Introduction
Darko Jevtić (born 8 February 1993) is a Swiss professional footballer who is currently playing for Lech Poznań in the Polish Ekstraklasa. He plays as a midfielder. He is of Serbian origin.
Club career
Jevtić started his youth football with Basel, played for nearly a year in the Concordia Basel youth team, but returned to Basel in August 2006. He played in their U-16 team and was part of the team that won the Swiss Championship in 2008 and 2009. Later he played in the U-18 team, the U-19 team in the 2011–12 NextGen series and the U-21 team before he signed his first professional contract and joined their first team in January 2012.
Jevtić made his first team debut in the Swiss Super League on 28 July 2012, being substituted in, during the 2–2 away draw against Grasshopper Club Zürich. At the end of the Swiss Super League season 2012–13 he won the Championship title and was Swiss Cup runner up with Basel. In the 2012–13 UEFA Europa League Basel advanced as far as the semi-finals, there being matched against the reigning UEFA Champions League holders Chelsea, but they were knocked out, losing both home and away ties, beaten 2–5 on aggregate.
On 2 September 2013, Basel announced that Jevtić had joined the Austrian club Wacker Innsbruck on a one-year loan.
On 11 June 2014 he was loaned to Polish Ekstraklasa club, Lech Poznań.
International career
On 6 June 2013 Jevtić made his debut for the Swiss U-21 team as left winger in the 2–3 away defeat against Sweden. During his third appearance for the team on 5 September 2013, in the Group 5 qualification game to the 2015 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championships, he scored his first goal for them in the 2-0 away win against Latvia U-21 team in Slokas Stadium, Jūrmala.
Career statistics
Club
- As of 18 December 2016.
| Club | Season | League | League | Cup | Europe | Other1 | Total | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | |||
| FC Basel | 2012–13 | Swiss Super League | 2 | 0 | – | – | – | 2 | 0 | |||
| 2013–14 | 0 | 0 | – | – | – | 0 | 0 | |||||
| Total | 2 | 0 | – | – | – | 2 | 0 | |||||
| FC Wacker Innsbruck | 2013–14 | Austrian Football Bundesliga | 19 | 3 | 1 | 0 | – | – | 20 | 3 | ||
| Total | 19 | 3 | 1 | 0 | – | – | 20 | 3 | ||||
| Lech Poznań | 2014–15 | Ekstraklasa | 29 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | – | 37 | 7 | |
| 2015–16 | 26 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 37 | 4 | ||
| 2016–17 | 17 | 4 | 4 | 1 | – | 0 | 0 | 21 | 5 | |||
| Total | 72 | 15 | 13 | 1 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 95 | 16 | ||
1 Including Polish SuperCup.
Titles and honours
- Basel
- Swiss Champion at U-16 level: 2007–08 and 2008–09
- Swiss Super League champion: 2012–13
- Swiss Cup runner up: 2012–13
- Uhrencup winner: 2013
- Lech Poznań
- Ekstraklasa: 2014–15
- Polish SuperCup: 2015, 2016