Enes Mahmutović (born 22 May 1997) is a professional

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who plays as a

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for Dutch club

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. Born in Kosovo, he plays for the Luxembourg national team.

Club career

In the summer of 2014, Mahmutović signed his first professional senior contract with CS Fola Esch. On 19 May 2017, it was announced that he had joined Championship club

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for an undisclosed fee. Mahmutović made his debut for the club on 14 August 2018, in an

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tie with Notts County, scoring a headed goal in the 3–3 draw. In doing so, he became the first Luxembourger in history to score a professional goal in English football. On 30 August 2018, Mahmutović joined

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club

Yeovil Town Yeovil Town may refer to: * Yeovil Town F.C., an English football team based in Yeovil, Somerset * Yeovil Town L.F.C. Bridgwater United Women's Football Club are an English women's association football club based in Bridgwater, Somerset who wer ...

on loan until the end of the season. His time at

was cut short on 31 December 2018, with Mahmutović returning early to

upon the opening of the January transfer window after only playing a limited role at the

side. On 1 July 2019, Mahmutović joined MVV Maastricht of the Dutch

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, going on to appear 16 times for the club across the season.

announced that Mahmutović had been released by the club on 28 June 2020. On 31 March 2022, Mahmutović signed a contract with Bulgarian club CSKA Sofia. He left the team in June 2024, upon the expiration of his contract. On 29 July 2024, Mahmutović moved to

in the Netherlands, signing a contract for two seasons with an option for third.

International career

Mahmutović was born in

Peć Peja (Definiteness, Indefinite Albanian language, Albanian Albanian morphology#Nouns (declension), form: ''Pejë'' ) or Peć ( sr-Cyrl, Пећ ) is the fourth largest List of cities and towns in Kosovo, city of Kosovo and seat of Peja Municipali ...

FR Yugoslavia Serbia and Montenegro ( sr, Cрбија и Црна Гора, translit=Srbija i Crna Gora) was a country in Southeast Europe located in the Balkans that existed from 1992 to 2006, following the breakup A relationship breakup, breakup, or ...

to an ethnic Bosnian Muslim family, and moved to Luxembourg at a young age. He was eligible for

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and

Luxembourg Luxembourg ( ; lb, Lëtzebuerg ; french: link=no, Luxembourg; german: link=no, Luxemburg), officially the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, ; french: link=no, Grand-Duché de Luxembourg ; german: link=no, Großherzogtum Luxemburg is a small lan ...

internationally, as well as

Kosovo Kosovo ( sq, Kosova or ; sr-Cyrl, Косово ), officially the Republic of Kosovo ( sq, Republika e Kosovës, links=no; sr, Република Косово, Republika Kosovo, links=no), is a partially recognised state in Southeast Euro ...

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, his birthplace. He made his international debut for

on 13 November 2016, in a 1–3 loss to the

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Career statistics

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International

References

1997 births Living people Footballers from Peja Men's association football defenders Kosovan men's footballers Luxembourgian men's footballers Luxembourg men's international footballers CS Fola Esch players Middlesbrough F.C. players Yeovil Town F.C. players MVV Maastricht players FC Lviv players PFC CSKA Sofia players NAC Breda players First Professional Football League (Bulgaria) players Luxembourg National Division players English Football League players Eerste Divisie players Ukrainian Premier League players Luxembourgian expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in England Luxembourgian expatriate sportspeople in England Expatriate men's footballers in the Netherlands Luxembourgian expatriate sportspeople in the Netherlands Expatriate men's footballers in Ukraine Luxembourgian expatriate sportspeople in Ukraine Expatriate men's footballers in Bulgaria Luxembourg men's under-21 international footballers {{Luxembourg-footy-bio-stub