Necla Güngör

Necla Güngör Kıragası is a Turkish football manager, currently serving as the technical director of the Turkey women's national team. She served before as the manager of the Turkey girls' national U-15 and U-17 teams.

Necla Güngör
Personal information
Full name Necla Güngör Kıragası
Date of birth (1981-06-15) 15 June 1981
Place of birth Ankara, Turkey
Managerial career
Years Team
2009–2014 Turkey U-15
2012–2019 Turkey U-17
2014 Turkey U-21
2020– Turkey

Early years

Necla Güngör was born in 1982, and grew up with her two siblings in Ankara, Turkey. Despite being the granddaughter of a well-known Muslim preacher in Ankara, and the daughter of a hajji, she was supported in playing football by her family. During her childhood, she used to step in when her father's football team lacked a player on the artificial turf.[1]

Sports career

Club

Necla Güngör graduated from the School of Sport Sciences and Technology at Hacettepe University in Ankara. In 2000, she was tasked with the introduction of rhythm training to footballers by music assisting manager Ersun Yanal at Ankaragücü. The next year, she moved with him to Gençlerbirliği S.K. to instruct the infrastructure team's players in basic training. Later, she received bids from Ankaraspor. After four years, she served again under Ersun Yanal in Manisaspor.[1][2]

National teams

Through Oğuz Çetin, she was introduced to the Turkish Football Federation. After nine years with men's football teams, Necla Güngör was first appointed as a trainer for the women's national team; she then became the director of the Women's Football Department of the Federation. After serving five years as a trainer, she was appointed director of football for the Turkey girls' national under-15 team,[3] supported by Yücel Uyar, the director of the Federation's Education Department.[1] She became the first ever female football director of a Turkish national team.[2]

Turkey girls national U-17 team
Necla Güngör Kıragası, head coach of the Turkey girls' U-17 team (April 2015)

Currently, she serves as the director of football for the Turkey girls' national U-17 team,[4][5] and at the same time as a specialist in the Federation's Department of Football Development.[2] The girls' national U-17 team under her coaching finished the 2020 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship qualification - Group 2 at second place, and was promoted to the Elite group round.[6]

Turkey women's national U-21 team

In November 2014, Necla Güngör coached the Turkey women's national U-21 team for two friendly matches.[7]

Turkey women's national team

With effect of 1 January 2020, she was appointed technical director of the Turkey women's national team replacing Talat Tuncel in this position.[8] The national team was successful in all three friendly matches in 2021.[9]

Managerial statistics
As of 30 November 2021
Team From To Record
GWDLWin %
Turkey girls' U-17
20152016 11 2 1 8 018.18
20162017 6 1 0 5 016.67
20172018 16 8 1 7 050.00
20182019 15 5 5 5 033.33
20192020 8 4 2 2 050.00
Total 20152019 56 20 9 27 035.71
Turkey women's
20202020 6 2 1 3 033.33
20212021 9 5 1 3 055.56
Total 20202021 15 7 2 6 046.67
Grand total 20152021 71 27 11 33 038.03

References
  1. Akyol, Cahit (2012-01-15). "En büyük destekçilerim hacı babamla hoca dedemdi". Hürriyet (in Turkish). Retrieved 2015-04-06.
  2. "Kadın teknik direktörün idolü Fatih Terim". Hürriyet (in Turkish). 2013-11-12. Retrieved 2015-04-06.
  3. "U15 Kız Milli Takımı'nın seçme kampı sona erdi" (in Turkish). Türkiye Futbol Federasyonu. 2012-07-27. Retrieved 2015-04-06.
  4. "Kızlar U17 Milli Takımı, Elit tur müsabakaları aday kadrosu açıklandı" (in Turkish). Türkiye Futbol Federasyonu. 2015-03-27. Retrieved 2015-04-06.
  5. "Milliler Adana ve Tarsus'ta". Sabah (in Turkish). 2015-04-03. Retrieved 2015-04-06.
  6. "Necla Güngör Kıragası: Hedefimize ulaştığımız için mutluyuz" (in Turkish). Türkiye Futbol federasyonu. 26 September 2019. Retrieved 13 December 2019.
  7. "Özel Maç (Kadınlar Milli) (Eleme) Belçika 0-2 Türkiye" (in Turkish). Türkiye Futbol Federasyonu. Retrieved 2015-04-06.
  8. "Kadın A Milli Takımı, Slovenya'ya 3-1 yenildi" (in Turkish). Türkiye Futbol Federasyonu. 18 September 2020. Retrieved 19 September 2020.
  9. "Necla Güngör Kıragası: "Galibiyetler öz güven kazandırdı"" (in Turkish). Türkiye Futbol Federasyonu. 17 July 2021. Retrieved 20 July 2021.
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