Murat Erdoğan

Murat Erdoğan — Biography

Murat Erdoğan was born on 1 August 1976 in London and held both Turkish and Northern Cypriot citizenship. A left-footed midfielder, he was spotted playing a Sunday league match on Hackney Marshes in London and invited to join Mersin İdman Yurdu, where his professional career began and ran from 1997 to 2013.

After moving to İstanbulspor, he went on to play for Gaziantepspor, Galatasaray, Malatyaspor, Ankaraspor, Sakaryaspor, MKE Ankaragücü, Sivasspor, Kasımpaşa, Manisaspor, Erzurumspor and TKİ Tavşanlı Linyitspor; he returned to Kasımpaşa in September 2009 and finished his career back at Mersin İdman Yurdu, the club he had first signed for sixteen years earlier. He scored 48 goals in 410 professional appearances. In his two seasons at Manisaspor he was the team's second-highest scorer and provided many assists, but the club was still relegated.

After retiring, Erdoğan served as sporting director at Sivasspor from June 2013 to February 2014 and at Konyaspor from 2015 to 2016. He bought Tuzlaspor and was elected club president at a congress in December 2016. Since 2018 he has directed the players' agency ME10 Football, and he divides his time between Istanbul, Bodrum and London.