Tesfaldet Tekie

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Tesfaldet Tekie
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Tekie playing for IFK Norrköping
Personal information
Full name Tesfaldet Simon Tekie
Date of birth (1997-06-04) 4 June 1997 (age 27)
Place of birth Asmara, Eritrea
Height 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Position(s) Central midfielder
Team information
Current team
 Hammarby IF
Number 5
Youth career
2008–2010 Marieholm BoIK
2010–2013 Gunnilse IS
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2013 Gunnilse IS 6 (0)
2013–2016 IFK Norrköping 32 (0)
2014–2015 → IF Sylvia (loan) 20 (4)
2017–2019 Gent 0 (0)
2018–2019 → Östersunds FK (loan) 27 (2)
2019–2022 Fortuna Sittard 80 (2)
2022–2023 Go Ahead Eagles 8 (0)
2023– Hammarby IF 27 (4)
2023–2024 → Apollon Limassol (loan) 12 (0)
International career‡
2012 Sweden U17 2 (0)
2015–2016 Sweden U19 8 (0)
2018 Sweden U21 1 (0)
2019 Sweden 1 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 00:35, 27 May 2024 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 11 January 2019

Tesfaldet Simon Tekie (born 4 June 1997) is a Swedish professional footballer who plays as a central midfielder for Hammarby IF in Allsvenskan.

Contents

Early life

Born in Eritrea, Tekie moved to Gothenburg, Sweden, as a nine-year-old. [1] He started to play youth football with local club Marieholms BoIK, before joining Gunnilse IS in 2010. [2] [3] [4] In 2013, at age 15, Tekie made his debut in senior football with Gunnilse, making six league appearances in Division 3, Sweden's fifth tier. [5]

Club career

IFK Norrköping

On 6 August 2013, Tekie moved to IFK Norrköping, together with his teammate Ihab Naser from Gunnilse. [6] In 2014, he was sent on loan to affiliated club IF Sylvia in Division 1, the domestic third tier, making 11 appearances. [5]

In 2015, Tekie made six appearances for IFK Norrköping in Allsvenskan, being part of the squad that won the Swedish championship. [7] On 19 July the same year, he signed a new three-and-a-half-year contract with the club. [8]

In 2016, Tekie made 26 league appearances for IFK Norrköping, that finished 3rd in the Allsvenskan table. [5] [9] He also featured in both legs as the club was knocked out in the second qualifying round of the 2016–17 UEFA Champions League, losing 4–5 on aggregate to Rosenborg. [10]

Gent

On 19 January 2017, Tekie transferred to Belgian First Division A club Gent, signing a three-and-a-half-year contract. [11] The transfer fee was reportedly set at around €1.6 million. [12] Tekie failed to make any competitive appearances for Gent, before leaving the club by mutual consent on 3 September 2019. [13]

Loan to Östersunds FK

Tekie failed to make any competitive appearances for Gent. On 1 January 2018, he was sent on a one-and-a-half-year loan to Östersunds FK in Allsvenskan. [14] In February, Tekie played in both legs as Östersund was knocked out in the round of 32 in the 2017–18 UEFA Europa League, losing 2–4 on aggregate to Arsenal. [15] [16] He went on to make 15 league appearances for the club in 2018, before his season was cut short in September due to an injury. [17]

In 2019, Tekie remained with Östersund during the first half of the season, making 12 appearances, before returning to Gent in June. [18] [19]

Fortuna Sittard

On 9 September 2019, Tekie signed a two-year contract with the option of a third with Fortuna Sittard in the Dutch Eredivisie. [20] [21] In his debut season in 2019–20, he established himself as a starter for his new club and played 20 games, before the league was abandoned in April 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the Netherlands. [22]

In 2020–21, Tekie made 33 league appearances, helping Fortuna Sittard to finish 11th in the Eredivisie table. [22] On 30 March 2021, the club decided to exercise their option to extend his contract for one further season. [23]

In 2021–22, Fortuna Sittard finished 15th in the league, one place above the relegation zone, with Tekie making 27 appearances. [22] In May 2022, it was announced that he would leave the club during the summer at the expiration of his contract. [24]

Go Ahead Eagles

On 8 September 2022, Tekie signed a one-year contract with Go Ahead Eagles. [25] He made eight appearances in the 2022–23 Eredivisie, before leaving on 31 January 2023 by mutual consent after he had struggled to find motivation at the club. [26]

Hammarby IF

On 9 February 2023, Tekie returned to Sweden and signed a four-year contract with Hammarby IF. [27] After establishing himself as a regular for the club, making 16 league appearances during the first half of the season, he fell out of favor with head coach Martí Cifuentes in August the same year. [28] [29] [30] [31] He returned to Hammarby on 31 January 2024, by request of new head coach Kim Hellberg. [32]

Loan to Apollon Limassol

On 28 August 2023, he joined Apollon Limassol in the Cypriot First Division on a one-year loan, with an option to buy. [33] [34] On 31 January 2024, the loan agreement was terminated. In total, he made 12 league appearances for Apollon Limassol. [35]

International career

Between 2012 and 2018, Tekie was capped for all Swedish youth teams from the under-17's to the under-21's, making 11 appearances for all selections. [36] [37]

He made his debut for the Sweden men's national football team on 11 January 2019 in a 2–2 friendly against Iceland, as a starter. [38] [39]

Career statistics

Club

As of 31 March 2024 [22]
ClubSeasonLeagueCupContinentalTotal
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Gunnilse IS 2013 Division 3 6100—61
IF Sylvia (loan) 2014 Division 1 11100—111
2015 Division 2 9300—93
Total2640000264
IFK Norrköping 2015 Allsvenskan 6010—70
2016 260402 [lower-alpha 1] 0320
Total3205020390
Östersunds FK (loan) 2018 Allsvenskan151512 [lower-alpha 2] 0222
2019 12130—151
Total2728120373
Fortuna Sittard 2019–20 Eredivisie 20030—230
2020–21 33120—351
2021–22 27110—281
Total8026000862
Go Ahead Eagles 2022–23 Eredivisie8020—100
Total802000100
Hammarby IF 2023 Allsvenskan1625100213
2024 1020—30
Total1727100243
Career total190102824022212
  1. ↑ Appearances in UEFA Champions League
  2. ↑ Appearances in UEFA Europa League

Honours

Club

IFK Norrköping

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  2. ↑ "Ettanfotboll möter Tesfaldet Tekie". youtube.com (in Swedish). Ettan Fotboll. 2 September 2014. Retrieved 21 February 2023.
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  4. ↑ ""Tess" debuterar i högsta serien!" (in Swedish). Gunnilse IS. 10 April 2015. Retrieved 21 February 2023.
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  6. ↑ "KLART: IFK Norrköping värvar talangerna Ihab Naser och Tesfaldet Tekie" (in Swedish). Fotbolltransfers.com. 6 August 2013. Retrieved 12 March 2023.
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  38. ↑ "Truppen till vinterturnén" (in Swedish). Swedish Football Association. 3 December 2018. Retrieved 14 March 2023.
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