Ramazan Tavşancıoğlu

Ramazan Tavşancıoğlu

Personal information
Full name	Ramazan Tavşancıoğlu
Date of birth	(1984-06-07) 7 June 1984
Place of birth	Melbourne, Australia
Height
Position(s)	Defender
Team information
Current team	Hume City FC
Youth career
2002–2003	Melbourne Knights
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
2003	Port Melbourne Sharks	10	(0)
2003–2005	Ankaragücü	1	(0)
2005–2011	South Melbourne	136	(7)
2006	→ Melbourne Victory (loan)	4	(0)
2010–2011	→ North Queensland Fury (loan)	12	(0)
2011–2012	Oakleigh Cannons	40	(0)
2013	Southern Stars	20	(0)
2014–2015	Dandenong Thunder	46	(1)
2016-	Hume City FC	0
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 16 January 2016

Ramazan Tavşancıoğlu (born 7 June 1984 in Melbourne, Australia) is an Australian footballer who plays for Hume City FC in the National Premier Leagues Victoria (NPLV). He plays as a defender.

Club career

A youth player at the Melbourne Knights, in 2003 Tavşancıoğlu received a two-week trial with Turkish Super League 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 South Melbourne in the Victorian Premier League. Tavsancioglu was invited to join A-League club Melbourne 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 Altona Magic in the 2006 Grand Final.

After a successful trial, he was signed as a short term injury replacement by A-League outfit North Queensland Fury 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 Oakleigh Cannons, 2013 with Southern Stars FC and then the first two years of the new NPL league with Dandenong Thunder SC.

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

Honours

With South Melbourne:

• Victorian Premier League Championship: 2006

References

• Ramazan Tavşancıoğlu Melbourne Victory profile
• Ramazan Tavşancıoğlu Details at Turkish Football Federation