Eyüp Arın

Eyüp Arın — Biography

Eyüp Arın is a football man whose name has become almost inseparable from Adanaspor. At the club he worked first as a youth coach and then, many times, as a stand-in head coach, and in 2007-08 he won the 2. Lig title with Adanaspor. He announced in June 2025 that he was leaving his post as youth academy coordinator, ending an association with the club of roughly thirty years.

Born in Adana, Arın played in the 1980s and 1990s for Tarsus İdman Yurdu, Batman Belediyespor and Niğdespor. After ending his playing career he turned to coaching and in 1996 started in Adanaspor's youth academy, a role he held on and off for fifteen years. Taking over the first-team seat whenever managers resigned became his signature at the club. In 2008-09, after Hüsnü Özkara resigned after two months, he led the team for four weeks and handed over to Metin Yıldız. After Osman Özdemir resigned following the 2-1 loss to TKİ Tavşanlı Linyitspor in a 1. Lig match on 27 February 2011, he took charge until the end of the season and then passed the job to Levent Eriş.

He kept the same role in later years: in 2016-17 he took charge of Adanaspor once more, the season the club played in the Süper Lig. In 2023 he was put in charge of the first team for the 13th time, and the press had long called him the club's “on-duty” coach. In June 2025 he announced that he was leaving his youth academy post.