Erol Bulut

Erol Bulut — Biography

Erol Bulut is a German-born Turkish football manager and former left-back. As a player he won league titles with Fenerbahçe and Olympiacos; as a coach he stood out for taking Alanyaspor to a cup final and into European qualifying, and went on to manage Fenerbahçe and the Welsh club Cardiff City, which plays in the English league. His last post was Antalyaspor.

He began at Eintracht Frankfurt in 1992 and moved to Fenerbahçe in 1995, making 110 league appearances and winning the 1995-96 title. He had loan spells at Trabzonspor and Adanaspor, then played for Panionios, Bursaspor and 1860 München. At Olympiacos, which he joined in 2005, he won the Greek Super League in 2006 and 2007. After promotions with OFI and Veria in Greece he retired in 2012. He also played for Turkey's futsal national team.

He started coaching in 2012 as an assistant at Kartalspor. In 2017 he took his first head-coach job at Yeni Malatyaspor, kept the club in the top flight and led it to the Turkish Cup semi-final in 2018-19. With Alanyaspor he finished fifth in 2019-20 and reached the cup final. He coached Fenerbahçe in 2020-21 until March 2021, then Gaziantep FK (2021-2023) and Cardiff City (2023-2024), where he beat Swansea City 2-0. In October 2025 he signed a two-year deal with Antalyaspor and parted ways with the club that December.