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Yusuf Köklü
Galatasaray performance coach and Pamukkale University professor of coaching education.
Life and work
The story behind the role.
Yusuf Köklü is an athletic performance coach listed in Galatasaray’s senior football staff. The Turkish Football Federation’s coaching register documents successive Galatasaray appointments beginning in August 2022, including a contract running from August 2026 to June 2027.
His federation record also lists athletic performance work with Erzurumspor in 2018–19 and 2020, Denizlispor in 2019–20, and an earlier youth development coaching appointment at Hacettepe Spor in 2005–06.
Yusuf Köklü combines applied football conditioning with an academic career in sport science. Galatasaray lists him as an athletic performance coach, while Pamukkale University identifies him as a professor in its Faculty of Sport Sciences, specialising in movement and training sciences.
His education comprises undergraduate study at Hacettepe University from 2000 to 2005, a master’s at Pamukkale from 2006 to 2008 and a doctorate at Ankara University from 2008 to 2011. Pamukkale records his appointment as professor in 2019.
TFF records earlier coaching work with Hacettepe Spor’s youth development in 2005–06, Erzurumspor in 2018–19 and 2020, and Denizlispor in 2019–20. His Galatasaray athletic-performance appointments begin in August 2022.
Career record
- 01
Official role: Athletic Performance Coach of Senior Football Team.
- 02
Appointed professor at Pamukkale University in 2019
Career and education
Teams and organisations
Galatasaray SK · Erzurumspor FK · Denizlispor · Hacettepe Spor · Pamukkale University · Hacettepe University · Ankara University · Erzurumspor
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