Andraž Šporar


Andraž Šporar is a Slovenian footballer who plays for Sporting CP and the Slovenia national team as a forward.

Club career

In June 2012, Šporar transferred from Interblock to Olimpija Ljubljana. In the 2015–16 Slovenian PrvaLiga season, Šporar was named as a team captain. During the first half of the club's season, he played 18 PrvaLiga games and scored 17 goals.
On 8 December 2015, Basel announced that Šporar had signed a four-and-a-half year contract up until the end of June 2020. He made his league debut for Basel on 14 February 2016 in the 4–0 away win against Grasshopper Club coming in as substitute in the 70th minute. Šporar injured himself during warm-up before the away match against Saint-Étienne on 18 February 2016. He had to undergo a surgery which kept him out for the rest of the 2015–16 FC Basel season, in which his team won the 2015–16 Swiss Super League championship, their seventh national title in a row.
Šporar joined the Slovak Super Liga side Slovan Bratislava in January 2018 for a reported fee of €600,000. He helped the team win the 2017–18 Slovak Cup. In the 2018–19 season, he won the Slovak title and became the Slovak league's best goalscorer, scoring 29 goals and tying the record for most goals scored in a season.
On 23 January 2020, Šporar transferred to Sporting CP on a five-year contract for a transfer fee of €6 million, making him the most expensive player in the history of the Slovak Super Liga. With bonuses, the total transfer fee may eventually rise above €7 million.

International career

In November 2016, Šporar received his first call-up to the senior Slovenia squad for matches against Malta and Poland. He debuted against Malta, replacing Milivoje Novaković late in the second half.

Career statistics

International goals

No.DateVenueOpponentScoreResultCompetition
1.21 March 2019Sammy Ofer Stadium, Haifa, Israel1–01–1UEFA Euro 2020 qualification
2.6 September 2019Stožice Stadium, Ljubljana, Slovenia2–02–0UEFA Euro 2020 qualification

Personal life

Andraž Šporar is a son of Olimpija's former captain Miha Šporar. He has revealed that it is his ambition to earn a move to Liverpool at some stage in his career.

Honours

Basel
Slovan Bratislava
Individual