Yunus Öçal
Turkish volleyball coach (born 1988)
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Yunus Öçal (born 2 August 1988) is a Turkish volleyball coach. He is the current assistant coach of the Turkey women's national volleyball team and head coach of Greek club Panionios.[1]
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| Nationality | Turkish | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 2 August 1988 Turkey | ||||||||||||||
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| Current team | Panionios (coach) | ||||||||||||||
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Club coach
Öçal coached Eczacıbaşı VitrA from 2006 to 2018.[2] After THY (Türk Hava Yolları) promoted to the Turkish Women's Volleyball League, he was appointed assistant coach to the women's volleyball team,[3] where he served until 2022.[2] In November 2022, he was appointed head coach of the AEK Women's Volleyball Club, which play in the A1 Ethniki Women's Volleyball in Greece.[4] The team finished the 2022–23 season fourth and won the Greek Cup.[5]
National team coach
Öçal was appointed assistant coach of the Greece women's national volleyball team in 2022,[5] as the direct partner of the Brazilian head coach Marcello Abbondanza.[6]
In May 2023, he was promoted to the post of head coach of the Greece women's national team, which played at the 2023 Women's European Volleyball Championship.[7]
He was head coach of the Turkey women's national team,[8] which became champion at the 2025 Islamic Solidarity Games in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.[5]
