Serkan Atak

Serkan Atak — Biography

Serkan Atak is a German-Turkish footballer who came up through Bayern Munich's youth system, returned to Turkey and played in Turkish leagues, mostly as a midfielder, from the mid-2000s until 2020. He won the second-tier title with Gençlerbirliği OFTAŞ; after retiring as a player he moved into coaching and, as of December 2025, works as an assistant coach at MKE Ankaragücü.

Born into a working family in Kösching, near Ingolstadt, he left the FC Ingolstadt 04 youth ranks after catching the eye of Bayern's scouts. After five seasons in Bayern's youth system he spent a season with the reserve side in the Regionalliga. He played 19 times for Turkey's under-17, under-18, under-21 and Olympic sides and was in the squad that took silver at the 2005 Mediterranean Games. In 2005-06 he moved to Gaziantepspor and was loaned out to Gaziantep Belediyespor after half a season; he then joined Gençlerbirliği OFTAŞ, quickly became one of the team's key players and in 2006-07 helped take the club up to the Süper Lig as second-tier champions. He stayed three seasons in the Süper Lig, the last when the club played as Hacettepespor.

He then moved to Çaykur Rizespor, who missed promotion after losing a play-off to Orduspor in his first season there. He joined Kayseri Erciyesspor in 2011. His career also took in Antalyaspor, Boluspor and Osmanlıspor; he signed for Denizlispor in 2015, third-tier Bugsaşspor in early 2017 and Ankaraspor in 2018, and returned to Denizlispor in 2020.