Imran Bunjaku

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Imran Bunjaku
Personal information
Date of birth (1992-10-18) 18 October 1992 (age 32)
Place of birth Zürich, Switzerland
Height 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Position(s) Defensive midfielder
Youth career
Grasshoppers
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(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 10 October 2015

Imran Bunjaku (born 18 October 1992) is a professional footballer who plays as a midfielder. [1] [2] Born in Switzerland, he plays for the Kosovo national team.

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Club career

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]

International career

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]

In 2014 Bunjaku received call-up from Kosovo [8] and he made his debut for Kosovo on 25 May 2014 in a friendly match against Senegal.

On 7 September 2024, in another friendly game against Oman, he scored his first and only goal for Kosovo, becoming at 21 years and 10 months the country’s youngest goalscorer. [9] This record was broken on 13 November 2015 by Bersant Celina who was 19 years and 2 months when he scored against Albania. [10]

He earned his third and final cap with Kosovo on 10 October 2015 during a friendly match against Equatorial Guinea. [11]

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References

  1. ↑ UEFA Profile
  2. ↑ Footballdatabase profile
  3. ↑ "BUNJAKU ON LOAN TO FC AARAU RIBEIRO LEAVES GC". Grasshoppers. 30 August 2021. Retrieved 19 October 2021.
  4. ↑ "Imran Bunjaku hat seinen Vertrag beim FC Aarau verlängert". nau.ch. 14 June 2022. Retrieved 15 July 2022.
  5. ↑ "Bushati merr 10 talentë në Slloveni" (in Albanian). Panorama Sport. 16 March 2011. Archived from the original on 4 October 2011. Retrieved 6 May 2011.
  6. ↑ "Brahimi e Bunjaku bëhen "shqiptarë"" (in Albanian). Koha. 27 August 2011. Retrieved 27 August 2011.
  7. ↑ "Brahimi e Bunjaku bëhen "shqiptarë"" (in Albanian). RTV 21. 27 August 2011. Archived from the original on 18 March 2012. Retrieved 27 August 2011.
  8. ↑ "Më 31 gusht nis grumbullimi i Përfaqësueses" (in Albanian). Football Federation of Kosovo. 22 August 2015. Retrieved 11 October 2016.
  9. ↑ "Kosovo v Oman". 11v11. Retrieved 14 October 2024.
  10. ↑ "Kosovo vs Albania, 13 November 2015". Eu-football.info. Retrieved 14 October 2024.
  11. ↑ "Imran Bunjaku, international footballer". Eu-football.info. Retrieved 14 October 2024.
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