Stefan Batan

Stefan Batan
Personal information
Full name Stefan Batan
Date of birth (1985-03-20) 20 March 1985 (age 39)
Place of birth Södertälje, Sweden
Height 1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)
Position(s) Defender
Midfielder
Team information
Current team
 Assyriska FF
Number 9
Youth career
Assyriska FF
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2003–2005 Assyriska FF 53 (2)
2006–2009 Djurgårdens IF 41 (2)
2008–2009 → Assyriska FF (loan) 41 (4)
2010–2013 Assyriska FF 105 (3)
2014–2017 Hammarby IF 58 (0)
2018– Assyriska FF 0 (0)
International career
2005 Sweden U21 2 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 26 January 2018

Stefan Batan (Syriac: ܣܬܖܔܐܢ ܒܐܬܐܢ ;born 20 March 1985) is a Swedish footballer who plays for Assyriska FF as a defender.

Career

Batan began his career at Assyriska Föreningen. He made his first appearance in the first-team squad in Superettan during the 2003 season. Assyriska was promoted to Allsvenskan in 2004, and Batan made his Allsvenskan debut against Hammarby IF on 11 April 2005. After the 2005 season, Batan received several offers from a number of clubs and was involved in some controversy on leaving Assyriska.[1] AIK had announced to media that Batan had signed for them, claiming they had an oral agreement, but had to see themselves fooled as he signed for their archrivals Djurgårdens IF only a few days later.[1] Batan claimed it was a childhood dream to play for Djurgården, whereas fans of AIK found his "treachery" very hard to accept.

On the pitch, Batan had a tough job making himself a regular starter for Djurgården and he was regularly a substitute for the team. During the summer 2008, he was put on loan for Assyriska Föreningen due to lack of time on the pitch.[2] He was also loaned out to Assyriska FF for the 2009 season. He left Djurgården when his contract expired after the 2009 season.[3]

He returned to Assyriska in 2010 where he acted as a regular starter for the club in the Swedish second tier Superettan. During the upcoming three seasons he played a total of 105 games for the club, scoring on 3 occasions. When his contract expired after the 2013 season, he signed a three-year deal with Hammarby Fotboll, a fierce rival of his former club Djurgården.[4]

In the 2014 Superettan he played 27 league games for Hammarby as his side regained promotion to Allsvenskan. In the upcoming two seasons, back in the Swedish first tier, Batan was used more sparingly as a starter. However, in December 2016 he renewed his link to the club signing a new one-year deal.[5] He only appeared in three league games in 2017, and left the club at the end of the season at the expiration of his contract.[6]

On 26 January 2018, Batan returned to Assyriska FF, now competing in Division 1, the Swedish third tier.[7]

References

  1. ^ a b Lundqvist, Anders (21 November 2005). "Batan ratade AIK - skrev på för Djurgården". DN.se (in Swedish). Dagens Nyheter. Retrieved 21 August 2008.
  2. ^ Riedel, Jonas (30 July 2008). "Batan till Assyriska". Dif.se (in Swedish). Djurgårdens IF Fotboll. Archived from the original on 7 January 2009. Retrieved 21 August 2008.
  3. ^ Riedel, Jonas (11 December 2009). "Utgående Kontrakt Förlängs Inte". Dif.se (in Swedish). Djurgårdens IF Fotboll. Archived from the original on 14 December 2009. Retrieved 17 December 2009.
  4. ^ "Stefan Batan klar för Hammarby". Assyriska.se (in Swedish). Assyriska Föreningen. 2 January 2014. Retrieved 10 January 2017.
  5. ^ Pershagen, Axel (15 December 2016). "Batan förlänger med Hammarby – "Helt underbart"". Hammarbyfotboll.se (in Swedish). Hammarby Fotboll. Retrieved 10 January 2017.
  6. ^ "Tacka av Stefan och Rômulo på söndag!". Hammarbyfotboll.se (in Swedish). Hammarby Fotboll. 3 November 2017. Retrieved 7 November 2017.
  7. ^ "Assyriskakaptenen är hemma igen. Stefan Batan har skrivit på för klubben". Assyriska FF (in Swedish). Assyriska FF. 26 January 2018. Retrieved 22 April 2018.


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