Ramazan Kurşunlu

Ramazan Kurşunlu — Biography

Ramazan Kurşunlu was born on July 7, 1981, in İzmir and played as a goalkeeper. He began playing football with Altay at age seven, spent twelve years in the club's youth system, and was promoted to the first-team goal in 2000. He moved to Beşiktaş for the 2003-04 season, impressing manager Vicente del Bosque enough to take over from Óscar Córdoba, but dropped to third-choice goalkeeper once Rıza Çalımbay took charge and signed Volkan Ünlü, and he spent that season on the bench. He went on loan to Diyarbakırspor midway through 2005-06, then to Ankaraspor during 2006-07, before being sent to that club outright at season's end as part of the deal. He joined Karşıyaka in 2009 and Çaykur Rizespor in 2010-11; once his contract there ended in 2011-12 he signed with Adana Demirspor, before returning to his youth club Altay in 2013-14. He was also capped by Turkey at under-21 level.

After retiring, Kurşunlu began his coaching career as a goalkeeper coach at Manisa Büyükşehir Belediyespor, then held the same role at Çaykur Rizespor in 2017 and Alanyaspor in 2018, before taking his first head-coaching job at 2. Lig side Bandırmaspor in December 2018. In 2019 he managed newly promoted 1. Lig club Menemenspor, resigning after five rounds, and was appointed manager of Balıkesirspor later that year. He took charge of Altay in 2025 and resigned that September.