Tayfun Pektürk (born 13 May 1988) is a German-Turkish professional

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby ...

who plays as a

midfielder A midfielder is an outfield position in association football. Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in that case known as defensive midfielders. As central midfielders often go across boundarie ...

or forward for

Mittelrheinliga The Mittelrheinliga ( en, Middle Rhine League), sometimes also referred to as Oberliga Mittelrhein after its elevation to Oberliga status in 2012, is a German amateur football division administered by the Football association of the Middle Rhine, ...

club SV Eintracht Hohkeppel.

Career

Born in

Wermelskirchen Wermelskirchen (; Ripuarian: ''Wärmelßkirrshe'') is a town in the Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, southeast of Remscheid. It is home to one of Europe's biggest live Christmas trees (measuring 26m). Coat of arms ...

, Pektürk began his career in 1994 with SV Wermelskirchen. In 2004, he signed for third division side

Wuppertaler SV Borussia Wuppertaler SV is a German association football club located in Wuppertal, North Rhine-Westphalia. The city was founded in 1929 out of the union of a number of smaller towns including Elberfeld, Barmen, Vohwinkel, Cronenberg and Ronsdorf – e ...

. He played one year for Wuppertal, before signing for FC Schalke 04 in July 2005. Pektürk made his debut at the professional level in the

2. Bundesliga The 2. Bundesliga ( ) is the second division of professional football in Germany. It was implemented 11 years after the founding of the Fußball-Bundesliga as the new second division for professional football. The 2. Bundesliga is ranked below ...

for

TuS Koblenz TuS Koblenz is a German association football club, located in Koblenz, Rhineland-Palatinate. Fussball Club Deutschland Neuendorf, which was formed in 1911, is viewed as the foundation of the modern club. History Nazi era (1933–1945) The or ...

on 23 September 2007, when he started the game against 1. FC Köln. On 17 September 2009, he signed for

Eintracht Trier SV Eintracht Trier 05 is a German association football club based in Trier, Rhineland-Palatinate. It was formed on 11 March 1948 out of the merger of Westmark 05 Trier and Eintracht Trier 06, on the 43rd anniversary of the establishment of pred ...

, but was demoted into the reserve team in February 2010. On 6 April 2010, Pektürk announced he would leave Eintracht Trier at the end of the season and join

SpVgg Greuther Fürth Spielvereinigung Greuther Fürth (), commonly known as Greuther Fürth (), is a German football club based in Fürth, Bavaria. They play in the 2. Bundesliga, the second tier of the German football league system, following relegation from the B ...

on 1 July 2010.

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* * * 1988 births Living people People from Wermelskirchen German men's footballers Footballers from North Rhine-Westphalia Men's association football midfielders Men's association football forwards Bundesliga players 2. Bundesliga players Süper Lig players TFF First League players TFF Second League players Regionalliga players Oberliga (football) players TuS Koblenz players SV Eintracht Trier 05 players SpVgg Greuther Fürth players İstanbul Başakşehir F.K. players Karşıyaka S.K. footballers Utaş Uşakspor footballers İnegölspor footballers German sportspeople of Turkish descent {{germany-footy-forward-1980s-stub