Dardan Rexhepi

Dardan Rexhepi
	Rexhepi playing for Malmö FF in 2011.
Personal information
Full name	Dardan Rexhepi
Date of birth	16 January 1992 (age 32)
Place of birth	Pristina, SFR Yugoslavia
Height	1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)
Position(s)	Striker
Team information
Current team	GAIS
Number	19
Youth career
1997–2003	Eslövs BK
2003–2009	Lunds BK
2009–2010	Malmö FF
Senior career*
Years	Team
2010–2013	Malmö FF
2014	IF Brommapojkarna
2015–2016	BK Häcken
2016–	GAIS
International career‡
2010–2011	Sweden U19
2011–2013	Sweden U21
2014–	Kosovo
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 8 August 2016; ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 12 June 2013

Dardan Rexhepi (Template:Lang-sr, Dardan Redžepi) (born 16 January 1992 in Pristina, AP Kosovo, SFR Yugoslavia) is a Kosovar footballer playing for GAIS in Superettan as a striker. He was born in Sweden, and played for their youth football teams before playing for the senior Kosovo national football team.

Club career

Malmö FF

Rexhepi moved from Lunds BK to Malmö FF in 2009. After scoring 38 goals in 43 games for the youth team he was promoted to the first team squad the following year. In his debut match for the first team against Syrianska FC in Svenska Cupen on May 18, 2010 he scored the winning goal in extra time. On the 15th of September the same year he started his first match in Allsvenskan in the derby and top-match against Helsingborgs IF in which he also scored his first league goal, which proved to be the winning goal as Malmö FF won 2-0, the second goal in the same game was assisted by Rexhepi. The win against Helsingborg would prove to be crucial for the championship as Malmö FF won the league a few games later only 2 points more than Helsingborg. He has sinced earned the nickname "D-Rex".

Rexhepi had a minor breakthrough for the 2011 season and played 23 matches and scored one goal. He also played for the club in the qualifying stages to the 2011–12 UEFA Champions League and in the group stage of the 2011–12 UEFA Europa League. The 2012 season proved to be a tougher challenge for Rexhepi as he received less play than the previous season. In total Rexhepi played 13 out of 30 matches for Malmö FF during the season and walked away goalless in league play. Rexhepi played 17 matches and scored one goal during the league title winning 2013 season, however he was still the third choice attacker behind Magnus Eriksson and Tokelo Rantie in the beginning of the season and then Eriksson and Guillermo Molins in the end of the season.

IF Brommapojkarna

On 21 January 2014, Rexhepi signed for fellow Allsvenskan club IF Brommapojkarna, citing that he needed more time on the pitch to continue develop as a player. Malmö FF acknowledged that a buy-back agreement existed in the transfer and that they would follow Rexhepi's development in Brommapojkarna.^[1]

BK Häcken

In January 2015, Rexhepi signed for Allsvenskan club BK Häcken.

International career

Rexhepi made his debut for Sweden U21 on 24 March 2011 in a training match against Italy U21.^[2]

Career statistics

As of 6 October 2013.^[3]

Club	Season	League		Cup		Continental		Total
Club	Season	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Malmö FF	2010	10	2	1	1	—		11	3
	2011	23	1	2	0	7	1	32	2
	2012	13	0	1	0	—		14	0
	2013	17	1	2	1	0	0	19	2
	Total	63	4	6	2	7	1	76	7
IF Brommapojkarna	2014	0	0	0	0	—		0	0
IF Brommapojkarna	Total	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Career total		63	4	6	2	7	1	76	7

Honours

Club

Malmö FF

Allsvenskan: 2010, 2013
Svenska Supercupen: 2013

References

^ "Dardan lämnar MFF för BP". mff.se (in Swedish). Malmö FF. 21 January 2014. Retrieved 21 January 2014.
^ "U21 herr: Förlust 3-1 mot Italien" (in Swedish). 2011-03-24. Retrieved 2011-03-24.
^ "Dardan Rexhepi". soccerway.com (in Swedish). Soccerway. Retrieved 13 January 2013.

External links

[1] "Dardan lämnar MFF för BP". mff.se (in Swedish). Malmö FF. 21 January 2014. Retrieved 21 January 2014.

[2] "U21 herr: Förlust 3-1 mot Italien" (in Swedish). 2011-03-24. Retrieved 2011-03-24.

[3] "Dardan Rexhepi". soccerway.com (in Swedish). Soccerway. Retrieved 13 January 2013.

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