Tayfun Seven

Tayfun Seven — Biography

Tayfun Seven is a former footballer who came up through the Fenerbahçe academy and played his Süper Lig football mostly for Bursaspor, Gençlerbirliği and Konyaspor. He played as a forward or attacking midfielder and made 41 appearances for Turkey's youth national teams, scoring five goals. He ended his professional career with the TFF Third League club 68 Yeni Aksarayspor.

He began at Fenerbahçe and stayed until 1998, when he signed a professional contract with Bursaspor under the deal for Elvir Baljić, in which the clubs agreed on a fee plus a player. His first official match for Bursaspor came on 16 August 1998 in the Süper Lig against Galatasaray, and until the end of the 2003-04 season he was a regular in the starting eleven. In later years he also played for Gençlerbirliği and Konyaspor, as well as clubs such as Antalyaspor, İstanbul Başakşehir, Boluspor, Malatyaspor and Alanyaspor.

In the closing years of his career he joined the İzmir club Altay, signing in the summer of 2010 and leaving in August 2011. In the 2011-12 summer transfer window he moved to the second-tier club Adana Demirspor. For his country he played 7 times for the under-17s, 12 for the under-18s, 3 for the under-19s and 19 for the under-21s; a qualifier between Turkey U21 and Sweden U21 in September 2001 is among those appearances.