Özgür Yankaya

Özgür Yankaya
Özgür Yankaya (2012)
Personal
Surname	Özgür Yankaya
birthday	2nd January 1978
place of birth	Edirne , Turkey
job	educator
Games by division
Years	Division	Games
2001– 2002– 2004– 2009–	TFF 3rd Lig TFF 2nd Lig TFF 1st Lig Süper Lig
As of April 11, 2014

Özgür Yankaya (born January 2, 1978 in Edirne ) is a Turkish football referee .

Career

Yankaya completed his referee examination in 1999 in his native Edirne . Şimşek made his debut as a referee in the Süper Lig on February 8, 2009; he led the meeting between Gaziantepspor and Ankaraspor .

Private

Before Yankaya started to referee, he played football himself for twelve years at PTT Spor , Edirne DSİ Spor and Istanbul Avcılarspor . After his soccer career, he attended a soccer coaching course and graduated with the B license . He coached a football club for two years and then decided to become a referee.

Yankaya successfully completed his studies at the Trakya University in Edirne in 2000 .

He also founded a bicycle club in Edirne and is chairman there.

Web links

• Özgür Yankaya in the database of weltfussball.de
• Interview with Özgür Yankaya on tff.org (Turkish)
• Video interview with Özgür Yankaya on youtube.com (Turkish)
• Özgür Yankaya in the Türkiye Futbol Federasyonu database (English)
• Özgür Yankaya in the mackolik.com database (Turkish)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} tff.org: Interview with Özgür Yankaya on tff.org (Turkish)