Rıza Çalımbay

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]

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]

As of 7 May 2017[4][5]

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

• Süper Lig (6): 1981–82, 1985–86, 1989–90, 1990–91, 1991–92, 1994–95
• Turkish Cup (3): 1988–89, 1989–90, 1993–94
• Turkish Super Cup (4): 1986, 1989, 1992, 1994
• Chancellor Cup (1): 1988
• TSYD Cup (7): 1983, 1984, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1993, 1996

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