Fikret Yılmaz

Fikret Yılmaz — Biography

Fikret Yılmaz is a football man who began as a goalkeeper and carried on as a goalkeeping coach and manager. He played in the top divisions of Turkish football from the 1980s to the mid-1990s and then worked on the staffs of professional clubs. He is also known as the father of Turkish international footballer Burak Yılmaz.

As a player he turned out for Altay, Beşiktaş, Balıkesirspor, Adanaspor, Antalyaspor, Tavşanlı Linyitspor, Kemerspor and Şarampolspor. He made his professional debut in a 3-1 Süper Lig defeat to Fenerbahçe on 2 June 1985; his only career goal came for Kemerspor in the TFF Third League against Antalya Köy Hizmetlerispor on 12 August 1991.

After hanging up his gloves he worked as a goalkeeping coach in Turkey's professional leagues from 1996. In 2009-10 he took over MKE Ankaragücü for five weeks as head coach after Hikmet Karaman was dismissed. At the start of 2011-12 he became head coach of Kayseri Erciyesspor after Ergün Penbe's departure and left the post in December 2011. He then signed with Orduspor, where he was in charge at the start of 2014-15, and coached Balıkesirspor for part of 2015-16, leaving in March 2016. In June 2018 he was appointed at Kardemir Karabükspor and resigned in September of the same year.