Branimir Subašić ( sr-Cyrl, Бранимир Субашић, az, Branimir Subaşiç; born 7 April 1982) is a

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n-born retired

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who played as a striker. During his 18 year professional career, Subasic played for 15 clubs in 8 countries, mostly in Azerbaijan, Serbia and Turkey. Subasic played for the

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between 2007 and 2013, scoring 7 goals in 40 games. This makes him the fourth highest scoring player in the history of the national team.

Club career

First years (1998–2005)

Subašić started his youth career in 1997 in

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when he was 15 years old. The next year in 1998 he signed a deal with this club and became a professional footballer. In 2003, he played in Stade Beaucairois for a half year. In 2003–04, he signed a 2-year deal with

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. In 2 seasons he played only 7 games and scored once. In 2005, he moved to

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club

Amkar Perm FC Amkar Perm (russian: link=no, Футбо́льный клуб "Амка́р" Пермь ) is a professional football club. Originally founded in 1994, it is based in the city of Perm. It was a participant in second-tier football from 1995 and ...

on loan where he played 6 games and scored one goal.

Neftçi (2005–2008)

In the summer of 2005 Subašić moved to

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champion Neftçi. In his first appearance against

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in the

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he gained a penalty and helped his team to have a victory with score 1–0. After that in January 2006 Neftçi played in the

CIS Cup The Commonwealth of Independent States Cup (russian: Кубок чемпионов Содружества, Кубок Содружества, Кубок чемпионов содружества стран СНГ и Балтии) is a defunct ann ...

. In that year Neftçi won the trophy and Subašić scored 3 goals in the tournament. In the next 3 years playing in Neftçi Subašić won the

in 2006, won a silver medal in

in 2006–07 and a bronze medal in seasons 2005–06 and 2007–08. Overall, he had 65 matches and 31 goals. Also in 2007 he got

citizenship and started to play for the

Red Star Belgrade (2008–2010)

In the summer of 2008, Subašić was transferred back to his native

joining Belgrade club

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. He played in 2008 in 11 games scoring 3 goals. In March 2009 Subašić moved to Chinese club

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on loan. In the Chinese Super League Subašić scored 3 goals in 24 games. Changchun Yatai took the silver medals in the

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. After that he returned to

and ended the season in

Return to Azerbaijan (2010–2013)

Subašić left Red Star Belgrade in May 2010 and moved to

. A few weeks after his arrival

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invited Subašić to his team. Subašić joined

Gabala FC Gabala Football Club ( az, Qəbələ Futbol Klubu ), also spelled Qabala, is an Azerbaijani association football club representing Qabala in the Azerbaijan Premier League since 2006. Gabala has been the runner up in the Premier League three times ...

at the beginning of the

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season. He played well in his opening match and was even called to the Azerbaijan national team, but he got an injury in November 2010 and missed a few matches for Gabala. When the second part of the Premier League began Subašić started to play as the attacking

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. Overall Subašić played 19 games in which he scored 2 goals and left Gabala in the end of the season because of the expired contract. After leaving Gabala, Subašić moved to

Khazar Lankaran Khazar Lankaran FK ( tly, Xəzər Lankon Futboli Klub, script=Latn, az, Xəzər Lənkəran Futbol Klubu) is an Azerbaijani football club based in Lankaran that last played in the Azerbaijan Premier League during the 2015–16 season. Since the ...

at the beginning of the

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season. In his opening match against Turan Tovuz Subašić scored two goals. On December 23, 2011 Subašić became the 5th foreign top goal scorer of the

with 38 goals. Overall Subašić played 30 matches in that season and scored 7 goals. Khazar Lankaran took the second place in

season. In the

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Khazar Lankaran played against

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. Subašić scored in both matches (2–2; 0–2). Subašić also scored in a match against

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at the second qualification stage match (1–1). However Khazar Lankaran lost the second match (0–1) and left the competition. Overall Subašić scored 3 goals in 4 matches in the Europe league. In the first match of the

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against Ravan Baku Subašić scored again. He scored his second goal in the Azerbaijani Premier League in the 2012–13 season at the 24 November 2012 against Kapaz. His third goal was in the match against AZAL. After that, Subašić became the 3rd most goal scoring foreign-born player of the Azerbaijan Premier League with 42 goals. On 31 December 2012 Subašić's contract with Khazar Lankaran expired. On 11 January 2013, it was announced that Subašić was not going to get a new contract offer. Subašić left Khazar Lankaran with 14 goals scored in 51 caps. Later on 21 January 2013 Subašić moved to Qarabağ until the end of the 2012–13 season. Subašić played only 8 matches because of a 2 month long injury. Qarabağ took second place in the

season and Bane left the team after the end of season.

Turkey career (2013–2015)

In June Subašić signed a 2-year deal with Turkish club Orduspor, playing in the

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. He played in Orduspor with shirt number 20 for the 2013–14 season. Subašić debuted for Orduspor in the 1st week of the championship in a match against

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and played 90 minutes also in the 2nd match. He scored his first goal on 15 September in a match against

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in the 3rd week; Orduspor won that match and it was the only goal in the game. Subašić became one of the main players of Orduspor and played in the centre forward position in the starting squad in almost all of the games. In the 2013-14 season Subašić made 30 appearances in PTT 1.Lig in which he scored 8 goals. In total he played 34 games in the season and scored 9 goals, thus became the 3rd most scoring player of the team. Orduspor took the 3rd place in PTT 1.Lig in 2013–14 season, however Orduspor lost its play-off matches and could not advance to Turkish Super League. In July 2014, Subašić determined his contract with Orduspor and transferred to another Turkish club,

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after many Serbian coaches told him his chances of making the Serbian team were slim. He started his international career for

in March 2007 during Alma TV Cup. He scored his first international goal at his opening game with

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. Until June 29, 2009 when he retired from international career he played 26 games for Azerbaijan and scored 6 goals becoming second most scoring player in Azerbaijan national football team after

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. In 2011 he returned to the

International goals

:''Scores and results list Azerbaijan's goal tally first.''

Career statistics

Club

International

Honours

Club

Neftçi *

Commonwealth of Independent States Cup The Commonwealth of Independent States Cup (russian: Кубок чемпионов Содружества, Кубок Содружества, Кубок чемпионов содружества стран СНГ и Балтии) is a defunct ann ...

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Red Star Belgrade *

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Individual

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runner-up – 2007, 2008, 2012 *

best striker – 2007

References

External links

* * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Subasic, Branimir 1982 births Living people Serbian footballers Azerbaijani footballers Azerbaijani people of Serbian descent Azerbaijan international footballers Association football forwards Footballers from Belgrade FC Chornomorets Odesa players FC Amkar Perm players Red Star Belgrade footballers Changchun Yatai F.C. players Gabala FC players Khazar Lankaran FK players OFK Beograd players Manisaspor footballers Orduspor footballers Serbian SuperLiga players Chinese Super League players Azerbaijan Premier League players Russian Premier League players Ukrainian Premier League players TFF First League players Azerbaijani expatriate footballers Serbian emigrants to Azerbaijan Naturalized citizens of Azerbaijan Expatriate footballers in China Expatriate footballers in Ukraine Azerbaijani expatriate sportspeople in Ukraine Expatriate footballers in Russia Azerbaijani expatriate sportspeople in Turkey Neftçi PFK players