Elena Sadiku

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Elena Sadiku
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Sadiku with Eskilstuna United in 2014
Personal information
Date of birth (1993-11-06) 6 November 1993 (age 30)
Place of birth Bocholt, Germany
Height 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) [1]
Team information
Current team
 Celtic (head coach)
Youth career
0000 LdB Malmö
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2010–2011 LdB Malmö 13 (1)
2012–2013 Kristianstad 28 (1)
2014–2016 Eskilstuna United 16 (5)
2017 Hammarby 6 (1)
International career
2011–2012 Sweden U19 14 (2)
Managerial career
2018–2019 Beijing BG Phoenix (assistant)
2019–2021 Rosengård (assistant)
2021 Fortuna Hjørring (assistant)
2021–2022 Eskilstuna United
2023–2024 Everton U21
2024– Celtic
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Elena Sadiku (born 6 November 1993) is a Swedish football manager and former player who is the head coach of Scottish club Celtic.

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Playing career

She was an Under-19 international. [2]

She started her career with LdB Malmö, [3] before moving to Kristianstad and Eskilstuna United.

Sadiku suffered a knee injury in July 2014. She scored a hat-trick in her comeback game a year later, only to suffer another serious knee injury a few days later. She was unable to play in 2016 and after suffering from depression, left Eskilstuna at the end of the season. [4] Shortly afterwards, newly-promoted Hammarby announced that they had signed Sadiku and were hoping she could overcome her injuries and recapture her best form. [5] She played 6 games for Hammarby in 2017, scoring once, before retiring due to recurring problems with injuries. [6]

Coaching career

In February 2018 Sadiku accepted a coaching role with Chinese Super League club Beijing BG Phoenix. [7]

She later managed Eskilstuna United. [8] [9]

In January 2024 she became Head Coach of Scottish club Celtic, the first woman to hold that role. [10] She led Celtic to their first Scottish Women's Premier League title, clinching the trophy thanks to superior goal difference ahead of Glasgow rivals Rangers on the last day of the season on 19 May 2024. [11]

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References

  1. ↑ Elena Sadiku at WorldFootball.net OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
  2. ↑ "UEFA Women's Champions League". UEFA.com.
  3. ↑ LdB FC Malmö-spelarnas bästa tips Expressen
  4. ↑ Redebo, Susanne (30 November 2016). "Elena Sadiku om sin tuffa tid: "Hemskaste jag varit med om"" (in Swedish). Ekuriren. Retrieved 29 December 2016.[ permanent dead link ]
  5. ↑ Liljedahl, Carl-Johan (9 December 2016). "Sadiku till Hammarby" (in Swedish). Kristianstadbladet. Retrieved 29 December 2016.
  6. ↑ Norberg, Simon (7 February 2018). "Tidigare Hammarbyspelaren flyttar till Kina" (in Swedish). Aftonbladet. Retrieved 13 February 2018.
  7. ↑ "Tidigare Hammarbyspelaren flyttar till Kina" (in Swedish). Aftonbladet. 7 February 2018. Retrieved 17 February 2018.
  8. ↑ Sadiku kampione e Suedise Gazeta Express
  9. ↑ "Elena Sadiku återvänder till Eskilstuna som tränare". www.aftonbladet.se (in Swedish). 4 October 2021.
  10. ↑ "Sadiku becomes Celtic's first female head coach" – via www.bbc.co.uk.
  11. ↑ "Celtic leave it late to spark SWPL title bedlam". BBC Sport. Retrieved 19 May 2024.
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