Ahmet Sağlam

Ahmet Sağlam — Biography

Ahmet Sağlam is a German-Turkish defender who was born in Germany and began his professional career in Turkey. He came through the academy of Bayer 04 Leverkusen, one of Germany's long-established clubs. His most notable achievement came with Göztepe in 2010-11, when the team, in his first season with the senior side, won the Second League title and earned promotion to the First League. He has since ended his playing career.

He grew up in Bonn as the child of a Turkish working family and took his first football steps in the Leverkusen academy. Like many Turkish players raised in Europe, he decided to try his luck in Turkey as a young man. In 2006-07 he joined Bursa Beylerbeyi and made his first official appearance on November 5, 2006, in a Third League match against Kastamonuspor. After a season there he played one season each at Eyüpspor and Eskişehirspor; for Eskişehirspor he made five Süper Lig appearances in 2008-09. Fethiyespor was another of his stops. After the title with Göztepe he was loaned to the Second League side Turgutluspor for 2011-12.

He spent the last part of his career in Germany, playing as a defender for VfB Oldenburg. In the summer of 2019 he left Oldenburg to join SV Straelen, but a few days after arriving he suffered a broken tibia, never played for the club and had his contract terminated at the end of the year.