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Turkish football manager (born 1967)

İrfan Buz

Buz with Gençlerbirliği in 2014
Personal information
Date of birth (1967-04-15) 15 April 1967 (age 57)
Place of birth Istanbul, Turkey
Position(s) Midfielder
Team information
Current team Velež Mostar (manager)
Youth career
–1989 Rot-Weiß Lüdenscheid
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1989 Rot-Weiß Lüdenscheid
1989–1992 Sarıyer 1 (0)
1991–1992 → Vanspor (loan) 18 (2)
1992–1995 Sakaryaspor 22 (1)
1993–1994 → Istanbul Maltepespor (loan) 15 (1)
1995–1998 Barışspor Hackenberg
Managerial career
1995–1998 Barışspor Hackenberg
1998–2008 Germany U11-U19
2009–2013 SpVg Olpe
2013 Iserlohn 46/49
2014 Bursaspor
2014–2015 Gençlerbirliği
2015–2017 Yeni Malatyaspor
2017–2018 Osmanlıspor
2019 Samsunspor
2020 Bursaspor
2020 Kasımpaşa
2021 Yeni Malatyaspor
2023 Giresunspor
2023–2024 Şanlıurfaspor
2024– Velež Mostar
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

İrfan Buz (born 15 April 1967) is a Turkish professional football manager and former player who is the manager of Bosnian Premier League club Velež Mostar.

Buz moved to Germany in 1971 with his family, and graduated as a construction technician from the Technical University of Dortmund.

Buz began playing amateur football with Rot-Weiß Lüdenscheid, before playing professional in Turkey.[1] Buz joined Sarıyer S.K. in the Süper Lig in 1989, but only made one appearance over two years.[2]

After his footballing career, Buz began working as a football manager. He transitioned as player-manager for the amateur German club Barışspor Hackenberg. From 1999 to 2008, he served a youth coach for the German Football Association. He managed the German club SpVg Olpe from 2009 to 2013 and got attention from the Turkish Süper Lig.[3] In 2013, he briefly joined FC Iserlohn 46/49 before moving to Bursaspor.[4]

Buz was appointed manager of Bursaspor on 26 March 2014.[5] He then went to manage Gençlerbirliği.[6] He then spent a couple years at Yeni Malatyaspor, who he helped promoted to the Süper Lig in the 2016–17 season.[7] In September 2017, he became the manager of Osmanlıspor, who were relegated at the end of the season.[8]

  1. ^ "İrfan Buz". Sabah.
  2. ^ Bursaspor. "Bursaspor Kulübü Resmi Televizyonu". www.bursasportv.com. Archived from the original on 1 November 2013.
  3. ^ Germany, RevierSport, Essen. "WL 2: Olpes Buz lehnte Angebot aus der Süper Lig ab".{{[cite web](/wiki/Template:Cite%5Fweb "Template:Cite web")}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  4. ^ "Irfan Buz wird Co-Trainer von Christoph Daum". 14 August 2013.
  5. ^ "Bursaspor'da İrfan Buz dönemi - Akşam". 26 March 2014.
  6. ^ "Gençler'de Buz devri!".
  7. ^ fanatik (30 May 2018). "Yeni Malatyaspor İrfan Buz'la yolları ayırdı". Fanatik.
  8. ^ "Yeni hoca kim olacak?".