Ferhat Akbaş (born April 12, 1986) is a Turkish volleyball coach and former volleyball player. He is tall. He is the head coach of

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. He also trained Japan women's national team and Turkey Women. He is a graduate of business administration from

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Career

Player

At first Akbaş wanted to become a basketball player, however as he missed the date of the qualification, found himself in volleyball. He played volleyball in Marmara College and Arçelik volleyball clubs. Ferhat Akbaş was a member of the

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. His career as a player did not last long as he chose to pursue a coaching career.

Coach

He began his technical staff career as a statistics coach at Galatasaray women's volleyball team in 2004, and continued until 2006. The next season, he transferred to Türk Telekom Ankara to serve in the same position. His next post was the assistant coach of

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at Türk Telekom Ankara in the 2011–12 season. Then, he followed her to China, where he served from 2011 to 2012, and enjoyed champion title with Evergrande Hengda team. In the playing-free summer time, he went to Turkey to serve as statistics coach of Serbian-French

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, who was the head coach of the Turkey men's volleyball team. During his time in China, he received an offer from

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women's team to serve as assistant coach of

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. In 2013, he became the assistant coach of

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. At the age of only 28, he was appointed head coach of the Turkish women's national team, which won the gold medal at the

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. At the final match, he guided the Turkish team to victory against the German national team, which was coached by his former boss Giovanni Guidetti. On 29 April 2021 Eczacibasi Vitra announced the appointment of Ferhat Akbaş as the new Head Coach of Eczacıbaşı VitrA. Akbaş who won the Polish League title last season as the coach of Chemik Police will be the Head Coach starting with the 2021-2022 season.

Honours

As assistant coach

Clubs

; Evergrande Hengda * ''Winner'' (1): ** 2011–12

Chinese Volleyball League Chinese Volleyball Super League, often abbreviated to CVL (abbreviation remain unchanged), are the pre-eminent men's and women's professional volleyball leagues in China. It was founded in 1996 as the Chinese Volleyball League and is organized by ...

;

* ''Winners'' (6): ** 2012–13 Turkish Women's Volleyball League ** 2013–14 Turkish Women's Volleyball League ** 2012–13 Turkish Women's Volleyball Cup **

2013 FIVB Volleyball Women's Club World Championship The 2013 FIVB Volleyball Women's Club World Championship, FIVB Women's Club World Championship was the 7th edition of the event. It was held in Zurich, Switzerland, from 9 to 13 October 2013. Vakıfbank S.K., Vakıfbank Istanbul won the title and ...

2012–13 CEV Women's Champions League The CEV Champions League was the highest level of European club volleyball in the 2012–13 season and the 54th edition. It ran from 22 October 2012 until 11 March 2013. Fenerbahçe were the winner of the previous year. VakıfBank İstanbul w ...

** 2013

Turkish Women's Volleyball Cup The Turkish Women's Volleyball Cup ( tr, Türkiye Kadınlar Voleybol Türkiye Kupası), is a national cup for professional women's volleyball in Turkey, organized by the Turkish Volleyball Federation since the 1994-95 season. Between 2003 and 2008 ...

* ''Runner-up'' (1): **

2013–14 CEV Women's Champions League The CEV Champions League was the highest level of European club volleyball in the 2013–14 season and the 55th edition. It ran from 22 October 2013 until 16 March 2014. Dinamo Kazan from Russia won the tournament and qualified for the 2014 FIV ...

As coach

National team

* Winners (3): **

2015 Montreux Volley Masters The 2015 Montreux Volley Masters is a women's volleyball competition set in Montreux, Switzerland between May 26 – 31, 2015. Turkey won the tournament for the first time by winning 3-2 to Japan in the championship match. Japanese Yuki Ishii was s ...

2015 European Games The 2015 European Games, also known as Baku 2015 or Baku 2015 European Games ( az, Bakı 2015 Avropa Oyunları), were the inaugural edition of the European Games, an international multi-sport event for athletes representing the National Olympic ...

* Runners-up (1) **

2015 FIVB Volleyball Women's U23 World Championship The 2015 FIVB Volleyball Women's U23 World Championship was held in Ankara, Turkey, from 12 to 19 August 2015. This was the second edition of the tournament. Competition formula The competition format will see the 12 teams split into two pools o ...

Club Team

*Winners (2) ** Romanian Championship 2017–18 ** Romanian Cup 2017–18

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Akbas, Ferhat 1986 births Kocaeli University alumni Turkish men's volleyball players Turkish volleyball coaches Turkish expatriate sportspeople in Romania Expatriate sportspeople in China Living people Volleyball coaches of international teams Turkey women's national volleyball team coaches