İrfan Buz

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
0000–1989 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.

Early life

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

Playing career

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]

Managerial career

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]

References

  1. ^ "İrfan Buz". Sabah.
  2. ^ Bursaspor. "Bursaspor Kulübü Resmi Televizyonu". www.bursasportv.com. Archived from the original on 1 November 2013.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  3. ^ Germany, RevierSport, Essen. "WL 2: Olpes Buz lehnte Angebot aus der Süper Lig ab".{{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?".