Şenol Akın

Şenol Akın — Biography

Şenol Akın is a Turkish former professional footballer, born on 20 December 1984 in Gebze, Kocaeli, who played as a midfielder. He began playing football in the youth system of Körfez Belediyesi Hereke Yıldızspor and signed his first professional contract with İzmitspor in 2002, appearing in the TFF Third League. After one season he dropped back to the amateur leagues with Körfezspor, and from there moved to Second League side Kardemir Karabükspor.

At Karabükspor he quickly established himself as one of the team's key players, helping the club win the Second League title in 2008-09 and the First League title in 2009-10, a run that carried it up into the Süper Lig. He went on to play in the Süper Lig with Kardemir Karabükspor in the 2010-11 season.

In 2013 he moved to Konyaspor, where he was part of the squad that won the First League play-off championship and the TSYD Ankara Cup that same year. Akın spent the 2015-16 season with Denizlispor, where an injury in March 2016 brought his season to an early close. He signed a one-year deal with Bucaspor in August 2016, left the club in 2017, returned to Konya in 2018, and retired from playing after that.