Hakan Bayraktar

Hakan Bayraktar — Biography

Hakan Bayraktar is a Turkish former footballer, born 11 February 1976 in Samsun, who played in midfield and was capped by the Turkish national team.

He began his professional career in the 1994-95 season with Lommel in Belgium, before moving to Turkey to join Gaziantepspor in 1997, where he spent three seasons in the first team. He transferred to Fenerbahçe in 2001 and played two and a half seasons there, returning to Gaziantepspor midway through the 2003-04 season to finish it out. He went on to play one season each for Akçaabat Sebatspor and, successively, two seasons at Sivasspor, then one season each at Malatyaspor and Diyarbakırspor; a strong spell at Diyarbakırspor led to a further return to Gaziantepspor, where he played two more seasons. In 2010-11 he signed for his hometown club Samsunspor and won the club's "Reborn Player" award that season. He moved to Mersin İdman Yurdu at the start of 2011-12, and spent the final stage of his career in the Belgian amateur leagues.