Özkan Sümer

Özkan Sümer (20 November 1940 – 22 December 2020) was a Turkish footballer, manager, and president of Trabzonspor (2001–2003). He played as a defender for Trabzonspor (and later coached the same club), Galatasaray SK, and the Turkey national football team.

Özkan Sümer

Personal information
Full name	Özkan Sümer
Date of birth	(1940-11-20)20 November 1940
Place of birth	Maçka, Trabzon Province, Turkey
Date of death	22 December 2020(2020-12-22) (aged 80)
Place of death	Ortahisar, Trabzon, Turkey
Position(s)	Defender
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
	Trabzonspor
	Kardemir Karabükspor
	Akçaabat Sebatspor
1967–1970	Trabzonspor
Managerial career
1978–1981	Trabzonspor
1981	Turkey
1982–1983	Galatasaray SK
1984–1985	Trabzonspor
1990–1991	Trabzonspor
1998	Trabzonspor
2000–2001	Mobellaspor
* Club domestic league appearances and goals

Career

Footballer

Sümer was born in Maçka and started to play football in his home town's club of Trabzonspor. After some time at Kardemir Karabükspor and Akçaabat Sebatspor, Sümer rejoined Trabzonspor. He was a successful defender of his team. During this time, he earned the nickname Deve Özkan due to his tallness and stubborn rough playing temperament.

Manager

After having ended his playing career, Sümer served as an instructor for a while at the TFF. He coached later the youth and amateur squads of Trabzonspor before he was appointed manager of the main team in 1978.

Trabzonspor became Turkish 1st football league champion with Sümer as manager in the seasons 1978–79 and 1980–81. In 1981, he was appointed manager of the Turkey national football team. The national team played two matches under his managership losing both. He then transferred to coach Galatasaray SK in the 1982–83 season. Sümer was manager again at Trabzonspor in the seasons 1984–85, 1990–91 and 1998. In the season 2000–01, he coached Mobellaspor, a TFF Second League club in Konya.^[1]

Club president

In 2001, Sümer was elected president of Trabzonspor succeeding Mehmet Ali Yılmaz.^[2] He resigned from this post on 5 September 2003 in protest against a resolution made by the Ombudsman Board of the TFF that lifted a ban against Fenerbahçe concluded before the he after of Trabzonspor SK president in Atay Aktuğ.^[3]

Coordinator

From 22 July 2006 Sümer served as the regional coordinator for education at Trabzonspor.^[4]

In 2007, he co-founded the women's football branch of Trabzonspor along with Zeliha Şimşek, a former KTÜ women's club footballer only six weeks before the beginning of the football season. The team was invited to join the Turkish Women's Football Premier League in its first season of 2007–08. Trabzonspor women became league champion already the next season.^[5]

Death

Sümer died 22 December 2020, at the age of 80, at KTÜ Farabi Hospital, where he had been receiving cancer treatment. He was funeral prayer of İskenderpaşa Mosque and buried in the family cemetery in Maçka.

Honors

As manager

• Trabzonspor^[6]
  • Turkish Super League
    • champion 1978–79, 1980–81
  • President's Cup
    • winner 1978–79
  • Prime Minister's Cup
    • winner 1984–85 with İlyas Akçay
• Galatasaray
  • Türkiye Kupası: 1981–82

As club president

• Trabzonspor^[7]
  • Turkish Cup
    • winner 2002–03