Xhevahir Sukaj
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Xhevahir Sukaj | ||
| Date of birth | 5 October 1987 | ||
| Place of birth | Shkodër, Albania | ||
| Height | 1.84 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||
| Playing position | Striker | ||
| Club information | |||
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Current team
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Partizani Tirana | ||
| Number | 20 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 2002–2004 | Vllaznia Shkodër | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2004–2008 | Vllaznia Shkodër | 75 | (19) |
| 2005–2006 | → Elbasani (loan) | 10 | (0) |
| 2008–2009 | → Hacettepe (loan) | 11 | (0) |
| 2009 | Vllaznia Shkodër | 14 | (11) |
| 2010 | Orduspor | 10 | (2) |
| 2010 | Ismaily | 3 | (0) |
| 2010–2011 | NK Zagreb | 5 | (1) |
| 2011–2012 | Vllaznia Shkodër | 20 | (15) |
| 2012–2015 | Sepahan | 70 | (15) |
| 2015–2016 | Partizani Tirana | 31 | (21) |
| 2016 | Perak FA | 4 | (2) |
| 2017– | Partizani Tirana | 5 | (2) |
| National team‡ | |||
| 2005–2009 | Albania U21 | 15 | (5) |
| 2009– | Albania | 1 | (0) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 29 April 2017. ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 21 August 2015 |
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Xhevahir Sukaj (born 5 October 1987 in Shkodër) is an Albanian footballer who plays as a forward for Albanian club Partizani Tirana in Albanian Superliga.
He has played for Vllaznia Shkodër and Elbasani in Albania, Hacettepe and Orduspor in Turkey, Ismaily in Egypt, NK Zagreb in Croatia and most recently Sepahan in Iran.
Sukaj is a product of the Vllaznia academy and in 2004 he was promoted to the first team at the age of just 16. The 2004–05 season was his first in professional football and he made 15 league appearances scoring 1 goal along the way helping Vllaznia finish 4th in the table. In the Albanian Cup, Sukaj managed to grab 2 goals in the 8–0 thrashing of Tërbuni Pukë in the 2nd round of the cup. Vllaznia reached the semi-finals that season but were eventually knocked out by Tirana after a 3–2 aggregate loss.
He was then loaned out to Elbasani for the 2005–06 season in order to gain some more first team experience, but Sukaj found it difficult to compete with the more experienced strikers at the club and only managed to feature in 4 league games without scoring, but he did win the Albanian Superliga that season with Elbasani. He reached the Albanian Cup semi-finals again but did not score in any game during his loan.
Sukaj returned to Vllaznia in 2006 and immediately established himself in the first team and was instrumental in helping Vllaznia finish 3rd in the league with 8 goals in 31 games. He also scored 3 goals in the cup where Vllaznia were narrowly knocked out in the quarter-finals through the away goal rule against Partizani Tirana. Overall, he scored 11 goals in the 2006–07 season.
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