved 2013-12-17.
External links
- Uygun's official website (in Turkish)
- Bülent Uygun at the Turkish Football Federation
- Bülent Uygun coach profile at the Turkish Football Federation (as coach)
- Bülent Uygun statistics
- Bülent Uygun coach profile at Soccerway