Jurgen Çelhaka (born 6 December 2000) is an Albanian professional

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who plays as a

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for

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club Olimpija Ljubljana.

Club career

Born in

Tirana Tirana ( , ; ) is the capital and List of cities and towns in Albania, largest city of Albania. It is located in the centre of the country, enclosed by mountains and hills, with Dajti rising to the east and a slight valley to the northwest ov ...

, Çelhaka spent four seasons with local side

KF Tirana Klubi i Futbollit Tirana is an Albanian professional football club based in the country's capital city, Tirana, that competes in the Kategoria Superiore, the top tier of Albanian football. The men's football club is part of the multi-discipli ...

before a move to Polish side

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in August 2021. Having failed to settle in his first months with the club, reportedly rejecting the club's instruction to play for the

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, he was given a run of games by manager

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in February and March 2022, and his form earned him plaudits from Vuković and Polish media.

Career statistics

Club

;Notes

Honours

Tirana *

Kategoria Superiore Kategoria Superiore (), also known as Abissnet Superiore for sponsorship reasons with internet service provider, Abissnet, is a professional league for men's association football clubs in Albania. At the top of the Albanian football league syste ...

: 2019–20 *

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: 2017–18 Legia Warsaw *

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: 2022–23

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* * * 2000 births Living people Footballers from Tirana Albanian men's footballers Albanian sportsmen Albania men's youth international footballers Albania men's under-21 international footballers Men's association football midfielders Kategoria Superiore players Kategoria e Parë players Ekstraklasa players III liga players KF Tirana players Legia Warsaw players Legia Warsaw II players NK Olimpija Ljubljana (2005) players Albanian expatriate men's footballers Albanian expatriate sportspeople in Poland Expatriate men's footballers in Poland Albanian expatriate sportspeople in Slovenia Expatriate men's footballers in Slovenia 21st-century Albanian sportsmen {{Albania-footy-midfielder-stub