Hakan Yakin () (born 22 February 1977 in Basel, Switzerland) is a Swiss former football player and current manager of Turkish origin. He is the brother of Murat Yakin and half-brother of former Swiss football professional Ertan Irizik.

Yakin's biggest success was the winning of the Swiss Super League and the Swiss Cup with the Basel in 2002. With the Swiss national team, he took part at the UEFA Champions League in 2004 and 2008 and at the World Cup in Germany in 2006. Yakin is a specialist in free-kicks and final passes.

Hakan Yakin

Yakin received the award for the "Most Valuable Player" in Swiss football in 2003 and 2008.

Hakan Yakin

He currently plays for Al-Gharafa (Qatar).

Hakan Yakin

Club career statistics

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|1994/95||Concordia Basel||||9||4

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|1995/96||rowspan="2"|Basel||rowspan="2"|Nationalliga A||34||6

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|1996/97||25||3

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|1997/98||Grasshopper Zürich||Nationalliga A||11||1

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|1997/98||St. Gallen||Nationalliga A||14||1

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|1998/99||Grasshopper Zürich||Nationalliga A||6||2

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|1998/99||St. Gallen||Nationalliga A||21||7

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|1999/00||rowspan="2"|Grasshopper Zürich||rowspan="2"|Nationalliga A||29||10

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|2000/01||19||10

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|2000/01||rowspan="4"|Basel||rowspan="4"|Nationalliga A||11||4

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|2001/02||27||14

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|2002/03||29||13

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|2003/04||6||3

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|2003/04||rowspan="2"|Stuttgart||rowspan="2"|Bundesliga||8||0

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|2004/05||1||0

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|2004/05||Galatasaray||Süper Lig||2||0

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|2005/06||rowspan="3"|Young Boys||rowspan="3"|Super League||20||6

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|2006/07||31||10

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|2007/08||32||24

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|2008/09||Al-Gharafa||Stars League||15||5

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|2009/10||Luzern||Super League||||

324||118

9||0

2||0

15||5

350||123

|}

International career statistics

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|2000||7||3

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|2001||6||2

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|2002||8||5

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|2003||6||2

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|2004||12||2

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|2005||5||0

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|2006||8||0

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|2007||9||1

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|2008||13||5

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|2009||5||0

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!Total||79||20

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References

1977 births

Living people

Swiss footballers

Swiss football managers

Sportspeople from Basel

Switzerland at UEFA Euro 2004

Switzerland at the 2006 FIFA World Cup

Switzerland at UEFA Euro 2008

Switzerland at the 2010 FIFA World Cup