William Atashkadeh
Personal information
Full name William Philip Siros Atashkadeh
Date of birth (1992-04-12) 12 April 1992
Place of birth Gothenburg, Sweden
Height 1.81 m (5 ft 11+12 in)
Position(s) Striker
Youth career
1996–2002 Azalea BK
2002–2010 IFK Göteborg
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2010–2011 IFK Göteborg 5 (1)
2011–2014 Örebro SK 37 (7)
2015–2018 Örgryte IS 71 (34)
International career
2009–2011 Sweden U17 9 (1)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 23 May 2018
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 19 March 2013

William Atashkadeh (Persian: ویلیام آتشکده; born 12 April 1992 in Gothenburg) is an Iranian-Swedish footballer. He has been capped by the Sweden national under-19 football team.[1]

Club career

William Atashkadeh was born in Gothenburg and began his career with IFK Göteborg.[2] After a successful 2012 campaign with Örebro SK in the Swedish Allsvenskan, which included scoring 6 goals in 16 appearances, Atashkadeh injured himself and returned to play only 9 games in the 2013 campaign.[3] He joined Örgryte IS in 2015.[4] Atashkadeh was Örgryte's leading goalscorer in the 2015 Division 1 season with 20 goals in 22 league matches.[5][6]

International career

Atashkadeh played for the Sweden national under-19 football team.[7] On 19 March 2013, Atashkadeh was invited by Iran manager Carlos Queiroz for their 2015 Asian Cup qualifying camp and trained with them but did not make his first senior international appearance.[8][9]

Career statistics

As of 28 April 2018
Club Division Season League Cup Continental Other Total
AppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Göteborg Allsvenskan 2009 00100010
2010 51000051
Total 5110000061
Örebro Allsvenskan 2011 1211000131
2012 16600166
Superettan 2013 9010100
Allsvenskan 2014 000000
Total 377200000397
Örgryte Division 1 2015 222000202420
Superettan 2016 26910279
2017 2351011256
2018 000000
Total 71342000317635
Career total 1134250003112143

References

  1. "Swedish Iranians Fan Thread". PersianFootball.com. Retrieved 20 January 2013.
  2. "William Atashkadeh — svenskfotboll.se". svenskfotboll.se. Retrieved 25 July 2016.
  3. "Sweden - W. Atashkadeh - Profile with news, career statistics and history - Soccerway". int.soccerway.com. Retrieved 25 July 2016.
  4. "Öis vann pliktskyldigt över jumbon - Öis - Göteborgs-Posten". Archived from the original on 2015-08-17. Retrieved 25 July 2016.
  5. "Skytteliga - Div 1 Södra, herrar — svenskfotboll.se". svenskfotboll.se. Retrieved 25 July 2016.
  6. "Sweden - W. Atashkadeh - Profile with news, career statistics and history - Soccerway". uk.soccerway.com. Retrieved 25 July 2016.
  7. "Swedish-Iranian William Atashkadeh to join Team Melli". persianfootball.com. Retrieved 25 July 2016.
  8. "Exclusive interview with William Atashkadeh". persianfootball.com. Retrieved 25 July 2016.
  9. Interview: Omid Namazi


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