Murat Salar

Murat Salar — Biography

Hikmet Murat Salar, known as Murat Salar, is a forward born in Germany who played in both Turkey and Germany. After his playing days he turned to coaching, most recently at VSG Altglienicke. In Turkey he played 49 matches in the Süper Lig.

His professional career began in 1994 at SV Werder Bremen II, and over the following years he moved back and forth between the two countries. He played for clubs such as Bursaspor, Gaziantepspor, Gençlerbirliği, Çaykur Rizespor and Adana Demirspor in Turkey, and for Hertha BSC II, Türkiyemspor Berlin, Tennis Borussia Berlin, VfV Borussia 06 Hildesheim and FC Oberneuland in Germany. In 1994 he won 4 caps for the Turkish under-18 national team and scored his only goal for them against Romania on October 6, 1994; in later years he also expressed an interest in playing for the Egyptian national team.

He entered management on April 22, 2014, as head coach of KFC Uerdingen 05, while still playing for TSC Vahdet Braunschweig in the sixth-tier Landesliga Braunschweig. With Uerdingen facing relegation from the 2014-15 Regionalliga, he was dismissed on May 18, 2015. In April 2016 he was named head coach of SV Arminia Hannover. In September 2019 he became head coach of TSC Vahdet Braunschweig and then of SV Newroz Hildesheim, which he left in July 2021. In September 2023 he took over CFC Hertha 06 and two months later moved on to VSG Altglienicke.