Mohamed Dräger
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| Full name | Mohamed Dräger[1] | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 25 June 1996 | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)[2][3] | ||||||||||||||||
| Position | Right-back | ||||||||||||||||
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Current team | Espérance de Tunis | ||||||||||||||||
| Number | 37 | ||||||||||||||||
| Youth career | |||||||||||||||||
| –2009 | PSV Freiburg | ||||||||||||||||
| 2009–2018 | SC Freiburg | ||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| 2012–2013 | SC Freiburg U17 | 26 | (7) | ||||||||||||||
| 2013–2015 | SC Freiburg U19 | 46 | (16) | ||||||||||||||
| 2015–2018 | SC Freiburg II | 68 | (11) | ||||||||||||||
| 2017–2020 | SC Freiburg | 2 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2018–2020 | → SC Paderborn (loan) | 50 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
| 2020–2021 | Olympiacos | 8 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2021–2023 | Nottingham Forest | 0 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2021 | Nottingham Forest B | 2 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2022–2023 | → Luzern (loan) | 50 | (6) | ||||||||||||||
| 2023–2025 | Basel | 21 | (2) | ||||||||||||||
| 2025–2026 | Eintracht Braunschweig | 5 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2025 | Eintracht Braunschweig II | 11 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2026– | Espérance de Tunis | 4 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| International career‡ | |||||||||||||||||
| 2013 | Tunisia U17 | 4 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
| 2018– | Tunisia | 39 | (3) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 1 March 2026 ‡ National team caps and goals as of 17 October 2023 | |||||||||||||||||
Mohamed Dräger (Arabic: مُحَمَّد دراغر; born 25 June 1996) is a professional footballer who plays as a right-back for Tunisian Ligue Professionnelle 1 club Espérance de Tunis. Born in Germany, he plays for the Tunisia national team.
Club career
Born in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany, to a German father and Tunisian mother, Dräger played his youth football with local Freiburg Police Sports Club and in 2009 he moved to the youth department of SC Freiburg. With the club's A youth team, he won the DFB-Pokal youth Cup in 2014. They won the final with an 8–7 win on penalties against FC Schalke 04, with Dräger being one of the successful penalty takers. After being the most dangerous player in the Freiburg youth team in the 2014–15 A-Junior Bundesliga with 15 goals during that season, he advanced to their second team in 2015. In the 2016–17 season, they managed direct promotion back to the Regionalliga Südwest as the Baden-Württemberg league champion. Dräger played mainly for the second team, but he made his professional debut for SC Freiburg on 27 July 2017, in a UEFA Europa League qualifying match against Slovenian club Domžale, coming on as a substitute in the 87th minute for Mike Frantz.[4]
In 2018, Dräger joined SC Paderborn on a two-year loan.[5] In September 2020, he joined Greek club Olympiacos on a transfer fee in the range of €1 million.[6]
On 31 August 2021, Dräger joined EFL Championship side Nottingham Forest for an undisclosed fee.[7] On 2 February 2022, Dräger moved on loan to Swiss Super League club Luzern, with an option to buy. After the loan period, Luzern did not pull the option.[8]
On 25 August 2023, FC Basel announced they had signed Dräger on a three-year contract.[9] He joined Basel's first team for their 2023–24 season under head coach Timo Schultz. Dräger played his domestic league debut for the club in the home game in the St. Jakob-Park on 3 September as Basel played a 2–2 draw with Zürich.[10] He scored his first goal for his new team in the home game on 5 November 2023 as Basel won 2–1 against Yverdon.[11]
On 30 January 2025, Dräger signed a one-and-a-half-year contract with Eintracht Braunschweig in 2. Bundesliga.[12]
On 11 January 2026, Dräger moved to Espérance de Tunis in Tunisia for two and a half seasons.[13]
International career
Dräger made his debut for the Tunisia national team on 20 November 2018, in a friendly against Morocco, as a 79th-minute substitute for Naïm Sliti,[14] and scored on 13 October 2020 his first goal in a 1–1 friendly game draw away to Nigeria.[15] In November 2022, Dräger was named in Tunisia's 26-man squad for the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar.[16]
Career statistics
Club
- As of match played 15 March 2026[17]
| Club | Season | League | National cup[a] | Continental | Other | Total | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| SC Freiburg U17 | 2012–13 | Under 17 Bundesliga | 26 | 7 | — | — | — | 26 | 7 | |||
| SC Freiburg U19 | 2013–14 | Under 19 Bundesliga | 22 | 1 | 5 | 0 | — | — | 27 | 1 | ||
| 2014–15 | Under 19 Bundesliga | 24 | 15 | 1 | 0 | — | — | 25 | 15 | |||
| Total | 46 | 16 | 6 | 0 | — | — | 52 | 16 | ||||
| SC Freiburg II | 2014–15 | Regionalliga | 4 | 0 | — | — | — | 4 | 0 | |||
| 2015–16 | Regionalliga | 18 | 1 | — | — | — | 18 | 1 | ||||
| 2016–17 | Oberliga Baden-Württemberg | 20 | 2 | — | — | — | 20 | 2 | ||||
| 2017–18 | Regionalliga | 26 | 8 | — | — | — | 26 | 8 | ||||
| Total | 68 | 11 | — | — | — | 68 | 11 | |||||
| SC Freiburg | 2017–18 | Bundesliga | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1[b] | 0 | — | 3 | 0 | |
| SC Paderborn (loan) | 2018–19 | 2. Bundesliga | 32 | 0 | 4 | 0 | — | — | 36 | 0 | ||
| 2019–20 | Bundesliga | 18 | 1 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 18 | 1 | |||
| Total | 50 | 1 | 4 | 0 | — | — | 54 | 1 | ||||
| Olympiacos | 2020–21 | Super League Greece | 8 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1[c] | 0 | — | 10 | 0 | |
| Nottingham Forest | 2021–22 | Championship | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 0 | 0 | ||
| Nottingham Forest B | 2021–22 | Premier League 2 | 2 | 0 | — | — | — | 2 | 0 | |||
| Luzern (loan) | 2021–22 | Swiss Super League | 19 | 3 | 2 | 1 | — | — | 21 | 4 | ||
| 2022–23 | Swiss Super League | 31 | 3 | 2 | 0 | — | — | 33 | 3 | |||
| Total | 50 | 6 | 4 | 1 | — | — | 54 | 7 | ||||
| Basel | 2023–24 | Swiss Super League | 20 | 2 | 3 | 0 | — | — | 23 | 2 | ||
| 2024–25 | Swiss Super League | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 1 | 0 | |||
| Total | 21 | 2 | 3 | 0 | — | — | 24 | 2 | ||||
| Eintracht Braunschweig | 2024–25 | 2. Bundesliga | 5 | 0 | — | — | — | 5 | 0 | |||
| 2025–26 | 2. Bundesliga | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 0 | 0 | |||
| Total | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 5 | 2 | ||||
| Eintracht Braunschweig II | 2025–26 | Oberliga Niedersachsen | 11 | 0 | — | — | — | 11 | 0 | |||
| Espérance de Tunis | 2025–26 | Tunisian Ligue Professionnelle 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4[d] | 0 | — | 8 | 0 | |
| Career total | 293 | 43 | 18 | 1 | 6 | 0 | — | 317 | 44 | |||
- ^ Includes DFB-Pokal der Junioren, DFB-Pokal, Greek Football Cup, FA Cup, Swiss Cup, Tunisian Cup
- ^ Appearance in UEFA Europa League
- ^ Appearance in UEFA Champions League
- ^ Appearances in CAF Champions League
International
- As of matches played on 17 October 2023[3]
| National team | Year | Apps | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tunisia | 2018 | 1 | 0 |
| 2019 | 12 | 0 | |
| 2020 | 3 | 1 | |
| 2021 | 8 | 2 | |
| 2022 | 12 | 0 | |
| 2023 | 3 | 0 | |
| Total | 39 | 3 | |
- Scores and results list Tunisia's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Dräger goal.
| No. | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 13 October 2020 | Jacques Lemans Arena, Sankt Veit an der Glan, Austria | Nigeria | 1–1 | 1–1 | Friendly |
| 2 | 25 March 2021 | Benina Martyrs Stadium, Benghazi, Libya | Libya | 3–1 | 5–2 | 2021 Africa Cup of Nations qualification |
| 3 | 16 November 2021 | Hammadi Agrebi Stadium, Tunis, Tunisia | Zambia | 2–0 | 3–1 | 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification |
Honours
SC Freiburg U19
- DFB-Pokal U19: 2013–14
Olympiacos
Basel
Tunisia
- Africa Cup of Nations fourth place: 2019[18]
- FIFA Arab Cup runner-up: 2021
- Kirin Cup Soccer: 2022
References
- ^ "FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 – Squad list: Tunisia (TUN)" (PDF). FIFA. 15 November 2022. p. 29. Retrieved 15 November 2022.
- ^ "Spieler - Mannschaft - Profis". SC Paderborn 07 (in German). Retrieved 16 July 2019.
- ^ a b Mohamed Dräger at National-Football-Teams.com
- ^ UEFA.com (27 July 2017). "UEFA Europa League - Freiburg 1–0 Domžale". UEFA. Retrieved 16 November 2023.
- ^ Schröder, Marc (21 June 2018). "Paderborn leiht Mohamed Dräger vom SC Freiburg aus". Neue Westfälische (in German). Retrieved 2 July 2018.
- ^ "SC Freiburg: Mohamed Dräger kurz vor Wechsel zu Olympiakos Piräus". onefootball.com (in German). 27 September 2020.
- ^ "Two more signings as Ojeda checks in".
- ^ "FÜR DIE RECHTE AUSSENBAHN" (Press release) (in German). Luzern. 2 February 2022. Retrieved 2 February 2022.
- ^ FC Basel 1893 (25 August 2023). "Mohamed Dräger zum FCB" [Mohamed Dräger to FCB] (in German). FC Basel 1893 AG. Retrieved 25 August 2023.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv” (3 September 2023). "FC Basel - FC Zürich 2:2 (0:1)". Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. Retrieved 16 November 2023.
- ^ Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv” (5 November 2023). "FC Basel - Yverdon-Sport FC 2:1 (1:0)". Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. Retrieved 16 November 2023.
- ^ "Eintracht Braunschweig verpflichtet Mohamed Dräger" [Eintracht Braunschweig signs Mohamed Dräger] (in German). Eintracht Braunschweig. 30 January 2025. Retrieved 30 January 2025.
- ^ "Mohamed Dräger rejoint l'Espérance" (in French). Espérance Sportive de Tunis. 11 January 2026. Retrieved 12 January 2026.
- ^ "Tunisia v Morocco game report". ESPN. 20 November 2018.
- ^ "Nigeria V Tunisia game report". ESPN. 10 October 2020.
- ^ "Mit Tunesien an der WM - Drägers Kindheitstraum soll länger andauern als üblich". Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen (SRF) (in German). Retrieved 27 May 2025.
- ^ Mohamed Dräger at Soccerway. Retrieved 6 December 2024.
- ^ "Tunisia - Nigeria Live - Summary: Football Scores & Highlights - 17/07/2019".
External links
- Mohamed Dräger at WorldFootball.net
- Mohamed Dräger at Soccerway