Ertuğrul Sağlam

Ertuğrul Sağlam
Ertuğrul Sağlam (2014)
Personnel
birthday	19th November 1969
place of birth	Zonguldak ,  Turkey
size	184 cm
position	Striker , midfielder
Juniors
Years	station
1985-1986	Fenerbahçe Istanbul
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1986-1988	Gaziantepspor
1988-1994	Samsunspor	138 (42)
1994-2000	Beşiktaş Istanbul	167 (72)
2000-2003	Samsunspor	75 (21)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1993-1998	Turkey	30 (11)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
2003-2005	Samsunspor
2005-2007	Kayserispor
2007-2008	Beşiktaş Istanbul
2009-2013	Bursaspor
2013-2015	Eskişehirspor
2015	Bursaspor
2017	Yeni Malatyaspor
2018	Kayserispor
1 Only league games are given.

Ertuğrul Sağlam (born November 19, 1969 in Zonguldak ) is a former Turkish national soccer player and today's soccer coach.

Active career

Club career

Sağlam started with club football in the youth department of Erdemir Ereğlispor . He then moved to the youth of Fenerbahçe Istanbul . His professional career began with his move from the youth of the Istanbul club Fenerbahçe to Gaziantepspor in the 1986/87 season. In 1988 the Turkish first division team Samsunspor signed him. In the following seasons, the young striker was hugely successful and was courted by Turkey's three top clubs , namely Beşiktaş Istanbul , Fenerbahçe Istanbul and Galatasaray Istanbul . Before the 1994/95 season there was a change to the former club. In his first season with Beşiktaş, Ertuğrul was Turkish football champion , in 1998 he won the Turkish Cup with the team . In 2000 he returned to Samsunspor and ended his active career there in 2003.

National team

Sağlam made his debut for Turkey on October 27, 1993 in the World Cup qualifier against Poland. Sağlam was part of the 1996 squad of the Turkish team at the European Football Championship in England . He ended his career with the national team in 1998, by which time he had 30 games and 11 goals.

Coaching career

In 2004/05 he started his career as a coach at the then first division team Samsunspor . From 2005 to 2007 he was the sporting director at Kayserispor . He led the club from a relegation zone to a UEFA Cup place. On May 30, 2007 he was coach of his old club Beşiktaş Istanbul. On October 7, 2008, he announced his resignation at Beşiktaş Istanbul. On January 2, 2009, he signed a 3.5-year contract with the Turkish first division club Bursaspor . In his first season as a coach at Bursaspor, he won the Turkish Championship in 2010, which is also Bursaspor's first championship title in the club's history. On January 28, 2013, he announced his resignation from the coaching post in Bursa .

From the 2013/14 season, Sağlam is the coach at Eskişehirspor . Sağlam announced his retirement as Eskişehirspor coach on January 5, 2015. In the 2014/15 season he and his team had three wins, seven draws and six defeats in 16 games.

On June 7, 2015, Bursaspor announced that they had reached an agreement with Sağlam to return. Sağlam receives a three-year contract. After disappointing results, some fans called for Sağlam's resignation at the start of the season. After there was still no upward trend after 13 matchdays, Sağlam left the club after the 2-1 home defeat against Kayserispor by mutual agreement with the club management.

On June 13, 2017, Sağlam took over the club Yeni Malatyaspor , which had just been promoted to the Süper Lig , but where he dissolved his contract with the club after four games.

For the 2018/19 season he took over the Central Anatolian first division club Kayserispor for the second time in his career and looked after him until his resignation in early December 2018.

successes

As a player

With Samsunspor

• Champion of the TFF 1st Lig and promotion to the Süper Lig : 1990/91 , 1992/93
• Fifth in the table of the Süper Lig : 1993/94

With Beşiktaş Istanbul

• Turkish champion : 1994/95
• Turkish Cup Winner : 1997/98
• Turkish Cup finalist : 1998/99
• Presidential Cup Winner : 1997/1998
• Prime Minister Cup Winner : 1996/97
• TSYD Istanbul Cup Winner : 1996/97

With the Turkish national team

• Participation in the European Championship 1996

As a trainer

With Kayserispor

• Fifth in the table of the Süper Lig : 2005/06 , 2006/07

With Bursaspor

• Turkish champion : 2009/10
• Third in the table of the Süper Lig : 2010/11
• Turkish Cup finalist : 2011/12

With Eskişehirspor

• Turkish Cup Finalist : 2013/14

Others

• Sağlam studied alongside his footballing career at the sports academy and graduated with a master's degree.
• Sağlam was the first to win the Turkish Football Championship both as a player and as a coach .

Web links

• Ertuğrul Sağlam in the database of weltfussball.de
• Okan Buruk in the database of kicker.de
• Ertuğrul Sağlam (player profile) in the database of the Turkish Football Association (English)
• Ertuğrul Sağlam (coach profile) in the database of the Turkish Football Association (English)
• Okan Buruk in the Mackolik.com database (Turkish)
• Okan Buruk in the database of EU-Football.info (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ trtspor.com.tr: "O'nun yüzünden 40 golüm heba oldu!" (accessed on April 8, 2014)
2. ↑ ntvspor.net: Es-Es Sağlam'a emanet (accessed June 26, 2013)
3. ↑ ntvspor.net: "Ertuğrul Sağlam istifa etti" (accessed on January 5, 2015)
4. ↑ bursaspor.org.tr: "Kamuoyunun Dikkatine!" (accessed June 7, 2015)
5. ↑ milliyet.com.tr: "Bursaspor: Ertuğrul Sağlam büyük fedakarlıklar yaptı" (accessed on November 27, 2015)
6. ↑ Yeni Malatyaspor: Ertuğrul Sağlam'dan açıklama.pic.twitter.com / 9Z6kM5NfHD. In: @ MalatyasporMS44. September 14, 2017, Retrieved September 14, 2017 (Turkish).