Muhammed Cham

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Muhammed Cham
Personal information
Full name Muhammed-Cham Saračević
Date of birth (2000-09-26) 26 September 2000 (age 23)
Place of birth Linz, Austria
Height 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)[1]
Position(s) Attacking midfielder
Team information
Current team
 Clermont
Number 10
Youth career
2006–2008 SC Red Star Penzing
2008–2016 Hannover 96
2016–2019 VfL Wolfsburg
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2018–2019 VfL Wolfsburg II 3 (0)
2019–2020 Admira Wacker 18 (0)
2020– Clermont 68 (12)
2020–2021 → Vendsyssel (loan) 22 (2)
2021–2022 → Austria Lustenau (loan) 29 (15)
International career‡
2018 Austria U19 3 (0)
2021– Austria U21 4 (0)
2022– Austria 3 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 21 April 2024
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 26 March 2024

Muhammed-Cham Saračević (born 26 September 2000) is an Austrian professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for Ligue 1 club Clermont and the Austria national team.[2]

Club career[edit]

Cham began his career at SC Red Star Penzing. In October 2008 he left Austria. Until 2016 he then played in Germany in the youth team of Hannover 96. For the 2016–17 season he moved to the B-Juniors of VfL Wolfsburg, where he made 22 appearances in the B-Junioren-Bundesliga in that season.

In August 2017, he played against Hertha BSC for the first time for the U-19 team in the A-Junior Bundesliga. In the 2017–18 season he played 15 games in which he scored three goals. In the 2018–19 season he made 22 appearances and became champions of the Gruppe Nord/Nordost with Wolfsburg. Therefore, he took part in the finals with Wolfsburg, which they lost to VfB Stuttgart.

For the 2019–20 season, Cham was promoted to the Wolfsburg's second team, VfL Wolfsburg II. He made his debut for them in the Regionalliga in July 2019 when he came on as a substitute for Julian Justvan in the 80th minute on the second match day of that season against BSV Schwarz-Weiß Rehden. After three appearances for Wolfsburg II, he returned to Austria in September 2019 and moved to Bundesliga club FC Admira Wacker Mödling.[3]

He made his Austrian Football Bundesliga debut in the same month when he was in the starting line-up against SKN St. Pölten on matchday eight of that season and was replaced by Erwin Hoffer in the 65th minute. He made a total of 18 Bundesliga appearances for Admira. On 6 October 2020, he moved to France to the second division club Clermont, who however directly loaned him to the Danish 1st Division club Vendsyssel for the 2020–21 season.[4]

On 13 July 2021, he returned to Austria, joining Austria Lustenau on a season-long loan.[5]

International career[edit]

Cham was born in Austria, and is of paternal Senegalese and maternal Gambian descent.[6] Despite his mother's surname Saračević, Cham states that she is Gambian and does not know where the name comes from.[7] He was called up to the Austria national team for a set of UEFA Nations League matches in September 2022.[8] He made his debut on 25 September 2022 in a Nations League game against Croatia.[9]

Career statistics[edit]

Club[edit]

As of match played 20 April 2024
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League Cup Europe Total
Division Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
VfL Wolfsburg II 2019–20 Regionalliga Nord 3 0 0 0 — 3 0
Admira Wacker 2019–20 Austrian Bundesliga 16 0 1 0 — 17 0
2020–21 Austrian Bundesliga 2 0 1 0 — 3 0
Total 18 0 2 0 — 20 0
Clermont Foot 2021–22 Ligue 1 0 0 0 0 — 0 0
2022–23 Ligue 1 38 7 1 0 — 39 7
2023–24 Ligue 1 30 5 2 0 — 30 4
Total 68 12 3 0 — 71 12
Vendsyssel (loan) 2020–21 Danish 1st Division 22 0 1 0 — 23 0
SC Austria Lustenau (loan) 2021–22 2. Liga 29 15 2 0 — 31 15
Career total 140 27 8 0 0 0 148 27

International[edit]

As of match played 26 March 2024
Appearances and goals by national team and year
National team Year Apps Goals
Austria 2022 1 0
2023 1 0
2024 1 0
Total 3 0

Honours[edit]

Austria Lustenau

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Muhammed Cham". Clermont Foot. Retrieved 20 September 2022.
  2. ^ Muhammed Cham at Soccerway
  3. ^ Saracevic geht, vfl-wolfsburg.de, 1 September 2019
  4. ^ VENDSYSSEL FF HENTER TO OFFENSIVE FORSTÆRKNINGER, vendsysselff.dk, 6 October 2020
  5. ^ "SC AUSTRIA LUSTENAU LEIHT MUHAMMED-CHAM SARACEVIC VON CLERMONT FOOT AUS" (in German). Austria Lustenau. 13 July 2021. Retrieved 14 September 2021.
  6. ^ Hagege, Luc (21 August 2022). "Cham prêt à rugir avec Clermont". lequipe.fr (in French). Retrieved 21 August 2023.
  7. ^ Di Stasio, Arnaud (9 February 2023). "Muhammed Cham : « Si tu n'as pas de haters, c'est que tu ne fais pas ce qu'il faut »". ligue1.fr (in French). Retrieved 21 August 2023.
  8. ^ Wintner, 19 09 2022 um 16:57 von Senta (19 September 2022). "Muhammed Cham: Österreichs unbekannter Ballkünstler". Die Presse.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  9. ^ "Austria v Croatia game report". UEFA. 25 September 2022. Retrieved 6 October 2022.
  10. ^ "Austria Lustenau bejubelt den Aufstieg in die Bundesliga". kicker (in German). 13 May 2022. Retrieved 19 June 2022.

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