Faruk Hujdurović (born 14 May 1970) is a Bosnian-Herzegovinian retired footballer who played as a centre-back.[1]

Faruk Hujdurović
Personal information
Full name Faruk Hujdurović
Date of birth (1970-05-14) 14 May 1970 (age 54)
Place of birth Bijeljina, SFR Yugoslavia
Height 1.84 m (6 ft 0 in)
Position(s) Centre-back
Youth career
FK Radnik Bijeljina
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1993 OFK Beograd 1 (0)
1994–1996 Hajduk Kula 3 (0)
1996–1998 Publikum Celje 43 (3)
1998–2000 SV Ried 85 (5)
2001–2004 Energie Cottbus 65 (1)
2004–2005 Carl Zeiss Jena 50 (6)
2006 1. FC Eschborn 5 (1)
2006–2008 VFC Plauen 52 (3)
2008–2010 VfB Pößneck 48 (6)
International career
1999–2002 Bosnia and Herzegovina 11 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Club career

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Hujdurović played with OFK Beograd in the 1993–94 First League of FR Yugoslavia.[2] He also played for another Serbian club, FK Hajduk Kula,[3] before moving to NK Celje playing in the Slovenian PrvaLiga.[4] His career will start rising from this point, after Slovenia, his next stop was Austria, where he played three years with SV Ried in the Austrian Bundesliga and winning the Austrian Cup right in his first season there.[3]

German Bundesliga side FC Energie Cottbus brought him during the winter-break of the 2000–01 season. He played three seasons in Cottbus in German highest level. Afterwards he stayed in Germany and played for several lower-level clubs, most notably for Carl Zeiss Jena.[5]

There are sources that misspell his surname as Hajdurovic or Hajdukovic.

International career

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He made his debut for Bosnia and Herzegovina in an October 1999 European Championship qualification match away against Scotland and has earned a total of 11 caps, scoring no goals.[6] His final international was a March 2002 friendly match against Macedonia.[7]

Honours

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SV Ried

References

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  1. ^ "Faruk Hujdurović". worldfootball.net. Retrieved 10 November 2012.
  2. ^ OFK Beograd squads by season at ofkbeograd.net (note: misspelled as Hajdukovic)
  3. ^ a b c Faruk Hujdurović at National-Football-Teams.com
  4. ^ Faruk Hajdurovič at prvaliga.si
  5. ^ German career stats - FuPa
  6. ^ Mamrud, Roberto (16 July 2009). "Bosnia and Herzegovina – Record International Players". RSSSF. Retrieved 7 March 2021.
  7. ^ "Player Database". eu-football.info. Retrieved 7 March 2021.