.png) Elabdellaoui playing for Galatasaray in 2020 | |||||||||||||||||
| Personal information | |||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Omar Elabdellaoui[1] | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 5 December 1991 | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Oslo, Norway | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.79 m (5 ft 10 in)[2] | ||||||||||||||||
| Position(s) | Right back, right midfielder | ||||||||||||||||
| Team information | |||||||||||||||||
Current team | Bodø/Glimt | ||||||||||||||||
| Number | 3 | ||||||||||||||||
| Youth career | |||||||||||||||||
| Sagene IF[3] | |||||||||||||||||
| Skeid | |||||||||||||||||
| 2008–2011 | Manchester City | ||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| 2011–2013 | Manchester City | 0 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2011 | → Strømsgodset (loan) | 10 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2012 | → Feyenoord (loan) | 5 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2013 | → Eintracht Braunschweig (loan) | 14 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2013–2014 | Eintracht Braunschweig | 29 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
| 2014–2020 | Olympiacos | 116 | (10) | ||||||||||||||
| 2017 | → Hull City (loan) | 8 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2020–2022 | Galatasaray | 17 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2023– | Bodø/Glimt | 12 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| International career‡ | |||||||||||||||||
| 2008 | Norway U17 | 8 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
| 2009–2010 | Norway U19 | 11 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
| 2010–2013 | Norway U21 | 13 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
| 2012–2013 | Norway U23 | 1 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
| 2013–2020 | Norway[4] | 49 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 3 November 2024 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 21:49, 15 November 2021 (UTC) | |||||||||||||||||
Omar Elabdellaoui (born 5 December 1991) is a Norwegian professional footballer who plays as a right back and as a right midfielder for Bodø/Glimt.[5]
Elabdellaoui began his career with Skeid before signing with Manchester City in 2008. He never appeared for the club. He made his professional debut while on loan at Strømsgodset. He has also spent a loan spell in the Netherlands with Feyenoord. After spending a half season on loan with Eintracht Braunschweig in 2013, Elabdellaoui joined the German side permanently in May 2013. He signed for Olympiacos in June 2014 and stayed at the club until August 2020 when he moved to Galatasaray.
Elabdellaoui represented Norway at youth international level, and was with Norway in the 2013 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship. He played for the senior national team from 2013 to 2020.
- ^ "Elabdellaoui". Archived from the original on 21 January 2019. Retrieved 21 January 2019.
- ^ "Hull City Player Profiles". Archived from the original on 2 May 2017. Retrieved 3 April 2017.
- ^ Erlend Nesje (14 November 2014). "Aldri før har det vært flere Oslo-gutter på landslaget" (in Norwegian). Aftenposten. Archived from the original on 1 April 2019. Retrieved 1 April 2019.
- ^ Omar Elabdellaoui at National-Football-Teams.com
- ^ Omar Elabdellaoui at Soccerway