Levent Şahin

Levent Şahin (born 20 September 1973) is a Turkish football manager and former player who is assistant manager of Galatasaray.

Levent Şahin
Şahin in 2016
Personal information
Full name Levent Şahin
Date of birth (1973-09-20) 20 September 1973
Place of birth Edremit, Turkey
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1994–1996 Yeni Yolspor
1996 Şekerbank Ankara
Managerial career
2000–2002 Ankaragücü (youth)
2003 Hacettepe (assistant)
2003–2004 Kahramanmaraşspor (assistant)
2004–2005 Keçiörengücü (assistant)
2005 Osmanlıspor (youth)
2006 Gaziantepspor (youth)
2007 Çaykur Rizespor (assistant)
2007–2008 Bursaspor (assistant)
2008–2009 Gençlerbirliği
2009 Osmanlıspor (assistant)
2009–2010 Bugsaşspor
2011 Ankaragücü (assistant)
2012–2013 Turkey youth
2013–2017 Turkey (assistant)
2017 Adanaspor
2017–2021 Galatasaray (assistant)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Playing career

Levent was born in Edremit. He was an amateur footballer, playing for Yeni Yolspor and Şekerbank Ankara.[1]

Managerial career

Levent began his managerial career as the assistant for Ankaragücü. He was the assistant coach for various teams in the lower divisions of Turkey, before gaining his first head coach experience at Bugsaşspor in 2009 for the TFF Second League.[2] He became the coach for various youth team for the Turkish Football Federation in 2012,[3] and then became an assistant coach for the senior Turkey national football team in 2016.[4] in January 2017, Levent became the head coach for Adanaspor in the Süper Lig, simultaneously remaining assistant coach for the Turkey national team.[5] He left this job on 9 April 2017.[6] In December 2017, Levent became the assistant coach for Galatasaray.[7]

References
  1. "LEVENT ŞAHİN - Futbolcu Bilgileri TFF".
  2. "BUGSAŞ SPOR A.Ş. - Club Details TFF".
  3. "Milli Takımlar onlara emanet".
  4. "A Milli Takım kadrosunda flaş değişiklik".
  5. "Adanaspor teknik direktör Levent Şahin ile anlaştı".
  6. Levent Şahin istifa etti‚ ntv.com.tr, 9 April 2017
  7. "İlk antrenmanına çıktı". 24 December 2017.
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