Personal information | |||
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Date of birth | 28 February 1999 | ||
Place of birth | Zürich, Switzerland | ||
Height | 1.81 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||
Position(s) | Attacking midfielder, winger | ||
Team information | |||
Current team | Sassuolo | ||
Number | 11 | ||
Youth career | |||
2009–2017 | Grasshoppers | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2015–2017 | Grasshoppers U21 | 14 | (4) |
2017–2020 | Grasshoppers | 69 | (6) |
2019–2020 | → Empoli (loan) | 28 | (5) |
2020–2023 | Empoli | 90 | (12) |
2023 | → Sassuolo (loan) | 18 | (1) |
2023– | Sassuolo | 28 | (2) |
International career‡ | |||
2013 | Switzerland U15 | 5 | (0) |
2014 | Switzerland U16 | 7 | (0) |
2015–2016 | Switzerland U17 | 13 | (5) |
2016–2017 | Switzerland U18 | 4 | (0) |
2016–2017 | Switzerland U19 | 9 | (3) |
2018–2021 | Switzerland U21 | 11 | (1) |
2021– | Albania | 25 | (5) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 23:18, 12 May 2024 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 19 June 2024 |
Nedim Bajrami (born 28 February 1999) is a professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder or winger for Italian Serie B club Sassuolo. Born in Switzerland, he plays for the Albania national team.
Born in Switzerland to ethnic Albanian parents (father from Tetovo and mother from Gostivar), [1] [2] [3] Bajrami spent all of his youth career with professional side Grasshoppers. He signed his first professional contract alongside teammates Petar Pušić and Arijan Qollaku in February 2017, [4] and made his debut the same month, playing the full 90 minutes of a 1–0 loss to FC Thun. [5]
On 13 August 2019, Bajrami joined Italian Serie B club Empoli on loan with an option to buy. [6]
On 31 January 2023, Bajrami moved to Sassuolo on loan with an obligation to buy. [7]
Bajrami represented Switzerland in various youth sides up to under-21 level. He played for the Switzerland U17 team in their unsuccessful European Under-17 Championship qualification bid in 2016, featuring in all their six games. [8] He scored a total of five goals for the under-17 side, including a brace against Montenegro in 2015. [9] On 9 March 2021, Switzerland's U-21 manager Mauro Lustrinelli confirmed that Bajrami chose to switch allegiances and represent his country of origin, Albania. [10] Mauro stated “We tried to convince Bajrami to continue playing for Switzerland but he told us that his heart beats for Albania. For us in the national team, identification is one of the main values, so we had no choice but to let him leave.” [11]
On 17 March 2021, he received Albanian citizenship, thus needing only a permission by FIFA to become eligible to play for the Albania national team. [12] He received the go-ahead from the Court of Arbitration for Sport on 30 August 2021. [13] He debuted with Albania in a 1–0 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification victory against Hungary on 5 September 2021, coming on as a substitute in the 63rd minute for Qazim Laçi. [14] On 17 June 2023, he scored his first goal for Albania in a 2–0 UEFA Euro 2024 qualifying win over Moldova. [15]
In June 2024, Bajrami was called up to represent Albania at UEFA Euro 2024. [16] In their opening group stage match against defending champions Italy, Bajrami scored the fastest goal in UEFA European Championship history, only 23 seconds into the match, in an eventual 2–1 loss. [17]
Club | Season | League | National cup [lower-alpha 1] | Continental | Other | Total | ||||||
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Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
Grasshoppers U21 | 2015–16 | Swiss 1. Liga | 1 | 0 | – | – | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
2016–17 | 12 | 4 | – | – | 0 | 0 | 12 | 4 | ||||
2017–18 | 1 | 0 | – | – | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||||
Total | 14 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 4 | ||
Grasshoppers | 2016–17 | Swiss Super League | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | |
2017–18 | 29 | 3 | 4 | 0 | – | 0 | 0 | 33 | 3 | |||
2018–19 | 33 | 3 | 2 | 0 | – | 0 | 0 | 35 | 3 | |||
2019–20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
Total | 69 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 75 | 6 | ||
Empoli (loan) | 2019–20 | Serie B | 28 | 5 | 1 | 0 | – | 1 [lower-alpha 2] | 0 | 30 | 5 | |
Empoli | 2020–21 | Serie B | 36 | 5 | 3 | 2 | – | 0 | 0 | 39 | 7 | |
2021–22 | Serie A | 35 | 6 | 3 | 3 | – | – | 38 | 9 | |||
2022–23 | Serie A | 19 | 1 | 1 | 0 | – | – | 20 | 1 | |||
Total | 118 | 17 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 127 | 22 | ||
Sassuolo (loan) | 2022–23 | Serie A | 18 | 1 | 0 | 0 | – | – | 18 | 1 | ||
Sassuolo | 2023–24 | Serie A | 28 | 2 | 3 | 1 | – | – | 31 | 3 | ||
2024–25 | Serie A | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | – | 0 | 0 | |||
Total | 46 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 49 | 4 | ||
Career total | 247 | 30 | 17 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 265 | 36 |
National team | Year | Apps | Goals |
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Albania | 2021 | 6 | 0 |
2022 | 4 | 0 | |
2023 | 9 | 3 | |
2024 | 6 | 2 | |
Total | 25 | 5 |
Scores and results list Albania's goal tally first.
No. | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
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1. | 17 June 2023 | Arena Kombëtare, Tirana, Albania | ![]() | 2–0 | 2–0 | UEFA Euro 2024 qualifying |
2. | 20 June 2023 | Tórsvøllur, Tórshavn, Faroe Islands | ![]() | 1–0 | 3–1 | |
3. | 7 September 2023 | Fortuna Arena, Prague, Czech Republic | ![]() | 1–1 | 1–1 | |
4. | 7 June 2024 | Haladás Sportkomplexum, Szombathely, Hungary | ![]() | 1–0 | 3–1 | Friendly |
5. | 15 June 2024 | Westfalenstadion, Dortmund, Germany | ![]() | 1–0 | 1–2 | UEFA Euro 2024 |
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