Grown up in the Hamburg quarter of Fischbek he played for the local club FC Süderelbe until he was 13 years old.
His first appearance in the Bundesliga he also made for Werder in a 1–1 draw against Fortuna Düsseldorf on 11 August 1995, when he was just 18 years old.
Albayrak also played for Ankaragücü, Çaykur Rizespor, Fenerbahçe, Gaziantepspor, Kocaelispor, Ankaraspor in Turkey and Arminia Bielefeld in Germany.
[6] In December 2009, after seven years spent in Turkey, he returned to his native Germany and signed for KFC Uerdingen.
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