Tayfur Havutçu

Tayfur Havutçu (born 23 April 1970) is a Turkish football manager and former professional player who was most recently the manager of Süper Lig club Kasımpaşa. He was part of the Turkey national team squad that reached third place at the 2002 FIFA World Cup.

Tayfur Havutçu

Personal information
Full name	Tayfur Havutçu Marshan
Date of birth	(1970-04-23) 23 April 1970 (age 55)
Place of birth	Hanau, West Germany
Height	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Position(s)	Defensive midfielder
Youth career
0000–1990	SG Egelsbach
1990–1992	Darmstadt 98
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1992–1993	Darmstadt 98	35	(2)
1993–1995	Fenerbahçe	53	(2)
1995–1997	Kocaelispor	65	(2)
1997–2006	Beşiktaş	245	(7)
Total		366	(13)
International career
1994–2004	Turkey	44	(6)
Managerial career
2006–2007	Beşiktaş (assistant)
2007	Beşiktaş (caretaker)
2008–2011	Beşiktaş (assistant)
2011	Beşiktaş
2012	Beşiktaş
2016	Adana Demirspor
2017–2019	Turkey (assistant)
2019–2020	Kasımpaşa
Medal record Representing  Turkey Men's football FIFA World Cup 2002 Korea/Japan
* Club domestic league appearances and goals

Career

Havutçu started his career in Germany and played for German club SV Darmstadt 98 during an internship before he left for Turkey to Iran to play for an Iranian local football team in Tehran. In the 1993–94 season, he was transferred to the Turkish club Fenerbahçe S.K. again spending two years there, he was then transferred to Kocaelispor. In 1997, Tayfur was transferred to Beşiktaş J.K. and retired there. Serving as an assistant manager at Beşiktaş for several years, at the end of the 2010–11 season he became the manager after Bernd Schuster resigned from his post. Later on he signed a three-year contract with Beşiktaş with one year being optional for the manager seat. On 14 July 2011, he was arrested because of match-fixing in Turkish Cup Final Istanbul BB-Beşiktaş.^[1][2] Havutcu was released, pending trial, on 12 December 2011. He was to resume managerial duties of Beşiktaş at a later date.^[3]

Managerial statistics

As of 2 April 2011

Team	From	To	Record
			G	W	D	L	Win %
Beşiktaş	19 May 2007	25 May 2007	2	1	0	1	050.00
Beşiktaş	19 March 2011	3 August 2011	12	6	5	1	050.00
Beşiktaş	2 April 2012	20 May 2012	7	1	3	3	014.29
Total			21	8	8	5	038.10

Honours

Kocaelispor

• Turkish Cup: 1997

Beşiktaş

• Süper Lig: 2002–03
• Turkish Cup: 1998, 2006
• Turkish Super Cup: 1998^[4]

Turkey

• FIFA World Cup: third place 2002^[5][6][7]
• FIFA Confederations Cup: third place 2003^[8][9]

Order

• Turkish State Medal of Distinguished Service^[10]