Hakan Yakin

Hakan Yakin
Yakin in 2006
Personal information
Full name Hakan Yakin
Date of birth (1977-02-22) 22 February 1977
Place of birth Basel, Switzerland
Height 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Position(s) Second striker
Attacking midfielder
Youth career
1984–1994 Concordia Basel
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1994–1995 Concordia Basel
1995–1997 Basel 67 (14)
1997–1998 Grasshoppers 11 (1)
1998–1999St. Gallen (loan) 35 (8)
1999–2001 Grasshoppers 54 (22)
2001–2003 Basel 67 (30)
2003 Paris Saint-Germain 0 (0)
2004 Basel 6 (3)
2004–2005 VfB Stuttgart 9 (0)
2004–2005Galatasaray (loan) 2 (0)
2005–2008 Young Boys 84 (40)
2008–2009 Al-Gharafa 15 (5)
2009–2011 Luzern 79 (26)
2012–2013 Bellinzona 32 (13)
Total 455 (162)
International career
2000–2011 Switzerland 87 (20)
Managerial career
2014–2015 Zug 94
2016 Gallen (U18)
2016 Gallen (U21)
2017 Schaffhausen (assistant)
2017 Grasshoppers (assistant)
2019–2022 Schaffhausen (assistant)
2021 Schaffhausen (caretaker)
2022–2023 Schaffhausen
2023–2024 İstanbulspor
2025– Schaffhausen
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Hakan Yakin (Turkish: Hakan Yakın; born 22 February 1977) is a Swiss professional football manager and former player who is the head coach of Swiss Challenge League side FC Schaffhausen. He spent the majority of his playing career as a forward or attacking midfielder in the Swiss top flight with brief forays abroad (in France, Germany, Turkey and Qatar). He represented Switzerland national team for eleven years, garnering 87 caps and scoring 20 goals.