Tamer Tuna

Tamer Tuna — Biography

Tamer Tuna was born on July 1, 1976, in Hanak, Ardahan, and is a retired Turkish national footballer and football manager who played as a midfielder. He started out in Galatasaray's youth system and signed a professional contract in 1994; unable to break into the first team, he spent a season on loan at Petrolofisi, and when still not deemed ready on his return he transferred to Denizlispor at the start of the 1995-96 season. He went on to play for İstanbulspor, Bursaspor, Samsunspor, Trabzonspor, Gaziantepspor and Beşiktaş, as well as Akhmat Grozny in Russia, and won 17 caps for Turkey's under-21 team plus a single senior cap.

After retiring as a player he turned to coaching, gaining his first experience as a youth coach at Çanakkale Dardanelspor in the 2010-11 season before being made the club's head coach in May 2011 and leading it to promotion between 2011 and 2013. From 2013 to 2015 he served as an assistant to Sergen Yalçın at Gaziantepspor and Sivasspor, and in 2015 he was an assistant to Şenol Güneş at Beşiktaş.

In 2017 Göztepe president Mehmet Sepil appointed him head coach, and he led the club back to the Süper Lig after 14 years; he left Göztepe in May 2018 and, after returning to the club, resigned in October 2019. He subsequently coached Sivasspor and, from January 2020, Antalyaspor, both spells ending by mutual agreement. He took charge of Bursaspor in December 2021 and parted ways with the club by mutual agreement on March 7, 2022, together with assistant Şakir Özkayımoğlu.