Omar Elabdellaoui

Omar Elabdellaoui
Elabdellaoui playing for Galatasaray in 2020
Personal information
Full name Omar Elabdellaoui[1]
Date of birth (1991-12-05) 5 December 1991 (age 32)
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)
2011Strømsgodset (loan) 10 (0)
2012Feyenoord (loan) 5 (0)
2013Eintracht Braunschweig (loan) 14 (0)
2013–2014 Eintracht Braunschweig 29 (1)
2014–2020 Olympiacos 116 (10)
2017Hull 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
Men's football
Representing  Norway
UEFA European Under-21 Championship
Third place 2013 Israel
*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.

  1. ^ "Elabdellaoui". Archived from the original on 21 January 2019. Retrieved 21 January 2019.
  2. ^ "Hull City Player Profiles". Archived from the original on 2 May 2017. Retrieved 3 April 2017.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ Omar Elabdellaoui at National-Football-Teams.com
  5. ^ Omar Elabdellaoui at Soccerway