Levent Şahin

Levent Şahin — Biography

Levent Şahin has spent most of his career as a youth coach and assistant coach, working alongside Fatih Terim with the Turkey national team, at Galatasaray and at Al Shabab. His most recent post was head coach of Süper Lig club Gençlerbirliği, appointed on February 16, 2026, and parted from on March 6, 2026. Born in Edremit, he played at amateur level for Yeni Yolspor and Şekerbank Ankara.

He began coaching in 2000-2002 in the youth setup of MKE Ankaragücü. In the years that followed he held various roles at Hacettepe, Kahramanmaraşspor, Keçiörengücü, Ankaraspor, Çaykur Rizespor, Bursaspor and Gençlerbirliği. His first job as head coach came in October 2009 at the Second League side Bugsaşspor; when his contract ended in May 2010 he went back to Ankaragücü. From April 2012 he worked as a physical performance and analysis coach with Turkey's A2, under-17 and under-16 teams, and in June 2016 he joined the senior national team staff under Terim. Alongside that role he took charge of Süper Lig club Adanaspor and left the post in April 2017.

In December 2017 he became Terim's assistant at Galatasaray, a post that ended in the summer of 2021 together with Ümit Davala. In February 2023 he took over Second League side İskenderunspor. The following season he agreed to join Al Shabab in Saudi Arabia as Terim's assistant and left at the end of the season. His 2026 spell at Gençlerbirliği was his second head coach job in the Süper Lig.