İrfan Buz

İrfan Buz (born 15 April 1967) is a Turkish football manager and former player.

İrfan Buz
Personal information
Full name İrfan Buz
Date of birth (1967-04-15) 15 April 1967
Place of birth Istanbul, Turkey
Position(s) Midfielder
Youth career
Rot-Weiß Lüdenscheid
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1989–1991 Rot-Weiß Lüdenscheid
1989–1992 Sarıyer 1 (0)
1991–1992 →Vanspor (loan) 18 (2)
1992–1995 Sakaryaspor 22 (1)
1993–1994 →Istanbul Maltepespor (loan) 15 (1)
1995–1998 Barışspor Hackenberg
Teams managed
1995–1998 Barışspor Hackenberg
1998–2008 Germany U11-U19
2009–2013 SpVg Olpe
2013–2014 Bursaspor (assistant coach)
2014 Bursaspor
2014–2015 Gençlerbirliği
2015–2017 Yeni Malatyaspor
2017–2018 Osmanlıspor
2019 Samsunspor
2020 Bursaspor
2020 Kasımpaşa
2021 Yeni Malatyaspor
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Professional career

Buz moved to Germany in 1971 with his family, and graduated as a construction technician from the Technical University of Dortmund. He began playing amateur football with Rot-Weiß Lüdenscheid, before playing professional in Turkey.[1] Buz joined Sarıyer S.K. in the Süper Lig in 1989, but only made 1 appearance over 2 years.[2]

Irfan Buz 2010

Managerial career

After his footballing career, Buz began working as a football manager. He transitioned as player manager for the amateur German club Barışspor Hackenberg. From 1999-2008, he served a youth coach in for the German Football Association. He managed the German club SpVg Olpe from 2009 to 2013 and got attention from the Turkish Süper Lig.[3] In 2013 he briefly joined FC Iserlohn 46/49 before moving to Bursaspor.[4]

Buz was appointed assistant coach of Bursaspor in 2013 and became the head coach on 26 March 2014.[5] He then went to manage Gençlerbirliği on 23 September 2014.[6] He then spent a couple years at Yeni Malatyaspor, who he helped promoted to the Süper Lig in his final season with them.[7] In 2017, he became the manager of Osmanlıspor, who were relegated at the end of the season.[8]

References
  1. "İrfan Buz". Sabah.
  2. Bursaspor. "Bursaspor Kulübü Resmi Televizyonu". www.bursasportv.com.
  3. Germany, RevierSport, Essen. "WL 2: Olpes Buz lehnte Angebot aus der Süper Lig ab".
  4. "Irfan Buz wird Co-Trainer von Christoph Daum". 14 August 2013.
  5. "Bursaspor'da İrfan Buz dönemi - Akşam".
  6. "Gençler'de Buz devri!".
  7. fanatik. "Yeni Malatyaspor İrfan Buz'la yolları ayırdı". Fanatik.
  8. "Yeni hoca kim olacak?".
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