Andraz Sporar

Andraz Sporar (born 27 February 1994) is a Slovenian professional footballer who plays for Middlesbrough, on loan from Sporting CP, and the Slovenia national team as a forward.

Club Career

In June 2012, Sporar transferred from Interblock to Olimpija Ljubljana. In the 2015–16 Slovenian PrvaLiga season, Sporar was named a team captain. During the first half of the club's season, he played 18 PrvaLiga games and scored 17 goals.

On 8 December 2015, Basel announced that Sporar had signed a four-and-a-half-year contract up until the end of June 2020. He made his league debut for Basel on 14 February 2016 in the 4–0 away win against Grasshoppers coming in as substitute in the 70th minute. Sporar injured himself during warm-up before the away match against Saint-Etienne on 18 February 2016. He had to undergo a surgery which kept him out for the rest of the 2015–16 FC Basel season, in which his team won the 2015–16 Swiss Super League championship, their seventh national title in a row.

Sporar joined the Slovak Super Liga side Slovan Bratislava in January 2018 for a reported fee of €600,000. He helped the team win the 2017–18 Slovak Cup. In the 2018–19 season, he won the Slovak title and became the Slovak league's best goalscorer, scoring 29 goals and tying the record for most goals scored in a season.

On 23 January 2020, Sporar transferred to Sporting CP on a five-year contract for a transfer fee of €6 million, making him the most expensive player in the history of the Slovak Super Liga. With bonuses, the total transfer fee may eventually rise above €7 million.

On 1 February 2021, Sporar joined Braga on loan for the remainder of the 2020–21 season.

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