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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 12 January 1999 | ||
| Place of birth | Kiuruvesi, Finland[1] | ||
| Height | 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)[2] | ||
| Position | Striker | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | PK-35 | ||
| Number | 9 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| KuPS | |||
| Kuusysi | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2016–2017 | Kuusysi | 30 | (8) |
| 2017–2019 | Lahti | 12 | (0) |
| 2018 | → PK Keski-Uusimaa (loan) | 5 | (1) |
| 2019 | → Reipas Lahti | 8 | (9) |
| 2020 | MP | 7 | (1) |
| 2021 | Onisilos Sotira | ||
| 2022 | PEPO | 24 | (10) |
| 2023 | Lahti | 22 | (0) |
| 2024 | JäPS | 15 | (8) |
| 2024–2026 | Belasitsa Petrich | 43 | (8) |
| 2026– | PK-35 | 13 | (6) |
| * Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 26 July 2026 | |||
Irfan Sadik (born 12 January 1999) is a Finnish professional footballer who plays for Ykkösliiga club PK-35 as a striker.[3]
Club career
[edit]On 13 January 2020, Sadik moved to Ykkönen club Mikkelin Palloilijat on a deal until the end of 2020.[4]
On 31 January 2023, Sadik returned to Lahti on a one-year deal.[5]
On 21 July 2024, Sadik moved to Bulgaria and joined Belasitsa Petrich in the Bulgarian Second League.[6]
Personal life
[edit]Sadik's two older brothers, Berat and Burhan, are also footballers; the family are of Macedonian Albanian descent.[7][8][9] He is a Muslim and fasts during Ramadan.[10]
Career statistics
[edit]- As of 8 June 2025[11]
| Club | Season | Division | League | Cup[a] | League cup[b] | Other | Total | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | |||
| Kuusysi | 2016 | Kakkonen | 9 | 1 | – | – | – | 9 | 1 | |||
| 2017 | Kakkonen | 21 | 7 | – | – | – | 21 | 7 | ||||
| Total | 30 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 30 | 8 | ||
| Lahti | 2017 | Veikkausliiga | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | – | – | 5 | 0 | ||
| 2018 | Veikkausliiga | 10 | 0 | 2 | 0 | – | – | 12 | 0 | |||
| 2019 | Veikkausliiga | 1 | 0 | 5 | 1 | – | – | 6 | 1 | |||
| Total | 12 | 0 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 23 | 1 | ||
| PKKU (loan) | 2018 | Kakkonen | 3 | 0 | – | – | – | 3 | 0 | |||
| Reipas Lahti | 2019 | Kakkonen | 8 | 9 | – | – | – | 8 | 9 | |||
| MP | 2020 | Ykkönen | 7 | 1 | 5 | 4 | – | – | 12 | 5 | ||
| Onisilos Sotira | 2020–21 | Cypriot Second Division | – | – | ||||||||
| PEPO | 2022 | Ykkönen | 24 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | – | 28 | 12 | |
| Lahti | 2023 | Veikkausliiga | 22 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 3 | – | 30 | 3 | |
| Reipas Lahti | 2023 | Kakkonen | 1 | 0 | – | – | – | 1 | 0 | |||
| JäPS | 2024 | Ykkösliiga | 15 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 2 | – | 22 | 10 | |
| Belasitsa Petrich | 2024–25 | Bulgarian Second League | 34 | 8 | 1 | 0 | – | – | 35 | 8 | ||
| Career total | 156 | 43 | 24 | 7 | 12 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 192 | 56 | ||
- ↑ Includes Suomen Cup and Bulgarian Cup
- ↑ Includes Finnish League Cup, Ykkönen Cup and Ykkösliigacup
References
[edit]- ↑ FC Lahdella on riveissään poikkeuksellinen suomalainen hyökkääjä - "Todella kunnianhimoinen urheilija", iltalehti.fi, 8 April 2020
- ↑ EDUSTUS: Irfan Sadik MP:n hyökkäykseen, mikkelinpalloilijat.fi
- ↑ Irfan Sadik at Soccerway. Retrieved 21 July 2023.
- ↑ EDUSTUS: Irfan Sadik MP:n hyökkäykseen, mikkelinpalloilijat.fi, 13 January 2020
- ↑ "Irfan Sadik palaa FC Lahteen" [Irfan Sadik returns to FC Lahti] (in Finnish). Lahti. 31 January 2023. Retrieved 30 March 2023.
- ↑ Irfan Sadik siirtyy ulkomaille
- ↑ "Berat Sadik". UEFA. Archived from the original on 17 July 2011. Retrieved 18 November 2018.
- ↑ Laitinen, Ilkka (8 April 2018). "FC Lahdella on riveissään poikkeuksellinen suomalainen hyökkääjä - "Todella kunnianhimoinen urheilija"". Iltalehti (in Finnish). Retrieved 18 November 2018.
- ↑ Macedonian diaspora players performances (31.05-03.06.2024), macedonianfootball.com
- ↑ Valioliigan pelejä keskeytettiin, jotta pelaajat saivat syödä – ramadania viettävät urheilijat kertovat, miten kuukauden paasto vaikuttaa heihin, Yle, 21 April 2023
- ↑ Irfan Sadik stats, Finnish FA
External links
[edit]- Irfan Sadik at WorldFootball.net
Categories:
- 1999 births
- Living people
- Finnish men's footballers
- 21st-century Finnish sportsmen
- FC Kuusysi players
- FC Lahti players
- Pallokerho Keski-Uusimaa players
- Reipas Lahti players
- Mikkelin Palloilijat players
- Järvenpään Palloseura players
- Kakkonen players
- Ykkönen players
- Ykkösliiga players
- Veikkausliiga players
- Men's association football forwards
- Finnish people of Albanian descent
- People from Kiuruvesi
- Footballers from North Savo
- Onisilos Sotira players
- PEPO Lappeenranta players
- OFC Belasitsa Petrich players
- Finnish expatriate men's footballers
- Expatriate men's footballers in Cyprus
- Finnish expatriate sportspeople in Cyprus
- Expatriate men's footballers in Bulgaria
- Finnish expatriate sportspeople in Bulgaria
- Finnish people of Macedonian descent
- Kuopion Palloseura players
- Finnish Muslims