Endoğan Adili

Endoğan Adili — Biography

Endoğan Adili is a Swiss former footballer of Turkish descent, best known as the youngest goalscorer in the history of the Swiss Super League. In May 2010, at just 15, he came on for Grasshopper away at Aarau and scored his first professional goal about ten minutes later. He holds Swiss and Turkish citizenship and played as an attacking midfielder, forward and winger.

He started at Altstetten in Zürich before joining the Grasshopper youth system, and also played for Switzerland's youth teams, captaining the under-16s and being the youngest member of the squad at the 2010 European Under-17 Championship finals. He got regular minutes in 2010-11 and appeared in the Europa League qualifiers against Steaua Bucharest, but a cruciate ligament tear in December 2011 ended his season. He then moved to Basel, made his first-team debut on June 1, 2013, against St. Gallen and won the Swiss title twice with the club. His arrival at Galatasaray was reported in Turkey as a surprise signing, but he never delivered the breakthrough expected in Istanbul; he was loaned to FC Wil in 2015-16 and his contract was terminated in July 2018.

He returned to Switzerland with FC Kosova in August 2018, moved to Young Fellows Juventus in January 2019 and rejoined FC Kosova in January 2020. After retiring he appeared in Turkish sports media as a commentator, and the termination of his Galatasaray contract came back into the news in 2020.