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Granit Xhaka
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Granit Xhaka is a male association football player from Switzerland, born in Basel on September 27, 1992. He plays as a midfielder and wears the number 34. His career has included stints with FC Basel, Borussia Mönchengladbach, and Sunderland. He represents the Switzerland men's national football team and has also played for the Switzerland national under-17 association football team.
Xhaka has participated in the 2014 FIFA World Cup, UEFA Euro 2016, 2018 FIFA World Cup, and UEFA Euro 2020. He has competed in the Swiss Premium League, Bundesliga, and Premier League. He is of Albanian ethnicity and practices Islam. He speaks German and has a sibling named Taulant Xhaka. His work period in professional football began in 2010.
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Sports profile
- Sport
- Soccer
- Team
- Sunderland
- Position
- Defensive Midfield
- Nationality
- Switzerland
via TheSportsDB
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Switzerland
- Place of birth
- Basel
- Sibling
- Taulant Xhaka
- Occupation
- association football player
- Languages spoken
- German
- Religion
- Islam
- Participant in
- 2022 FIFA World Cup
- Sport
- association football
- Member of team
- Sunderland A.F.C.
- Position played
- midfielder
- League
- Premier League
- Country for sport
- Switzerland
- Mass
- 82
- Image
- Granit Xhaka (cropped).jpg
- Height
- 185
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- Commons category
- Granit Xhaka
- date of birth
- 1992-09-27
- sport number
- 34
- ethnic group
- Albanians
- start of work period
- 2010-00-00
- name in native language
- Granit Xhaka
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Encyclopedic overview
* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 18:04, 24 May 2026 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals as of 23:43, 27 March 2026 (UTC)
Granit Xhaka ( Albanian: [gɾanit d͡ʒaka], born 27 September 1992) is a Swiss professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for and captains both Premier League club Sunderland and the Switzerland national team.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Granit Xhaka” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.