Ramazan Yıldırım

Ramazan Yıldırım (born 7 September 1975) is a former footballer^[1] and manager. Born in Germany, he is of Turkish descent.

Ramazan Yıldırım

Personal information
Date of birth	(1975-09-07) September 7, 1975 (age 49)
Place of birth	Peine, West Germany
Position(s)	Defensive Midfielder
Youth career
	MTV Peine
	Arminia Vöhrum
1990–1993	Eintracht Braunschweig
1993–1994	VfL Wolfsburg
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1994–1996	TuS Celle FC	54	(8)
1996–1998	Sportfreunde Ricklingen	58	(5)
1998–2001	VfB Lübeck	80	(4)
2001–2003	SSV Jahn Regensburg	46	(5)
2003–2005	Rot-Weiss Essen	59	(5)
2005–2007	Kickers Offenbach	39	(0)
2007–2009	Eintracht Braunschweig	36	(0)
Total		372	(27)
Managerial career
2009–2011	Eintracht Braunschweig (youth)
2011	Rot-Weiss Essen II
2011–2012	VfB Lübeck
2013–2014	Sportfreunde Lotte
* Club domestic league appearances and goals

Career

As a player, Yıldırım spent three seasons in the 2. Bundesliga with Rot-Weiss Essen and Kickers Offenbach, as well as one season in the 3. Liga with Eintracht Braunschweig.

Coaching career

After retiring as a player Yıldırım became a youth coach at Eintracht Braunschweig. He was sacked by the club in January 2011^[2] and subsequently took over Rot-Weiss Essen's reserve side in the summer of 2011. During the winter break of the 2011–12 season, Yıldırım was then appointed as manager of Regionalliga Nord side VfB Lübeck.^[3] He was released by Lübeck in December 2012.^[4] On 28 June 2013 he was appointed manager of Sportfreunde Lotte.^[5] He left the club on 3 January 2014.^[6]

Managerial record

As of 4 January 2014

Team	From	To	Record
			G	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Win %
Rot-Weiss Essen II	8 July 2011	13 December 2011[3]	16	9	1	6	48	21	+27	056.25
VfB Lübeck	13 December 2011[3]	19 December 2012[4]	39	12	7	20	39	50	−11	030.77
Sportfreunde Lotte	28 June 2013[5]	3 January 2014[6]	19	11	6	2	35	12	+23	057.89
Totals			74	32	14	28	122	83	+39	043.24