Ahmet Dursun

Ahmet Dursun — Biography

Ahmet Dursun is a German-born former forward remembered for his goalscoring years in a Beşiktaş shirt. A dual Turkish-German citizen, he made his name in 1999-2000 by scoring 21 goals in 30 league matches for Beşiktaş, and won the league with the team in 2002-03. Today he works as a football pundit, talking on television and in the sports press about the Süper Lig, and especially about Beşiktaş.

He started football in Germany at SG Wattenscheid 09 and moved to Kocaelispor in 1996, winning his first trophy, the Turkish Cup, that season. In his first home league match for Beşiktaş he scored a hat-trick against Samsunspor, and in September 2000 he scored twice in the Champions League game in which they beat Barcelona 3-0. In the 2002-03 title season he scored 8 goals in 23 matches and added 3 in the UEFA Cup, in which the team reached the quarter-finals. In December 2003 the club terminated his contract on disciplinary grounds; he then spent a short time in China at Tianjin Teda. In 2004-05 he played for İstanbulspor and again for Beşiktaş, and lifted the Turkish Cup in 2005. In later years he turned out for Etimesgut Şekerspor, Antalyaspor, Ankaragücü, Kocaelispor again (a 1. Lig title), Hazar Lankaran in Azerbaijan, Adanaspor and Eyüpspor.

He ended his professional career in 2014, returned as an amateur in 2016, and left football for good after playing for Tokatspor in 2018. He represented the youth national teams and then the senior national team.