Personal information | |||
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Date of birth | 18 October 1992 | ||
Place of birth | Zürich, Switzerland | ||
Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||
Position(s) | Defensive midfielder | ||
Youth career | |||
Grasshoppers | |||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2010–2014 | Grasshoppers II | 61 | (0) |
2013–2014 | Grasshoppers | 5 | (0) |
2014–2021 | Schaffhausen | 133 | (6) |
2021–2022 | Grasshoppers | 0 | (0) |
2021–2022 | → Aarau (loan) | 25 | (1) |
2022–2023 | Aarau | 23 | (1) |
International career‡ | |||
2011–2014 | Albania U21 | 13 | (0) |
2014– | Kosovo | 3 | (1) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 18 June 2023 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 8 October 2011 |
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Before the 2021–22 season, he returned to Grasshoppers after six-and-a-half seasons at Schaffhausen. On 30 August 2021, he moved to Aarau on loan. [3] On 14 June 2022, he signed a one-year contract with an option to extend with Aarau, after his contract at Grasshoppers was not renewed. [4]
Originating from Kosovo with ethnic Albanian parents and born in Switzerland, Bunjaku was eligible to play for Switzerland, Albania and Kosovo if a national team should be formed, but in March 2011 he answered the call by Albania's Under-21 coach Artan Bushati for a non official friendly tournament held in Slovenia. [5]
He officially gained Albanian citizenship on 26 August 2011 along with his Grasshopper teammate Mërgim Brahimi, in order to compete in the UEFA Under-21 Championship qualifiers. [6] [7]
Since 2014 Bunjaku also received call-up from Kosovo [8] and he made his debut for Kosovo in a May 2014 friendly match against Senegal and has, as of January 2019, earned a total of 3 caps, scoring 1 goal. [9] However, he yet to make his competitive debut.
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