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.

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. Havutcu was released, pending trial, on 12 December 2011. He was to resume managerial duties of Beşiktaş at a later date.

Managerial statistics

Honours Kocaelispor Turkish Cup: 1997

Beşiktaş Süper Lig: 2002–03 Turkish Cup: 1998, 2006 Turkish Super Cup: 1998

Turkey FIFA World Cup: third place 2002 FIFA Confederations Cup: third place 2003

Order Turkish State Medal of Distinguished Service