Sergen Yalçın is the 48th coach of the National Team!

Having parted ways with Vincenzo Montella, the Turkish Football Federation (TFF) entrusted the National Team to Sergen Yalçın for 4 years.

Yalçın, who won the Super League and Turkey Cup championships with Beşiktaş in his coaching career, also coached Gaziantepspor, Sivasspor, Kayserispor, Eskişehirspor, Konyaspor, Alanyaspor, Yeni Malatyaspor and Antalyaspor.

27TH TURKISH TECHNICIAN

Turkey has played 658 matches in its 103-year history under the management of a total of 47 coaches, 26 of whom are Turkish and 21 of whom are foreign.

Sergen Yalçın will serve as the 27th Turkish coach at the head of the national team.

In addition to Turkish coaches, 4 Hungarian and Italian, 3 English and Yugoslavian, 2 Romanian and German, and one Scottish, Irish and Dutch coaches each worked in the National Team.

RECORDS HAVE FATIH TERIM

The National Football Team played the most matches in its 103-year history during the Fatih Terim period.

A total of 135 matches were played under the management of Fatih Terim, who served as the head of the crescent-star team in the periods of 1990, 1993-1996, 2005-2009 and 2013-2017.

Türkiye also had the most wins in its history during Fatih Terim's coaching period. Under Terim's management, the national team played 135 matches and won 70 of them, one of which was by default.

ONE MATCH TECHNICIANS

There are also coaches who have played only one match in the history of the national team.

Ali Sami Yen (1923), Nicolae Petrescu (1971), Gündüz Kılıç (1954), Şeref Görkey (1962), Şükrü Gülesin (1969) and Ünal Karaman (2004) took the field at the head of the star and crescent team in only one national competition.

THE TERM, DENİZLİ AND THE SOLAR PERIOD

Three Turkish coaches working in the National Football Team achieved great success.

While Turkey participated in the European Championship finals (EURO 1996) for the first time in its history during the Fatih Terim period, it also succeeded in playing in the semi-finals in EURO 2008.

The national team also played in the quarter finals of EURO 2000 during the reign of Mustafa Denizli.

Şenol Güneş, who took over the flag from Denizli, carried the national team to the FIFA World Cup finals after 48 years, and the third place in the world and the third place in the FIFA Confederations Cup went down in golden letters in the history of Turkish football.

Although Güneş started his second term in the national team, which lasted 2.5 years, well, he left his position after failing to achieve the desired results in EURO 2020 and subsequently in the 2022 FIFA World Cup Qualifiers. The national team, which caused a great disappointment to football fans by losing all their matches in EURO 2020 under Güneş management, could not deliver what was expected in the matches they played in the 2022 FIFA World Cup Qualifiers.

FIRST RISE AND THEN FALL WITH MONTELLA

Vincenzo Montella took office in the national team in 2023, after Stefan Kuntz. Many important successes were achieved with Montella.

During the Montella period, which started with an away win against Croatia, the National Team played in the quarter-finals of the 2024 European Football Championship (EURO 2024), gained the right to participate in the World Cup after 24 years and was promoted to the UEFA Nations A League for the first time in its history.

After these successes, the star and crescent team could not get out of the group in the 2026 World Cup, which they participated in years later, and lost the first 4 matches they played in the UEFA Nations A League, which started afterwards. Following these results, he parted ways with Montella.