Albian Ajeti, born 26 February 1997 (age 29), is a Swiss striker whose career keeps circling back to Basel. He has worn the number 10 shirt there and, across nine seasons, has made 139 league appearances and scored 47 league goals. His best league return came in 2017-18, when he scored 14 times in 25 appearances.
His development was not entirely straight through the first team. An early loan spell helped give him senior football before Basel became the main stage of his career. That is where his work has been most sustained and most productive, rather than in the spells that took him elsewhere.
Celtic signed Ajeti from West Ham United in August 2020 for around £4.5m. It was a sizeable outlay for a forward who had shown he could score regularly in Switzerland, but his time in Glasgow never settled into the role that fee suggested. In September 2023, Celtic sold him to Gaziantep for around £500,000.
After Gaziantep, Ajeti re-established himself more fully at Basel. In 2025-26 he remains a regular first-team presence, with 34 league appearances and four league goals, alongside European involvement in Champions League qualifying and the Europa League. Across all competitions for Basel that season, he has made 43 appearances and scored five goals.
Ajeti’s career has taken in England, Scotland and Turkey, but Basel remains the substantial part of it. His Celtic spell was notable mainly for the gap between expectation and output, while his strongest body of work has come back in Switzerland.
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