Ante Puljić
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Personal information | |||
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Date of birth | 5 November 1987 | ||
Place of birth | Mostar, SFR Yugoslavia | ||
Height | 1.87 m (6 ft 2 in) | ||
Position(s) | Centre back | ||
Youth career | |||
–2005 | HNK Ljubuški | ||
2005–2006 | Hajduk Split | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2006–2011 | Zadar | 106 | (4) |
2011–2012 | Lokomotiva Zagreb | 8 | (0) |
2011 | → Dinamo Zagreb (loan) | 1 | (0) |
2012–2013 | Dinamo Zagreb | 10 | (1) |
2013 | → Lokomotiva Zagreb (loan) | 8 | (2) |
2013 | Lokomotiva Zagreb | 15 | (1) |
2014–2016 | Gent | 18 | (1) |
2015–2016 | → Dinamo București | 21 | (1) |
2016–2018 | Tom Tomsk | 44 | (7) |
2018–2019 | Al-Faisaly | 21 | (3) |
2019–2021 | Dinamo București | 55 | (2) |
2021–2023 | Bnei Sakhnin | 58 | (4) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 15 May 2023 |
Ante Puljić (born 5 November 1987) is a Croatian footballer who plays as defender.
Career
[edit]Born in Mostar in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Puljić spent most of his career in Croatia, first passing through the ranks of Hajduk Split's academy, and them joining second-level side Zadar on a free transfer in the summer of 2006. After establishing himself as a first team regular and helping the club win promotion to top level at the end of the 2006–07 season, Puljić went on to spend the following five seasons at the club making 106 first league appearances for Zadar.[1]
In July 2011 his contract at Zadar ended and he signed for Dinamo Zagreb's farm team NK Lokomotiva and after only one appearance for Lokomotiva in the 2010–11 Prva HNL season, he was transferred on a year-long loan to Dinamo in August, but was returned to Lokomotiva in January 2012.[1] On 23 December he signed a contract binding him to KAA Gent till 2017, starting 3 January 2014.[2]
In September 2019, he signed a contract with Dinamo București.[3]
Statistics
[edit]Season | Team | Competition | Competition | Cup | International | Total | ||||
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Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | |||
2007–08 | NK Zadar | 1.HNL | 29 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 29 | 1 |
2008–09 | 25 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 25 | 2 | ||
2009–10 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 23 | 0 | ||
2010–11 | 29 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 29 | 1 | ||
2011–12 | Lokomotiva Zagreb | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | |
→Dinamo Zagreb | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
2012–13 | Dinamo Zagreb | 10 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 15 | 1 | |
→Lokomotiva Zagreb | 8 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 2 | ||
2013–14 | 15 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 1 | ||
AA Gent | Jupiler Pro League | 14 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 1 | |
2014–15 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | ||
2015–16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
2015–16 | →Dinamo București | Liga I | 21 | 1 | 7[a] | 1 | 0 | 0 | 28 | 2 |
2016–17 | Tom Tomsk | Russian Premier League | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 0 |
2017–18 | Russian Football National League | 34 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 36 | 7 | |
2018–19 | Al-Faisaly | Saudi Professional League | 21 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 21 | 3 |
2019–20 | Dinamo București | Liga I | 22 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 26 | 1 |
2020–21 | Dinamo București | Liga I | 25 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 26 | 1 |
2021–22 | Bnei Sakhnin | Israeli Premier League | 28 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 30 | 2 |
2022–23 | 30 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 37 | 3 | ||
Career total | 357 | 27 | 26 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 391 | 28 |
- ^ Includes one match in the 2015–16 Cupa Ligii
Honours
[edit]- KAA Gent
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Puljić Ante". Nogometni-magazin.com (in Croatian). Retrieved 15 September 2011.
- ^ "Ante Puljic tekent contract tot 2017" (in Dutch). Archived from the original on 24 December 2013. Retrieved 23 December 2013.
- ^ "Ante Puljic la Dinamo". fcdinamo.ro (in Romanian). Archived from the original on 5 September 2019. Retrieved 5 September 2019.
- ^ a b Ante Puljić at Soccerway
- ^ Ante Puljić at WorldFootball.net
External links
[edit]- Ante Puljić at RomanianSoccer.ro (in Romanian)
- Ante Puljić at the Croatian Football Federation
- 1987 births
- Living people
- Sportspeople from Ljubuški
- Men's association football central defenders
- Croatian men's footballers
- NK Zadar players
- NK Lokomotiva Zagreb players
- GNK Dinamo Zagreb players
- K.A.A. Gent players
- FC Dinamo București players
- FC Tom Tomsk players
- Al Faisaly FC players
- Bnei Sakhnin F.C. players
- Croatian Football League players
- Belgian Pro League players
- Liga I players
- Russian Premier League players
- Russian First League players
- Saudi Pro League players
- Israeli Premier League players
- Croatian expatriate men's footballers
- Expatriate men's footballers in Belgium
- Expatriate men's footballers in Romania
- Expatriate men's footballers in Russia
- Expatriate men's footballers in Saudi Arabia
- Expatriate men's footballers in Israel
- Croatian expatriate sportspeople in Belgium
- Croatian expatriate sportspeople in Romania
- Croatian expatriate sportspeople in Russia
- Croatian expatriate sportspeople in Saudi Arabia
- Croatian expatriate sportspeople in Israel
- Croatian football defender stubs