| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Özkan Sümer | ||
| Date of birth | (1940-11-20)20 November 1940 | ||
| Place of birth | Maçka,Trabzon Province, Turkey | ||
| Date of death | 22 December 2020(2020-12-22) (aged 80) | ||
| Place of death | Ortahisar,Trabzon, Turkey | ||
| Position | Defender | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| Trabzonspor | |||
| Kardemir Karabükspor | |||
| Akçaabat Sebatspor | |||
| 1967–1970 | Trabzonspor | ||
| Managerial career | |||
| 1978–1981 | Trabzonspor | ||
| 1981 | Turkey | ||
| 1982–1983 | Galatasaray SK | ||
| 1984–1985 | Trabzonspor | ||
| 1990–1991 | Trabzonspor | ||
| 1998 | Trabzonspor | ||
| 2000–2001 | Mobellaspor | ||
| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Özkan Sümer (20 November 1940 – 22 December 2020) was a Turkishfootballer,manager, andpresident ofTrabzonspor (2001–2003). He played as adefender for Trabzonspor (and later coached the same club),Galatasaray SK, and theTurkey national football team.
Sümer was born inMaçka and started to play football in his home town's club of Trabzonspor. After some time atKardemir Karabükspor andAkçaabat Sebatspor, Sümer rejoined Trabzonspor. He was a successful defender of his team. During this time, he earned the nicknameDeve Özkan due to his tallness and stubborn rough playing temperament.
After having ended his playing career, Sümer served as an instructor for a while at theTFF. He coached later the youth and amateur squads of Trabzonspor before he was appointed manager of the main team in 1978.
Trabzonspor becameTurkish 1st football league champion with Sümer as manager in the seasons 1978–79 and 1980–81. In 1981, he was appointed manager of theTurkey national football team. The national team played two matches under his managership losing both. He then transferred to coachGalatasaray SK in the 1982–83 season. Sümer was manager again at Trabzonspor in the seasons 1984–85, 1990–91 and 1998. In the season 2000–01, he coachedMobellaspor, aTFF Second League club inKonya.[1]
In 2001, Sümer was elected president of Trabzonspor succeedingMehmet Ali Yılmaz.[2] He resigned from this post on 5 September 2003 in protest against a resolution made by the Ombudsman Board of the TFF that lifted a ban againstFenerbahçe concluded before the he after of Trabzonspor SK president inAtay Aktuğ.[3]
From 22 July 2006 Sümer served as the regional coordinator for education at Trabzonspor.[4]
In 2007, he co-founded thewomen's football branch of Trabzonspor along withZeliha Şimşek, a formerKTÜ women's club footballer only six weeks before the beginning of the football season. The team was invited to join the Turkish Women's Football Premier League in its first season of 2007–08. Trabzonspor women became league champion already the next season.[5]
Sümer died 22 December 2020, at the age of 80, atKTÜ Farabi Hospital, where he had been receiving cancer treatment. He wasfuneral prayer ofİskenderpaşa Mosque and buried in the family cemetery in Maçka.