- Mustafa Denizli
-
Mustafa Denizli 
Denizli at BeşiktaşPersonal information Full name Mustafa Denizli Date of birth 10 November 1949 Place of birth Alaçatı, Turkey Playing position Striker Senior career* Years Team Apps† (Gls)† 1966–1983 Altay SK 476 (83) 1983–1984 Galatasaray 15 (3) Total 491 (86) National team 1971–1980 Turkey 33 (2) Teams managed 1985–1987 Galatasaray (Assistant) 1987–1989 Galatasaray 1989–1990 Alemannia Aachen 1990–1992 Galatasaray 1994–1996 Kocaelispor 1996–2000 Turkey 2000–2001 Fenerbahçe 2003–2004 Vestel Manisaspor 2004–2006 Pas 2006–2007 Persepolis 2008–2010 Beşiktaş * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.
† Appearances (Goals).Mustafa Denizli (born 10 November 1949) is a former Turkish football player and coach. He has won the Turkish League title five times, all with the 'Istanbul Big Three' (Fenerbahçe, Galatasaray and Beşiktaş). He is currently the only manager in history to win the Turkish league with three different clubs. He also managed the Turkish national team and reached the quarter-finals of Euro 2000.
Contents
Playing career
He spent 17 years with his hometown club Altay SK in İzmir, gaining a reputation as one of the best left-sided forwards in the league. In 1980, he became topscorer with 12 goals. Denizli transferred then in 1983 to Galatasaray after Altay's relegation in 1982–83 season, but retired at the end of the season 1983–1984 from active sport. During his playing time, he was capped 33 times for the national team.
Managerial career
Galatasaray
He started his next career as the assistant coach to German Jupp Derwall and served three years in this position at Galatasaray. In 1987, he took over his master’s position as coach and won the Turkish league. For the same season, Denizli was appointed head coach of the Turkish national football team. In the season 1988–1989, he reached the semi-finals of the European Cup with Galatasaray, but the road to the final was blocked by Steaua Bucuresti.
Alemannia Aachen
For the season 1989–1990, Denizli signed a contract with the German second league side Alemannia Aachen. Denizli had installed a new type of attacking football for the German club but he left from this club due to Alemannia Aachen was faced with relegation to third league.
Galatasaray
Returned to Turkey after one season, he was responsible for Galatasaray again. The team won Turkish Cup under his management in 1990–1991 and played in the quarter finals of the Cup Winners Cup.
Turkey
From 1992 to 1995, he coached Kocaelispor and then he was appointed the second time head coach for the national team, he served until 2000. At the 2000 European Football Championship, Turkey played quarter finals with him, first time ever in the country’s history.
Fenerbahçe
In 2000, Fenerbahçe offered him a position, and at the end of the season 2000–2001, Fenerbahçe won the league championship title after 5 years again. Denizli is the first Turkish coach of Fenerbahçe ever to win the league championship, but he enjoyed a rather poor Champions League run with defeats against FC Barcelona and Bayer Leverkusen. In 2002 the Nigerian national football team wanted to sign Denizli for their 2002 World Cup campaign but due to several problems it was cancelled. He then transferred to Vestel Manisaspor.
Pas Tehran
In 2004, Denizli received several offers from Japan and South-Korea, but he chose to use his knowledge for Iran to coach the premier league champion Pas Tehran. Denizli made a run for the league title but became only second in the league. There were rumours that Denizli would be the coach of the Iran national football team to lead it to a successful 2006 World Cup. He also reached the quarterfinals of the AFC Champions League with Pas, where he was knocked out 4–4 on aggregate by Al Ain. Denizli said he was going to leave Pas and headback for Turkey, although he had an option to sign a contract in Dubai. It was said that Denizli would take over the Iranian national team after Branko Ivankovic failed to make an impression on the world stage, but the Iranian Amir Ghalenoei was chosen over him.
Persepolis
In August 2006, Denizli was hired as the manager of the Iranian giants, Persepolis, after Arie Haan was fired. He resigned on 3 June 2007 after an unsuccessful season with Persepolis in which he failed in the Hazfi Cup with an embarrassing 4–1 defeat to Sepahan and more importantly the IPL in which his immensely talented team only managed a third place finish.
Denizli announced he was a little interested in becoming Iran National football team manager, provided he can reach agreements with the IRIFF. [1]
Beşiktaş
On 9 October 2008 he signed a 1 year contract with Besiktas.[1] On 30 May the club claimed its 13th Turkish Super League title under his guidance. Denizli is the only one in Turkey who have managed to win the national league with the "three biggest" football clubs (Besiktas, Fenerbahce and Galatasaray) as a manager. With 2008/09 league title, Denizli also clings to the achievement of being "the one and only Turkish coach Beşiktaş J.K. earned the league title with". 2 June 2010 According to a number of reports from Turkey, experienced gaffer Denizli has resigned as head coach of Turkcell Super Lig titans Besiktas due to medical reasons. [2]
Managerial statistics
Team From To Record G W D L Win % 
Galatasaray1987 1989 92 55 21 16 59.78 
Alemannia Aachen1989 1990 15 5 1 9 33.33 Galatasaray1990 1992 72 44 13 15 61.11 Kocaelispor1994 1996 81 34 23 24 41.98 Turkey1996 2000 22 10 7 5 45.45 Fenerbahçe2000 2001 66 40 8 18 60.61 Vestel Manisaspor2003 2004 37 20 7 10 54.05 
PAS Tehran2004 2006 51 26 17 8 50.98 Persepolis2006 2007 30 14 11 5 46.67 Beşiktaş2008 2010 50 29 10 11 58.00 Total 516 277 118 121 53.68 Managerial honours
- Galatasaray
- Turkish League: 1 (1987–88)
- President Cup: 2 (1988, 1991)
- Turkish Cup: 1 (1990–91)
- European Cup: Semi-final
- UEFA Cup Winners' Cup: Quarter-final
- Turkish national football team
- Euro 2000: Quarter-final
- Fenerbahçe
- Turkish League: 1 (2000–01)
- PAS Tehran
- Iran Pro League: Winner (2003–04)
- AFC Champions League 2005: Quarter-final
- Persepolis
- Hazfi Cup: Runner-Up (2005–06)
- Beşiktaş
- Turkish Cup: 1 (2008–09)
- Turkish League: 1 (2008–09)
- Individual
- IFFHS's 11th best national team coach in the world 2000.
References
External links
- Mustafa Denizli at transfermarkt.de (German)
Turkish Super League top scorers 1959: Oktay · 1960: Oktay · 1961: Oktay · 1962: Elma · 1963: Oktay · 1964: Önüt · 1965: Oktay · 1966: Adatepe · 1967: Adatepe · 1968: Zemzem · 1969: Oktay · 1970: Heper · 1971: Altıparmak · 1972: Heper · 1973: Arpacıoğlu · 1974: Turan · 1975: Kaner · 1976: Renklibay / Turan · 1977: Perekli · 1978: Turan · 1979: Umdu · 1980: Yorulmaz / Denizli · 1981: Öztürk · 1982: Yula · 1983: Yula · 1984: Hodžić · 1985: Yiğit · 1986: Çolak · 1987: Çolak · 1988: Çolak · 1989: Kocaman · 1990: Uçar · 1991: Çolak · 1992: Kocaman · 1993: Çolak · 1994: Uygun · 1995: Kocaman · 1996: Arveladze · 1997: Şükür · 1998: Şükür · 1999: Şükür · 2000: Aykut · 2001: Yılmaz · 2002: Erdem / Mansız · 2003: Yılmaz · 2004: Biryol · 2005: Tekke · 2006: Ünal · 2007: Alex · 2008: Şentürk · 2009: Baroš · 2010: Makukula · 2011: AlexIran Coach of the Year 1969: Rajkov · 1970: Dehdari · 1971: Rajkov · 1972: Ranjbar · 1973: Rogers · 1974: Rogers · 1975: Rajkov · 1976: Mohajerani · 1977: Vatankhah · 1978: Mohajerani · 1979: Habibi · 1989: Dehdari · 1990: Pourheidari · 1992: Karimi · 1993: Karimi · 1994: Zolfagharnasab · 1995: Zolfagharnasab · 1996: Poklepović · 1997: Poklepović · 1998: Hejazi · 1999: Talebi · 2000: Parvin · 2001: Pourheidari · 2002: Parvin · 2003: Kazemi · 2004: Jalali · 2005: Denizli · 2006: Ivanković · 2007: Bonačić · 2008: Daei · 2009: Ghotbi · 2010: Ghalenoei · 2011: Ghalenoei
Turkey squad – UEFA Euro 2000 
Mustafa Denizli – Managerial positions Galatasaray S.K. – managers Nikolof (1905–06) · Serdaroğlu (1907) · Armitage (1908–11) · Serdaroğlu (1911–14) · Sadi Bey (1915) · Sami Yen (1916–17) · Şahin (1919–21) · Giray (1922–23) · Kabalski (1923–24) · Hunter (1924–28) · Limbeck (1930–31) · Pagnam (1931–32) · Puddefoot (1933–36) · Baar (1937) · Szabó (1938) · Tandler (1938–39) · Hayman (1939) · Zaharczuk (1939–40) · Begget (1940–45) · Dimitriyadis (1945–46) · Swenk (1947) · Molloy (1947–49) · Lochhead (1950–52) · Kılıç (1952–53) · Székely (1953–54) · Kılıç (1954–57) · Dick (1957–58) · Remondini (1959–61) · Kılıç (1961–63) · Özarı (1963–64) · Kılıç (1964–67) · Aykaç (1967–68) · Kaloperović (1968–70) · Oktay (1970) · Özarı (1970–71) · Birch (1971–74) · Mansell (1974–75) · Howe (1975–76) · Allison (1976–77) · Demircan (1977–78) · Özarı (1978–79) · Şeren (1979–80) · Birch (1980–82) · Sümer (1982–83) · Ivić (1983–84) · Derwall (1984–87) · Denizli (1987–89) · Held (1989–90) · Denizli (1990–92) · Feldkamp (1992–93) · Hollmann (1993–94) · Saftig (1994–95) · Erkasap (1995) · Souness (1995–96) · Terim (1996–2000) · Lucescu (2000–02) · Terim (2002–04) · Hagi (2004–05) · Gerets (2005–07) · Feldkamp (2007–08) · Güler (2008) · Skibbe (2008–09) · Korkmaz (2009) · Rijkaard (2009–10) · Hagi (2010–11) · Ünder (2011) · Terim (2011–)
Alemannia Aachen – managers Emunds (1920–21) · Pekarna (1921) · Rottenberger (1921–22) · Schmitz, J. Pelzer & Emunds (1922–23) · Knappe (1924) · Baumgartner (1925) · Rumbold (1926–27) · Emunds (1927–28) · Berninger & Jennes (1928) · Jennes (1928) · Zolper (1929–30) · Weisz (1930–31) · Melcher (1931–33) · Halpern (1933) · Rumbold (1933–34) · Münzenberg (1934–36) · Frauenkron (1936–37) · Wieder (1937–39) · Flink (1939–40) · Schrenk (1940–42) · Emunds & van Heiß (1942–43) · Hymnen (1943–44) · Flink (1946–47) · Havlicek (1947–48) · Kratz (1948–49) · Goffart, Gruber, Kölling & Münzenberg (1949) · Pölsterl (1949–50) · Kölling & Münzenberg (1950) · Melcher (1950–51) · Lindemann (1951–55) · Knöpfle (1955–58) · Schütt (1958) · Sárosi (1958–59) · Kronsbein (1959–62) · Pfau (1962–65) · Weth (1965–66) · Hoffmann (1966–67) · Pfeiffer (1967–69) · Stollenwerk (1969) · Weth (1969–70) · Lindemann (1970) · Kottmann & Schütt (1970–71) · Baumann (1971–72) · Schütt (1972) · Thomas (1972–73) · Pfeiffer (1973–74) · Prokop (1974) · Witzler (1974–76) · Prokop (1976–78) · Haag (1978) · Ahmann (1978–81) · Habig (1981) · Martinelli (1981) · Buhtz (1981–82) · Cendic (1982–83) · Ahmann (1983–84) · Grünther (1984) · Fuchs (1984–87) · Ferner (1987) · Neururer (1987–89) · Grünther (1989) · Denizli (1989–90) · Krautzun (1990) · Wagner (1990–91) · Schleiden (1991) · Hannes (1991–94) · Graf (1994) · vom Bruch (1994–96) · Fuchs (1996–99) · Winkhold (1999) · Hach (1999–2001) · Berger (2001–04) · Hecking (2004–06) · Bremser (2006) · Frontzeck (2006–07) · Buchwald (2007) · Schmadtke (2007) · Seeberger (2008–09) · Kronhardt (2009) · Krüger (2009–10) · Hyballa (2010–11) · Außem (2011) · Funkel (2011–)
Turkey national football team – managers Sami Yen (1923) · Hunter (1924–26) · Tóth (1927–32) · Pagnam (1932) · Donnelly (1936–37) · Molnár (1948) · Yenal (1948) · Molloy (1948–49) · Arman (1949) · Molloy (1950) · McCormick (1950–51) · Erkal (1951) · Usuoğlu (1952) · Puppo (1952–54) · Kılıç (1954) · Mihajlović (1955) · Varglien (1955–56) · Arman (1956) · Székely (1957) · Remondini (1958–59) · Molnár (1960) · Puppo (1960–62) · Görkey (1962) · Spajić (1962) · Eken (1963) · Arman (1964) · Puppo (1965) · Andaç (1965) · Puppo (1965–66) · Suvari (1966–69) · Gegić (1969) · Arman (1970–71) · Petrescu (1971) · Özarı (1972–76) · Andaç (1976) · Türel (1977–78) · Kiraz (1978–80) · Sümer (1981) · Demircan (1982) · Özarı (1982–84) · Tarhan (1984) · Gökdel (1984–85) · Mészöly (1985) · Özarı (1985–86) · Denizli (1987) · Tırpan (1988–89) · Terim (1990) · Piontek (1990–93) · Terim (1993–96) · Denizli (1996–00) · Güneş (2000–04) · Karaman (2004) · Yanal (2004–05) · Terim (2005–09) · Çetin (2010) · Hiddink (2010–11) · Avcı (2011–)
Fenerbahçe S.K. – managers Hüseyin (1907–11) · Kulaksızoğlu (1911–15) · Kayacan (1915–21) · Elkatipzade (1921–24) · Coşar (1924–26) · Mocuk (1926–29) · Çakan (1929–32) · Svenk (1932–35) · Donnelly (1935–38) · Svenk (1938–39) · Nemetz (1939–41) · Prayer (1941–44) · Arıcan (1945–47) · Molnár (1947–48) · Arman (1948–49) · Molloy (1949–51) · McCormick (1951) · Szekelly (1951–53) · Mihailovic (1953–55) · Markos (1955) · Arıcan (1955–56) · Szekelly (1956–57) · Molnár (1957–59) · Nayır (1959–60) · Szekelly (1960–61) · Erdem (1961–62) · Kokotović (1962–64) · Hold (1964–65) · Erdem (1965–66) · Gegić (1966–67) · Molnár (1967–68) · Ionescu (1989–70) · Teaşcă (1970–71) · Kiraz (1971–72) · Didi (1972–75) · Gegić (1975–76) · Datcu (1976) · Günar (1976) · Kaloperović (1976–78) · Niş (1978–79) · Ersoy (1979) · Şengül (1979–80) · Rausch (1980–82) · Katip (1982) · Stanković (1982–84) · Veselinović (1984–85) · Mészöly (1985–86) · Şengül (1986) · Stanković (1986–87) · Yücetürk (1987) · Csernai (1987–88) · Veselinović (1988–90) · Kaner (1990) · Hiddink (1990–91) · Togay (1991) · Tırpan (1991) · Vengloš (1991–93) · Osieck (1993–95) · Ivić (1995) · Parreira (1995–96) · Lazaroni (1996–97) · Veselinović (1997) · Barić (1997–98) · Löw (1998–99) · Dilmen (1999) · Zeman (1999–2000) · Sofuoğlu (2000) · Denizli (2000–01) · Lorant (2002) · Çetin (2002–03) · Güney (2003) · Daum (2003–06) · Zico (2006–08) · Aragonés (2008–09) · Daum (2009–10) · Kocaman (2010–)
Manisaspor – managers Persepolis F.C. – managers Faramarzi (1964–67) · Dehdari (1968–69) · Faramarzi (1969–70) · Fekri (1970–71) · Rogers (1971–74) · Behzadi (1975) · Vatankhah (1975–76) · Kuonoev (1976–77) · Amirasefi (1977) · Ghelichkhani (1977) · Shahrokhi (1977–82) · Parvin (1982–88) · Moeini (1988) · Parvin (1988–1993) · Khordbin (1993) · Panjali (1993–94) · Brajevic (1994) · Derakhshan (1994–95) · Gede (1995) · Poklepović (1995–97) · Derakhshan (1997) · Matković (1998) · Parvin (1998–2003) · Begović (2003–04) · Zobel (2004–05) · Parvin (2005–06) · Haan (2006) · Denizli (2006–07) · Ghotbi (2007–08) · Peyrovani (2008–09) · Vingada (2009) · Kranjčar (2009) · Daei (2009–11) · Estili (2011–)
Beşiktaş JK – managers Şeref (1911–25) · Zinger (1925–35) · Top (1935–44) · Howard (1944–46) · Top (1946–48) · Meazza (1948–49) · Yeten (1949) · Keen (1949–50) · Yeten (1950–51) · Cable (1951–52) · Usuoğlu (1952–53) · Puppo (1953–54) · Arman (1955–56) · Mészáros (1956–57) · Bilgiç (1957) · Remondini (1957–58) · Saygun (1959) · Kuttik (1959–60) · Puppo (1960–61) · Görkey (1961) · Kuttik (1961–62) · Spajić (1962–63) · Melchior (1963–64) · Spajić (1964–67) · Janevski (1967–68) · Milev (1968–69) · Ćirić (1969–70) · Dumitru (1970–71) · Kılıç (1971–72) · Gegić (1972–73) · Türel (1973–74) · Buhtz (1974–75) · Onay (1975–76) · Arıkan (1977) · Milutinović (1977–78) · Andaç (1978–79) · Tüzün (1979–80) · Türel (1980) · Milić (1980–83) · Taner (1983–84) · Stanković (1984–86) · Milutinović (1986–87) · Milne (1987–93) · Daum (1993–96) · Koch (1996) · Kara (1996–97) · Toshack (1997–98) · Feldkamp (1998–99) · Briegel (1999–2000) · Scala (2000–01) · Daum (2001–02) · Lucescu (2002–04) · del Bosque (2004–05) · Çalımbay (2005) · Tigana (2005–07) · Sağlam (2007–08) · Denizli (2008–10) · Schuster (2010–11) · Havutçu (2011) · Carvalhal (2011–)
Categories:- 1949 births
- Living people
- People from İzmir Province
- Cretan Turks
- Turkish footballers
- Turkey international footballers
- Turkish football managers
- Altay S.K. footballers
- Galatasaray S.K. footballers
- Galatasaray football coaches
- Galatasaray football managers
- Fenerbahçe football managers
- Beşiktaş J.K. managers
- UEFA Euro 2000 managers
- Expatriate football managers in Iran
- Persepolis F.C. managers
- Süper Lig players
- Alemannia Aachen managers
- Turkey national football team managers
- Galatasaray
Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.
