Endogan Adili ( tr, Endoğan Adili; born 3 August 1994) is a Swiss professional

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descent, who plays as a

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who currently plays for FC Kosova.

Career

Grasshoppers

Adili started his youth football with local club FC Altstetten Zürich, but came through the ranks playing in the

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youth system. On 13 May 2010 the midfielder made his

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debut for the GC first team during the away match in the

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against

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and he scored his first goal only 10 minutes after being substituted in. As he made his debut in the GC professional team, Adili was still a member of their U-16 youth team and he was just 15 years and 283 days old, this made him the youngest player to score a goal in a top-level European football league since

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. Only later, during the summer break before the 2010–11 season, did he advance to their U-18 team. Adili played 15 games for GC during the 2010–11 season and 5 games in the 2011–12 season, but in December 2011 he suffered a

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injury, from which he took over six months to recover, and hereafter he struggled to return into their first team squad.

Basel

On 17 December 2012 FC Basel announced that they had signed Adili on a three-and-a-half-year contract (with an additional one-year option). He made his first team league debut as a substitute, playing 31 minutes, on 1 June 2013 in the 1–0 home win in

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against

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. At the end of the Swiss Super League season 2012–13, Adili won the Championship title and was Swiss Cup runner up with Basel. In the

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Basel advanced as far as the

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, there being matched against the reigning

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holders

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, but were knocked out being beaten 2–5 on aggregate. At the end of the 2013–14 Super League season Adili won his second league championship with Basel. They also reached the final of the

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, but were beaten 2–0 by

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after extra time. During the 2013–14 Champions League season Basel reached the

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and finished the group in third position. Thus they qualified for Europa League knockout phase and here they advanced as far as the quarter-finals.

Galatasaray

Adili was under contract with

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from July 2014 to July 2018. For the 2015/16 season, Adili was loaned to

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. On 13 July 2018, his contract with Galatasaray was terminated.

Later career

Returning to Switzerland in August 2018, he joined FC Kosova Swiss 1. Liga club, FC Kosova, before moving to

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club

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in January 2019. However, he returned to FC Kosova in January 2020.

International career

Adili was captain of the Swiss U16-squad and he scored 3 goals in 7 matches for the team. Adili made his Switzerland U-17 debut on 18 May 2010 in the 3–0 defeat against the Portugal U-17 team. He was the youngest player of the Swiss U-17 squad at the 2010 U-17 European championships final tournament, but he came in as a substitute in all 3 matches, playing a total of 94 minutes. Adili made his Swiss U-18 debut on 30 August 2011 in the 5–0 win against the Estonia U-18 team and made his debut for the Swiss U-19 team 8 September 2012 during the 1–0 defeat in the game against the France U-19.

Titles and honours

Basel *

champion (2):

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, 2013–14 *

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runner up (2):

, 2013–14 * Uhren Cup winner (1): 2013

References

External links

Endogan Adili
Profile at FC Basel * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Adili, Endogan 1994 births Living people Swiss men's footballers Switzerland men's youth international footballers Swiss sportspeople of Turkish descent Galatasaray S.K. footballers Grasshopper Club Zürich players FC Basel players FC Wil players SC Young Fellows Juventus players Swiss Challenge League players Swiss Super League players Swiss Promotion League players Men's association football midfielders People from Brugg Footballers from Aargau