Personal information | |||
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Full name | Andraž Šporar | ||
Date of birth | 27 February 1994 | ||
Place of birth | Ljubljana, Slovenia | ||
Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||
Playing position | Striker | ||
Club information | |||
Current team
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Basel | ||
Number | 9 | ||
Youth career | |||
–2005 | Olimpija | ||
2005–2009 | MNK Ljubljana | ||
2009–2011 | Interblock | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2011–2012 | Interblock | 21 | (10) |
2012–2015 | Olimpija Ljubljana | 95 | (46) |
2016– | Basel | 14 | (0) |
National team‡ | |||
2011 | Slovenia U18 | 1 | (0) |
2011–2012 | Slovenia U19 | 17 | (3) |
2012 | Slovenia U20 | 1 | (1) |
2013–2016 | Slovenia U21 | 19 | (7) |
2016– | Slovenia | 2 | (0) |
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 9 April 2017. ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 14 November 2016 |
Andraž Šporar (born 27 February 1994) is a Slovenian footballer who plays for Basel in the Swiss Super League.
In July 2012 Šporar transferred from Interblock to Olimpija Ljubljana. In the 2015–16 Slovenian PrvaLiga season, Šporar was named as team captain. During the first half of the clubs season he played 18 PrvaLiga games and scored 17 goals.
On 8 December 2015 Basel announced that Šporar had signed a four and a half year contract up until the end of June 2020. He made his league debut for Basel on 14 February 2016 in the 4–0 away win against Grasshopper Club coming in as substitute in the 70th minute. Šporar injured himself during warm-up before the away match against Saint-Étienne on 18 February 2016. He had to undergo a surgery which kept him out for the rest of the 2015–16 FC Basel season, in which his team won the 2015–16 Swiss Super League championship, their seventh national title in a row.
In November 2016 he received his first call-up to the senior Slovenia squad for matches against Malta and Poland. He debuted against Malta, replacing Milivoje Novaković late in the second half.