Fatih Tekke

Fatih Tekke

Fatih Tekke playing for Zenit in 2009
Personal information
Full name	Fatih Tekke
Date of birth	9 September 1977 (1977-09-09)
Place of birth	Köprübaşı, Trabzon, Turkey
Height	1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Playing position	Striker
Club information
Current club	Orduspor
Number	23
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps†	(Gls)†
1994–1997	Trabzonspor	45	(6)
1997–1998	Altay	24	(8)
1998–2000	Trabzonspor	38	(6)
2000–2002	Gaziantepspor	57	(28)
2002–2006	Trabzonspor	114	(76)
2006-2010	Zenit	73	(24)
2010	Rubin Kazan	5	(0)
2010-2011	Beşiktaş	2	(0)
2011	MKE Ankaragücü	5	(3)
2011-	Orduspor	6	(3)
National team‡
1998–	Turkey	25	(9)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 20 August 2010. † Appearances (Goals). ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 20 August 2010

Fatih Tekke (born 9 September 1977) is a Turkish international footballer who currently plays as a striker for Orduspor in the Süper Lig.

Club career

Fatih playing Trabzonspor.

Turkey

Tekke was born in the small town of Köprübaşı in the province of Trabzon, he joined Trabzonspor, the major team in the area. Tekke was still in his teens when he started to appear in the first team. In 45 matches that he played between 1994–1997, he scored 6 goals. At the beginning of the 1997/1998 season he was loaned out to Altay SK, of İzmir, where he scored 8 goals in 24 matches. In an 5–4 defeat to Galatasaray, he scored a hat-trick. However a few weeks later he broke his leg and was out of the game for six months. Upon his return to Trabzonspor, Tekke played another 38 matches and scored 6 goals before he transferred to Gaziantepspor in the summer of 2000. In this period he made his first appearance for the Turkish national team.

Tekke returned to Trabzonspor and was given the captaincy. This was the time Tekke reached the peak of his career. In 2004/2005 season he managed to become the league's top goal scorer with 31 goals, 7 goals ahead of the player in 2nd place and was second for the Golden Foot. In the Turkish national team he won two medals for cup winning cups.

Russia

In July 2006, he signed for Zenit St. Petersburg. On 6 August 2006, Tekke scored on his debut for the club, as he came off the bench against Shinnik Yaroslavl and scored the only goal of the game for his team to win 1–0. Tekke scored the winning goal in the UEFA Cup group stage in a 3–2 victory over AE Larissa. He assisted the second in the 2008 UEFA Cup Final win over Rangers. On October 21, 2008 Tekke scored in the 1–1 draw against BATE Borisov in the Champions League. On February 3, 2010, Tekke signed a 3-year contract with FC Rubin Kazan. He only played five games before he decided to return to Turkey by transferring to Beşiktaş.

Back to Turkey

On September 1, 2010, Tekke signed a 2-year contract with Besiktas JK. However, he was only able to play a total of two games before he was sent to Ankaragücü.On the 2010-2011 transfer window, Tekke was sent to Ankaragücü. In the five matches he played, he only scored three goals. On the summer transfer season of 2011, the newly promoted team, Orduspor, declared that they had purchased Tekke from Ankaragücü. Tekke was given the number 23 and the captaincy of the team.

International career

Tekke was in the Turkish national squad for U15, U16, U17, U18, U21, and for Turkish national team. For U15, he played 6 matches and scored no goals. For U16, he played 18 matches and scored 5 goals, while also winning the UEFA European Under-16 Championship, held in Ireland. For U17, he played 10 matches and scored no goals. For U18, he played 13 matches and scored 5 goals. For U21, he only played 1 match. Finally between the years of 1998-2007, Tekke played 32matches and scored 9 goals for the Turkish national team.

Career statistics

As of 10 November 2009

Club

Club	Season	League		Cup		League Cup		Europe		Total
		Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Trabzonspor	1994–95	4	0	2	0	-	-	-	-	6	0
	1995–96	20	3	2	1	-	-	-	-	22	4
	1996–97	19	3	3	1	-	-	-	-	22	4
	1997–98	2	0	-	-	-	-	-	-	2	0
	Total	45	6	7	2	0	0	0	0	52	8
Altay	1997–98	24	8	2	1	-	-	-	-	26	9
	Total	24	8	2	1	0	0	0	0	26	9
Trabzonspor	1998–99	16	4	-	-	-	-	-	-	16	4
	1999–00	22	2	3	0	-	-	-	-	25	2
	Total	38	6	3	0	0	0	0	0	41	6
Gaziantepspor	2000–01	31	15	2	0	-	-	-	-	33	15
	2001–02	24	12	3	2	-	-	-	-	27	14
	2002–03	2	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	2	1
	Total	57	28	5	2	0	0	0	0	62	30
Trabzonspor	2002–03	28	13	5	4	-	-	-	-	33	17
	2003–04	24	11	4	1	-	-	-	-	28	12
	2004–05	34	31	4	2	-	-	-	-	38	33
	2005–06	28	22	3	3	-	-	-	-	31	25
	Total	114	77	16	10	0	0	0	0	130	87
Zenit St. Petersburg	2006	15	4	3	1	-	-	-	-	18	5
	2007	16	4	2	0	-	-	4	1	22	5
	2008	22	8	1	0	-	-	6	1	29	9
	2009	20	8	-	-	-	-	2	2	15	11
	Total	73	24	6	1	0	0	12	4	84	30
Rubin Kazan	2010	5	0	-	-	-	-	-	-	5	0
	Total	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	0
Beşiktaş	2010–11	11	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	3	0
	Total	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	3	0
Career total		358	149	40	16	0	0	12	4	403	170

International goals

#	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition
1.	4 September 2004	Hüseyin Avni Aker Stadium, Trabzon, Turkey	Georgia	1–0	1–1	2006 WC qualification
2.	9 October 2004	Şükrü Saracoğlu Stadium, İstanbul, Turkey	Kazakhstan	3–0	4–0	2006 WC qualification
3.	9 October 2004	Şükrü Saracoğlu Stadium, İstanbul, Turkey	Kazakhstan	4–0	4–0	2006 WC qualification
4.	30 March 2005	Mikheil Meskhi Stadium, Tbilisi, Georgia	Georgia	1-2	2–5	2006 WC qualification
5.	30 March 2005	Mikheil Meskhi Stadium, Tbilisi, Georgia	Georgia	1-3	2–5	2006 WC qualification
6.	8 June 2005	Almaty Central Stadium, Almaty, Kazakhstan	Kazakhstan	0-1	0–6	2006 WC qualification
7.	8 June 2005	Almaty Central Stadium, Almaty, Kazakhstan	Kazakhstan	0-4	0–6	2006 WC qualification
8.	17 August 2005	Vasil Levski National Stadium, Sofia, Bulgaria	Bulgaria	0-1	3–1	Friendly
9.	16 August 2006	Stade Josy Barthel, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg	Luxembourg	0-1	0–1	Friendly

Honours

Turkey

• UEFA European Under-16 Championship: 1994

Trabzonspor

• Turkish Cup: 2003, 2004

FC Zenit Saint Petersburg

• Russian Premier League: 2007
• Russian Super Cup: 2008
• UEFA Cup: 2008
• UEFA Super Cup: 2008

FC Rubin Kazan

• Russian Super Cup: 2010

External links

• (English) Profile at the official FC Zenit St. Petersburg website
• (Russian) Profile at the official Russian Premier League website
• Profile at Football Database