Migen Memelli

Migen Memelli is a footballer from Albania. He is currently playing the role of a striker for the club, Al-Faisaly. In the 2008/09 season, he was loaned to KF Tirana from the Sweden club GAIS, it was there that he scored 22 goals in 28 matches that he played for the team and he won the golden boot for the first time in his career.

source of picture: historie.brann.no

Club Career

Memelli played just 16 games for Brann in his first season in the club, and then it was his last stay in the club. He was not comfortable staying at the club and staying on the bench. Many football clubs in Sweden and Norway was chasing him besides he showed himself in the matches that he played for the team, more in the UEFA Cup where he bagged 4 goals for the club in 2 matches. He also scored a goal in the Royal League. 

His first season with GAIS started very well as he scored 4 goals in 4 pre-season matches that he played for the club.  In the Allsvenskan he was not fortunate to have scored for them after he had played 16 games for the club. In the next season, he scored another 2 goal in the 2 pre-season matches he played for the club, it was believed that things could have worked out for in that season, but he was sideline because of injury. 

Mehmelli was sent on a loan contract to the most successful team in Albania, KF Tirana, before the beginning of the Albanian superliga season of 2008/09. Before he was loaned to the club, he was listed with 140 games with 45 goals in the superliga with the following clubs; Skënderbeu Korçë, Teuta Durrës, KS Elbasani and KF Laci from the year 2000 to the year 2006. He played the total of 28 games in the Albanian superliga in the 2008/09 season and managed to score 22 goals for the club, he won the golden boot of the season and helped in gaining a call up from the national team of his country. 

On the January 27, 2010, Memelli signed a deal with KS Flamurtari Vlore in the superliga of his country and the contract was meant to keep him in the club until the end of the 2009/10 season. 

After a good second half of the season, 2009/10 with Flamurtari, where he bagged a massive 14 goals in 15 matches he played for the club, almost averaging one match one goal, there was a serious interest in the player from both inside and outside the country. Meanwhile, he opted to be with the former manager of Dinamo Tirana, Dalic Zlatko in Saudi Arabia for and he signed for Al-Faisaly Harmah on the 17th June 2010. He signed year contract that is worth more than $320,000, plus bonuses for every win and for every goal while he is in the club, as well as a good apartment in the city of Harma and a brand new car. 

International Career

With a good season after he made a return to the superliga of the country, Memelli got a call-up to play for the national team of the country by the coach of the national team of that time, Arie Haan. He played his first game for the national team of the country on the 1st April 2009 in a match that played against Denmark in World Cup Qualifiers. He came into the match as a substitute for Besart Berisha in the 85th minute of the game. His first match for the national team was not a good one as the country lost the match by 3-0 and that minimized their chance of qualifying, and the coach of the national team, Arie resigned from being the coach of the team. 

Honours

KF Tirana

• Kategoria superiore (1): 2008-09

• Albanian Supercup (1): 2009

• Kujtim Majaci Cup (1): 2009

• Top scorer of Albania National Cup with 8 goals: 2008-09

• Top scorer of Albania National League with 22 goals: 2008-09

• Top scorer of Albania National League with 19 goals: 2012-13