Bülent Bal

Bülent Bal — Biography

Bülent Bal (born 5 August 1977 in Bursa) is a Turkish footballer who played as a centre-back. Wikidata, DBpedia and the Wikipedia entries agree on both his date of birth and his Bursa origin.

Over a long career he turned out for clubs including Bursaspor, Eskişehirspor, Gaziantepspor, Gaziantep Büyükşehir Belediyespor, Elazığspor and Kardemir Karabükspor. Turkish media reported that he parted ways with Göztepe in 2012 and then joined Bandırmaspor. In the closing stage of his career he appeared for regional and amateur-level sides such as Mudanyaspor and Nilüfer Erdemli Sportif.

News items about an academic of the same name based in Gümüşhane refer to a different person and have not been used here.