Zeki Amdouni

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Zeki Amdouni
Personal information
Full name Mohamed Zeki Amdouni [1]
Date of birth (2000-12-04) 4 December 2000 (age 23) [2]
Place of birth Geneva, Switzerland
Height 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) [3]
Position(s) Attacking midfielder, forward
Team information
Current team
 Burnley
Number 25
Youth career
2008–2013 Servette
2013–2018 Meyrin
2017–2018 → Étoile Carouge (loan)
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2018–2019 Étoile Carouge 38 (14)
2019–2021 Stade Lausanne Ouchy 56 (14)
2021–2023 Lausanne-Sport 34 (12)
2022–2023 → Basel (loan) 32 (12)
2023– Burnley 27 (4)
International career‡
2019 Switzerland U20 2 (0)
2021 Turkey U21 1 (0)
2021–2023 Switzerland U21 15 (9)
2022– Switzerland 13 (6)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 23:18, 16 March 2024 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 23:04, 26 March 2024 (UTC)

Mohamed Zeki Amdouni (born 4 December 2000) is a Swiss professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder or forward for Premier League club Burnley and the Switzerland national team.

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Club career

Early years

Amdouni is a youth product of Servette, Meyrin, and Étoile Carouge. He began his career with Étoile Carouge, playing in the 1. Liga the fourth tier of the Swiss football league system, before moving to Stade Lausanne Ouchy in the Swiss Challenge League in 2019. On 9 June 2021, he transferred to Lausanne-Sport in the Swiss Super League. [4] He made his professional debut with Lausanne-Sport in a 2–1 Swiss Super League defeat against FC St. Gallen on 24 July 2021. [5] At the end of the 2021–22 season Lausanne-Sport suffered relegation, but Amdouni was the team's top scorer with 12 goals. [6]

Basel

On 24 June 2022, Amdouni joined Basel's first team for their 2022–23 season under head coach Alexander Frei signing a two-year loan with an option for the club to buy. [7] After playing in two test games, in each of which he had scored a goal, Amdouni played his domestic league debut for his new club in the away game in the Schützenwiese on 16 July 2022 as Basel drew 1–1 with Winterthur. [8] He played his first European match in the second qualifying round of the 2022–23 UEFA Europa Conference League 21 July, it was the home game in the St. Jakob-Park as Basel won 2–0 against Northern Ireland team Crusaders. [9] Amdouni scored his first goal for the club on 28 August in the away game in the Letzigrund against Zürich as Basel won 4–2. [10]

Basel finished the Conference League group stage in second position and advanced to the Knockout round. It was here that Amdoumi showed his goal scoring flair, with seven goals in eight outings, during Basel's run to the semi-finals, where they lost to Fiorentina after extra time in the second leg. [11] These seven goals made Amdouni the competition's joint top goal scorer together with Arthur Cabral of Fiorentina. [12] On 2 May 2023, Basel's option to buy the player was activated, with Amdouni signing a four-year contract. [13] On 17 July 2023, Basel confirmed that although Amdouni had joined the club permanently, he was in talks for a move to another team and two days later he left the club. [14]

During his one season with them, Amdouni played a total of 58 games for Basel scoring a total of 25 goals. 32 of these games were in the Swiss Super League, three in the Swiss Cup, 17 in the UEFA Europa Conference League, and six were friendly games. He scored 12 goals in the domestic league, three in the cup, seven in the European games and the other three were scored during the test games. [15]

Burnley

On 19 July 2023, Amdouni signed for newly-promoted Premier League club Burnley on a five-year contract, for an undisclosed fee. [16] [17]

International career

Amdouni was born in Switzerland to a Turkish father and Tunisian mother. [18] He represented Switzerland U20, before switching to represent Turkey U21 in May 2019. That same month, he again switched over to Switzerland U21. [19]

He was called up by the senior Switzerland squad for the 2022–23 UEFA Nations League matches against Czech Republic, Portugal (twice) and Spain on 2, 5, 9 and 12 June 2022, respectively. [20] He made his debut on 27 September 2022 in a Nations League game against the Czech Republic, substituting Ruben Vargas in the 79th minute. [21] He scored his first international goal against Belarus, as Switzerland won 5–0 in a 2024 European Championship qualifying match. [22]

Career statistics

Club

As of match played 16 March 2024
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
ClubSeasonLeagueNational cup [lower-alpha 1] League cup [lower-alpha 2] EuropeTotal
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Étoile Carouge 2017–18 [23] Swiss 1. Liga 134——134
2018–19 [23] Swiss 1. Liga2510——2510
Total3814——3814
Stade Lausanne Ouchy 2019–20 [24] Swiss Challenge League 24331——274
2020–21 [25] Swiss Challenge League321110——3311
Total561441——6015
Lausanne-Sport 2021–22 [25] Swiss Super League 341243——3815
Basel (loan) 2022–23 [25] Swiss Super League321233—17 [lower-alpha 3] 75222
Burnley 2023–24 [25] Premier League 2741021—305
Career total187561272117721871

International

As of match played 26 March 2024 [23]
Appearances and goals by national team and year
National teamYearAppsGoals
Switzerland 202210
2023106
202420
Total136
Netherlands score listed first, score column indicates score after each Amdouni goal.
International goals by date, venue, cap, opponent, score, result and competition
No.DateVenueCapOpponentScoreResultCompetition
125 March 2023 Karađorđe Stadium, Novi Sad, Serbia2Flag of Belarus.svg  Belarus 5–05–0 UEFA Euro 2024 qualifying
228 March 2023 Stade de Genève, Geneva, Switzerland3Flag of Israel.svg  Israel 2–03–0 UEFA Euro 2024 qualifying
316 June 2023 Estadi Nacional, Andorra la Vella, Andorra4Flag of Andorra.svg  Andorra 2–02–1 UEFA Euro 2024 qualifying
419 June 2023 Swissporarena, Lucerne, Switzerland5Flag of Romania.svg  Romania 1–02–2 UEFA Euro 2024 qualifying
52–0
615 October 2023 Kybunpark, St Gallen, Switzerland8Flag of Belarus.svg  Belarus 3–33–3 UEFA Euro 2024 qualifying

Honours

Individual

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