Muhammed Cham
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Muhammed-Cham Saračević | ||
| Date of birth | 26 September 2000 | ||
| Place of birth | Vienna, Austria | ||
| Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)[1] | ||
| Position | Attacking midfielder | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team |
Red Star Belgrade (on loan from Trabzonspor) | ||
| Number | 70 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 2006–2008 | SC Red Star Penzing | ||
| 2008–2016 | Hannover 96 | ||
| 2016–2019 | VfL Wolfsburg | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2018–2019 | VfL Wolfsburg II | 3 | (0) |
| 2019–2020 | Admira Wacker | 18 | (0) |
| 2020–2024 | Clermont | 71 | (15) |
| 2020–2021 | → Vendsyssel (loan) | 22 | (2) |
| 2021–2022 | → Austria Lustenau (loan) | 29 | (15) |
| 2024– | Trabzonspor | 31 | (5) |
| 2025–2026 | → Slavia Prague (loan) | 15 | (0) |
| 2026– | → Red Star Belgrade (loan) | 7 | (0) |
| International career‡ | |||
| 2018 | Austria U19 | 3 | (0) |
| 2021–2022 | Austria U21 | 4 | (0) |
| 2022– | Austria | 5 | (0) |
|
* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 17 September 2026 ‡ National team caps and goals as of 23 March 2025 | |||
Muhammed-Cham Saračević (born 26 September 2000) is an Austrian professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for Serbian SuperLiga club Red Star Belgrade on loan from Trabzonspor and the Austria national team.[2]
Club career
[edit]Cham began his career at SC Red Star Penzing. In October 2008 he left Austria. Until 2016 he then played in Germany in the youth team of Hannover 96. For the 2016–17 season he moved to the B-Juniors of VfL Wolfsburg, where he made 22 appearances in the B-Junioren-Bundesliga in that season.
In August 2017, he played against Hertha BSC for the first time for the U-19 team in the A-Junior Bundesliga. In the 2017–18 season he played 15 games in which he scored three goals. In the 2018–19 season he made 22 appearances and became champions of the Gruppe Nord/Nordost with Wolfsburg. Therefore, he took part in the finals with Wolfsburg, which they lost to VfB Stuttgart.
For the 2019–20 season, Cham was promoted to the Wolfsburg's second team, VfL Wolfsburg II. He made his debut for them in the Regionalliga in July 2019 when he came on as a substitute for Julian Justvan in the 80th minute on the second match day of that season against BSV Schwarz-Weiß Rehden. After three appearances for Wolfsburg II, he returned to Austria in September 2019 and moved to Bundesliga club FC Admira Wacker Mödling.[3]
He made his Austrian Football Bundesliga debut in the same month when he was in the starting line-up against SKN St. Pölten on matchday eight of that season and was replaced by Erwin Hoffer in the 65th minute. He made a total of 18 Bundesliga appearances for Admira. On 6 October 2020, he moved to France to the second division club Clermont, who however directly loaned him to the Danish 1st Division club Vendsyssel for the 2020–21 season.[4]
On 13 July 2021, he returned to Austria, joining Austria Lustenau on a season-long loan.[5]
On 13 September 2024, he signed a four-year contract with the option of a further year with Süper Lig club Trabzonspor.[6]
On 30 August 2025, Cham joined Czech First League club Slavia Prague on a one-year loan deal with an option to make transfer permanent.[7]
On 9 June 2026, Cham joined Serbian SuperLiga club Red Star Belgrade on a one-year loan deal with an option to make transfer permanent.[8]
International career
[edit]Cham was born in Austria, and is of paternal Senegalese and maternal Gambian descent.[9] He bears his stepfather’s surname Saračević, who is from Bosnia-Herzegovina.[10] He was called up to the Austria national team for a set of UEFA Nations League matches in September 2022.[11] He made his debut on 25 September 2022 in a Nations League game against Croatia.[12]
Career statistics
[edit]Club
[edit]- As of match played 17 September 2026
| Club | Season | League | National cup[a] | Other | Total | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| VfL Wolfsburg II | 2019–20 | Regionalliga Nord | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 3 | 0 | |
| Admira Wacker | 2019–20 | Austrian Bundesliga | 16 | 0 | 1 | 0 | — | 17 | 0 | |
| 2020–21 | Austrian Bundesliga | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | — | 3 | 0 | ||
| Total | 18 | 0 | 2 | 0 | — | 20 | 0 | |||
| Vendsyssel (loan) | 2020–21 | Danish 1st Division | 22 | 0 | 1 | 0 | — | 23 | 0 | |
| Austria Lustenau (loan) | 2021–22 | 2. Liga | 29 | 15 | 2 | 0 | — | 31 | 15 | |
| Clermont | 2022–23 | Ligue 1 | 38 | 7 | 1 | 0 | — | 39 | 7 | |
| 2023–24 | Ligue 1 | 33 | 8 | 2 | 0 | — | 35 | 8 | ||
| Total | 71 | 15 | 3 | 0 | — | 74 | 15 | |||
| Trabzonspor | 2024–25 | Süper Lig | 31 | 5 | 6 | 1 | — | 37 | 6 | |
| 2024–25 | Süper Lig | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 1 | 0 | ||
| Total | 32 | 5 | 6 | 1 | — | 38 | 6 | |||
| Slavia Prague (loan) | 2025–26 | Czech First League | 15 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 5[b] | 0 | 23 | 0 |
| Red Star Belgrade (loan) | 2026–27 | Serbian SuperLiga | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6[c] | 1 | 12 | 1 |
| Career total | 194 | 35 | 17 | 1 | 11 | 1 | 222 | 37 | ||
- ↑ Includes Austrian Cup, Danish Cup, Coupe de France, Turkish Cup, Czech Cup
- ↑ Appearances in UEFA Champions League
- ↑ Four appearances and one goal in UEFA Champions League, two appearances in UEFA Europa League
International
[edit]- As of match played 23 March 2025[13]
| National team | Year | Apps | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|
| Austria | 2022 | 1 | 0 |
| 2023 | 1 | 0 | |
| 2024 | 1 | 0 | |
| 2025 | 2 | 0 | |
| Total | 5 | 0 | |
Honours
[edit]Austria Lustenau
Slavia Prague
References
[edit]- ↑ "Muhammad Cham". crvenazvezdafk.com. Retrieved 10 June 2026.
- ↑ Muhammed Cham at Soccerway
- ↑ Saracevic geht, vfl-wolfsburg.de, 1 September 2019
- ↑ VENDSYSSEL FF HENTER TO OFFENSIVE FORSTÆRKNINGER, vendsysselff.dk, 6 October 2020
- ↑ "SC AUSTRIA LUSTENAU LEIHT MUHAMMED-CHAM SARACEVIC VON CLERMONT FOOT AUS" (in German). Austria Lustenau. 13 July 2021. Retrieved 14 September 2021.
- ↑ "Trabzonspor'da Muhammed Cham imzayı attı". ntv.com.tr (in Turkish). 13 September 2024. Retrieved 15 September 2024.
- ↑ Slabý, Martin (30 August 2025). "Slavia zbrojí na Ligu mistrů. Do Edenu přichází rakouský reprezentant Cham". Deník (in Czech). Vltava Labe Media. Retrieved 30 August 2025.
- ↑ "Чам у Црвеној звезди". crvenazvezdafk.com (in Serbian). 9 June 2026. Retrieved 9 June 2026.
- ↑ Hagege, Luc (21 August 2022). "Cham prêt à rugir avec Clermont". lequipe.fr (in French). Retrieved 21 August 2023.
- ↑ Mandl, Daniel (26 August 2024). "Schwarzes Meer statt Prag: Cham vor Transfer in die Süper Lig" (in German). Retrieved 6 September 2026.
- ↑ Wintner, 19 September 2022 um 16:57 von Senta (19 September 2022). "Muhammed Cham: Österreichs unbekannter Ballkünstler". Die Presse.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ↑ "Austria v Croatia game report". UEFA. 25 September 2022. Retrieved 6 October 2022.
- ↑ "Muhammed Cham". National Football Teams. Benjamin Strack-Zimmermann. Retrieved 15 May 2026.
- ↑ "Austria Lustenau bejubelt den Aufstieg in die Bundesliga". kicker (in German). 13 May 2022. Retrieved 19 June 2022.
- ↑ "Slavia rozdrtila v prázdném Edenu Jablonec a slaví mistrovský titul, Hradec také bral tři body". efotbal.cz (in Czech). 13 May 2026. Retrieved 14 May 2026.
External links
[edit]- Muhammed Cham at Kicker (in German)
- Muhammed Cham at National-Football-Teams.com
- Muhammed Cham at ÖFB (in German)
- Muhammed Cham at ÖFB (in German) (national team)
- Muhammed Cham – French league stats at Ligue 1 – also available in French (archived)
- Living people
- 2000 births
- 2. Liga (Austria) players
- Austria men's international footballers
- Austria men's under-21 international footballers
- Austria men's youth international footballers
- Austrian expatriate men's footballers
- Austrian expatriate sportspeople in Denmark
- Austrian expatriate sportspeople in France
- Austrian expatriate sportspeople in Germany
- Austrian Football Bundesliga players
- Austrian men's footballers
- Austrian people of Gambian descent
- Austrian people of Senegalese descent
- Clermont Foot 63 players
- Danish 1st Division players
- Expatriate men's footballers in Denmark
- Expatriate men's footballers in France
- Expatriate men's footballers in Germany
- Admira Wacker players
- Footballers from Linz
- Men's association football midfielders
- Regionalliga players
- Serbian SuperLiga players
- SC Austria Lustenau players
- Vendsyssel FF players
- VfL Wolfsburg II players
- 21st-century Austrian sportsmen
- SK Slavia Prague players
- Expatriate men's footballers in the Czech Republic
- Austrian expatriate sportspeople in the Czech Republic
- Czech First League players
- Red Star Belgrade footballers
- Expatriate men's footballers in Serbia
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