After four years, Farat Toku is returning to the Regionalliga West. His new club introduced him on Tuesday afternoon (October 31).
SV Rödinghausen have found their new head coach and successor to Carsten Rump, who has been released: Farat Toku is the new coach at Wiehen with immediate effect.
The 43-year-old soccer coach had been assistant coach at Süper Lig club Alanyaspor since July 1, 2023, only terminated his contract on the Turkish Mediterranean coast at the beginning of the week, boarded a plane and landed in Germany on Monday evening.
According to forecasting information, the Bochum native has signed a contract until June 30, 2025. Former coach Rump is also tied to Rödinghausen until this date.
“We chose Farat Toku because we are completely convinced of his abilities as a coach. He is an absolute soccer expert and a real people
nger. I also spoke to some of his ex-players and they were all of the same opinion: the players will go through fire for Farat Toku. We are delighted that we were able to bring him from the Süper Lig to SV Rödinghausen in the Regionalliga West. He really wanted to become head coach again,” Alexander Müller, SV Rödinghausen’s managing director of sport, told Forecasting.
Toku, a native of Bochum, was head coach of FC Viktoria Berlin for around four months before his stint in Alanya. He narrowly missed out on relegation from the 3rd division with the capital city club, but won the Berlin State Cup after relegation and then left Viktoria.
Successful time at SG Wattenscheid 09 – Rödinghausen debut against Rot-Weiß Oberhausen
The ex-professional, who played for SC Preußen Münster among others, experienced his most successful time at SG Wattenscheid 09. Between January 2015 and October 2019, he was initially only head coach at the former Bundesliga club, in the meantime also head of sport and actually the man for everything. With the smallest budget in the Regionalliga West, he repeatedly managed to keep Wattenscheid in the league and upset the big boys.
At some point, he felt uncomfortable in the chaotic environment of the Lohrheide and simply wanted to be a coach in a professional environment. At SV Rödinghausen, he can live out his career as a soccer coach to the full.
After 13 games, SVR, who were so highly rated before the season, are in 13th place in the table with just 16 points and 13 points behind leaders 1. FC Bocholt. Toku will make his debut next Saturday against Rot-Weiß Oberhausen
