Murat Salar

Hikmet Murat Salar (born 23 November 1976^[1]) is a Turkish former professional footballer and currently manager of VSG Altglienicke.

Murat Salar

Personal information
Full name	Hikmet Murat Salar
Date of birth	(1976-11-23) 23 November 1976 (age 48)
Place of birth	Hildesheim, West Germany
Height	1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Position(s)	Attacking midfielder
Team information
Current team	VSG Altglienicke (manager)
Youth career
1991–1994	Werder Bremen
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1994–1996	Werder Bremen II
1996–1998	Bursaspor	0	(0)
1996–1997	→ Balıkesirspor (loan)	14	(3)
1998–2000	Hertha BSC II
2000	Gaziantepspor	6	(0)
2001–2002	Türkiyemspor Berlin
2002–2003	Gençlerbirliği	16	(1)
2003–2004	Diyarbakırspor	23	(3)
2004–2005	Tennis Borussia Berlin	26	(2)
2005	Çaykur Rizespor	4	(0)
2006	Altay	6	(0)
2006–2007	Adana Demirspor	32	(6)
2007	Orduspor	0	(0)
2007–2008	Tarsus Idman Yurdu	19	(1)
2008–2011	VfV Borussia 06 Hildesheim	66	(23)
2011	FC Oberneuland	14	(6)
International career
1994	Turkey U-18	4	(0)
Managerial career
2014–2015	KFC Uerdingen 05
2016–2019	SV Arminia Hannover
2019	TSC Vahdet Braunschweig
2019–2021	SV Newroz Hildesheim
2023	CFC Hertha 06
2023–	VSG Altglienicke
* Club domestic league appearances and goals

Salar, born to an Egyptian mother and Turkish father in Germany,^[2] played a total of 49 Süper Lig games throughout his footballing career in Turkey. Despite having won 4 caps for the Turkish U-18 team in 1994, Salar later expressed an interest in playing for the Egyptian national side.^[2]

Managerial career

On 22 April 2014, Salar was named new manager of German club KFC Uerdingen 05.^[3] He also continued to play for TSC Vahdet Braunschweig in the sixth-tier Landesliga Braunschweig.^[4] With the club facing relegation from the 2014–15 Regionalliga he was sacked as Uerdingen manager on 18 May 2015.^[5]

In April 2016 he was named new manager of SV Arminia Hannover.^[6]

In September 2019 he became manager of TSC Vahdet Braunschweig, but he left the club again in December 2019.^[7] He left in order to become manager of SV Newroz Hildesheim.^[8]

Salar left SV Newroz in July 2021. In September 2023 he was announced as new manager of CFC Hertha 06.^[9] Two months later he left the club in order to become new manager of VSG Altglienicke.^[10]