Omar Elabdellaoui
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Elabdellaoui playing for Galatasaray in 2020 | |||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Omar Elabdellaoui | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 5 December 1991 | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Oslo, Norway | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.79 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||||||||||||||||
| Position(s) | Right back, right midfielder | ||||||||||||||||
| Youth career | |||||||||||||||||
| Sagene IF | |||||||||||||||||
| Skeid | |||||||||||||||||
| 2008–2011 | Manchester City | ||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| 2011–2013 | Manchester City | 0 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2011 | → Strømsgodset (loan) | 10 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2012 | → Feyenoord (loan) | 5 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2013 | → Eintracht Braunschweig (loan) | 14 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2013–2014 | Eintracht Braunschweig | 29 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
| 2014–2020 | Olympiacos | 116 | (10) | ||||||||||||||
| 2017 | → Hull City (loan) | 8 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2020–2022 | Galatasaray | 17 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2023–2024 | Bodø/Glimt | 12 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| International career | |||||||||||||||||
| 2008 | Norway U17 | 8 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
| 2009–2010 | Norway U19 | 11 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
| 2010–2013 | Norway U21 | 13 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
| 2012–2013 | Norway U23 | 1 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
| 2013–2020 | Norway | 49 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Omar Elabdellaoui (born 5 December 1991) is a Norwegian former professional footballer who played as a right back and as a right midfielder.
Elabdellaoui began his career with Skeid before signing with Manchester City in 2008. He never appeared for the club. He made his professional debut while on loan at Strømsgodset. He has also spent a loan spell in the Netherlands with Feyenoord. After spending a half season on loan with Eintracht Braunschweig in 2013, Elabdellaoui joined the German side permanently in May 2013. He signed for Olympiacos in June 2014 and stayed at the club until August 2020 when he moved to Galatasaray.
Elabdellaoui represented Norway at youth international level, and was with Norway in the 2013 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship. He played for the senior national team from 2013 to 2020.