Şenol Güneş

Güneş began his amateur career at Erdoğdu Gençlik as a goalkeeper. Shortly after he was recruited for the Trabzonspor development team, and began playing for the senior team soon after. He played for Trabzonspor for twelve years between 1975 and 1987. During this period he won six league championships. In the 1978–79 season, he set the Süper Lig clean sheet record by not conceding a single goal for 1,110 minutes.^[3] He was part of the "Trabzonpor Efsanesi" (literally "The Legend of Trabzonspor", a name given by the Turkish press) along with other local players such as Turgay Semercioğlu, Necmi Perekli and Ali Kemal Denizci. Güneş has 31 caps for the Turkey national team, being the captain in five games.

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His managerial career started at Trabzonspor, where he was assistant manager before being promoted. He came close to winning Süper Lig in the 1995–96 campaign after leading all season, but in the end his team came second. That year, Trabzonspor also played in the 1996–97 UEFA Cup where they were knocked out by Schalke 04. He left the club soon after, and worked at Antalyaspor and Sakaryaspor.

In 2000, he was hired to manage the Turkey national team. Turkey qualified for the 2002 FIFA World Cup and finished third. Güneş won the UEFA Coach of the Year award for 2002. After the World Cup, he received many offers from Greece, Brazil and Spain, but he wanted to stay with Turkey. After the national team failed to qualify for UEFA Euro 2004, Güneş was sacked as manager.

He returned to Trabzonspor in January 2005, signing a three-and-a-half-year contract but left after finishing narrowly in second place. At this time, there were rumours that Güneş would be taking a coaching job in Iran or in the United Arab Emirates.

On 8 December 2006, FC Seoul, one of the leading football clubs in the K League, announced their three-year contract with Güneş starting from 2007.^[4]

Three years later, Güneş returned to his hometown as head coach of Trabzonspor for the fourth time, replacing Hugo Broos. In the 2010-11 campaign, he again led the entire season with Trabzonspor, but finished second once again at the end of the season. Later, it was revealed the 2011 Turkish sports corruption scandal was the main cause of this.^{[5][6][7][8][9][10]} After Trabzonspor, he signed with Bursaspor on a one-year contract. Bursaspor finished in sixth place in 2014–15 Süper Lig and reached the Turkish Cup final that year. On 11 June 2015, he signed with a two-and-a-half year contract with Beşiktaş. Güneş led Beşiktaş to their 14th title (and first since 2009) in 2016.^[11] For Güneş, it was his first title as manager. He led them to their 15th and second title in a row in 2017.^[12]

On 28 February 2019, it was announced that Güneş would take the Turkey national team managerial post for a second time on a four-year deal, 15 years after his last stint, effective from 1 June 2019.^[13] He oversaw Turkey's 2–0 win over Albania in the opening UEFA Euro 2020 qualifiers.^[14]

On 28 October 2022, Güneş joined Beşiktaş for his second stint, following the departure of French head coach Valérien Ismaël.^[15]

On 10 September 2024 Şenol Güneş signed a two-and-a-half year contract with Trabzonspor, becoming the club's head coach.^[16][17]

Güneş was born in Trabzon, Turkey, and graduated from Karadeniz Technical University.^[18] He taught at a middle school in Trabzon between 1978 and 1983.^[18]

He and his wife Semra have two daughters.^{[citation needed]}

Club

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Appearances and goals by club, season and competition^[19][20]

Club	Season	League			Turkish Cup		Europe[nb 1]		Other[nb 2]		Total
		Division	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Sebat Gençlik	1970–71	2. Lig	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	1971–72		–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	Total		57	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	57	–
Trabzonspor	1972–73	1. Lig	10	0	–	–	–	–	–	–	10	0
	1973–74		18	0	6	0	–	–	–	–	24	0
	1974–75	Süper Lig	26	0	7	0	–	–	1	0	34	0
	1975–76		24	0	8	0	8	0	4	0	36	0
	1976–77		28	0	10	0	3	0	4	0	45	0
	1977–78		28	0	6	0	2	0	2	0	38	0
	1978–79		30	0	2	0	–	–	1	0	33	0
	1979–80		30	0	6	0	2	0	1	0	39	0
	1980–81		29	0	2	0	2	0	1	0	34	0
	1981–82		31	0	5	0	2	0	1	0	39	0
	1982–83		34	0	7	0	2	0	1	0	44	0
	1983–84		33	0	9	0	2	0	1	0	45	0
	1984–85		32	0	7	0	2	0	1	0	42	0
	1985–86		28	0	3	0	–	–	–	–	31	0
	1986–87		32	0	6	0	–	–	–	–	38	0
	Total		413	0	84	0	17	0	18	0	532	0
Career total			470	0	84	0	17	0	18	0	589	0

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International

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Appearances and goals by national team and year^[21]

National team	Year	Apps	Goals
Turkey	1976	2	0
	1977	4	0
	1978	4	0
	1979	6	0
	1980	3	0
	1981	5	0
	1982	3	0
	1983	2	0
	1984	0	0
	1985	0	0
	1986	0	0
	1987	2	0
Total		31	0

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Managerial statistics

As of match played 8 March 2025

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Team	From	To	Record
			G	W	D	L	Win %
Trabzonspor	13 September 1988	17 August 1989	36	19	7	10	052.78
Boluspor	19 October 1989	30 June 1992	92	28	31	33	030.43
Trabzonspor	23 September 1993	3 February 1997	150	98	27	25	065.33
Antalyaspor	28 July 1997	30 June 1998	37	11	11	15	029.73
Sakaryaspor	1 September 1998	8 February 1999	17	5	4	8	029.41
Turkey	1 July 2000	6 March 2004	50	23	13	14	046.00
Trabzonspor	17 January 2005	26 September 2005	29	19	4	6	065.52
FC Seoul	8 January 2007	25 November 2009	125	55	43	27	044.00
Trabzonspor	4 December 2009	29 January 2013	149	72	43	34	048.32
Bursaspor	10 June 2014	4 June 2015	49	22	16	11	044.90
Beşiktaş	12 June 2015	31 May 2019	199	117	46	36	058.79
Turkey	18 March 2019	10 September 2021	32	15	10	7	046.88
Beşiktaş	28 October 2022	6 October 2023	43	30	8	5	069.77
Trabzonspor	3 September 2024	12 March 2025	26	10	7	9	038.46
Total			1,034	524	270	240	050.68

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Player

Sources:^[22][23]

Trabzonspor

• Süper Lig: 1975–76, 1976–77, 1978–79, 1979–80, 1980–81, 1983–84
• Turkish Cup: 1976–77, 1977–78, 1983–84
• Turkish Super Cup: 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1983

Manager

Trabzonspor

• Turkish Cup: 1994–95, 2009–10
• Turkish Super Cup: 1995, 2010

Beşiktaş

• Süper Lig: 2015–16, 2016–17

Turkey

• FIFA World Cup third place: 2002^[24][25][26]
• FIFA Confederations Cup third place: 2003^[27][28]

Awards and achievements

• UEFA Team of the Year: 2002^[29][30]
• IFFHS's third best national team coach of the world: 2002
• 2002 Turkish State Medal of Distinguished Service^[31]

• Şenol Güneş Stadium