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Mustafa Denizli
Denizli at Beşiktaş
Personal information
Full name Mustafa Denizli
Date of birth (1949-11-10) 10 November 1949 (age 75)
Place of birth Alaçatı, Turkey
Position(s) Striker
Team information
Current team
 Persepolis (Head coach)
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1966–1983 Altay SK 476 (83)
1983–1984 Galatasaray 15 (3)
Total 491 (86)
International career
1971–1980 Turkey 33 (2)
Managerial career
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
2011– Persepolis
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Mustafa Denizli (born 10 November 1949 in Alaçatı) is a former Turkish football player and now a coach who currently manages Persepolis in IPL. He has managed many Turkish notable football clubs, including 'Istanbul Big Three' (Fenerbahçe, Galatasaray and Beşiktaş) and has won the Turkish League title three times. He is currently the only manager in history to win the Turkish league with three different clubs. He also has worked in outside of Turkey, Alemannia Aachen in Germany, Pas and Persepolis in Iran. He managed the Turkish national team for four years and reached the quarter-finals of Euro 2000. On 23 December 2011, he was returned to his former club, Persepolis.

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

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Denizli with Jupp Derwall

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 head coach of the club and won the Turkish league in the same year. For the same season, Denizli was appointed caretaker 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. He was resigned in 1989.

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.

Turkish national football team

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.

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 interested in becoming Iran national football team manager, provided he can reach agreements with the IRIFF. . 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.[1]

Beşiktaş

On 9 October 2008 he signed a 1 year contract with Besiktas.[2] 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. [3]

Return to Persepolis

On 23 December 2011 Denizli signed a one and a half year contract with Iran Pro League side Persepolis, Return to his former club after four years.[4][5] His first competitive game as coach was against Malavan, in which Persepolis comfortably lost 2–0. After that, Persepolis defeated Shahin Bushehr 4-1 in Azadi Stadium with goals from Ali Karimi, Gholamreza Rezaei, Mohammad Nouri and Mehrdad Oladi. Five days later, Persepolis makes a 2-2 draw with Shahrdari Tabriz. Then, defeated Mes Sarcheshmeh 2-1 with a late penalty scored by Ali Karimi. Denizli saw a bad day with a 4-2 loss to Sanat Naft. After that, Persepolis hosted Zob Ahan which ended 0-0. A week later, the match between Persepolis and Esteghlal– known as Tehran derby was held. had previously experienced victory over Esteghlal back in 2006. Persepolis found themselves 2-0 down yet again and had Mehrdad Oladi very harshly sent off for what was seen as just a foul. Mazloumi and blues fans were beginning celebrations of yet another victory over their rivals as Persepolis fans began to leave the stadium when suddenly newly signed forward Eamon Zayed bagged a goal back for the reds in the 82nd minute. Persepolis were lifted by this goal and Zayed immediately connected with Mehdi Mahdavikia's excellent cross a minute later and levelled the score to 2-2 with a fine header. The last five minutes of the game was very open with Persepolis looking more lively and in the 92nd minute of the match, Hossein Badamaki's cross found Zayed yet again and the Libyan striker turned his defender and finished brilliantly to round off a historic hat-trick and great win for Persepolis and its fans.

Denizli started Champions league with a 1-1 draw with Al-Hilal. Then defeated Al-Shabab 6-1 with goals from Zayed (3 times), Rezaei, Karimi and Amir Hossein Feshangchi. Persepolis continued their good results in champions league despite poor in the domestic league with a 3-0 away win over Al-Gharafa. Denizli's side was very unlucky in the 2nd round, missed winning over Al-Gharafa with a late goal, match ended 1-1. They lost 0-1 to Al-Hilal in home that was very disappointing. With this loss, Denizli's record in Asia that doesn't have any lose in his years with Pas and Persepolis was broken. Persepolis end seasion in 12th place which makes the club's worst rank in the Pro League history. After that, Persepolis defeated Al-Shabab 3-1 in their home to qualified to the Round of 16 as group's runner-up, one point behind of Al-Hilal.

Managerial statistics

Team Nat. From To Record
G W D L Win %
Turkey Turkey 1987 1987 6 1 1 4 016.67
Galatasaray Turkey 1987 1989 92 55 21 16 059.78
Alemannia Aachen Germany 1989 1990 15 5 1 9 033.33
Galatasaray Turkey 1990 1992 72 44 13 15 061.11
Kocaelispor Turkey 1994 1996 81 34 23 24 041.98
Turkey Turkey 1996 2000 31 11 9 11 035.48
Fenerbahçe Turkey 2000 2001 66 40 8 18 060.61
Vestel Manisaspor Turkey 2003 2004 37 20 7 10 054.05
PAS Tehran Iran 2004 2006 51 26 17 8 050.98
Persepolis Iran 2006 2007 30 14 11 5 046.67
Beşiktaş Turkey 2008 2010 50 29 10 11 058.00
Persepolis Iran 2011 Present 18 6 5 7 033.33
Total 549 285 126 138 051.91

Managerial honours

  • Individual
    • IFFHS's 11th best national team coach in the world 2000.

Personal life

He married Firdevs Denizli in 1970 and he has two daughters from this marriage. His first daughter was born in 1975 and his second daughter was born in 1988. He got divorced from his wife in 2009. He later married his second wife, Evien Ölzi in 2011. Evien is also an athlete. The couple are currently residing in Tehran.

References

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