Personal information | |||
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Full name | Bekim Kuli | ||
Date of birth | 19 September 1982 | ||
Place of birth | Kavajë, Albania | ||
Height | 1.81 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||
Playing position | Versatile forward | ||
Club information | |||
Current team
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Bylis Ballsh | ||
Number | 10 | ||
Youth career | |||
1996–1998 | Tropikal Durrës | ||
1998–1999 | Besa Kavajë | ||
1999–2000 | Gençlerbirliği | ||
– | Samsunspor | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1998–1999 | Besa Kavajë | ||
1999–2000 | Gençlerbirliği | 0 | (0) |
1999–2000 | → Gençlerbirliği A2 (loan) | 2 | (0) |
2000–2004 | Samsunspor | 0 | (0) |
2000–2001 | → Samsunspor A2 (loan) | 22 | (11) |
2002 | → Partizani Tirana (loan) | 11 | (1) |
2002 | → Samsunspor A2 (loan) | 11 | (7) |
2003 | → Partizani Tirana (loan) | 8 | (0) |
2003–2004 | → Besa Kavajë (loan) | 25 | (8) |
2004 | Egnatia Rrogozhinë | 16 | (4) |
2005 | KF Lushnja | 15 | (2) |
2005 | Vllaznia Shkodër | 7 | (0) |
2006 | KF Lushnja | 15 | (3) |
2006–2007 | Teuta Durrës | 28 | (4) |
2007–2008 | Dinamo Tirana | 28 | (7) |
2008–2009 | Besa Kavajë | 26 | (4) |
2009–2010 | Dinamo Tirana | 23 | (3) |
2010–2011 | Shkumbini Peqin | 27 | (9) |
2011–2012 | Dinamo Tirana | 20 | (5) |
2012–2013 | Skënderbeu Korçë | 14 | (0) |
2013–2014 | Bylis Ballsh | 22 | (5) |
2014 | Besa Kavajë | 9 | (3) |
2015 | Teuta Durrës | 11 | (0) |
2015– | Bylis Ballsh | 5 | (0) |
National team | |||
1999 | Albania U16 | 2 | (2) |
2000 | Albania U18 | 3 | (2) |
2001–2003 | Albania U21 | 4 | (0) |
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 30 January 2016. |
Bekim Kuli (born 19 September 1982 in Kavajë) is an Albanian footballer who currently plays for Bylis Ballsh in the Albanian Superliga.
Kuli began his career with the Tropikal Durrës youth team, where he played for two years before joining his hometown club Besa Kavajë in 1998. He was with the club for only a year before moving to Turkey to join Gençlerbirliği in the summer of 1999 along with fellow Albanian Bledar Mançaku. The pair both joined the club's youth team, and Kuli featured in two under-21 A2 Ligi games in his first season in Turkey, and he was part of the team that finished as runners-up in the 1999–2000 A2 Ligi. He was then transferred to Samsunspor in 2000 and again joined the club's under-21 side where he became an important player, scoring 11 goals in 22 games to once again finish as a runner-up in the A2 Ligi. He made his professional debut as a 19-year-old with Samsunspor on 12 December 2001 in a Turkish Cup game against Trabzonspor, where he came on as an 80th-minute substitute for Alfred Phiri in the 3–0 away loss.
He returned to Albania in January 2002 where he loaned out to Albanian Superliga side Partizani Tirana for the remainder of the 2001–2002 campaign in order to gain first team experience. He played 11 league games while he was on loan and he scored on goal which came on 30 March in a 2–1 loss to Shkumbini Peqin. Upon his return to Samsunspor, he went back to the under-21 side, and scored 7 goals in 11 games in the first half of the season before being sent out once again on loan to Partizani Tirana where he didn't score in 8 league appearances, but he did manage to find the net in the Albanian Cup against Bylis Ballsh.