| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | Jiloan Hamad | ||
| Date of birth | November 6, 1990 | ||
| Place of birth | Baku, Azerbaijan SSR, Soviet Union |
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| Height | 1.72 m (5 ft 8 in) | ||
| Playing position | Winger | ||
| Club information | |||
| Current club | Malmö FF | ||
| Number | 10 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| –2006 | BK Forward | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps† | (Gls)† |
| 2006–2008 | BK Forward | 23 | (8) |
| 2008– | Malmö FF | 68 | (8) |
| National team‡ | |||
| 2009– | Sweden U21 | 20 | (3) |
| 2011– | Sweden | 2 | (0) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 17 October 2011. † Appearances (Goals). |
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Jiloan Hamad (born November 6, 1990 in Baku, Azerbaijan SSR) is a Swedish footballer of Kurdish descent,[1][2] currently playing for Malmö FF.
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Hamad came to Malmö FF from BK Forward in December 2007. He made his Allsvenskan debut on August 14, 2008 against IF Elfsborg. After only having played one match for the club in 2008 Hamad had a breakthrough in 2009 when he played 20 matches and scored 2 goals. In 2010 battled with teammate Jimmy Durmaz for the position as left midfielder. Hamad ended up playing 27 games although only starting in 10, the majority of which were played as right midfielder. In 2011 Hamad started the season with injury problems and missed the start of the season. He recovered and became the natural choice for playing right midfielder after team-mate Guillermo Molins was sold in the summer transfer window of 2011. Hamad also participated in the clubs campaign to qualify for the 2011–12 UEFA Champions League and scored the goal that took the club through to the play-off round after equalizing at home against Rangers. He continued to play in Europe as the club qualified for the group stage of the 2011–12 UEFA Europa League after losing in the play-off round of the Champions League. During the 2011 season Hamad signed a new contract to the end of the 2013 season.[3]
Hamad is a member of the Sweden U21 national side. On 7 September 2010, Hamad scored a last-minute goal for the 1-0 away win against Bulgaria U21 in a 2011 UEFA Euro U-21 Championship qualifier. In early 2011 Hamad revealed for Swedish website Svenska Fans that he had rejected an offer from Azerbaijan coach Berti Vogts to play for his country of birth.[4] Hamad was first with the Sweden squad for the 2011 January training tour and played his first cap for Sweden during this tour making him ineligible to play for any other country.[5] His first cap for Sweden was against Botswana on 19 January 2011.
| Club performance | League | Cup | Continental | Total | ||||||
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| Season | Club | League | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals |
| Sweden | League | Svenska Cupen | Europe | Total | ||||||
| 2006 | BK Forward | Division 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | |
| 2007 | 23 | 8 | 0 | 0 | — | 23 | 8 | |||
| 2008 | Malmö FF | Allsvenskan | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | — | 3 | 0 | |
| 2009 | 20 | 2 | 0 | 0 | — | 20 | 2 | |||
| 2010 | 27 | 3 | 2 | 0 | — | 29 | 3 | |||
| 2011 | 20 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 2 | 32 | 6 | ||
| 2012 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | 0 | 0 | |||
| Total | Sweden | 91 | 16 | 5 | 1 | 11 | 2 | 107 | 19 | |
| Career total | 91 | 16 | 5 | 1 | 11 | 2 | 107 | 19 | ||
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