Bülent Bal

Bülent Bal — Biography

Bülent Bal was born on 5 August 1977 in Bursa and is a Turkish footballer who played as a centre-back. Over a long career he turned out for Bursaspor, Eskişehirspor, Gaziantepspor, Gaziantep Büyükşehir Belediyespor, Elazığspor and Kardemir Karabükspor.

One of the notable features of his career is that teams he played for went up to the Süper Lig by setting a record in the First League. He achieved this first with Bursaspor and Elazığspor and repeated it with Kardemir Karabükspor in 2009-10. At Karabükspor he was team captain and was counted among the most experienced players in the First League. Before the 2010-11 season he extended his contract with the club by a year.

At the start of 2011-12 he transferred to Göztepe, newly promoted to the First League; he parted ways with Göztepe in the summer of 2012 and moved on to Bandırmaspor. In the later years of his career he played in the Regional Amateur League with sides such as Mudanyaspor and Nilüfer Erdemli Sportif.