Mate Bilić

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Mate Bilić
Full name	Mate Bilić
Date of birth	October 23, 1980 (1980-10-23) (age 27)
Place of birth	Split, SFR Yugoslavia
Height	1.84 m (6 ft +¹⁄₂ in)
Playing position	Striker
Club information
Current club	Sporting de Gijón
Number	9
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1997–2001 2001–2002 2002–2003 2003–2004 2004–2005 2005–2006 2006–2008 2008–	Hajduk Split Real Zaragoza UD Almería Sporting de Gijón Córdoba CF UE Lleida SK Rapid Wien Sporting de Gijón	62 (18) 18 (1) 31 (9) 40 (15) 31 (3) 40 (18) 35 (11) 16 (8)
National team
2002-Present	Croatia
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 4 May 2008. * Appearances (Goals)

Mate Bilić (born in October 23, 1980 in Split) is a Croatian football player. He began his career in 1997 at Croatian club Hajduk Split, with whom he won the Croatian Legue title in 2000-01. In 2001 he transferred to Real Zaragoza in Spain. One year later he changed to another Spanish club, UD Almería and then later to Sporting de Gijón, also from Spain, remaining in the country in 2004, as he signed with Córdoba CF and in 2005-06, joining forces with lowly UE Lleida. He made 17 goals there. He has also played more than twenty U-21 internationals for Croatia. In June 2006 he signed with the Austrian club, SK Rapid Wien. Not long enough, he returned to Spain in January 2008, as he rejoined the Asturian side of Sporting Gijón.