Rıza Çalımbay

Rıza Çalımbay (born 2 February 1963) is a Turkish football manager and former player who is currently the manager of Sivasspor. He was one of the symbol names of Beşiktaş and was among the best players of his time. Because of his determination and hard work he was nicknamed Atom Ant (in Turkish, "Atom Karınca").

Rıza Çalımbay
Personal information
Full name Rıza Çalımbay
Date of birth (1963-02-02) 2 February 1963
Place of birth Sivas, Turkey
Height 1.72 m (5 ft 7 1⁄2 in)
Position(s) Winger
Club information
Current team
 Sivasspor (Manager)
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1980–1996 Beşiktaş 494 (43)
Total 494 (43)
National team
1980–1981 Turkey U18 6 (0)
1981–1984 Turkey U21 8 (0)
1981–1992 Turkey 38 (1)
Teams managed
2001 Göztepe
2002–2003 Denizlispor
2003–2004 MKE Ankaragücü
2004–2005 Çaykur Rizespor
2005 Beşiktaş
2005–2006 Ankaraspor
2007 Çaykur Rizespor
2008–2010 Eskişehirspor
2010–2013 Sivasspor
2013–2014 Çaykur Rizespor
2014–2015 Mersin İdmanyurdu
2015–2016 Kasımpaşa
2016–2017 Antalyaspor
2017–2018 Trabzonspor
2018 Konyaspor
2019– Sivasspor
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Career

Playing career

Born in Sivas, Turkey, Çalımbay started playing football in Beşiktaş academy. He debuted with the Beşiktaş first team in 1980–81 season. Until his retirement in 1995–96 season., he played only for Beşiktaş, and for the Turkey national football team, although he played in the UNICEF-world team against Germany and caught the eye of many clubs like Marseille but Çalımbay would not leave Beşiktaş. He played 494 league games for Beşiktaş and scored 43 goals. He is the most capped player for Beşiktaş. He was also the captain of the team. He also played 38 times for Turkey.[1]

Managerial career

After retiring from football, Çalımbay took manager courses in England. In 2001, he became the assistant manager for Christoph Daum at Beşiktaş but after a short time he resigned, and became the manager of Göztepe, Denizlispor and Çaykur Rizespor. He was especially successful at Denizlispor, leading the team to latter stages in the 2002–03 UEFA Cup season eliminating teams like Sparta Prague and the mighty Olympique Lyonnais side of Paul Le Guen. The Porto side of José Mourinho ended the UEFA Cup dreams of Denizlispor and Çalımbay after an 8–3 win on aggregate. In 2004–05 season, he became the manager of Beşiktaş after Vicente Del Bosque was sacked. That season Beşiktaş was having really bad results and the squad was in a bad mood. But after Çalımbay took control the team started to perform really well. Çalımbay changed the system back to a 3–5–2 formation the usual formation and began playing good football he also picked a 4–3 win over rivals Fenerbahçe in the Şükrü Saracoğlu Stadium. However in the 2005–06 season, Beşiktaş was performing bad once again, Despite 2005–06 UEFA Cup wins against FC Vaduz and Malmö FF a 1–2 home defeat by Fenerbahçe took the coach into troubled waters. Çalımbay resigned in the 9th week after a 0–0 draw against Kayserispor. Jean Tigana became the manager of Beşiktaş after him. He then coached Ankaraspor but resigned after a few matches. Çalımbay signed a 1.5 year contract with again Çaykur Rizespor, although he had options to coach abroad in Iran and Germany but he chose Çaykur Rizespor. He then coached respectively Eskişehirspor, Sivasspor, Çaykur Rizespor, Mersin İdmanyurdu and Kasımpaşa. On 10 October 2016 he signed a 2 year deal with Antalyaspor.[2][3]

Career statistics

Player
As of 7 May 2017[4][5]

Club
Club Season League Cup[nb 1] Europe[nb 2] Total
Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Beşiktaş 1980–81 13040––170
1981–82 32180––401
1982–83 34110020462
1983–84 310130––440
1984–85 32211110443
1985–86 369101––4610
1986–87 361053414514
1987–88 3667020456
1988–89 33312120474
1989–90 3435120424
1990–91 3055020375
1991–92 3016020381
1992–93 2909220402
1993–94 2919040421
1994–95 3214040401
1995–96 2704020330
Total 49443122929164553
Career total 49443122929464553

International
Turkey national team
YearAppsGoals
198110
198230
198330
198410
198510
198750
198920
199050
1991101
199270
Total381

International goals
#DateVenueOpponentGoalsResultCompetition
113 November 1991BJK İnönü Stadium, Republic of Ireland1–11–3UEFA Euro 1992 qualifying

Career totals
Professional career totals
Teams Appearances Goals Goals per game
Clubs 645 53 0.08
National team 038 01 0.03
Total 683 54 0.08

Manager
As of 18 May 2018
Team Nat From To Record
G W D L Win %
Göztepe 15 June 2001 19 December 2001 19 7 6 6 036.84
Denizlispor 3 January 2002 28 April 2003 58 21 16 21 036.21
Ankaragücü 17 November 2003 31 May 2004 24 10 4 10 041.67
Rizespor 3 August 2004 28 January 2005 19 9 5 5 047.37
Beşiktaş 28 January 2005 17 October 2005 30 18 7 5 060.00
Ankaraspor 10 November 2005 23 January 2006 6 1 2 3 016.67
Rizespor 26 December 2006 19 June 2007 18 6 4 8 033.33
Eskişehirspor 4 July 2008 27 September 2010 84 29 23 32 034.52
Sivasspor 25 October 2010 31 May 2013 115 43 30 42 037.39
Rizespor 31 May 2013 9 February 2014 22 5 7 10 022.73
Mersin İdmanyurdu 3 June 2014 31 May 2015 45 18 10 17 040.00
Kasımpaşa 7 July 2015 16 September 2016 39 15 10 14 038.46
Antalyaspor 10 October 2016 18 September 2017 34 17 8 9 050.00
Trabzonspor 18 October 2017 19 May 2018 31 16 8 7 051.61
Total 544 215 140 189 039.52

Honours

Beşiktaş

Records
  • Beşiktaş All-Time Appearance Maker: 645 games
  • Beşiktaş All-Time Appearance Maker in Süper Lig: 494 games

See also

Notes
  1. Includes Turkish Cup, Atatürk Cup, Chancellor Cup, Turkish Super Cup and TSYD Cup
  2. Includes European Cup, UEFA Cup, UEFA Cup Winners' Cup,

References
  1. "Biyografi" (in Turkish). bjk.com.tr. 10 August 2016. Retrieved 7 May 2017.
  2. "Antalyasporumuz Rıza Çalımbay'a Emanet" (in Turkish). antalyaspor.com.tr. 10 October 2016. Retrieved 7 May 2017.
  3. "Çalımbay imzayı attı" (in Turkish). mackolik.com. 10 October 2016. Retrieved 7 May 2017.
  4. "Rıza Çalımbay" (in Turkish). mackolik.com. 10 August 2013. Retrieved 7 May 2017.
  5. "Rıza Çalımbay / National Football Teams" (in Turkish). national-football-teams.com. 10 August 2013. Retrieved 7 May 2017.
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