Kenan Muslimović (born 13 February 1997) is an Austrian and Bosnian professional footballer who plays as a forward for German amateur club DJK Ammerthal.

Kenan Muslimović
Personal information
Date of birth (1997-02-13) 13 February 1997 (age 27)
Place of birth Vienna, Austria
Height 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)
Position(s) Forward
Team information
Current team
DJK Ammerthal
Number 30
Youth career
2012–2013 Austria Wien
2013–2014 Admira Wacker
2014 Austria Wien
2014–2015 First Vienna
2015 Novara
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2014–2015 First Vienna II 18 (2)
2016 Mladost Doboj Kakanj 1 (0)
2016–2017 Novi Pazar 11 (0)
2017 1. FC Kaiserslautern II 11 (0)
2018 Jahn Regensburg II 30 (18)
2019 Mladost Doboj Kakanj 10 (0)
2019 FC Pipinsried 12 (5)
2020 Lokomotiv Plovdiv 12 (1)
2021–2022 SV Donaustauf 20 (7)
2022 DSV Leoben 10 (1)
2022 SpVgg SV Weiden 0 (0)
2022– DJK Ammerthal 16 (7)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 12 November 2022

Career edit

Born in Vienna,[1] he started playing in the youth teams of Austrian clubs FK Austria Wien and FC Admira Wacker.[2] In the summer 2014, he joined the senior team of First Vienna FC, however, he played for the B team.[3][4]

Following summer, in 2015, he moved to Italy and signed for the youth team of Novara Calcio[2] During the first-half of the season, making three appearances in the youth league.[5] Novara won the race with FC Red Bull Salzburg in signing him.[6]

During the winter-break of the 2015–16 season, he left Italy and moved to former-Yugoslavia to join Bosnian side FK Mladost Doboj Kakanj.[7] playing in the Premier League of Bosnia and Herzegovina.[1][8] Regarded as a major talent, in summer 2016 he moved to Serbia. Initially, he was about to join FK Partizan's farm-club FK Teleoptik, thus following a family tradition, since his father, who had ended his career prematurely because of illness, had played for the Partizan youth team.[9] However, instead, he ended up joining top-league side FK Novi Pazar.

He failed to debut in the SuperLiga during the first half of the 2016–17 season. In December 2016 and January 2017, he was on trials at German club Hertha BSC.[10][11] He ended up staying at Novi Pazar, and made his debut in the Serbian SuperLiga on 18 February 2017, in the first round played after winter-break. In August 2017, he left Novi Pazar.

Between Summer 2017 and January 2019, Muslimović played in Germany for the second teams of 1. FC Kaiserslautern and SSV Jahn Regensburg.

On 25 January 2019, he came back and signed with Mladost Doboj Kakanj in the Premier League of Bosnia and Herzegovina.[12] After half a season, on 9 June 2019, Muslimović left Mladost.[13]

Ahead of the 2019-20 season, Muslimović returned to Germany and joined FC Pipinsried.[14] After a spell in Bulgaria, he moved back to Germany once more to play for SV Donaustauf.[15]

Personal life edit

Kenan is the nephew of Bosnian singer Halid Muslimović.[16]

Honours edit

Lokomotiv Plovdiv

References edit

  1. ^ a b Kenan Muslimovic profile at Soccerway
  2. ^ a b Kenan Muslimovic at Worldfootball
  3. ^ Kenan Muslimovic profile Archived 26 January 2019 at the Wayback Machine at First Vienna FC official website, Retrieved 19 February 2017 (in German)
  4. ^ Austrian career stats - OEFB
  5. ^ Kenan Muslimovic at legaseriea.it
  6. ^ Novara, in arrivo il giovane attaccante Kenan Muslimovic at tuttomercatoweb.com, 11 August 2015, Retrieved 19 February 2017 (in Italian)
  7. ^ Kenan Muslimović potpisao za FK Mladost, Doboj-Kakanj at mojprijedor.com, 28 January 2016, Retrieved 19 February 2017 (in Bosnian)
  8. ^ Kenan Muslimovic at footballdatabase.eu
  9. ^ Talentovani Kenan Muslimović prešao iz Mladosti u Teleoptik at klix.ba, 20 June 2016, Retrieved 19 February 2017 (in Bosnian)
  10. ^ Talentovani nogometaš Kenan Muslimović u januaru na probi u Herti at extramagazin.ba, Retrieved 19 February 2017 (in Bosnian)
  11. ^ Gegen den Halleschen FC siegen die Blau-Weißen im ersten Testspiel 2017 mit 3:1 (2:0). at Hertha BSC official website, 8 January 2017, Retrieved 19 February 2017 (in German)
  12. ^ FK Mladost DK doveo Muslimovića at sportsport.ba, 25 January 2019
  13. ^ A. Lendo (9 June 2019). "Kenan Muslimović i zvanično napustio FK Mladost Doboj Kakanj" (in Bosnian). sportsport.ba. Retrieved 9 June 2019.
  14. ^ Nächster Neuer: FC Pipinsried angelt sich Kenan Muslimovic, fupa.net, 1 July 2019
  15. ^ Der SV Donaustauf verpflichtet ein Duo - Mittelbayerische (in German)
  16. ^ "Halid Muslimović: Sarajevo je za mene maćeha, a za druge majka". Dnevni avaz (in Bosnian). 30 October 2016. Retrieved 21 February 2017.

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