Albian Ajeti is a Swiss striker, born on 26 February 1997 (age 29), now with Lugano, where he wears the number 10 shirt.
His career is still shaped most clearly by Basel. Across 10 seasons there, he has made 141 league appearances and scored 47 league goals, with his best league return coming in 2017-18, when he scored 14 times in 25 appearances. The early loan spells in that period were part of his development, but Basel was where he became a senior forward of substance.
Celtic signed Ajeti from West Ham United in August 2020 for around £4.5m. It was a sizeable fee for a striker who had already shown he could score regularly in Switzerland, though his time in Glasgow never became the settled spell the club would have wanted.
He left Celtic in September 2023, joining Gaziantep for around £500,000. After that spell in Turkey, he moved back towards more familiar ground and established himself again at Basel, the club that has carried the bulk of his senior career.
In 2026-27, Ajeti made two league appearances for Basel before moving on to Lugano, where he scored once in his first league appearance. His career has taken in England, Scotland and Turkey, but its main thread remains Swiss, and above all Basel.
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