Ermir Lenjani

Club

Schaffhausen

Position

Left-Back

Nationality

Albania

Date of birth

1989-08-05

Birthplace

Prishtinë, Jugoslawien (SFR)

Height

1.75 m (5 ft 7 in)

Weight

65 kg

Shirt number

33

Ermir Limon Lenjani (born 5 August 1989) is an Albanian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Turkish club Ümraniyespor and the Albania national team.

Club career
Early career
Born in Karaçevë, Kamenica to Albanian parents originally from Prokuplje. Lenjani moved to Switzerland as a child, where he started playing football and aged 12 he was asked to play for FC Tössfeld. After spending around 2 years at Tössfeld, he joined the FC Winterthur academy. He broke through into the first team during the 2009–10 season second-half.

Winterthur
On 8 March 2009, Lenjani debuted with Winterthur in the 2008–09 Swiss Challenge League match against Thun and scored the first and last goals in the 50th and 87th minutes, to give his team a 2–4 away victory. Two months after he played his next match on 16 May 2009 against Locarno and scored against a goal in the 34th minute to equal the result 1–1, which was succeeded by a hat-trick of three goals from the Croatian midfielder Tomo Barlecaj and made a 1–4 away victory which came from behind. He played in another 10 matches until the end and finished the season from second-half with total of 12 appearances and 3 goals. The next season, he played the entire season, making a total of 29 appearances in which he scored 6 goals.

Loan to Grasshopper

Lenjani lining up with St. Gallen
Lenjani was loaned out to Grasshopper Club Zürich for the first half of the 2010-11 season in order to gain experience. He made it his debut with Grasshopper on 17 July 2010 in the opening match of the 2010–11 Swiss Super League against Neuchâtel Xamax where he came in as a substitute in the 74th minute in place of Steven Lang and the match finished in the 1–1 draw. Lenjani scored 2 goals in a 0–12 destruction over Gumefens/Sorens valid for the 2010–11 Swiss Cup. He played 6 league matches in total for Grasshopper.

Return to Winterthur
He returned to FC Winterthur for the second-half remaining season and established himself as a first team player. He made it 14 league appearances where scored 4 goals. In the 2011–12 Swiss Challenge League he played 25 matches and scored 2 goals. He started another league campaign, the 2012–13 Swiss Challenge League. He played 16 matches and scored 2 goals in the first half of the season.

St. Gallen

Lenjani with Rennes in July 2016
He joined Swiss Super League side FC St. Gallen in January 2013. Lenjani gave two assist to give the victory 2–1 St. Gallen against Luzern on 3 Augus