Yunus Öçal
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| Nationality | Turkish | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 2 August 1988 Turkey | ||||||||||||||
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| Current team | Greece women's national volleyball team (coach) | ||||||||||||||
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Yunus Öçal (born 2 August 1988) is a Turkish volleyball coach. He is the current head coach of the Greece women's national volleyball team appointed in May 2023.[1]
Club coach
Öçal coached Eczacıbaşı VitrA from 2006 to 2018.[2] After THY (Türk Hava Yolları) promoted to the Turkish Women's Volleyball League, he was appointed assistant coach to the women's volleyball team,[3] where he served until 2022.[2] In November 2022, he was appointed head coach of the AEK Women's Volleyball Club, which play in the A1 Ethniki Women's Volleyball in Greece.[4] The team finished the 2022–23 season fourth and won the Greek Cup.[5]
National team coach
Öçal was appointed assistant coach of the Greece women's national volleyball team in 2022,[5] as the direct partner of the Brazilian head coach Marcello Abbondanza.[6]
In May 2023, he was promoted to the post of head coach of the Greece women's national team, which played at the 2023 Women's European Volleyball Championship.[7]
He was head coach of the Turkey women's national team,[8] which became champion at the 2025 Islamic Solidarity Games in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.[5]
Personal life
Yunus Öçal was born on 2 August 1988.[6] He is married and father of a girl born on 8 March 2023.[5]
Honours
References
- ^ a b "Yunus Öçal Yunanistan Kadın Voleybol Milli Takımı'nın başantrenörü oldu". TRT Haber (in Turkish). 12 May 2023. Retrieved 19 August 2023.
- ^ a b c "Yunus Öçal" (in Turkish). Volley box. Retrieved 19 August 2023.
- ^ a b "THY'de teknik kadro belli oldu". Voleybol Pkus (in Turkish). 12 June 2019. Retrieved 20 August 2023.
- ^ a b "Türk başantrenör Yunus Öçal'ın Yunanistan'daki başarısı!". Fanatik (in Turkish). 12 December 2022. Retrieved 19 August 2023.
- ^ a b c d e Doğan, Emre (14 March 2023). "Türk başantrenör Yunus Öçal'ın Yunanistan'da gurur verici başarısı". Anadolu News Agency (in Turkish). Retrieved 20 August 2023.
- ^ a b c Megan (10 May 2023). "The Turkish Yunus Ocal of AEK took over the Women's National Volleyball team". News Bulletin 247. Archived from the original on 20 August 2023. Retrieved 20 August 2023.
- ^ a b "Yunanistan Kadın Voleybol Milli Takımı'nın yeni başantrenörü Yunus Öçal oldu". Footo Maç (in Turkish). 12 May 2023. Retrieved 20 August 2023.
- ^ a b "Türkiye, Riyad'da 212 sporcuyla yer alacak". TRT Spor (in Turkish). 4 November 2025. Retrieved 16 November 2025.
- ^ Çakmak, Fatih (13 November 2025). "Kadın Milli Voleybol Takımı, 6. İslami Dayanışma Oyunları'nda şampiyon oldu". Anadolu News Agency. Retrieved 16 November 2025.