Ramazan Tavşancıoğlu (born 7 June 1984) is an Australian

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player who plays for

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in the

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. He plays as a defender.

Club career

A youth player at the

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, in 2003 Tavşancıoğlu received a two-week trial with

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club Ankaragücü. After impressing coaching staff at the club he signed a four-year deal. However, he left at the conclusion of the first year of his contract after feeling unsettled, making just one appearance in his time at the club. Upon returning to Australia, Tavşancıoğlu began playing with

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in the

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. Tavsancioglu was invited to join

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club

Melbourne Victory Melbourne Victory Football Club is an Australian professional soccer club based in Melbourne, Victoria. Competing in the country's premier men's competition, the A-League Men, under licence from Australian Professional Leagues (APL), Victory ...

on a short-term contract on 30 December 2005. He played four games as a back-up player for the Victory due to injuries to regular squad members, before recommencing his tenure with South Melbourne in the VPL, where he played in South Melbourne's victory over

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in the 2006 Grand Final. After a successful trial, he was signed as a short-term injury replacement by A-League outfit

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in November 2010 after a five-year hiatus from the league to provide defensive cover for the injured Eric Akoto and Chris Grossman. He spent the 2011 and 2012 VPL seasons with

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, 2013 with

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and then the first two years of the new NPL league with

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. After Thunder's relegation from the top flight at the end of 2015, Rama then signed for ambitious league heavyweight

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Honours

With

: * Victorian Premier League Championship: 2006 * NPL Victoria Team of the Week Round 2 2017

References

Ramazan Tavşancıoğlu Melbourne Victory profileRamazan Tavşancıoğlu Details at Turkish Football Federation
{{DEFAULTSORT:Tavsancioglu, Ramazan 1984 births Living people Australian people of Turkish descent Soccer players from Melbourne Australian expatriate men's soccer players A-League Men players Port Melbourne SC players MKE Ankaragücü footballers Melbourne Knights FC players Melbourne Victory FC players South Melbourne FC players Northern Fury FC players Hume City FC players Avondale FC players Altona Magic SC players Men's association football defenders Australian men's soccer players Australian expatriate sportspeople in Turkey Expatriate men's footballers in Turkey 21st-century Australian sportsmen