1973 - Today
Fehmi Alpay Özalan (born 29 May 1973) is a Turkish former professional footballer, football manager and politician. He last worked as the manager of Samsunspor. He played 90 international games for Turkey between 1995 and 2005, making him Turkey's seventh-most capped player of all time. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alpay Özalan has received more than 188,636 page views. His biography is available in 50 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 51 in 2019). Alpay Özalan is the 2,720th most popular soccer player (down from 1,952nd in 2019), the 1,057th most popular biography from Turkey (down from 905th in 2019) and the 15th most popular Turkish Soccer Player.
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Among soccer players, Alpay Özalan ranks 2,720 out of 16,880. Before him are Michu, Petit, Miguel Ángel Santoro, Luis Cruz, Alfred Kelbassa, and Ivan Nielsen. After him are Vincenzo Iaquinta, Plácido Galindo, Edílson, Carsten Jancker, Corneliu Robe, and Juan Luque de Serrallonga.
1986 - Present
HPI: 45.62
Rank: 2,714
1976 - Present
HPI: 45.62
Rank: 2,715
1942 - Present
HPI: 45.61
Rank: 2,716
1925 - 1998
HPI: 45.61
Rank: 2,717
1925 - 1988
HPI: 45.61
Rank: 2,718
1956 - Present
HPI: 45.60
Rank: 2,719
1973 - Present
HPI: 45.60
Rank: 2,720
1979 - Present
HPI: 45.60
Rank: 2,721
1906 - 1988
HPI: 45.60
Rank: 2,722
1971 - Present
HPI: 45.59
Rank: 2,723
1974 - Present
HPI: 45.59
Rank: 2,724
1908 - 1969
HPI: 45.58
Rank: 2,725
1882 - 1967
HPI: 45.58
Rank: 2,726
Among people born in 1973, Alpay Özalan ranks 178. Before him are Jung Woo-sung, Ümit Davala, Jason Kidd, Selahattin Demirtaş, Jeon Do-yeon, and Louis Leterrier. After him are Jack Davenport, Barret Oliver, Eduardo Noriega, Óscar García Junyent, Steven Bradbury, and Mick Thomson.
1973 - Present
HPI: 46.00
Rank: 172
1973 - Present
HPI: 45.97
Rank: 173
1973 - Present
HPI: 45.90
Rank: 174
1973 - Present
HPI: 45.83
Rank: 175
1973 - Present
HPI: 45.73
Rank: 176
1973 - Present
HPI: 45.62
Rank: 177
1973 - Present
HPI: 45.60
Rank: 178
1973 - Present
HPI: 45.58
Rank: 179
1973 - Present
HPI: 45.36
Rank: 180
1973 - Present
HPI: 45.29
Rank: 181
1973 - Present
HPI: 45.21
Rank: 182
1973 - Present
HPI: 45.20
Rank: 183
1973 - Present
HPI: 45.16
Rank: 184
Among people born in Turkey, Alpay Özalan ranks 1,057 out of 1,301. Before him are Türkân Akyol (1928), Muharrem İnce (1964), Aras Bulut İynemli (1990), Rıfat Ilgaz (1911), Serdar Ortaç (1970), and Paris Pişmiş (1911). After him are Tychicus (null), Mihri Müşfik Hanım (1886), Melih Cevdet Anday (1915), Sabiha Bengütaş (1904), Fuat Oktay (1964), and Necati Şaşmaz (1971).
1928 - 2017
HPI: 45.71
Rank: 1,051
1964 - Present
HPI: 45.69
Rank: 1,052
1990 - Present
HPI: 45.69
Rank: 1,053
1911 - 1993
HPI: 45.69
Rank: 1,054
1970 - Present
HPI: 45.65
Rank: 1,055
1911 - 1999
HPI: 45.63
Rank: 1,056
1973 - Present
HPI: 45.60
Rank: 1,057
HPI: 45.45
Rank: 1,058
1886 - 1954
HPI: 45.30
Rank: 1,059
1915 - 2002
HPI: 45.20
Rank: 1,060
1904 - 1992
HPI: 45.15
Rank: 1,061
1964 - Present
HPI: 45.10
Rank: 1,062
1971 - Present
HPI: 45.09
Rank: 1,063
Among soccer players born in Turkey, Alpay Özalan ranks 15. Before him are Emre Belözoğlu (1980), Turgay Şeren (1932), Burhan Sargun (1929), Nihat Kahveci (1979), Hasan Şaş (1976), and Bülent Eken (1923). After him are Volkan Demirel (1981), Tugay Kerimoğlu (1970), Tanju Çolak (1963), Aykut Kocaman (1965), Ahmet Yılmaz Çalık (1994), and Okan Buruk (1973).
1980 - Present
HPI: 49.58
Rank: 9
1932 - 2016
HPI: 49.18
Rank: 10
1929 - 2023
HPI: 49.18
Rank: 11
1979 - Present
HPI: 48.66
Rank: 12
1976 - Present
HPI: 48.25
Rank: 13
1923 - 2016
HPI: 48.15
Rank: 14
1973 - Present
HPI: 45.60
Rank: 15
1981 - Present
HPI: 44.84
Rank: 16
1970 - Present
HPI: 44.62
Rank: 17
1963 - Present
HPI: 44.57
Rank: 18
1965 - Present
HPI: 43.70
Rank: 19
1994 - 2022
HPI: 43.52
Rank: 20
1973 - Present
HPI: 42.23
Rank: 21