Zeki Amdouni

Mohamed Zeki Amdouni (born 4 December 2000) is a Swiss professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder or forward for Premier League club Burnley and the Switzerland national team.

Zeki Amdouni
Personal information
Full name Mohamed Zeki Amdouni[1]
Date of birth (2000-12-04) 4 December 2000[2]
Place of birth Geneva, Switzerland
Height 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)[3]
Position(s) Attacking midfielder, forward
Team information
Current team
 Burnley
Number 25
Youth career
2008–2013 Servette
2013–2015 Meyrin
2015–2017 Étoile Carouge
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2017–2019 Étoile Carouge 38 (14)
2019–2021 Stade Lausanne Ouchy 56 (14)
2021–2023 Lausanne-Sport 34 (12)
2022–2023 → Basel (loan) 32 (12)
2023– Burnley 8 (1)
International career‡
2019 Switzerland U20 2 (0)
2021 Turkey U21 1 (0)
2021–2023 Switzerland U21 15 (9)
2022– Switzerland 7 (5)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 19:33, 25 October 2023 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 12 September 2023

Club career

Early years

Amdouni is a youth product of Servette, Meyrin, and Étoile Carouge. He began his career with Étoile Carouge, playing in the 1. Liga the fourth tier of the Swiss football league system, before moving to Stade Lausanne Ouchy in the Swiss Challenge League in 2019. On 9 June 2021, he transferred to Lausanne-Sport in the Swiss Super League.[4] He made his professional debut with Lausanne-Sport in a 2–1 Swiss Super League defeat against FC St. Gallen on 24 July 2021.[5] At the end of the 2021–22 season Lausanne-Sport suffered relegation, but Amdouni was the teams top scorer with 12 goals.[6]

Basel

On 24 June 2022, Amdouni joined Basel's first team for their 2022–23 season under head coach Alexander Frei signing a two-year loan with an option for the club to buy.[7] After playing in two test games, in each of which he had scored a goal, Amdouni played his domestic league debut for his new club in the away game in the Schützenwiese on 16 July 2022 as Basel drew 1–1 with Winterthur.[8] He played his first European match in the second qualifying round of the 2022–23 UEFA Europa Conference League 21 July, it was the home game in the St. Jakob-Park as Basel won 2–0 against Northern Ireland team Crusaders.[9] Amdouni scored his first goal for the club on 28 August in the away game in the Letzigrund against Zürich as Basel won 4–2.[10]

Basel finished the Conference League group stage in second position and advanced to the Knockout round. It was here that Amdoumi showed his goal scoring flair, with seven goals in eight outings, during Basel’s run to the semi-finals, where they lost to Fiorentina after extra time in the second leg.[11] These seven goals made Amdouni the competitions joint top goal scorer together with Arthur Cabral of Fiorentina.[12] On 2 May 2023, Basel's option to buy the player was activated, with Amdouni signing a four-year contract.[13] On 17 July 2023, Basel confirmed that although Amdouni had joined the club permanently, he was in talks for a move to another team and two days later he left the club.[14]

During his one season with them, Amdouni played a total of 58 games for Basel scoring a total of 25 goals. 32 of these games were in the Swiss Super League, three in the Swiss Cup, 17 in the UEFA Europa Conference League, and six were friendly games. He scored 12 goals in the domestic league, three in the cup, seven in the European games and the other three were scored during the test games.[15]

Burnley

On 19 July 2023, Amdouni signed for newly-promoted Premier League club Burnley on a five-year contract, for an undisclosed fee.[16][17]

International career

Amdouni was born in Switzerland to a Turkish father and Tunisian mother.[18] He represented the Switzerland U20s, before switching to represent Turkey U21 in May 2019. That same month, he again switched over to the Switzerland U21s.[19]

He was called up by the senior Switzerland squad for the 2022–23 UEFA Nations League matches against Czech Republic, Portugal (twice) and Spain on 2, 5, 9 and 12 June 2022, respectively.[20] He made his debut on 27 September 2022 in a Nations League game against the Czech Republic, substituting Ruben Vargas in the 79th minute.[21] He scored his first international goal against Belarus, as Switzerland won 5–0 in a 2024 European Championship qualifying match.[22]

Career statistics

Club
As of match played 21 October 2023
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League National cup[lower-alpha 1] League cup[lower-alpha 2] Europe Total
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Étoile Carouge 2017–18[23] Swiss 1. Liga 134——134
2018–19[23] Swiss 1. Liga 2510——2510
Total 3814——3814
Stade Lausanne Ouchy 2019–20[24] Swiss Challenge League 24331——274
2020–21[25] Swiss Challenge League 321110——3311
Total 561441——6015
Lausanne-Sport 2021–22[25] Swiss Super League 341243——3815
Basel (loan) 2022–23[25] Swiss Super League 321233—17[lower-alpha 3]75222
Burnley 2023–24[25] Premier League 810011—92
Career total 168531171117719768
  1. Includes Swiss Cup
  2. Includes EFL Cup
  3. Appearances in UEFA Europa Conference League

International
As of match played 15 October 2023[23]
Appearances and goals by national team and year
National teamYearAppsGoals
Switzerland 202210
202376
Total86
Netherlands score listed first, score column indicates score after each Amdouni goal.
International goals by date, venue, cap, opponent, score, result and competition
No. Date Venue Cap Opponent Score Result Competition
125 March 2023Karađorđe Stadium, Novi Sad, Serbia2 Belarus5–05–0UEFA Euro 2024 qualifying
228 March 2023Stade de Genève, Geneva, Switzerland3 Israel2–03–0UEFA Euro 2024 qualifying
316 June 2023Estadi Nacional, Andorra la Vella, Andorra4 Andorra2–02–1UEFA Euro 2024 qualifying
419 June 2023Swissporarena, Lucerne, Switzerland5 Romania1–02–2UEFA Euro 2024 qualifying
52–0
615 October 2023Kybunpark, St Gallen, Switzerland8 Belarus3–33–3UEFA Euro 2024 qualifying

References
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  8. FC Basel 1893 (16 July 2022). "FC Winterthur - FC Basel 1:1 (1:0)". FC Basel 1893 AG. Retrieved 2022-07-16.
  9. Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv” (21 July 2022). "FC Basel - Crusaders FC 2:0 (1:0)". Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. Retrieved 2022-07-21.
  10. FC Basel 1893 (28 August 2022). "FC Zürich - FC Basel 2:4 (1:1)". FC Basel 1893 AG. Retrieved 2022-08-28.
  11. Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv” (18 May 2023). "FC Basel - ACF Fiorentina 1:3 n.V. (1:2, 0:1)". Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. Retrieved 2023-05-18.
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  16. "ZEKI AMDOUNI HAS ARRIVED!". Burnley Football Club. 19 July 2023. Retrieved 2023-07-19.
  17. "Burnley sign Switzerland forward Amdouni from Basel". BBC Sport. 19 July 2023. Retrieved 2023-07-19.
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  21. "Switzerland v Chechia game report". UEFA. 27 September 2022. Retrieved 6 October 2022.
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  24. "Amdouni's Career Statistics". footballdatabase.eu.
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