Murat Salar
Turkish footballer
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Hikmet Murat Salar (born 23 November 1976[1]) is a Turkish former professional footballer and currently manager of VSG Altglienicke.
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Hikmet Murat Salar | ||
| Date of birth | 23 November 1976 | ||
| Place of birth | Hildesheim, West Germany | ||
| Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||
| Position | Attacking midfielder | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | VSG Altglienicke (manager) | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1991–1994 | Werder Bremen | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1994–1996 | Werder Bremen II | ||
| 1996–1998 | Bursaspor | 0 | (0) |
| 1996–1997 | → Balıkesirspor (loan) | 14 | (3) |
| 1998–2000 | Hertha BSC II | ||
| 2000 | Gaziantepspor | 6 | (0) |
| 2001–2002 | Türkiyemspor Berlin | ||
| 2002–2003 | Gençlerbirliği | 16 | (1) |
| 2003–2004 | Diyarbakırspor | 23 | (3) |
| 2004–2005 | Tennis Borussia Berlin | 26 | (2) |
| 2005 | Çaykur Rizespor | 4 | (0) |
| 2006 | Altay | 6 | (0) |
| 2006–2007 | Adana Demirspor | 32 | (6) |
| 2007 | Orduspor | 0 | (0) |
| 2007–2008 | Tarsus Idman Yurdu | 19 | (1) |
| 2008–2011 | VfV Borussia 06 Hildesheim | 66 | (23) |
| 2011 | FC Oberneuland | 14 | (6) |
| International career | |||
| 1994 | Turkey U-18 | 4 | (1) |
| Managerial career | |||
| 2014–2015 | KFC Uerdingen 05 | ||
| 2016–2019 | SV Arminia Hannover | ||
| 2019 | TSC Vahdet Braunschweig | ||
| 2019–2021 | SV Newroz Hildesheim | ||
| 2023 | CFC Hertha 06 | ||
| 2023– | VSG Altglienicke | ||
| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Salar, born to an Egyptian mother and Turkish father in Germany,[2] played a total of 49 Süper Lig games throughout his footballing career in Turkey. Despite having won 4 caps for the Turkish U-18 team in 1994, Salar later expressed an interest in playing for the Egyptian national side.[2] He scored his only goal in the Turkey national under-18 football team jersey in a match against Romania on 6 October 1994.[3]
Managerial career
On 22 April 2014, Salar was named new manager of German club KFC Uerdingen 05.[4] He also continued to play for TSC Vahdet Braunschweig in the sixth-tier Landesliga Braunschweig.[5] With the club facing relegation from the 2014–15 Regionalliga he was sacked as Uerdingen manager on 18 May 2015.[6]
In April 2016 he was named new manager of SV Arminia Hannover.[7]
In September 2019 he became manager of TSC Vahdet Braunschweig, but he left the club again in December 2019.[8] He left in order to become manager of SV Newroz Hildesheim.[9]
Salar left SV Newroz in July 2021. In September 2023 he was announced as new manager of CFC Hertha 06.[10] Two months later he left the club in order to become new manager of VSG Altglienicke.[11]
