Engin İpekoğlu

Engin İpekoğlu — Biography

Engin İpekoğlu is a goalkeeper who won league titles in goal for Beşiktaş and Fenerbahçe and earned 32 caps for the Turkey national team, and after retiring he worked as head coach of clubs such as Bursaspor, Kocaelispor and Adanaspor. He also appears as a football commentator on television broadcasts.

He began playing in 1978 at Prater SV in Austria, moved to Sakaryaspor in 1982, turned professional in 1985 and won the Turkish Cup in 1988. At Beşiktaş, whom he joined in 1989, he won the league in 1990 and 1991 and the cup in 1990. From 1991 he kept goal for Fenerbahçe and won the title again in 1996. He became first-choice goalkeeper of Çanakkale Dardanelspor after their promotion to the First League; he returned to Fenerbahçe for seven more games and retired in 2000. He made his national-team debut against Greece on 29 March 1989; when Fatih Uraz was injured in an away match against East Germany he came on, saved a penalty and became the national side's regular goalkeeper.

He began coaching as an assistant to Raşit Çetiner and took over at Bursaspor when Çetiner left in the eleventh week of 2006-07. He took charge of Kocaelispor three weeks before the end of the season and led them to the 2007-08 First League title and promotion to the Süper Lig. In his first match at Fethiyespor he beat Fenerbahçe 2-1, and with Adanaspor in 2015-16 he won 16 of 20 matches and reached the Süper Lig. He also worked at Sakaryaspor, Denizlispor, Adana Demirspor and Bodrumspor, and parted ways with Adanaspor in January 2020.