Altin Rraklli
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Altin Rraklli | ||
| Date of birth | 17 July 1970 | ||
| Place of birth | Kavajë, Albania | ||
| Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||
| Playing position | Forward | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1987–1990 | Besa Kavajë | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1990–1992 | Besa Kavajë | 68 | (43) |
| 1992–1996 | SC Freiburg | 86 | (22) |
| 1996–1997 | Hertha BSC | 28 | (5) |
| 1997–2002 | SpVgg Unterhaching | 147 | (29) |
| 2002–2003 | Diyarbakirspor | 12 | (2) |
| 2003–2004 | Jahn Regensburg | 21 | (2) |
| 2004–2005 | KF Tirana | 35 | (19) |
| 2005–2006 | Besa Kavajë | 14 | (4) |
| 2009 | Bayern Hof | 2 | (0) |
| Total | 413 | (126) | |
| National team | |||
| 1992–2005 | Albania | 63 | (11) |
| Teams managed | |||
| 2009–2011 | Tirana AS | ||
| 2011–2016 | Albania (women) | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Altin Rraklli (born 17 July 1970) is an Albanian retired footballer who played as a forward, and a current coach.
Most of his professional career was spent in Germany, where he played for five clubs in both major levels of football, mainly Freiburg and Unterhaching for a total of 282 games. He was the first ever player from the nation to compete in the Bundesliga.
Born in Kavajë, Rraklli began his career with Besa Kavajë, moving to the professionals three years later. In 1992, he signed with Germany's SC Freiburg, being instrumental in the Black Forest club's first ever top flight promotion by scoring 16 second division goals (squad best, tenth in the league, as Freiburg scored 102); in the next three Bundesliga seasons, he would only manage to be relatively used.
In the following eight years, Rraklli continued to work in Germany, mainly in the second level: Hertha BSC, SpVgg Unterhaching – achieving another promotion and living his best professional years – and SSV Jahn Regensburg, also having one-season spells in Turkey and his homeland and retiring professionally in 2006 with German top flight totals of 111 matches and 16 goals. He also represented the Albanian national team 63 times, scoring 11 goals, which made him the second-highest goalscorer in the country's history.
Rraklli retired for good in 2009 at 39 years of age, after a brief spell with German amateurs SpVgg Bayern Hof.
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