Murat Kalkan

Murat Kalkan
Personnel
birthday	May 20, 1986
place of birth	Bayburt ,  Turkey
size	183 cm
position	midfield player
Juniors
Years	station
	TSG Backnang 1919
0000-2004	VfB Stuttgart
2004-2005	Gençlerbirliği Ankara
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2005-2011	Gençlerbirliği Ankara	38 0(0)
2005-2006	→  Mardinspor  (loan)	22 0(0)
2006-2007	→  Gençlerbirliği Oftaş  (loan)	63 0(1)
2011–2012	Orduspor	11 0(0)
2012	Adana Demirspor	14 0(0)
2012-2013	Torku Konyaspor	3 0(0)
2013-2014	Mersin İdman Yurdu	2 0(0)
2014	Çankırıspor	15 0(2)
2014-2017	Elazığspor	78 0(3)
2017-2018	Kastamonuspor 1966	2 0(0)
2018	Fethiyespor	2 0(0)
2018-2019	TSC Murrhardt	23 (10)
2019–	TAHV Gaildorf	0 0(0)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
2003-2004	Turkey U18	12 0(0)
2007	Turkey U-21	3 0(0)
1 Only league games are given. As of August 5, 2019

Murat Kalkan (born May 20, 1986 in Bayburt ) is a German-Turkish soccer player .

Career

society

Murat Kalkan was born in the Turkish provincial town of Bayburt and moved to Germany with his family when he was a child. Here he started club soccer in the youth of TSG Backnang in 1919 . He then played for the youth of VfB Stuttgart . Here he was discovered for the Turkish youth national teams and played for the Turkish U-18s for the first time in 2003.

Through his work with the Turkish U-18s, the Turkish first division clubs became aware of him. This is how Gençlerbirliği Ankara managed to tie Kalkan as a professional player in 2004. At Gençlerbirliği he played exclusively for the reserve team in his first season.

To enable him match practice in a professional league, he was loaned to the second division club Mardinspor for the 2005/06 season . Kalkan played here regularly and gained gaming experience.

He played again on loan for the next three seasons. This time at the then second division Gençlerbirliği Oftaş . The 2006/07 season he was with his team champions of the TFF 1st Lig and rose to the Süper Lig .

For the 2009/10 season he returned to Gençlerbirliği and completed 12 league games. In the 2010/11 season he made his breakthrough under the new Thomas Doll . He was able to establish himself as a regular player.

In the summer of 2011/12 he moved within the league to the promoted Orduspor . Here he completed eleven league games in his first season.

After just one season he left Orduspor and moved to the new second division side Adana Demirspor .

He parted ways with Demirspor during the 2012/13 winter break and was hired by league rivals Torku Konyaspor . Although Kalkan had only played three competitive games with his new employer, he was the playoff winner of the TFF 1st Lig with the team and thus rose to the Süper Lig . After this success, he released his contract by mutual agreement with the club's management and moved to the second division Mersin İdman Yurdu . After Kalkan could not prevail at Mersin either, he moved to the second half of the season to third division club Çankırıspor .

For the 2014/15 season Kalkan was hired by the second division side Elazığspor . In the summer transfer period of 2017 he moved to third division Kastamonuspor in 1966 .

National team

Murat Kalkan played twelve times for the Turkish U-18s and three times for the U-21 national youth team.

successes

With Konyaspor

• Playoff winner of the TFF 1st Lig and promotion to the Süper Lig : 2012/13

Web links

• Murat Kalkan in the database of weltfussball.de
• Murat Kalkan in the database of transfermarkt.de
• Murat Kalkan in the Türkiye Futbol Federasyonu database (English)
• Murat Kalkan in the database of mackolik.com (Turkish)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ajansspor.com: "Murat Kalkan imzaladı!" ( Memento of the original from July 24, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on July 21, 2012)