Albian Ajeti

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Albian Ajeti
Personnel
birthday February 26, 1997
place of birth Basel ,  Switzerland
Size 183 cm
position striker
Juniors
Years station
2005-2015 FC Basel
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2014-2015 FC Basel 11 0(3)
2016 FC Augsburg 1 0(0)
2016 FC Augsburg II 6 0(2)
2016-2017 FC St. Gallen 36 (13)
2017-2019 FC Basel 58 (28)
2019-2020 West Ham United 9 0(0)
2020– Celtic Glasgow 0 0(0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals) 2
2012 Switzerland U15 6 0(2)
2012 Switzerland U16 2 0(1)
2012-2014 Switzerland U17 17 0(7)
2014 Switzerland U18 3 0(2)
2015 Switzerland U20 1 0(0)
2015– Switzerland U21 8 0(0)
2018– Switzerland 6 0(1)
1 Only league games are given.
As of August 13, 2020

2 As of March 23, 2019

Albian Ajeti (born February 26, 1997 in Basel ) is a Swiss football player of Kosovar descent. He has been under contract with the Scottish club Celtic Glasgow since August 2020 .

Career

youth

Albian and his twin brother Adonis began their football careers in 2005 as juniors at FC Basel . In the same year, her older brother Arlind also moved from FC Concordia Basel to FC Basel. In the 2011/12 and 2012/13 seasons Albian played in the U-16 team, which at the time was one of the strongest U-16 teams in Europe, and was twice Swiss champions. From the 2012/13 season, he was only 15 years old when he was a member of the U-18 team. On April 30, 2013, the twin brothers received their first professional contract from FC Basel. Previously, they had rejected a request from the Spanish top club FC Barcelona for their U-16 team. From the 2013/14 season Albian rose to the U-21 team of FC Basel.

FC Basel

Ajeti made his debut for the first team of FC Basel in the last 16 of the Europa League 2013/14 against FC Red Bull Salzburg , where he came on in the 90th minute. In the Swiss Super League, he was used for the first time on April 6, 2014 against FC Thun when he came on in the 86th minute. In his second championship game on May 18, 2014 against FC Lausanne-Sport , he scored his first goal for FC Basel in the 8th minute.

FC Augsburg

At the beginning of January 2016, Ajeti moved to the German Bundesliga for FC Augsburg . He was given a contract that ran until June 30, 2020. In the 2-2 draw against SV Darmstadt 98 on March 12, 2016, the 26th matchday, Ajeti made his debut for Augsburg in the Bundesliga when he was in the 54th Bundesliga. Minute for Dominik Kohr was substituted on.

FC St. Gallen

In August 2016, Ajeti was loaned out to the Swiss first division club FC St. Gallen for one year . On March 29, 2017, the club announced the commitment until summer 2021. The assumed transfer fee was 1 million Swiss francs.

FC Basel

In October 2017 Ajeti returned to FC Basel , where he established himself as a regular in the Sturm. In 2019 he left FCB for England to West Ham; his contract would have run until 2022.

West Ham United

In August 2019, Ajeti was signed by West Ham United and received a contract until 2023 with an option for two more years.

Celtic Glasgow

In August 2020, Ajeti was signed by Celtic Glasgow for a transfer fee of £ 4.5million and received a contract until 2024.

National team

Ajeti has so far been through the junior teams U-15 and U-16 in Switzerland. From October 2012 to May 2014 Ajeti plays for the Swiss U-17 national team and scored 7 goals in 17 games. He made his debut for the Swiss U-18 national team on September 4, 2014 in a 1-0 away win against the Swedish U-18s , where he scored the winning goal . He made his debut for the U-20s on March 31, 2015 as a substitute against the Italian U-20s .

On September 8, 2018, Ajeti made his senior national team debut in the first group game of the UEFA Nations League against Iceland . In the 65th minute of the game he was substituted on for Breel Embolo when the score was 3-0 and scored the goal to make it 5-0 just six minutes later.

successes

FC Basel

family

Albian Ajeti is a younger brother of Arlind Ajeti and the twin brother of Adonis Ajeti , who are both professional footballers.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Player profile Arlind Ajeti ( memento from October 22, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) on the homepage of FC Basel
  2. ↑ Professional contracts for Adonis and Albian Ajeti ( Memento from March 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), FCB.ch from April 30, 2014
  3. ↑ The live ticker for the game FC Basel - Salzburg , Tagesanzeiger.ch of March 13, 2014
  4. ↑ A double, a premiere and two dererniers - the single review , Tageswoche.ch of May 18, 2014
  5. ↑ FC Augsburg: FCA signs Albian Ajeti , January 8, 2016, accessed on January 8, 2016.
  6. ↑ FC Augsburg: Ajeti on loan to St. Gallen , August 31, 2016, accessed on August 31, 2016.
  7. ^ Matthias Dubach: Transfer fix: FC St. Gallen gets Albian Ajeti! ( blick.ch [accessed on March 29, 2017]).
  8. ↑ Albian Ajeti comes back to FC Basel , fcb.ch from. October 2017, accessed August 7, 2019
  9. ↑ LASK opponent Basel surrenders striker Ajeti to West Ham. In: sport.ORF.at. August 7, 2019, accessed August 7, 2019 .
  10. ^ Albian Ajeti: Celtic sign West Ham striker for £ 4.5m. In: BBC Sport. August 13, 2020, accessed on August 13, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Ajeti, Albian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH February 26, 1997
PLACE OF BIRTH Basel , Switzerland