Fatih Tekke
Fatih Tekke playing for Trabzonspor in 2005
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Fatih Tekke | ||
| Date of birth | 9 September 1977 | ||
| Place of birth | Köprübaşı, Trabzon, Turkey | ||
| Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||
| Playing position | Striker | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1994–2000 | Trabzonspor | 83 | (12) |
| 1997–1998 | → Altay (loan) | 24 | (8) |
| 2000–2002 | Gaziantepspor | 57 | (28) |
| 2002–2006 | Trabzonspor | 114 | (77) |
| 2006–2010 | Zenit Saint Petersburg | 73 | (24) |
| 2010 | Rubin Kazan | 5 | (0) |
| 2010–2011 | Beşiktaş | 2 | (0) |
| 2011 | Ankaragücü | 5 | (3) |
| 2011–2012 | Orduspor | 15 | (3) |
| National team‡ | |||
| 1998–2007 | Turkey | 25 | (9) |
| Teams managed | |||
| 2015 | Kayseri Erciyesspor | ||
| 2016 | Boluspor | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 9 October 2015. ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 20 August 2010 |
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Fatih Tekke (born 9 September, 1977 in Köprübaşı) is a Turkish former international footballer who played as a striker.
Tekke was born in the small town of Köprübaşı, in the province of Trabzon. He joined Trabzonspor, the major team in the area. Tekke was still in his teens when he started to appear in the first team. In 45 matches that he played between 1994–1997, he scored 6 goals. At the beginning of the 1997–1998 season he was loaned out to Altay SK of İzmir, where he scored 8 goals in 24 matches. In a 4–5 defeat to Galatasaray, he scored a hat-trick. However a few weeks later he broke his leg and was out of the game for six months. Upon his return to Trabzonspor, Tekke played another 38 matches and scored 6 goals before he transferred to Gaziantepspor in the summer of 2000. In this period he made his first appearance for the Turkish national team.
In 2002, Tekke returned to Trabzonspor and was given the captaincy. This was the time Tekke reached the peak of his career. In the 2004–2005 season he managed to become the league's top goal scorer with 31 goals, 7 goals ahead of the second placed player and was second for the Golden Foot. In the Turkish national team he won two medals for winning cups.
In July 2006, he signed for Zenit St. Petersburg. On 6 August 2006, Tekke scored on his debut for the club, as he came off the bench against Shinnik Yaroslavl and scored the only goal of the game for his team to win 1–0. Tekke scored the winning goal in the UEFA Cup group stage in a 3–2 victory over AE Larissa. He assisted the second in the 2008 UEFA Cup Final win over Rangers. On 21 October 2008, Tekke scored in the 1–1 draw with BATE Borisov in the Champions League. On 3 February 2010, Tekke signed a 3-year contract with FC Rubin Kazan. He only played five games before he decided to return to Turkey, transferring to Beşiktaş.
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