Rufat Oleg oglu Dadashov ( az, Rüfət Oleq oğlu Dadaşov; born 29 September 1991) is an Azerbaijani

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who plays as a

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for German club Schalke 04 II and the Azerbaijan national team. He will join

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on 1 July 2023.

Career

Born in

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to an Lezgin family, Dadashov has played club football in Germany for

SV Wehen Wiesbaden SV Wehen Wiesbaden is a German association football club based in Wiesbaden, Hesse. Since the beginning of the 2007–08 season the club no longer plays its home games in Taunusstein, where they were originally located. In the summer of 2007 ''W ...

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SV Gonsenheim SV Gonsenheim is a German association football club from the district of Gonsenheim in the city of Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate. It was established in 1919 as ''Fußball-Klub Viktoria Gonsenheim'' and on 14 September 1919 merged with ''Fußball-Cl ...

1. FC Kaiserslautern II 1. FC Kaiserslautern II is the reserve team of German association football club 1. FC Kaiserslautern, based in Kaiserslautern, Rhineland-Palatinate. Historically the team has played as 1. FC Kaiserslautern Amateure until 2005. The team has reach ...

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and 1. FC Saarbrucken. In June 2016, he signed with ZFC Meuselwitz. Dadashov played for

in the Regionalliga Nordost in the 2017–18 season, where he became the league's top scorer with 25 goals. On 5 April 2018, he signed with a two-year contract with

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. On 13 January 2020, Dadashov signed with Phoenix Rising FC of the USL Championship. In his first game with the team on 7 March 2020, he scored a hat trick in a 6–1 win over Portland Timbers 2. In August 2021 he returned to Germany, signing with Schalke 04 II. He made his first team debut for Schalke 04 in a 2–1 away defeat against

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on 4 December 2021. Dadashov will return to BFC Dynamo on 1 July 2023.

International career

Dadashov made his national team debut on 1 February 2013 against

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in a

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. He scored his first goal on 29 May 2013 against

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in a friendly match. On 14 August 2013, he scored two goals in a friendly against

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Career statistics

:''Scores and results list Azerbaijan's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Dadashov goal''.

Honors

Individual

* USL Championship All-League Second Team: 2020

References

External links

* 1991 births Living people Azerbaijani footballers Azerbaijan men's international footballers Azerbaijani people of Lezgian descent Footballers from Baku Men's association football forwards SV Wehen Wiesbaden players 1. FSV Mainz 05 players FV Biebrich players SV Gonsenheim players 1. FC Kaiserslautern II players SVN Zweibrücken players 1. FC Saarbrücken players Berliner FC Dynamo players SC Preußen Münster players Phoenix Rising FC players FC Schalke 04 II players FC Schalke 04 players Regionalliga players 3. Liga players USL Championship players 2. Bundesliga players Azerbaijani expatriate footballers Expatriate footballers in Germany Azerbaijani expatriate sportspeople in Germany Expatriate soccer players in the United States Azerbaijani expatriate sportspeople in the United States {{Azerbaijan-footy-bio-stub