Saffet Sancaklı

Saffet Sancaklı
Member of the Grand National Assembly
Incumbent
Assumed office 23 June 2015
Constituency	Kocaeli (June 2015, Nov 2015, 2018, 2023)
Personal details
Born	(1966-02-27) 27 February 1966 Tutin, SR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia
Political party	Nationalist Movement Party
Height	1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)
Association football career Position(s) Centre forward Youth career 1983–1985 Kültürspor Senior career* Years Team Apps (Gls) 1985–1987 Vefa SK 1987–1991 Beşiktaş 25 (4) 1988–1989 → Eskişehirspor (loan) 30 (11) 1989–1990 → Konyaspor (loan) 24 (10) 1990–1991 → Sarıyer G.K. (loan) 10 (0) 1991–1994 Kocaelispor 88 (63) 1994–1995 Galatasaray 43 (30) 1996 Kocaelispor 19 (14) 1996–1998 Fenerbahçe 58 (21) 1998–1999 Konyaspor 16 (8) International career 1988 Turkey U21 1 (0) 1992–1996 Turkey 23 (6) *Club domestic league appearances and goals

Saffet Sancaklı (Serbian Cyrillic: Сафет Санџакли, romanized: Safet Sandžakli; born 27 February 1966) is a Turkish former international footballer and current politician. He is a deputy of Nationalist Movement Party, representing city of Kocaeli.

Club career

Sancaklı scored 130 goals in Süper Lig with different teams. He is third player (after Refik Osman Top and Ali Soydan) who played at the Big Three of Turkey, Beşiktaş (1987–1988), Galatasaray (1994–1995) and Fenerbahçe (1996–1998). He also played for Kültürspor (1983–1985), Vefa SK (1985–1987), Eskişehirspor (1988–1989, on loan), Sarıyer (1990–1991), Kocaelispor (1991–1994 and 1995–1996) and Konyaspor (1989–1990, on loan and 1998–1999).

International career

Sancaklı played for Turkey national football team (23 matches with 6 goals) and was a participant at the 1996 UEFA European Championship.

Post-football career

After retiring football, he went into politics from Nationalist Movement Party. He ran for deputyship from İstanbul in Turkish general elections in 2011 and ran for mayor of Kocaeli metropolitan municipality in Turkish local elections in 2014, but was successful in neither. He was finally elected as deputy from Kocaeli in the Turkish general elections of June 2015, and reelected in the November 2015 Turkish general election.

External links

• Sancaklı Management
• Saffet Sancaklı – FIFA competition record (archived)
• http://www.tff.org/Default.aspx?pageId=526&kisiId=22020