PLAYER DETAILS
Ilir Daja profile
- Club
- Dinamo City
- Position
- Manager
- Nationality
- Albania
- Date of birth
- 1966-10-20
- Birthplace
- Tirana, Albania
PLAYER BIOGRAPHY
About Ilir Daja
Ilir Daja (born 20 October 1966) is an Albanian professional football manager and former player. He is the current manager of Dinamo City. He has won the Albanian League as a coach with three clubs: Elbasani, Dinamo Tirana and Skënderbeu. He also won the Kosovo Superleague three times with FC Ballkani and lead them to qualification for the group stage of UEFA Europa Conference League in 2022–23 and 2023–24.
Daja spent his youth career with 17 Nëntori, before playing for Dinamo Tirana for ten years. In 1989, in Dinamo's European Champion Clubs' Cup clash against Dinamo București, Daja suffered a major knee injury that forced him to go on surgery several times.